Humanitarian Analyst

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Overview

Coordinate and support humanitarian projects for women's empowerment.

You have:

• Experience managing complex and multi-component humanitarian project interventions with partners at the national or international level is required.
• Experience in working on gender in humanitarian context would be desirable.
• Experience in coordinating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating humanitarian projects is desirable.
• Experience working with the United Nations is desirable.

Contract

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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.

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.

• Respect for Diversity • Integrity • Professionalism • Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues • Accountability • Creative Problem Solving • Effective Communication • Inclusive Collaboration • Stakeholder Engagement • Leading by Example

managing complex and multi-component humanitarian project interventions with partners at the national or international level is required. • Experience in working on gender in humanitarian context would be desirable. • Experience in coordinating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating humanitarian projects is desirable. • Experience working with the United Nations is desirable.

CAR is a post-conflict country. In 2013, a bloody conflict between the Seleka and the Anti-Balaka armed groups over almost the entire territory of the country. Fearing the risk of genocide, the United Nations decided to send peacekeepers to the government to protect civilians and restore peace.

The clashes have ended, and entire areas of the country are under the control of the national army forces. Following the Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation signed on February 6, 2018, between the 14 Armed Groups and the Government of CAR, the State deployed its services, in particular the Armed Forces, the police, the gendarmerie, justice in all regions of the country.

The CAR has only one international airport (Bangui M’poko), which provides all air links to the outside and regions of the country. There are aerodromes in the 16 capitals of each Prefecture and some of the sub-prefectures. The road network is poor since only one main road, which is paved, connects CAR to Cameroon.

Two seasons alternate the climate in CAR. A dry season and a rainy season spread over six months each. The most feared disease is malaria.

The hotel network is experiencing increasing growth but is still very expensive. Regarding food, there is a wide variety of local and imported products in Bangui and some of the country’s cities. However, access to these products is different in different parts of the country. All these difficulties make the cost of living more expensive. It is the same for services like banks, hospitals, electricity, etc., which have minimal access and are concentrated only in Bangui, the capital. UN holds two medical center in Bangui. The Level 1 and the Level 2.

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