Programme Assistant at UNFPA

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Mission and objectives
The overall vision of the UNFPA Zimbabwe 8th country programme is to improve the health and well-being of women, young people and vulnerable and marginalized groups in Zimbabwe by ensuring universal access to high-quality integrated Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) information and services in an enabling environment. This will contribute to the achievement of the three transformative results of UNFPA: zero unmet need for family planning; zero preventable maternal deaths; zero gender-based violence (GBV). It will also support the East and Southern Africa regional priority of ending sexual transmission of HIV. The country programme further aims to reduce the unmet need for family planning for married women aged 15-19 years (from 12.6 per cent to 10 per cent).

Context
The UNFPA Zimbabwe Gender programme supports efficient and effective GBV risk mitigation, prevention and response systems, and ensures availability and accessibility of essential multi sectoral GBV services, especially for girls and women, including in humanitarian settings. Specific interventions include: (a) advocacy for the development and implementation of gender responsive legislation, policy guidelines and strategies, and improved funding for reducing GBV; (b) improve knowledge of women and girls on life skills, gender-equitable norms, attitudes and behaviours, including sexuality and reproduction, self-confidence and self-esteem, and their capacity to adequately access GBV services; (c) enhance the capacity of national and subnational partners on GBV in emergencies preparedness; (d) support male engagement interventions on positive masculinities for the active involvement of men and boys to prevent and address gender-based violence; (e) strengthen the capacities of communities to ensure gender equality and increase the agency of women and girls; (f) strengthen the integrated essential services package on GBV within the health, judicial and other sectors, including ‘one-stop centres', community shelters and safe spaces; (g) scale-up mobile and remote GBV essential service provision models in remote and hard-to-reach areas; and (h) scale-up partnership and coordination and cooperation with the Government, United Nations agencies and other key stakeholders for joint programming and improved coordination to address gender-based violence and early marriage.

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