UN Women: Communications WEE and Migration, Home-based, Retainer International Consultant

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. Placing women's rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world.

It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States' priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors. UN Women is mandated to lead, coordinate, and promote accountability for the implementation of gender equality commitments across the UN System.

Across Asia and the Pacific, UN Women promotes gender equality and women’s empowerment. UN Women implements programs (including normative and advocacy) in 41 Member States in the region, including Australia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kiribati, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor‑Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Viet Nam, through direct implementation as well as implementing partners, which include government entities, non‑governmental organizations, the private sector, UN agencies, and non‑UN intergovernmental organizations.

The economic empowerment of women (WEE) – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – is a prerequisite for realizing gender equality and empowering women in all areas of life. It is also a cornerstone for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda. UN Women has recently launched its global Economic Empowerment Strategy which is translated into the Regional Asia and the Pacific WEE Strategy focusing on the key strategic priorities, namely:

Under these strategic priorities the ROAP WEE team is currently implementing a series of different projects:

• WeRise Together
• UN Women Care and Climate Entrepreneurship Accelerator
• UN Women WEPs Asia‑Pacific Gender Action Lab (GAL) – Innovation for Impact
• #Transform Care Initiative and others

These programmes are underpinned by a series of advocacy campaigns in the related areas, such as, but not limited to:

• #Buy For Equal – aiming to prompt procurement professionals to evaluate and select suppliers who uphold gender equality principles, while urging consumers to patronize businesses supporting women’s initiatives. The campaign seeks to achieve three main objectives:
• Educate on the impact of gender‑inclusive procurement practices.
• Encourage procurement officers to consider gender equality in decision‑making.
• Motivate consumers to support businesses that champion gender equality
• #Transform Care a movement to catalyze actions to transform care systems to advance women’s economic empowerment. This is done in partnership with other actors, such as the Global Alliance for Care (GAC
  ) – a global multi‑stakeholder community that facilitates and fosters spaces for collective action, advocacy, communication, and learning about care, its recognition as a need, as work, and as a right

In addition, the implementation of the WEE Strategy produces a various thought leadership and knowledge products, organizes large scale events, such as for example the WEPs Forum, WEPs Awars, the yearly Asia Pacific Care Forum and many other events.

The ROAP WEE Unit has been expanding rapidly over the last two years and with this…