The Gender Team of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) is the institutional anchor of UNDP’s work on gender equality and women’s empowerment. As the UN’s lead development agency, with extensive field presence, UNDP facilitates the integration of gender equality in the work of its Country Offices through core and non-core fund investments and has initiated and implemented numerous innovative initiatives that support program county work on gender equality and women’s empowerment. UNDP's work on gender is guided by the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the frameworks provided by the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The UNDP Gender Team works to implement gender equality as a core objective of UNDP through a two-pronged approach (i) mainstreaming gender in all core practices; and, (ii) dedicated interventions that empower women and promote gender equality.
The Gender Team is at the forefront of UNDP's commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment and is part of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) which provides policy advice and technical support to all of UNDP’s operations.
In order to advance UNDP’s mandate on gender equality and women’s empowerment, UNDP has a Corporate Gender Equality Strategy (GES) 2014-2017 which outlines in detail how UNDP will work towards gender equality in each of the goals and key results set out in the UNDP Strategic Plan 2014-2017.
As part of these efforts, UNDP is implementing a project on “Global Gender Responsive Climate Change”. This project has been running since 2008 and has succeeded in shifting the gender and climate change paradigm. Through a coordinated partnership approach with other key organizations, they have ensured that gender equality principles are part of the discussions in the outcome documents of UNFCCC negotiations, as well as in the operations of major climate funds.
UNDP has followed a dual approach to its gender and climate finance work at the global and national level. Over recent years, UNDP has led efforts to promote the gender responsiveness of the Adaptation Fund and Climate Investment Funds, and has worked successfully to integrate gender equality principles into the governance and operational guidelines of the Funds. Since 2011, UNDP has also been focused on the design of the Green Climate Fund, and in advocacy and capacity building efforts to help guide the operationalization of the gender equality commitments made within its Governing Instrument. UNDP, in collaboration with the GGCA, has helped build pools of national gender and climate experts and works to help facilitate these experts’ work to prepare fund proposals and to engage in national consultations that give voice to women. In this way, UNDP is ensuring that women’s needs and contributions inform policies and programmes supported by the major climate funds.
To support UNDP’s work in these areas of gender equality, climate change, and climate finance, UNDP is now looking to retain the services of a gender and climate change consultant to 1) support UNDP in implementing its international and regional work under the fourth phase of the GGCA UNDP project; 2) facilitate continued integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment principles into major public climate finance mechanisms; and 3) contribute to the generation of new knowledge on gender, climate change and climate finance.
The project is made possible mainly through contributions of the government of Finland to the UNDP Gender Thematic Trust Fund. Current funding is entering its fourth phase in 2014 and will continue through 2016.This umbrella programme is one of the main programming vehicles for the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA).
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