Research and data analysis on women’s management and socio-economic rights in family businesses (Kenya)

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The gender team at UNDP is looking for online volunteers to support in the review and generation of existing legal and policy evidence which can inform policy on women as defacto co-managers in family businesses. The volunteers will: . Contribute to generating data to inform evidence-based policy making on family businesses as a mechanism for enhancing social protection, family based jobs for women as well as eliminating hunger and poverty. 2. Identify co-management policy (frameworks) related considerations of family businesses in Bulgaria, their key provisions and implications in terms of social protection of spouses and other family members dealing in or contriibuting labour to the family bussiness 3. Ascertain legal recognitions/parameters/recommendations that can enhance the position of/for women co-managers to enjoy their rights and empower themselves in line with the aim of the SDGs on family businesses as a mechanism for enhancing social protection and jobs for women.

• COVID-19 Response

• Other communications related experience

  Gender inequalities are one of the major causes of poverty worldwide. Around 70 percent of the world’s poor are women, of which the majority are rural women from developing countries. The gender team at UNDP is undertaking a mapping exercise to identify existing legislation and policy frameworks on women as co-managers and co-owners in family business/farms including fisheries. Although 60% of employed women in developing countries work in agriculture, they are only 13 percent of agricultural landholders. For example, 89% of Kenya’s subsistence labor in agriculture is provided by women, 32% of households are headed by women however only 1% of land titles are held by women alone and another 5% are held by women jointly with men. In Kenya, women-owned family businesses in agriculture and fishing industries have remained in the background and a study on small- scale fisheries in the Kenyan Lake Victoria Basin, fishing was found to be the livelihood for 75 % of women, and their entire families depended on it; however, men controlled all aspects of the industry, from fishing to selling in the market.

• Volunteers: 5 needed

• 6-10 hours per week / 5 weeks

  Candidates need to be fluent in Swahili and English. Experience in qualitative data analysis and research. Familiarity and expertise with gender are considered an asset.

• Global

• English, Swahili