UN Women: Women Peace and Security – Humanitarian, International Consultant (Retainer), Home-based

Background:

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 Yemen country office (YCO) has field presences in Aden, Sanaa, and Amman. YCO programming focuses on four main strategic goals including women political participation, humanitarian action, economic empowerment and Women, Peace and Security (WPS). YCO aims to strengthen the UN response in addressing priorities for gender equality and women empowerment through the development and implementation of innovative approaches and providing support to governments and civil society organizations. 

UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that the commitments to gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action in humanitarian response plans.

In Yemen, UN Women is the co-lead of the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group, providing technical, advisory and programmatic support to the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) and the Inter Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG). The GIHA working group is comprised of gender focal persons from the clusters and sub clusters and provide critical support to ensure gender analysis, and advocacy is adequately coordinated, disseminated, and utilized, through the ICCG, including for strategic planning purposes such as Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP).

UN Women in Yemen is implementing a variety of projects related to supporting women’s rights actors working for peace and strategically, it has outlined three priority areas:

• Women, Peace, and Security (WPS): Increase women’s leadership and inclusion in peace process as well as enhance gender in peacebuilding in support of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325).
• Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian response: Provide capacity building support to leaders, networks, civil society, and UN agencies on gender mainstreaming in humanitarian programming.
• Humanitarian action: Address the needs of vulnerable women and girls to ensure those affected by the crisis can participate in, are empowered by and benefit from response and recovery efforts.

UN Women YCO works in close collaboration with the Resident Coordinator and the broader UN system to provide coordination, normative, and programmatic support aimed at strengthening gender equality and women’s empowerment efforts. UN Women plays a pivotal role in gender mainstreaming within humanitarian action. This includes active engagement with the Resident Coordinator’s Office (RCO) and participation in coordination mechanisms such as the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT), Inter-Cluster Coordination Groups (ICCGs), and other relevant working groups.

Through these platforms, UN Women ensures that gender equality considerations are integrated into all phases of humanitarian planning, implementation, and evaluation. Additionally, UN Women provides policy advisory services, generates and disseminates knowledge, evidence, and data on gender equality, and fosters coherence in gender-responsive humanitarian action by working with governments, civil society organizations (CSOs), and UN Country Teams/Humanitarian Country Teams (UNCTs/HCTs).

The consultant will be reporting to CO Representative and will be supported by the operations manager, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues.

Description of Responsibilities /Scope of Work

The consultant will provide expert analysis and technical advice on issues related to Women Peace and Security – Humanitarian , with focus on development humanitarian settings. The role requires an in-depth understanding of relevant national and international policies related to Women Peace and Security – Humanitarian and the ability to develop strategic plans that integrate gender perspectives.

The consultant will support the Yemen Country Office (CO) in advancing Women Peace and Security programme through evidence-based policy development, strategic partnerships, and comprehensive economic analyses including the following:

• Draft and provide strategic advice and technical input to the YCO in the design of strategies, policies, programme and plans related to Women Peace and Security – Humanitarian.
• Develop concept notes and project proposals on Women Peace and Security – Humanitarian.
• Draft research papers, briefs and presentations on Women Peace and Security – Humanitarian topics and gender equality.
• Develop toolkits, guidelines, and publications that support Women Peace and Security – Humanitarian initiatives and gender