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UNFPA-GBV Coordinator-P3/P4-Farchana, Chad
Farchana, ChadPosition Title: GBV Coordinator
Receiving Agency: UNFPA
P Level: P3/P4
Location: Farchana, Chad
Duration: 2 months (updated duration)
Language: Fluency in French and English is required. Arabic is an asset
The district of Adré currently with the highest number of suspected and confirmed cases (1,502) is also the point of entry for new refugees and returnees who are coming from Sudan.
The influx of new refugees and Chadian returnees continues in the wake of the ongoing conflict in Sudan since April 15th, 2024. Around 44% of about 700,425 people (556,410 refugees and 144,015 returnees) have been moved from spontaneous reception sites to established refugee camps and returnees’ sites. Fourteen refugee camps and two returnees’ sites have received respectively Sudanese refugees and Chadian returnees, including Gaga, Farchana, Arkoum, Ourang, Metche, and Alacha in Ouaddai province; Goz Amir, Djabal, Zabout, and Kerfi in Sila Province; Mile, Kounougou, Irdimi and Touloum in Wadifira; Tongori returnee’s site in Ouaddai and Degeussa returnee’s site in Sila. These refugees and returnees are predominantly women and children, and their needs are diverse. UNFPA Chad is concerned that the limited funds under its humanitarian unit will not be able to prioritize their sexual and reproductive health and protection needs and ensure that their safety and dignity are adequately preserved.
In general, women and children have limited access to health care in Chad, resulting in maternal and child mortality rates among the highest in the world. Inadequate sanitation facilities in refugees, IDP camps, and host communities led to an unpredictable risk of disease outbreaks that compromised the health and well-being of the host communities, returnees, IDPs, and refugees.
Cases of GBV are increasing in all refugee and returnee camps. Through this BHA grant, UNFPA plans to increase its capacity to deploy SURGE CAPACITY SRH and GBV Coordinators to assist national counterparts and partners in coordinating the HEV-infections disease response across all the refugee camps as well as in the host communities’ areas. There is an urgent need to coordinate the data collection on the number of pregnant women with HEV infections and the outcomes of the pregnancy. Meeting the basic needs of women and girls among these vulnerable populations remains the UNFPA ‘s Chad priority to ensure that they have access to the prevention information and services they require for GBV and reproductive health choices in the context of HEV-infection disease outbreak.
Security Situation Summary in country and main threats: (i.e armed conflict, terrorism, crime, social unrest, hazard)
UNFPA’s security situation is dominated by the death of the opposition leader which might likely heighten political tensions in the run-up to elections. With the presidential election scheduled for May
6, 2024, there are risks of pre-election unrest in the run-up to this date.
Role Description: Under the overall supervision of the CO Humanitarian Programme Coordinator, the Field GBV Coordinator will be part of the UNFPA Humanitarian Response Team under the overall direction of the UNFPA Representative and programmatic guidance of the CO Deputy Representative. The Field GBV Coordinator will be the Focal Point for coordination, implementation, monitoring, and reporting on GBV activities, to strengthen UNFPA’s immediate humanitarian GBV response in the affected East Provinces following the resurgence of hepatitis E combined with the influx of new refugees from Sudan’s crisis.
To achieve the results of UNFPA's humanitarian response, integrated interventions are implemented in the affected East provinces through donor’s funded projects that integrate the promotion of sexual and reproductive health, the promotion of family planning services, the prevention and management of sexual and gender-based violence, and the promotion of access to sexual and reproductive health services for women, adolescents, and young people. These projects target four categories of beneficiaries, namely refugees, Chadian returnees, internally displaced persons and host populations directly affected by humanitarian crises in the country.
Interventions implemented include holistic support including GBV case management, legal assistance, psychosocial, medical, and material support to GBV survivors through an appropriate referral system, safe spaces for women and girls, and mobile teams. The establishment and operationalization of groups, sub-groups, or platforms to combat GBV and GBVIMS. GBV specialists have been deployed to support implementing partners, ensuring close support in the field and including all stakeholders. Sexual and reproductive health services are provided through the deployment of humanitarian midwives in mobile clinics and capacity-building in health facilities in areas targeted by the emergency humanitarian program.
Proposed Interventions to be supported aim at ensuring the continuity of GBV services for the most affected population in the three affected provinces.
The Coordinator will work closely with the focal points in the local Ministries of women and the protection of early childhood, implementing partners as well as sister UN agencies (UNHCR, UNICEF,
IOM, WFP, and WHO) to ensure improved GBV services. The Coordinator is expected to interact positively with government officials, UN agencies, and other organizations.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: We ask Country offices to review the list of duties and responsibilities and make appropriate amendments where necessary.
The Coordinator will provide effective management of UNFPA's activities in the field of gender-based violence and equality in humanitarian operations.
The Coordinator may be called upon to identify and facilitate operational partnerships, propose medical supplies needs, equipment, and accessories periodically, and coordinate the provision of such supplies to the partners.
The Coordinator will advise accordingly on the integration of comprehensive health (RH/HIV/GBV)
services into primary health care, as the situation stabilizes.
Under the technical direction of the Humanitarian Programme Coordinator and in close collaboration with the Senior Midwife and GBV specialists at the field level, as well as the GBV Coordinator at the CO level, the Coordinator will:
Programme Development and Implementation
• Conduct field assessments and/ or situational analyses to determine needs and gaps for GBV
prevention and response. Where appropriate, ensure GBV issues are integrated in other key assessments.
• In partnership with relevant UN, national and international NGOs, Red Cross, and government stakeholders, develop a comprehensive GBV programme in line with available global guidance that adheres to UNFPA’s Minimum Standards for Addressing GBV in Emergencies.
• Orient UNFPA CO staff, implementing partners, and national authorities in planning and implementing GBV programmes related to refugees, IDPs/returnees and host communities.
• Coordinate and facilitate training sessions on GBV in emergencies for health care providers, community services officers, security personnel, the refugee/IDP population, etc.
• Oversee the procurement of emergency post-rape kits and other relevant commodities and monitor their distribution and utilization by the end-point user.
• Support the CO to accelerate implementation of activities funded through CERF and UNFPA Emergency Response Fund and engage with donors to raise additional programme funds in line with overarching vision and work plan.
Partnerships
• Maintain solid working relationships; in collaboration with the GBV Sub-Cluster Coordinator and
UNFPA Representative/Head of Office,
• Provide regular and comprehensive updates related to UNFPA’s progress to address GBV with the
UN Country Team, GBV Sub-Cluster, Protection Cluster, Health Cluster, and other relevant actors.
• Under the supervision of the UNFPA Representative/Head of Office, represent UNFPA in relevant Cluster and other humanitarian coordination bodies to ensure that GBV issues are adequately considered in the context of the humanitarian response efforts.
• Establish linkages between existing Gender, RH, and HIV programs to ensure synergies between programs that maximize program impact.
Reporting
• Monitor GBV assistance provided by UNFPA through implementing partners to crisis-affected populations.
• Monitor UNFPA’s GBV program activities by keeping a close record of activities, such as capacity
building, expenditures, and agreements made with local partners.
• Prepare regular progress reports and document lessons learned and share with the relevant UNFPA Regional Office, UNFPA Humanitarian, and Fragile Contexts Branch, and other units as necessary.
• Support CO on coordination of humanitarian issues and prepare reports and SitReps, as required.
Capacity Development
• Provide coaching to newly recruited staff and consultants, where appropriate.
• Coach and build the capacity of relevant staff members as well as staff of implementing partners responding to emergency/humanitarian crises, as needed.
Qualifications and Skills Required
• Advanced technical degree with specialization in areas such as social work, public health, gender, law/human rights, international relations, and/or other related social science disciplines.
• 2 to 10 years of specialized experience addressing GBV at the international level; experience in this field in a humanitarian context is an asset.
• Demonstrated leadership and management experience within a multinational and multicultural environment.
• Direct experience providing support to GBV survivors as an asset.
• Fluency in oral and written French and English; working knowledge of Arabic language a plus.
Receiving Agency: UNFPA
P Level: P3/P4
Location: Farchana, Chad
Duration: 2 months (updated duration)
Language: Fluency in French and English is required. Arabic is an asset
Background Description of Emergency / Justification for Request (Please provide a short paragraph outlining the prevailing humanitarian situation and context and why this justifies the role.)
Since February 2024, Chad has been battling the Hepatitis E outbreak which surfaced in the Ouaddai Province in Eastern Chad where over half a million refugees from Sudan have found refuge and are in urgent need of integrated information and services on Sexual and Reproductive health and the fight against gender-based violence.
To date suspected and confirmed cases have been reported in two health districts of Ouaddai Province (Adré and Amleyuna) including 4 refugee camps and 3 health facilities geographic areas.
As of the 25th of March 2024, a cumulative total of 1,826 cases including
824 women, 1002 men, and 20 pregnant
women were reported. In rare cases,
acute hepatitis E can be severe and result in fulminant hepatitis (acute liver failure). These patients are at risk of death. Pregnant women with hepatitis E, particularly those in the second or third trimester, are at increased risk of acute liver failure, fetal loss, and mortality. HEV-infected pregnant women have a
higher incidence of fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) than pregnant women with other viral hepatitis. The mortality rate in HEV-infected pregnant women is around 41%, compared to a considerably lower rate of 7% in pregnant women not infected with HEV.
Since February 2024, Chad has been battling the Hepatitis E outbreak which surfaced in the Ouaddai Province in Eastern Chad where over half a million refugees from Sudan have found refuge and are in urgent need of integrated information and services on Sexual and Reproductive health and the fight against gender-based violence.
To date suspected and confirmed cases have been reported in two health districts of Ouaddai Province (Adré and Amleyuna) including 4 refugee camps and 3 health facilities geographic areas.
As of the 25th of March 2024, a cumulative total of 1,826 cases including
824 women, 1002 men, and 20 pregnant
women were reported. In rare cases,
acute hepatitis E can be severe and result in fulminant hepatitis (acute liver failure). These patients are at risk of death. Pregnant women with hepatitis E, particularly those in the second or third trimester, are at increased risk of acute liver failure, fetal loss, and mortality. HEV-infected pregnant women have a
higher incidence of fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) than pregnant women with other viral hepatitis. The mortality rate in HEV-infected pregnant women is around 41%, compared to a considerably lower rate of 7% in pregnant women not infected with HEV.
The district of Adré currently with the highest number of suspected and confirmed cases (1,502) is also the point of entry for new refugees and returnees who are coming from Sudan.
The influx of new refugees and Chadian returnees continues in the wake of the ongoing conflict in Sudan since April 15th, 2024. Around 44% of about 700,425 people (556,410 refugees and 144,015 returnees) have been moved from spontaneous reception sites to established refugee camps and returnees’ sites. Fourteen refugee camps and two returnees’ sites have received respectively Sudanese refugees and Chadian returnees, including Gaga, Farchana, Arkoum, Ourang, Metche, and Alacha in Ouaddai province; Goz Amir, Djabal, Zabout, and Kerfi in Sila Province; Mile, Kounougou, Irdimi and Touloum in Wadifira; Tongori returnee’s site in Ouaddai and Degeussa returnee’s site in Sila. These refugees and returnees are predominantly women and children, and their needs are diverse. UNFPA Chad is concerned that the limited funds under its humanitarian unit will not be able to prioritize their sexual and reproductive health and protection needs and ensure that their safety and dignity are adequately preserved.
In general, women and children have limited access to health care in Chad, resulting in maternal and child mortality rates among the highest in the world. Inadequate sanitation facilities in refugees, IDP camps, and host communities led to an unpredictable risk of disease outbreaks that compromised the health and well-being of the host communities, returnees, IDPs, and refugees.
Cases of GBV are increasing in all refugee and returnee camps. Through this BHA grant, UNFPA plans to increase its capacity to deploy SURGE CAPACITY SRH and GBV Coordinators to assist national counterparts and partners in coordinating the HEV-infections disease response across all the refugee camps as well as in the host communities’ areas. There is an urgent need to coordinate the data collection on the number of pregnant women with HEV infections and the outcomes of the pregnancy. Meeting the basic needs of women and girls among these vulnerable populations remains the UNFPA ‘s Chad priority to ensure that they have access to the prevention information and services they require for GBV and reproductive health choices in the context of HEV-infection disease outbreak.
Security Situation Summary in country and main threats: (i.e armed conflict, terrorism, crime, social unrest, hazard)
UNFPA’s security situation is dominated by the death of the opposition leader which might likely heighten political tensions in the run-up to elections. With the presidential election scheduled for May
6, 2024, there are risks of pre-election unrest in the run-up to this date.
Role Description: Under the overall supervision of the CO Humanitarian Programme Coordinator, the Field GBV Coordinator will be part of the UNFPA Humanitarian Response Team under the overall direction of the UNFPA Representative and programmatic guidance of the CO Deputy Representative. The Field GBV Coordinator will be the Focal Point for coordination, implementation, monitoring, and reporting on GBV activities, to strengthen UNFPA’s immediate humanitarian GBV response in the affected East Provinces following the resurgence of hepatitis E combined with the influx of new refugees from Sudan’s crisis.
To achieve the results of UNFPA's humanitarian response, integrated interventions are implemented in the affected East provinces through donor’s funded projects that integrate the promotion of sexual and reproductive health, the promotion of family planning services, the prevention and management of sexual and gender-based violence, and the promotion of access to sexual and reproductive health services for women, adolescents, and young people. These projects target four categories of beneficiaries, namely refugees, Chadian returnees, internally displaced persons and host populations directly affected by humanitarian crises in the country.
Interventions implemented include holistic support including GBV case management, legal assistance, psychosocial, medical, and material support to GBV survivors through an appropriate referral system, safe spaces for women and girls, and mobile teams. The establishment and operationalization of groups, sub-groups, or platforms to combat GBV and GBVIMS. GBV specialists have been deployed to support implementing partners, ensuring close support in the field and including all stakeholders. Sexual and reproductive health services are provided through the deployment of humanitarian midwives in mobile clinics and capacity-building in health facilities in areas targeted by the emergency humanitarian program.
Proposed Interventions to be supported aim at ensuring the continuity of GBV services for the most affected population in the three affected provinces.
The Coordinator will work closely with the focal points in the local Ministries of women and the protection of early childhood, implementing partners as well as sister UN agencies (UNHCR, UNICEF,
IOM, WFP, and WHO) to ensure improved GBV services. The Coordinator is expected to interact positively with government officials, UN agencies, and other organizations.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: We ask Country offices to review the list of duties and responsibilities and make appropriate amendments where necessary.
The Coordinator will provide effective management of UNFPA's activities in the field of gender-based violence and equality in humanitarian operations.
The Coordinator may be called upon to identify and facilitate operational partnerships, propose medical supplies needs, equipment, and accessories periodically, and coordinate the provision of such supplies to the partners.
The Coordinator will advise accordingly on the integration of comprehensive health (RH/HIV/GBV)
services into primary health care, as the situation stabilizes.
Under the technical direction of the Humanitarian Programme Coordinator and in close collaboration with the Senior Midwife and GBV specialists at the field level, as well as the GBV Coordinator at the CO level, the Coordinator will:
Programme Development and Implementation
• Conduct field assessments and/ or situational analyses to determine needs and gaps for GBV
prevention and response. Where appropriate, ensure GBV issues are integrated in other key assessments.
• In partnership with relevant UN, national and international NGOs, Red Cross, and government stakeholders, develop a comprehensive GBV programme in line with available global guidance that adheres to UNFPA’s Minimum Standards for Addressing GBV in Emergencies.
• Orient UNFPA CO staff, implementing partners, and national authorities in planning and implementing GBV programmes related to refugees, IDPs/returnees and host communities.
• Coordinate and facilitate training sessions on GBV in emergencies for health care providers, community services officers, security personnel, the refugee/IDP population, etc.
• Oversee the procurement of emergency post-rape kits and other relevant commodities and monitor their distribution and utilization by the end-point user.
• Support the CO to accelerate implementation of activities funded through CERF and UNFPA Emergency Response Fund and engage with donors to raise additional programme funds in line with overarching vision and work plan.
Partnerships
• Maintain solid working relationships; in collaboration with the GBV Sub-Cluster Coordinator and
UNFPA Representative/Head of Office,
• Provide regular and comprehensive updates related to UNFPA’s progress to address GBV with the
UN Country Team, GBV Sub-Cluster, Protection Cluster, Health Cluster, and other relevant actors.
• Establish linkages between existing Gender, RH, and HIV programs to ensure synergies between programs that maximize program impact.
Reporting
• Monitor GBV assistance provided by UNFPA through implementing partners to crisis-affected populations.
• Monitor UNFPA’s GBV program activities by keeping a close record of activities, such as capacity
building, expenditures, and agreements made with local partners.
• Prepare regular progress reports and document lessons learned and share with the relevant UNFPA Regional Office, UNFPA Humanitarian, and Fragile Contexts Branch, and other units as necessary.
• Support CO on coordination of humanitarian issues and prepare reports and SitReps, as required.
Capacity Development
• Provide coaching to newly recruited staff and consultants, where appropriate.
• Coach and build the capacity of relevant staff members as well as staff of implementing partners responding to emergency/humanitarian crises, as needed.
Qualifications and Skills Required
• Advanced technical degree with specialization in areas such as social work, public health, gender, law/human rights, international relations, and/or other related social science disciplines.
• 2 to 10 years of specialized experience addressing GBV at the international level; experience in this field in a humanitarian context is an asset.
• Demonstrated leadership and management experience within a multinational and multicultural environment.
• Direct experience providing support to GBV survivors as an asset.
• Fluency in oral and written French and English; working knowledge of Arabic language a plus.
CANADEM and its partners have a no-tolerance policy for inaction to prevent, respond to and follow up on alleged cases of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (SEAH). For this reason, we adhere to all policies, procedures and training of the United Nations on The Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (PSEAH). CANADEM mandates all deployees successfully complete the PSEA online course. This e-learning course is composed of a set of lessons designed to raise awareness about SEAH, become familiar with a range of measures to combat SEAH, understand the impact on victims and the consequences for UN Personnel who commit Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment.