EventsInter-Ministerial Meeting
Women, Peace and Security in Pakistan - Towards Implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
CEDAW - Expert Group Meeting
UNW-Pakistan Request for Proposal: “Implementing Women’s Voters Education Program in KP and Baluchistan”
As part of UN Women’s mandate of promoting women’s groups and enhancing their capacity to effectively participate in electoral processes, UN Women Pakistan intends to establish and maintain close working partnerships with Six implementing partners during the current year under ECAP ( in collaboration with UNDP) through its “Governance and Political participation” Program in Pakistan. The financial assistance provided through this project will support CSOs in their initiatives as well as establishing forums for sharing information and joint collaborative support on programs/projects that promote women’s Political participation particularly as well informed voters.
Through this Project UNW would like to support ECP in its strategic goal under its five year strategic plan of achieving 63% voter turn-out in the next election. To achieve this it will have to direct considerable time and effort in engaging with citizens, but also by placing additional focus on engaging with and enabling women. The most challenging task in this regard would be to mobilize women particularly in those districts that have faced fragile security situation and are strictly governed by patriarchal culture and where strict “Purdha” is observed.
The Women Voter’s Education Program requires focused approach and aims at mobilizing women initially in 10 districts in KP and Baluchistan with low women turnout and women voters’ registration. The key results anticipated for the program includes; a)increased knowledge and information of local communities particularly women about voters procedures; increased women voters registration; increased women turn out as voters in upcoming elections; increased women’s engagement and participation in political parties. The project also aim at ensuring that the lessons learnt from the districts are not only shared with all key actors including ECP but also drawn on for pushing the agenda of legal reforms in national policies and plans with National Women Machinery(NWM) i.e. Women Parliamentary Caucus, Women Development Departments at provincial level and NCSW.
In order to achieve these results organizations should be able to demonstrate proven experience of running result based women political participation projects in said provinces with considerable out reach.
SSA Announcement UNWOMEN/PAK/2011/003 - International Consultant – Governance Programme
Duty Station : Islamabad, Pakistan
Duration : 1 Feb 2012 - 30 June 2012 ( 128 days)
Type of Contract : SSA – (Short Service Agreement)
Terms of Reference: For Mid-term Review of Women and Peace Programme
Expert Group Meeting on Advancing Implementation of CEDAW in Pakistan being organized jointly by the Ministry of Women Development and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UN WOMEN) on 18th December, 2008 in Crown Plaza, Blue Area, Islamabad from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Two distinguished guests from the South Asian region who are CEDAW experts and who have been especially invited by the UN WOMEN to share their expertise with you all. These experts include:
1. Ms Ferdous Ara Begum, UN CEDAW Expert Committee Member
2. Ms Aisha Mohamad Didi, Former Minister for Gender and Family, Republic of Maldives and CEDAW expert
The Expert Group Meeting aims at:
- sharing good practices across the region on CEDAW implementation
- discussing specific areas of CEDAW implementation in Pakistan
- discussing CEDAW reporting mechanism – tips on dos and don’ts
- strengthening coordination and networking between various actors working on CEDAW
12/18/2008 -
Crown Plaza, Blue Area, Islamabad 9:00am to 4:00pm
