Gender Responsive Inclusive Governance Associate

The Government of Nepal has adopted important normative frameworks for women’s human rights, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals, and UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820. These commitments are enshrined in the Constitution of Nepal and efforts are being taken to ensure that all laws and policies conform with the constitutional provisions on gender equality.


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.
Established by General Assembly resolution 64/289 of 2 July 2010 on system-wide coherence, with a mandate to assist the Member States and the United Nations system to progress more effectively and efficiently towards the goal of achieving gender equality, women’s empowerment, and upholding women’s rights, UN Women’s global programmatic priorities for the period 2018-2022 are: (a) a comprehensive and dynamic set of global norms, policies and standards on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is strengthened and implemented; (b) women lead, participate in and benefit equally from governance systems; (c) women have income security, decent work, and economic autonomy; (d) all women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence; and (e) women

UN Women Nepal’s Strategic Note (SN) 2023-2027 lays out the agency’s unique role and comparative advantage in supporting duty bearers and right holders in advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women in line with internationally agreed normative standards.

For this purpose, UN Women Nepal is seeking a Gender Responsive Inclusice Governance Associate to provide technical support for gender responsive inclusive governance (GRIG) including Women Peace and Security (WPS) thematic area to advance GEWE in the development context.

Under the direct supervision of Programme Specialist, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
• Support the GRIG (including WPS) programme team in the review and finalisation of the Partner’s reports, and various programmatic related documents in close coordina-tion with respective programme managers
• Review the concept note and proposals developed by GRIG thematic area and support the programme team in finalising the draft versions of concept note and proposals
• Support the GRIG thematic area to prepare agenda of internal GRIG thematic area meetings and prepare a key bullet points for each meeting
• Contribute to the Unit by supporting knowledge management through providing assis-tance in monitoring the data collected by partners, analysis, complete and accurate re-porting
• Support the GRIG thematic area in organising the thematic folder in official shared folder of the NCO
• Participates in the relevant meetings with respective Programme Managers with part-ners and prepare the meeting notes accordingly
• Contribute to review of relevant global and national policy documents related to gov-ernance, WPS, and violence against women to advance GEWE
• Provide necessary support for organizing a range of events of the thematic area– dia-logues, interactions, workshops.
• Carry out brief research and review of reports, documents and literature, and prepare write ups as and when necessary for programmatic purposes
• Support to prepare presentations (including power point) for international and external purposes for the thematic area.
• Provide necessary support to the Programme Managers in writing the concept notes and proposals
• Represent the team in various events and function as and when assigned.