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The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) grounded in the principles of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, is dedicated to advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE). Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates the endeavors of the United Nations system to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translated into tangible actions worldwide. UN Women provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and initiatives, as well as building impactful partnerships with civil society and other relevant stakeholders, through their commitments fortified by adherence to the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 (2000) on Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda.
UN Women in partnership with Global Affairs Canada (GAC), the Republic of Korea, and the United Kingdom, is implementing the regional project, “Empowering Women for Sustainable Peace: preventing violence and promoting social cohesion in ASEAN” (The project). The project aims to support select ASEAN Member States to advance and strengthen Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, including through preventing violence against women and girls and promoting social cohesion in the region. The project will ultimately contribute to the achievement of gender equality through inclusive and sustainable peace and development in the region. Although the project largely focuses on advancing normative frameworks, capacity building and exchange of knowledge and good practices, it encompasses country-level implementation, where synergies between the regional and country-level interventions can be enhanced and leveraged.
UN Security Council resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325), unanimously adopted in October 2000, stressed the importance of the equal participation and full involvement of women in all efforts to maintain and promote peace and security. In the years since, nine additional resolutions on WPS have been adopted. That created a robust framework for implementing the WPS agenda and reinforced global, commitments, treaties and conventions on women’s rights, including the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
The decade-old conflict in the Southern Thailand border provinces of Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and four districts of the neighbouring Songkhla which has re-emerged and is increasingly violent since 2004 has forced a great number of citizens to live out their lives under the spectre of violence. It has also hampered socioeconomic and human development in the region and women and other marginalized groups have suffered the heaviest casualties. Women have been made widows and heads of households but are deprived of their opportunities to earn the necessary income and raise their young families in a secure environment. The underlying problems are complex, sensitive, and multi-dimensional. Major factors generally considered as causes of the insurgency include historical background, ethnicity, religion, identity, and culture, including people’s desire to seek the recognition of their unique identity. Despite the fact that the insurgency might have calmed down and the violence has continued to decrease, there are still on-going tension and threats.
The Royal Thai Government (RTG) has mainstreamed WPS issues into the existing national tools and instruments on security, justice and development and also developed the Measure and Guideline on Women, Peace and Security in 2017. In addition, the Coordination Center for Children and Women in the Southern Border Provinces (CCCW-SBP) was established in 2019 by the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center (SBPAC) in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MSDHS), and in partnership with UN Women. The CCCW-SBP coordinates the implementation of the Measure and Guidelines on Women Peace and Security and to address the needs of women and children. In 2020, the Sub-Committee on Advancement and Monitoring of the Implementation of the Measure and Guideline on Women, Peace and Security was established to monitor the implementation of Measure and Guideline on WPS and to advance WPS agenda in the country. However, as the Measure and Guideline on WPS have a specific duration from 2017 – 2021, which came to an end in 2021, Thailand may need to consider having the Measure and Guideline extended or having a National Action Plan on WPS developed depending upon its needs.
Against this background, UN Women Thailand seeks to hire a national consultant to support the Coordination Center for Children and Women to develop a Women and children Situation in the Southern Border provinces, and support the Ministry of Social Development and Humen Security to develop the English-Thai Glossary of Gender related Terms.
Under the supervision of Programme Analyst (Thailand), the primary role of National Consultant, through a partnership with local stakeholders both government organisations and non-governmental organisations/CSO, includes:
Task 1: Develop a report on Women and children Situation in the Southern Border provinces (including the role of women in WPS advancement in the SBPs).
Task 2: Develop an English-Thai Glossary of Gender related Terms.
Expected Deliverables and Timeframe
Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel The assignment is home-based, with travel to Bangkok and the Southern Border provinces. Supervision The consultant will be supervised by the Programme Analyst for Thailand who will be responsible for the quality assurance of the deliverables. All the deliverables, including annexes, notes, and reports, should be submitted in writing in English. Upon receipt of the deliverables and prior to the payment, the deliverables and related reports and documents will be reviewed and approved by UN Women. The period of review is one week after receipt. |
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