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Inter-Ministerial Meeting
Inter-Ministerial Meeting – CEDAW Follow-Up
Women, Peace and Security in Pakistan - Towards Implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
Security Council Resolution 1325 Meeting
Best Western, Islamabad
12/22/2008 More
CEDAW - Expert Group Meeting
Advancing Implementation of CEDAW in Pakistan – Expert Group Meeting
Crown Plaza, Blue Area, Islamabad 9:00am to 4:00pm
12/18/2008 More
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UNW-Pakistan Request for Proposal: “Implementing Women’s Voters Education Program in KP and Baluchistan”
Women Voters Education Programme
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.
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.
01/20/2012
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SSA Announcement UNWOMEN/PAK/2011/003 - International Consultant – Governance Programme
Organization : UNWOMEN
Duty Station : Islamabad, Pakistan
Duration : 1 Feb 2012 - 30 June 2012 ( 128 days)
Type of Contract : SSA – (Short Service Agreement)
Duty Station : Islamabad, Pakistan
Duration : 1 Feb 2012 - 30 June 2012 ( 128 days)
Type of Contract : SSA – (Short Service Agreement)
12/29/2011
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Terms of Reference: For Mid-term Review of Women and Peace Programme
The deadline for submission of proposals is COB 12:00 hrs Friday, 16th December 2011
11/28/2011
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SSA Announcement UNWOMEN/PAK/2011/003 - International Consultant – Governance Programme
Organization : UNWOMEN
Duty Station : Islamabad, Pakistan
Duration : 1 Feb 2012 - 30 June 2012 ( 128 days)
Type of Contract : SSA – (Short Service Agreement)
1. Background and Purpose:
UN WOMEN Pakistan is committed to provide technical support to Government of Pakistan in advancing the gender equality and women’s empowerment commitments made under; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Platform for Action, Convention on the Rights of the child (CRC), Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CRD) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
In Pakistan as compared to the region there are higher numbers of women in Parliament contributing to stronger emphasis to women’s issues. This political participation of women is contributing towards facilitating women’s direct involvement in public decision-making and is a means of ensuring better accountability for women. At the same time vigilance needs to be paramount to ensure women friendly reforms in election related laws and policies and its implementation. Women’s participation in politics as voters, candidates, and political activists’ needs to be further strengthened and an enabling environment in which women can exercise their political rights without fear and coercion yet needs. Temporary measures like allocating 10% quota for women on winnable seats by political parties, voters and civic education programs and voters registration seats are also equally important to ensure increased women representation and participation in elections.
UN Women in collaboration with UNDP under its Electoral Cycle Support to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECAP) will be providing technical assistance to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to ensure gender mainstreaming at all levels in preparation for the upcoming election in 2013. A separate project office will be established for ECAP Project by UNDP. UNW among other staff will place an International Consultant to work closely with the UNW programme team, ECAP project team to facilitate ECP in its endeavours of voter’s education and gender mainstreaming.
He/she will be based at ECAP Project office, and work in close collaboration and direction of ECAP team leader and Secretary ECP or a person nominated by the secretary. However, the final mechanism will be agreed upon with ECP and clearly notified within two months of joining. The International Consultant will provide regular updates on his/her work or emerging opportunities/challenges to the Secretary ECP, ECAP team and UNW Governance programme team fortnightly
Tasks and Responsibilities:
The tasks and responsibilities for the International Consultant are as follows:
• Providing technical assistance to ECP to develop and adopt implementation plans and operational strategies around CEDAW and other national and international commitments of the GOP on Gender Equality (GE), Women Empowerment (WE),
• Support the development of gender policy for ECP and its implementation plan by working closely with key actors involved in the process and ECP Secretary and designated officer for the purpose.
• Provide recommendations and plans for gender mainstreaming in all areas of research, legal reforms and voters education materials.
• Review and provide quality technical input in all the processes related to research, legislative reforms, campaign, voters education, capacity building of ECP to ensure that gender is mainstream in all processes at all levels.
• Ensure strong gender perspective in all monitoring and evaluation plans and human resource policies of the project.
• Ensure that electoral research that is outsourced also maintains gender perspective and its findings are analysed from the perspective of men and women and disseminated accordingly.
Deliverables:
Some important deliverables includes;
• Implementation plan and operational strategic plans for gender mainstreaming agreed with ECP
• Best practices and recommendations for gender mainstreaming are documented and shared with ECP
• Fortnightly and quarterly progress reports submitted to ECP
Requirements, Qualifications, and Experience:
- Advanced university Degree or equivalent in Development Studies, gender studies, anthropology, and legal studies with special focus on women issues or any other related field.
- Minimum 10 to 12 years international experience in working with the Government and international organizations on development issues, with strong experience in Gender and Development issues and programmes;
Competencies:
- Experience in report writing, editing, communications and coordination skills in English.
- Good time management and interpersonal skills.
- Extensive work experience in Social Sector focusing on promotion of women's human rights and gender equality.
- Knowledge of CEDAW, and other related international Conventions & instruments. Also, knowledge of Pakistan's all national and international commitments related to women is valuable.
- Knowledge of International legislative framework and electoral processes.
Application Process:
Interested applicants may apply to this announcement, using the “UN Personal History Form - P 11” and the latest CV.
All applications to this vacancy should be sent to :
unwomen.pakistan@unwomen.org
Please insert Announcement Number in the Subject of the E-mail. Applications without the SSA Announcement Number or with the incorrect Announcement Number will not be accepted.
NOTE : Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
12/29/2011
