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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. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world.
As the Government of the Republic of Moldova prepares to align with the EU acquis in various sectors, following the response to the European Council’s decision to grant Moldova candidate status for EU membership. This significant step has spurred Moldova’s commitment to enact reforms necessary for integration. Subsequently, the European Council’s decision to open accession negotiations further underscores the importance of Moldova’s alignment with EU standards.
The process of opening the first clusters of EU Chapters requires enhanced adherence to EU requirements, including the approximation of EU gender equality laws and policies and the consistent application of gender mainstreaming across all sectors, policy areas, and levels of government. The EU explicitly expects candidate and potential candidate countries “to progressively align with [the] EU gender equality acquis and establish an institutional framework to enforce it”. Accession negotiations are complex, requiring technical administrative expertise and resources to absorb the EU Gender Equality acquis. This necessitates the development of capacities, processes, and procedures for consistent gender mainstreaming across sectors and levels of governance, which poses a challenge for Moldova.
UN Women is uniquely placed to support this specific initiative focused on supporting the capacity building of the relevant government institutions of Moldova authorities to ensure the adoption of EU GE acquis to be systematically captured and mainstreamed in government reforms, strategies and plans in different sectors.
UN Women is ‘The United Nations Agency mandated to lead on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women”. UN Women has three aspects to its mandate: 1) to support the adoption of global Norms and Standards on GE, 2) to promote coordination on GE across the UN and support coordination across government, and 3) to implement operations on GE. Supporting the adoption of international norms and standards includes promoting the adoption of the Gender Equality elements of the EU acquis. Operating in over 90 countries globally no other specialised GE institution can draw on such a range of high level GE expertise in mainstreaming GE within government and institutional processes.
Additionally, the UN Women has a global track record of successful implementation of similar actions, in this region very similar work is underway in Albania and Serbia, where UN Women supports the Gender Equality Institutional Mechanism GIM and EUD in supporting the adoption of EU Gender Equality acquis through EU IPA investments
Additionally, based on the European Commission Implementing Decision on the Annual Action Plan in favour of the Republic of Moldova for 2022 , UN Women Moldova CO is implementing a four-year project (November 2023 – October 2027) under the name “Ending Violence, Expanding Livelihood Opportunities for Women and Accelerating Gender Governance in Moldova” (hereinafter EVOLVE4GE). The project is implemented in line with and in contribution to the of European Commission ” Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in External Action 2021–2025″, adopted in November 2020, and its which aim to accelerate progress on empowering women and girls, and safeguard gains made on gender equality during the 25 years since the adoption of . It will also support the Government to advance implementation of the gender equality commitments aligned with the EU candidacy status granted to the Republic of Moldova in June 2022.
The project builds on UN Women’s advocacy and past work in strengthening capacities for gender responsive governance, on the Country office best practices around women’s economic empowerment through business development and increased participation of women in sectors with high economic potential and high gender gap, as well as on lessons learned collected through the support provided to the Government in the development of integrated – survivor oriented – provision of assistance and establishment of specialist services for survivors of violence against women and girls.
The interventions will contribute directly to the implementation of the national priorities set the Government Programme on Gender Equality (2023-2027), The RoadMap for Economic Empowerment of Women, the National Programme on Ending Violence against Women (2023-2027), as well as to the gender responsive provisions of the (2023-2030) and Public Administration (2023-2030).
In this framework, UN Women Moldova within the EVOLVE4GE project seeks to contract a consultant (here and after “The Consultant”) to support the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (MLSP) in advancing the gender dimension in the EU integration processes.
The overall objective of this consultancy is to provide detailed insights into the gender knowledge and capacity needs in the specific context of EU Integration, as well as propose recommendations for effective operationalization of the gender equality mechanism and its role and engagement in EU accession processes.
More specifically, the consultant will be responsible for the following tasks, including but not limited to:
Deliverables
Deliverable | Expected completion time (due day) |
Detailed outline – work plan for the assignment. | September 10, 2024 |
Retrieve and review relevant background literature and other materials | October 01, 2024 |
Monthly report with reviewed and provided inputs for the processes that are currently underway and/or planned in the short to mid-term by MLSP, in terms of absorbing the EU provisions on gender equality | Monthly, starting with September 30 to December 30th ,2024 |
Final report with specific information on the results achieved, challenges, and opportunities | December 10, 2024 |
Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
This is a office -based consultancy within partner institution.
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Knowledge Management and Learning
Leadership and Self-Management
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APPLICATION PROCESS AND SUBMISSION PACKAGE
Interested candidates are invited to submit their online applications with the following documents:
Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The United Nations in Moldova is committed to workforce diversity. Women, persons with disabilities, Roma and other ethnic or religious minorities, persons living with HIV, as well as refugees and other non-citizens legally entitled to work in the Republic of Moldova, are particularly encouraged to apply.
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