Job Description

Date of Issue: 30 December 2024                                                                                          

Closing Date: 12 January 2025  

SSA Announcement No. UNWOMEN/ICO/SSA/2024/025         

I. POSITION INFORMATION

Title

Consultant - To Participate in the 69th Sesson of the Commission on Status of Women (CSW) (Travel Grant Only)

Duty Station

New Delhi, India

Contract Type

SSA

Contract duration

10 months

Expecting starting date

1 March 2025 – 30 December 2025

Contract Supervision

Country programme Manager - IGP, UN Women India

** Note:  UN Women shall support up to 5 participants under this grant. This is a travel grant only. The grantees will be expected to work with UN Women for next year in Beijing+ 30 discussions basis the learning from CSW69 participation. (until December’25)  

II. CONTEXT AND PURPOSE OF THE GRANT 

UN Women’s India Country Office, based in New Delhi, India, works to accelerate the advancement of gender equality and the empowerment of women through the strengthening of strategic partnerships, technical and policy advisory services and advocacy with governmental, inter-governmental and civil society partners. In addition, UN Women India CO is charged with leading and coordinating the UN system’s work on gender equality, including through ensuring accountability for results.

UN Women India Country Office invites nominations from Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) actively working in the field of gender equality, women's rights, and empowerment to apply for travel grants to participate in the 69th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69), scheduled for March 2025 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. 

Application: 

Interested applicants should apply to this announcement through UN Women jobs site: 

Careers at UN Women | UN Women – Headquarters

UN Women will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest.

Note: 

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment. 

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