UN Women: Internship Roster Programme and Operations Türkiye

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 Regional Office for the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region was established in Istanbul, Turkiye, at the beginning of 2014 as a part of the UN Women’s new regional architecture. The ECA Regional Office covers 12 countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo (in the context of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999), Moldova, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Türkiye, and Ukraine).

Based on UN legislative mandates and the UN Women Strategic Plan, the Regional Office for ECA provides strategic programme development, policy/ technical advisory services, and quality assurance support to field offices and regional/sub-regional programmes. It undertakes or coordinates regional research and data analysis, and advises on norms, policies, and strategies for achieving the internationally and regionally agreed goals related to gender equality and women’s empowerment issues.

It acts as a knowledge hub at the regional level, collecting evidence on progress and emerging issues and sharing knowledge on innovative approaches and lessons learned in implementation.

UN Women in the ECA region focuses on the following strategic priority areas:

• Women's Leadership and Political Participation
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  Supporting women's meaningful participation and leadership at all levels of decision-making, and promoting inclusive governance through partnerships with governments, civil society, and international stakeholders.
• Women Economic Empowerment:
  Enhancing women’s access to economic opportunities by advancing equal pay, decent work, social protection, care services, digital inclusion, and enabling policy environments that support women’s entrepreneurship and economic resilience.
• Ending Violence Against Women:
  Addressing root causes of violence through prevention strategies, legal reform, institutional capacity-building, survivor-centered services, and community engagement.
• Women Peace and Security:
  Ensuring women’s participation in peace processes, conflict prevention, and post-conflict reconstruction, and promoting accountability for gender-based violations in humanitarian and crisis contexts.
• Gender and Good Governance:
  Advancing institutional reforms and processes for gender-responsive public policy development and implementation, strengthening women’s participation in decision-making and institutional accountability, including in the context of EU accession as a reform accelerator in parts of the ECA region.
• Humanitarian, Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Response:
  Ensuring gender-responsive humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction and climate policies and programmes by promoting women's leadership and participation in preparedness, response, recovery and resilience-building efforts, while addressing the differentiated impacts of crises, disasters and climate change to women and girls.
• EU for Gender Equality:
  Strengthen capacity of institutions, civil society organizations, youth networks and community actors to address discriminatory social norms and counter anti-gender narratives in favor of gender equality, women's economic empowerment and prevention of gender-based violence.
• Gender Data and Statistics:
  Strengthening the production, accessibility and use of gender data and statistics in key areas, including women's economic empowerment, gender and the environment, violence against women, and women, peace and…