Type: Project Gender and Climate Specialist
Duty Station: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Closing Date: 10 April 2024, midnight Sri Lanka time (GMT + 5:30)
Job Description and link to the application

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is the leading UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA works in partnership with governments, civil society, and other key stakeholders to promote reproductive health, gender equality, and the rights and well-being of young people. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) addresses climate change by focusing on understanding population dynamics, ensuring access to reproductive health services, advocating for gender equality, and supporting resilience and adaptation strategies, especially in communities most affected by climate change.

UNFPA's efforts include providing emergency reproductive health services during climate-induced crises, preventing gender-based violence, and forming partnerships to integrate population and gender issues into climate policies.

Purpose of consultancy:

UNFPA is hiring a consultant to support the CO’s work on Climate Action as part of the implementation of the 10th Country Programme of the Sri Lanka country office. Through the Gender and Climate Specialist, UNFPA intends to put persons, women and girls at the very centre of Sri Lanka’s climate agenda and UNFPA’s programming.

Scope of work:

  The consultant will be responsible for:

Strategic Advice:

• Review, analyze and provide recommendations on the country level policies and programmes related to gender mainstreaming inside climate related policy; and,
• Analyze international and regional climate agenda and provide strategic advise to the Sri Lanka CO on best approach to strengthen programming for gender climate action.

Capacity Development and System’s Strengthening:

• Develop tools for Gender and Climate Action programming for government of Sri Lanka;
• Lead the development of a UNFPA Gender and Climate Strategy resulting from the findings of the Climate and Gender Research; and,
• Conduct Gender and Climate Action capacity building for relevant stakeholders in Sri Lanka.

Policy Research, Evidence and Dilogues:

• Support the development of policy briefs, researches and issue briefs on climate and gender; and,
• Support the conduct of policy dialogues, meetings and engagements on gender and climate.

Strategic Partnerships and Positioning:

• Represent UNFPA Sri Lanka in government and other stakeholders’ meeting on climate related forums, meetings and dialogues
• Conduct mapping of existing projects, financing mechanisms, and stakeholders in the national, including regional and global actors active in Sri Lanka with a Gender component in Climate work; and,
• In close coordination with UNFPA communication team, support production of meaningful, engaging and impactful communication products related to gender and climate agenda