Humanitarian Analyst

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Mission and objectives

ONU Femmes est l’entité des Nations Unies consacrée à l’égalité des sexes et l’autonomisation des femmes. L’inégalité des sexes est omniprésente, avec une limitation d’accès à emplois décents pour les femmes, des écarts salariaux entre hommes et femmes. Partout dans le monde les femmes et les filles se voient régulièrement refuser l’accès à l’éducation et à la santé, elles sont sous-représentées dans les domaines économique et de prise de décision politique et souffrent de la violence et de la discrimination . Un champion mondial des femmes et des filles , ONU Femmes a été créée pour accélérer le progrès dans la satisfaction à leurs besoins à travers le monde .
En juillet 2010, l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies a créé ONU Femmes, l’entité des Nations Unies pour l’égalité des sexes et l’autonomisation des femmes.
ONU Femmes a pour mande :
– d’appuyer des organes intergouvernementaux, tels que la Commission de la condition de la femme, dans l’élaboration de politiques, de règles et de normes mondiales ;
– d’aider les États Membres à appliquer ces règles, et est prêt à fournir un appui technique et financier approprié aux pays qui le demandent et à forger des partenariats performants avec la société civile ; et
– de demander des comptes au système des Nations Unies sur ses propres engagements en faveur de l’égalité des sexes, avec notamment un suivi régulier des progrès enregistrés dans l’ensemble du système.

Context

UN Women has a programme presence in Central African Republic (CAR) since July 2015 and is in the process of becoming a full country office in 2021, to support the Central African authorities in advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment as well as providing a multisectoral response to the specific needs of women in times of crisis for the implementation of the recommendations made by women on the side lines of the Bangui Forum in May 2015. It focuses its interventions on achieving the following strategic objectives: women’s economic empowerment; promoting leadership and women’s participation in decision-making processes, strengthening women’s role for peace and security in CAR; the integration of the gender dimension in the humanitarian response; and the fight against violence against women.
UN Women works to support women’s engagement in peace and security to promote improved implementation, and monitoring and reporting of global commitments on women and peace and security, including as set out in Beijing Platform for Action and in Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009), 1960 (2010), 2122 (2013) and 2242 (2015), relevant Statements by the President of the Security Council, as well as related accountability frameworks established by the UN system. The UN Women works to strengthen the capacity of actors engaged in inclusive peacebuilding and national dialogue processes to enhance women’s participation and influence and to secure gender-equality outcomes. In this regard, UN Women supports inclusive engagement of women in all stages of negotiation, signature and implementation of the 2019 Peace Accord while pursuing advocacy for the effective participation of women in peacebuilding and community social cohesion mechanisms at national levels.
While Central African Republic remains one of the worst humanitarian crises, the country is currently struck by internal and external new crises which are affecting a vast majority of women and girls. Since April 2023, the northern parts of the country, particularly north-east (Vakaga and Haute-Kotto) and north-west (Ouham and Lim-Pendé), have seen successive influx of asylum-seekers, fleeing the conflicts in Sudan and Chad, establishing in already vulnerable communities, and in flooding-prone areas. Out of the estimated 55,000 people who have fled their respective countries, including central African returnees, women and children represent at least 85% (and up to 98% in some groups). These crises, and particularly in Sudan, have also disrupted supply value chains and lead to stark increase of prices on the markets in neighboring Prefectures (Vakaga particularly), which heightened the food insecurity in these areas and appeared as source of tension between forcibly displaced persons (refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced persons IDPs), returnees, and host communities over the limited resources available.

Task description

Following thorough needs analysis conducted as part of Japan funded project (Vakaga and Haute-Kotto), and as part of humanitarian team assessments (Ouham and Lim-Pendé), to address the needs of the majority of women that are victims of displacement and stretched host communities, as well as supporting the capacity of women and women organisations in providing emergency response, UN Women, with support from the Government, will implement the project “Providing emergency support to mitigate the impact of regional crises (Sudan, Chad) on women and girls and their communities in North-western and north-eastern parts of CAR”. Through the 12 months project, the following expected results:
• Increase the access of at least 35 000 people (asylum-seekers, internally displaced and returnees as well as host communities) to basic social services and their social protection, especially women and girls and supporting integration of gender in emergency humanitarian interventions;
• Support food security for women and girls and their families in the most affected communities;
• Provide protection mechanisms, prevent community violence and foster social cohesion between the incoming and host populations, through nexus-approach and community-based initiatives piloted by women.
Reporting to the Women, Peace, Security and Humanitarian Action Programme Manager, the Humanitarian Analyst will contribute to the effective coordination of the humanitarian activities of UN Women Country Office, particularly in the context of the implementation of the Project “Providing emergency support to mitigate the impact of regional crises (Sudan, Chad) on women and girls and their communities in North-western and north-eastern parts of CAR”. The Humanitarian Analyst will support coordination and monitoring of the implementation of our humanitarian field interventions, providing technical and capacity support to humanitarian actors, as well as develop relevant knowledge products on humanitarian action.
More specifically, the incumbent will perform the following key functions :
1. Support the coordination of the Humanitarian Action Projects’ implementation
• Coordinate the Japan Supplementary Budget (JSB) humanitarian projects workplan development and implementation according to projects documents;
• Gather inputs and coordinate the preparation of workplans, periodic narrative progress reports and expenditures status reports for the Programme Manager’s review and approval;
• Establish systems for project planning, implementation and monitoring, in collaboration with field partners;
• Record and maintain documents on relevant project activities, issues, and risks.
2. Facilitate coordination with field partners, humanitarian clusters and other stakeholders to support projects’ implementation
• Coordinate relationships with humanitarian clusters and field partners to support implementation and expansion of the Japan Supplementary Budget Project, raise potential problems and suggest programmatic solutions to the Programme Manager;
• Identify capacity building needs and support partners through technical assistance, mentoring, training and capacity development initiatives, as needed.
3. Coordinate the monitoring and reporting on the humanitarian action project interventions
• Gather and compile all information necessary for monitoring and reporting on projects from the planning to the evaluation stages;
• Monitor the implementation of activities and the expenditure of funds; coordinate the organization regular monitoring visits, as required;
• Draft and provide inputs to annual and quarterly reports; coordinate the submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports;
• Provide inputs from JSB Humanitarian projects to programme activities and results, as well as to Country Office reporting as relevant.
4. Support in building partnerships and in developing resource mobilization strategies
• Provide inputs to the development of partnerships and resource mobilization strategies.
5. Advocate and facilitate knowledge building, management and communication
• Document the project implementation process and products;
• Contribute to the exchange of information and provide inputs to the development of knowledge products internally and externally;
• Coordinate the organization of major advocacy campaigns, events, trainings, workshops and knowledge products.