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

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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: 1) Contribute to generating data and understanding of spousal co-management of fisheries and other family business. 2) Identify good spousal co-management practices adopted by other small family businesses which can inform legislation and policy framework (evidence-based policy making) on family businesses as a mechanism for enhancing social protection and jobs for women co-managers. 3) Identify implementation and monitoring opportunities and challenges of fisheries law related to spousal co-management and how these challenges are being addressed

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• 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. Overall Spain has good legislation which promotes social protection for women in the fisheries and covers all categories in the sector. This system extends to the wives and members of the self-employed fishers’ families who work in the family enterprise and wives have benefited from the social security system since 1970. The fisheries sector also benefited from implementing the principle of equality in the regulatory and strategic fisheries sector framework and Law 47/2015, which was approved in 2015. We require the services of a UN volunteer in Spain fluent in Spanish and English to support in the generation of evidence which can inform law and policy on women as defacto co-managers in small family businesses drawing on Spain’s longstanding experience since 1970.

• Volunteers: 2 needed

• 6-10 hours per week / 5 weeks

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

• Global

• English, Spanish