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UN Women is the United Nations organization dedicated to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women. As a global advocate for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress in improving the lives of women and responding to the needs they face around the world.
UN Women supports United Nations Member States in setting international standards for achieving gender equality and works with governments and civil society to formulate and enforce the laws, policies, programs and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and that they truly benefit women and girls around the world. It focuses on five priority areas:
- Increasing women’s leadership and participation.
- Ending violence against women.
- Involving women in all aspects of peace and security processes.
- Improve women’s economic empowerment.
- Make gender equality central to national planning and budgeting for development.
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN Women), Ethiopia Country Office (ECO) is working towards ensuring a gender responsive financing system within the public finance management system in Ethiopia. It ensures that new and existing internationally and nationally agreed commitments on GEWE are effectively financed in Ethiopia by enabling the government to establish Gender Responsive National Planning and Budgeting system.
Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) aims at mainstreaming gender into public budgets, looking into how financial resources are collected and allocated with respect to women and men. GRB is used to shape policies, set priorities and provide the means to meet the social and economic needs of all citizens. It helps governments understand potential adjustments in resources needed to achieve their priorities and commitments to achieve gender equality and advance women’s rights as stipulated in international conventions, commitments and goals, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Beijing platform for action and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Beyond ensuring accountability to women’s rights, GRB is also a step towards improved public transparency and economic efficiency.
Ministry of Finance (MoF) leads nationally in promoting GRB and has mandated its Gender Directorate to engage relevant directorates within the Ministry, demonstrating political will and direction. While progress has been made in integrating gender in the revised financial administration proclamation and budget call and building the capacity of experts and officials using the GRB guidelines, an accountability mechanism to ensure that gender is integrated in sectoral planning and budgeting processes is not yet in place. This limits the government’s ability to realize its commitment to uphold the rights of Ethiopian women, including through the financing of national programmes.
It is in this context that UN Women in Ethiopia is seeking to recruit a Programme Associate to support the National Planning (NP) Programme Portfolio and members of the Programme Team in the effective development, implementation, monitoring and knowledge management tasks in consistent with UN Women rules and regulations. S/he contributes to research, financial management, and programme implementation, monitoring, reporting and communication by providing necessary operational, administrative and programmatic support.
Reporting to the NP Programme Analyst the Programme Associate works with and provides support to the members of the NP Programme. The Programme Associate works in close collaboration with the operations, other programme units and staff in the CO and UN Women Regional Office and HQs as required for resolving complex programmatic and finance-related issues and exchange of information.
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