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UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world.
While Albania has made significant progress in promoting gender equality, women continue to face barriers in fully enjoying their human rights. Women are less likely to participate in the labour market, with a labour force participation rate of 15.9% lower than men’s. Stereotypes and gender norms continue to be pervasive and contribute to the persistent marginalization of women, especially those belonging to minorities, including rural women. Young people also face specific challenges: at 27.1%, their unemployment rate is about twice as high as that of the working-age population. Most of the young professionals and students leaving Albania look for opportunities to stay in the host country, rather than returning.
Promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment is a key priority for Albania, underpinning all actions listed in the recently adopted National Strategy for Sustainable Development and European Integration 2022-2030. The Strategy also recognizes rural development as key for Albania’s sustainable development. Agriculture is the sector that employs the majority of Albanian citizens, accounting for approximately 33.8 % of the employees during 2021, however, agricultural activity is challenged by increased transport and production costs, limited maximization of investment limited efficiency of distribution channels. Meeting national and international quality and food safety standards and building an administrative capacity to support these processes also remain a challenge.
Women play an important role in agriculture and rural development in Albania, making up 40% of the agriculture workforce, although in most cases invisible and informal. Male gender roles in agriculture are predominantly associated with tasks that involve control over agricultural assets and implements, mobility, decision-making and access to market; whereas female gender roles are associated with manual work, including pre-harvest and post-harvest activities, food processing, quality control, and household tasks. Furthermore, women’s access to technical and financial resources and information through agricultural extension service remains very limited, and women represent only 10 % of all beneficiaries of extension services. Women are rarely members of, or represented in, formal associations or committees. Their limited access to transportation in rural areas has direct implications for their access to health and social services, education, employment and participation in decision making, making them dependent on male relatives and putting them further at risk of marginalisation. This is especially alarming with the persistence of patriarchal attitudes in rural areas, which often result in GBV.
Women are also strongly discriminated compared to men in term of access to property, While existing legislation guarantees women’s property rights and co-ownership, the implementation of the legislation has been too often hindered by discriminatory cultural and social attitudes, practices at the institutional and community levels, and women’s lack of knowledge of their rights. This has affected women’s inheritance rights as well as entitlements.
To address these challenges, UN Women with the support of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and funding from the by the Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation will implement a project aiming to improve the empowerment of women in Northern Albania and promote their role as active contributors to sustainable rural development. The region of intervention was selected based on latest data on poverty rate and persistency of gender inequalities and stereotypes.
Overall, this project will contribute to the realization of SDG targets 2.3, 5.a, 8.3. The intervention is aligned with the EU Gender Action Plan III, The National Strategy for Gender Equality (NSGE) 2021-2030 and the National Strategy for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries.
Under the guidance and direct supervision of Country Office Representative and in day-to-day coordination with the National Programme Officer, the Project Management Specialist is responsible for managing the project, including relationships with national partners and stakeholders, donor, the monitoring and reporting the activities, the finances and personnel of the portfolio
The Project Management Specialist works in close collaboration with Head of Programmes (NOC), Programme Analyst (P2), Technical Project Analyst (SB4), and the rest of the programme and operations team to ensure successful implementation of UN Women programme implementation.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Manage and lead the overall implementation of Empowering Women for Rural Development in North Albania:
Manage and lead the monitoring and reporting on the Project:
Manage financial resources and supervise project personnel:
Advocate and facilitate knowledge building and management and communication:
Required Skills and Experience:
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Source: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=117126
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