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In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In doing so, UN Member States took an historic step in accelerating the Organization’s goals on gender equality and the empowerment of women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda,...
Additional Category: Gender Equality
Type of Contract: Individual Contract
Post Level: National Consultant
Starting Date: (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) 25th June, 2018
Duration of Initial Contract: 3 Month
Expected Duration of Assignment: 3 Months
Background
UN Women’s office in Nigeria works to advance implementation of the agency’s normative, operational and coordination mandate, in close partnership with the Government of Nigeria, the United Nations Country Team and civil society organizations. The UN Women Nigeria Country Office prioritizes women’s economic empowerment as one of its core programmatic areas of focus. UN Women’s efforts to enhance women’s economic empowerment in the recent past has included support to women entrepreneurs in ICTs, facilitating women’s financial inclusion, through a partnership with Mastercard, and supporting women IDPs in conflict-affected areas in the North East of Nigeria to re-engage in agricultural activities.
UN Women has also embarked in designing a flagship program on women’s economic empowerment through agribusiness, which will be implemented with other UN partners in support of the government of Nigeria’s Economic recovery and Growth Plan.
Additionally, UN Women Nigeria commissioned a study on gender sensitive procurement in Nigeria at the end of 2017. The study showed that despite Nigeria having one of the highest number of female entrepreneurs in the world, women-owned businesses do not secure government contracts, suggesting systematic gender disparities in the Nigerian procurement system.
As a follow-up to the study and its important findings, and as part of UN Women global high-impact Flagship Programming Initiative (FPI) in the field of women’s economic empowerment, UN Women Nigeria wishes to contract a Consultant to undertake a series of additional interventions particularly related to promoting gender sensitive procurement and women entrepreneurs’ access to public procurement.Duties and Responsibilities
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