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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.
UN Women’s 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 CO is also leading and coordinating the UN system’s work on gender equality, including through ensuring accountability for results.
Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is an essential element of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the roadmap to a more equal, just, peaceful, and sustainable world. The Women’s Economic Empowerment Portfolio in India focusses on strengthening women’s economic rights and agency while creating an enabling environment for decent and safe employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for women in all their diversity. UN Women is implementing an ‘EU’ funded Women Empower India project to advance women’s economic empowerment in India. By promoting decent and safe economic opportunities, policy advocacy, and collaborative efforts including towards addressing discriminatory social norms, the project aims to create positive change for women and girls in all their diversity. The project envisions following result areas:
Enhanced gender transformative policies and decision- making processes to improve women’s access to safe and decent employment and entrepreneurship.
Positive gender norms that enable and increase women’s participation in economic and social life promoted.
Under the project, UN Women India works closely with national and state governments to strengthen gender-responsive policies, institutions, and data systems. Recognizing the critical role of gender statistics in informing evidence-based policymaking, UN Women has partnered with the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) to strengthen gender data analysis, statistical publications, and capacity building on gender statistics.
To support this work, UN Women seeks to engage a consultant – Gender Statistics and Data Analysis, who will be placed within MoSPI to provide technical, analytical, and coordination support on gender data and statistics.
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