Technical Officer

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Job Description
Description
To provide technical leadership on human rights, violence against women and gender to countries in developing policies, strategies and frameworks that are gender responsive and human rights based. To oversee and support the development and uptake of evidence, tools, and advocacy efforts to a) capacity building of WHO staff and technical counterparts, and b) facilitate and monitor advances in the implementation of the GRE WHO Roadmap. Under the guidance of the Senior adviser on gender and human rights, the incumbent carries out the following core responsibilities and tasks:
Act as WHO lead expert on health human rights and on gender-based violence.
Design and carry out multi-country capacity building and know-how exchanges in the form of various events such as visits, meetings, seminars, conferences, etc. aimed at strengthening human rights based approaches and the health systems response to violence against women.
Provide advice to Member States on specific issues where human rights, including gender equality,



need special attention across the work of WHO, such as sexual and reproductive rights, patients' rights, the health rights of migrants, the human rights aspects of violence against women and the trafficking of human beings, right to health of minorities such as LGBTIQ. This would include producing clear and authoritative written materials such as policy briefings, presentations, and synthesis reports.
Strengthening advocacy and partnership building efforts including developing and maintaining networks of knowledge sharing inside WHO and across Member States.
Key partnerships include UN agencies and IBC Gender, EIGE and other EU players, Global Campus on Human Rights and national bodies and collaborating centers.
Facilitate and monitor the development and implementation of the EURO Action Plan of the WHOGRE Roadmap across technical programmes and country offices. This would include building capacity and strengthening networks of foca

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