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
The 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is being celebrated this year, which is a historic moment, recognizing and endorsing the past six decades of work to secure the conventions and treaties that make up the human rights framework. The principles of the Declaration gave legitimacy to activists around the world who were calling for the realization of universal human rights. Over the past 60 years, women have created groundbreaking global and local efforts to challenge gender inequality and discrimination. Feminist approaches to human rights are being developed and used around the world. Women’s advocacy has brought about pioneering change in areas such as education, health, law and justice and political participation – and not to forget the interpretations of the human rights framework itself.
The global frameworks for realizing women’s rights have been spelled out in the Women’s Convention popularly known as CEDAW (Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women), and in documents from other UN processes, such as the Vienna Human Rights Declaration, the Cairo Programme of Action, the Beijing Platform for Action, the Millennium Development Goals and the World Summit. Women have successfully demanded state political will to create meaningful change, but the implementation and resources to fulfill these promises, however, remain deficient.
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