Work from Home: UN Women is Hiring for a Consultancy Position [Global Database on VAW Consultant]
Locations: Home Based
Job Function: Ending violence against women
Initial Contract Duration: 29 January 2025 – 28 March 2025
Vacancy Category: International opportunities
Job Description: Background:
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.
UN Women adopts a comprehensive approach to end violence against women and girls (EVAWG) through (1) creating an enabling legal and policy environment, (2) generating evidence, data and knowledge; (3) strengthening survivor-centered responses and access to multi-sectoral, coordinated essential services; (4) preventing VAWG by addressing the causes and drivers of violence against women and girls; (5) partnering with and supporting women’s rights organizations and civil society groups to play a lead role in addressing VAWG.
In December 2006, the UN General Assembly adopted a comprehensive resolution calling for intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (VAW) and requesting the Secretary-General to establish a coordinated database on the extent, nature and consequences of all forms of VAW, and on the impact and effectiveness of policies and programmes for eliminating such violence. The database was developed and launched in 2009 and was called the “UN Secretary-General’s database on violence against women”. In 2016, in accordance with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN Women updated and redesigned the database and relaunched it as the “Global Database on Violence against Women”.
UN Women serves as the secretariat for the database, which was designed to provide easy access to comprehensive and up-to-date information on measures undertaken by Governments to address all forms of VAW. The database generates country profiles that include prevalence data on different forms of VAW and harmful practices. This data is updated annually to include the most up to date figures. The database also serves as a repository for laws, policies and programmes to prevent and respond to VAW, informed by Member States reports to the United Nations and by questionnaires sent to Member States. UN Women aims to improve and continue to share timely data and information on EVAW through this database to anyone interested in VAW, researchers, practitioners, implementing partners, journalists, and UN officers.
In 2023/24, as part of a corporate communications optimization, the database has been re-designed, informed by user-research to further enhance the user experience. The newly designed database became operational in July 2024 and will be officially launched in the upcoming months. The database now provides a new feature with country profiles which aim to offer snapshots assessing the comprehensiveness of States approaches to EVAW. 35 country profiles were already populated and uploaded on the database.
Description of Responsibilities /Scope of Work
The consultant will work under the supervision of the Policy Specialist on Violence against Women Data to support with the development of country profiles, which include information on selected VAW indicators.
Tasks include:
Production of VAW Country profiles
Conduct research to collect information needed to generate VAW Country profiles. Research findings should be based on official sources (a list will be provided by UN Women) and compiled in the existing template that will be shared by UN Women.
Review and provide quality control of 45 country profiles developed by Online UN volunteers.
Coordinate with UN Women Country Offices for the validation and provision of the necessary information and sources.
Upload the information on Country Profiles in the provided format and in the database.
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