Position:: Women’s Economic 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.

Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, the UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

The UN Women Tanzania Country Programme is part of United Nations Delivering as One and its programmatic activities constitute part of the UN Development Assistance Programme (UNDAP) 2014-2016. In addition, UN Women Tanzania is part of the UNDAP 2016-2021 and in this regard has been mandated to lead the UN System in its’ work on Women’s Economic Empowerment. As an initial starting point, UN Women would like to conduct a mapping of the previous and planned activities of the UN Agencies on Women’s Economic Empowerment and is seeking a consultant to conduct this mapping.

At a global level UN Women, UNESCO and UNFPA have signed a joint programme entitled Empowering Adolescent Girls through Education. In Tanzania, this programme is intended to be a 5-year programme with a focus both adolescent girls both in and out of school. UN Women has a focus area on the economic empowerment of adolescent girls looking at interventions both in school as well as out of school.

To this end, UN Women is seeking a consultant to support the development of the programme in this phase and to develop the strategy and relevant interventions for the 5-year programme. In addition, the consultant will be responsible for supporting the finalization of documents required for finalization (results framework, budget, etc)


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