Harmful Practices and Adolescents Girls Specialist

UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.

UNFPA’s goal is to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health, realize
reproductive rights, and reduce maternal mortality to accelerate progress on the ICPD
agenda, to improve the lives of adolescents and youth, and women, enabled by population
dynamics, human rights, and gender equality.

In 2018, UNFPA launched efforts to achieve three transformative results, ambitions that promise to change the world for every man, woman and young person:

1.) Ending unmet need for family planning
2.) Ending preventable maternal death
3.) Ending gender-based violence and harmful practises

UNFPA recognizes that innovation is a key accelerator to achieve these results. UNFPA will harness innovation to meet tomorrow’s challenges and boost its impact, especially in addressing furthest behind populations, and leverage opportunities, social capital, funding and technology by (a) strengthening the corporate innovation architecture and capabilities, (b) scaling up innovations that have proven to be effective and impactful, (c) forming new partnerships and connecting with relevant innovation ecosystems, (d) strengthening and leveraging financing for innovation, and (e) expanding communities and culture for innovation.

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s new strategic plan (2018-2021), focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices.


UNFPA Egypt is currently implementing its 11th Country Programme.

The UNV will be working under the team supervised by Assistant representative working on the following portfolios: Gender and GBV, Monitoring and Evaluation, Harmful practices and adolescent girl programming. The UNV will be working most specifically on the Harmful practices and adolescent girls portfolios.

Under the direct supervision of FGM analyst, the Harmful Practices and Adolescent Girl Prorgamme UNV National Specialist will undertake the following tasks:

- Contributes to the harmful practices ( FGM and child marriage ) as well as adolescent girl centered programmes and projects by actively participating and organising in meetings/workshop, field-visits, follow up actions and M&E;
- Assist in timely implementation of activities under FGM/ Harmful practices and adolescent girl centered projects including the Noura Framework including direct execution by providing thematic and operational support to this portfolio.
- Assist in keeping track of ongoing activities under the existing work plans and review progress reports;
- Assist in tracking and reporting the FGM, harmful practices and adolescent girl centred programme indicators incorporated in the results frameworks and donor reporting;
- Support the team in organising and coordinating events;
- Assist in responding to requests from HQ and the regional office linked to FGM global programme;
- Support in collaboration with the communication cluster the development of communication material; and
- Collaboration with the gender team and other relevant teams in the office to follow up integrated activities.

Results/Expected Outputs:

- The implementation of programmes and projects are contributed to;
- Meetings/workshop, filed-visits, follow up actions and M&E are attended;
- Implementation of activities under FGM and harmful practices projects as well as Noura framework is contributed to, by providing thematic and operational support;
- Organisation and coordination of events are supported;
- Knowledge of the UNV in the field of gender, and more specifically on adolescent girl centred programming as well harmful practices practices to girls such as FGM and child marriage is enhanced ;
- UNV capacity in Project/Programme performance is enhanced, including: workplans monitoring and following up on data, collection and analysis of key indicators
- Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment;
- A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilised, activities participated in and capacities developed.