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The UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls, the empowerment of women, and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action, peace, and security. UN Women Liberia Country Office Biennial Workplan 2022-2023 is connected to five corporate priority areas: women’s leadership and political participation; enhancing women’s economic empowerment (WEE); engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes (WPS); advancing women’s rights to live free from violence (VAW) and Gender-responsive Budgeting and Governance (GRB).
The Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection (MGCSP) is the national machinery for promoting gender equality, women ‘s advancement and children ‘s welfare in Liberia. The Ministry is mandated to coordinate and advise the Government on gender mainstreaming efforts to ensure that both women, children and men gain from development programs; integrate women as equal partners with men in the development of the country; monitor and report back on the impact and progress on gender equality programs. At the national and subnational levels, coordination has a complex, fragmented, changing and poorly coordinated system of reporting on gender related issues to enhance effective monitoring and reporting.
Addressing violence against women and girls requires a multisectoral approach. In Liberia, it is the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection, which is often under-resourced, with limited coordination capacity to addressing violence against women and girls. Formal channels of communication and information-sharing between and among government and non-governmental entities working on this issue are also needed for effective coordination, reporting, and data sharing.
Without a strong national multisectoral plan, effective county gender coordinators, and formal mechanisms of coordination and information-sharing, most interventions will be planned and implemented in isolation from one another rather than holistically. As a result, there are severe gaps in the overall approach to ending violence against women and girls, including incomplete and unevenly distributed services; ad-hoc prevention efforts that are independent from response efforts; and law and policy are disconnected from the realities on the ground. Fragmented efforts at the local level mean survivors may not have access to comprehensive services and may be required to travel long distances and to multiple locations to receive them, requiring them to repeat their story time and again and putting the burden of coordinating and tracking their medical, police and legal files on their own shoulders including associated cost. Fragmented efforts also mean that administrative data is not likely systematized, affecting the ability to have accurate, consistent records that shed light on the nature and scale of the problem; on which responses are working and which need reworking; and makes it difficult to integrate findings into larger multi-stakeholder policy and programming frameworks.
In this context, UN Women in very close consultation with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection seeks to hire a national Consultant to enhance the Capacity of County Gender Coordinators (15 counties) with the tools and strategy to mainstream gender into policy and support coordination mechanism at the national and subnational levels.
Objectives of the assignment:
- Enhance the Capacity of County Gender Coordinators (15 counties) with the tools, approaches, and strategy to mainstream gender into policy and support coordination mechanism at the national and subnational levels.
- Develop tools for the collection of disaggregated gender statistics to inform policy and decision making; and
- Build capacity of County Coordinators in coordination mechanisms, data collection and report writing.
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