Junior Associate Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment

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.

Violence against women (VAW) is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today. It is a major obstacle to the fulfilment of women’s and girls’ human rights and to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In Moldova, as in the region and around the world, it affects individuals regardless of the context, culture, or their socio-economic status, with serious repercussion for women, their families, and society in general. The prevalence of VAW in Moldova remains high, three out of four women, or 73%, have experienced some form of partner abuse. 71% were victims of psychological abuse, while a third of women have experienced physical violence and 20.9% sexual violence.  Despite significant progress, including in the area of legal and policy reforms, research, and awareness-raising campaigns, the prevalence of VAW in Moldova remains high.

In Moldova, UN Women supports the implementation of the National Programme for Accelerating Progress on Gender Equality, National Program on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence for the years 2023-2027, Council of Europe (CoE) Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (ratified in 2021) and the new EU Directive of the European Parliament and of the EU Council on combating violence against women and domestic violence.

This is ensured by providing support to the national relevant authorities in adjusting the national legislation, strengthening the capacities of service providers, including those providing the multidisciplinary response, supporting the institutional capacities of NGOs in the field, and conducting awareness-raising campaigns and activities involving different actors.

In connection with extended programs and specifics of interventions, there’s a need for more administrative and creative inputs support. UN Women Moldova therefore looking for a UN Volunteer to provide administrative, logistic support and creative inputs in the development and implementation of effective interventions on the promotion of gender equality, women empowerment, and prevention/combating gender-based violence, including in the justice system. She/he is expected to work closely with the Operations and Programme teams, as well as relevant partners to deliver professional, effective and qualitative services.

Under the direct supervision of EVAW Programme Analyst, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
• Facilitates collection, analysis and synthesis of sex-disaggregated data, specific research, policy papers, articles, case studies and other knowledge-based products that can inform and shape programmes in promotion of gender equality, women empowerment, prevention, and combating gender-based violence, including in the justice system.
• Assists in gathering relevant information and developments related to the abovementioned areas.
• Supports in the identification of opportunities for capacity building of partners and facilitates technical/ programming support and trainings to partners, as needed;
• Provides inputs and contributes to the extent possible to the design of outreach materials for use at events, campaigns, and social media, including country fact sheets and infographics under the direct guidance of the supervisor.
• Works with the team and direct supervisor to support the organization of meetings, campaign events, workshops, conferences, trainings, study tours and related activities relevant to the implementation of the programes in women empowerment and prevention/ combating of gender-based violence.
• Provides inputs to relevant documentation such as project summaries, conference papers, briefing notes, speeches, and donor profiles;
• Contributes to the creation of Power Point presentations, excel charts, etc.
• As part of the team, the UN Youth Volunteer will help draft project routine documentation, studies, notes, etc.
• Contributes to monitoring and evaluation process pertaining to areas as well as provides inputs to related reports.
• Provides creative inputs to the communications initiatives, and interventions on promoting positive social norms, and behaviour change.