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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 and peace and security.
UN Women is implementing the programme ‘Transformative approaches to recognize, reduce, and redistribute unpaid care work in women’s economic empowerment programming’ (‘3R Programme’) in Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa. The overarching goal of the programme is to remove the structural barriers to women’s full and equal participation in the economy by recognizing, reducing, and redistributing unpaid care work. The 3R Programme builds on UN Women’s expertise at the global, regional and country level as well as UN Women’s existing strong partnerships with women’s cooperatives and other women’s rights organizations, traditional leaders, communities, men and boys, and the private and public sectors to address unequal power relations, systemic discrimination and harmful norms and practices that underpin inequities in care work. In particular, the 3R programme will complement existing UN Women programmes on climate-resilient agriculture and rural women’s economic empowerment in the three countries, by developing a care component which aims to recognize, reduce and redistribute women’s unpaid care and domestic workloads and overall time poverty. Senegal is the only country of the programme which includes an ‘innovation solutions for unpaid care’ component, which aims to develop digital risk transfers mechanisms adapted to the needs of female farmers to address unpaid care related risks. The Project Coordination is responsible for the implementation of this component.
Reporting to the Regional Advisor WEE, the Project Coordinator exercises overall responsibility for planning, implementing, and managing UN Women interventions under their portfolio. The Project Coordinator works in close collaboration with the programme and operations team, UN Women HQ staff, Government officials, multi and bi-lateral donors and civil society ensuring successful UN Women programme implementation under portfolio
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