UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices.
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UNFPA results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.
In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.
UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
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Background
UNFPA’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025 identified strengthening capacity to address discriminatory gender and social norms as one of the six ‘interconnected outputs’ to support the three transformative results:
1. Accelerated reduction in unmet needs for family planning
2. Accelerated reduction in preventable maternal deaths
3. Accelerated reduction in gender-based violence and harmful practices
Outcome 3 of the UNFPA Strategic Plan 2022-2025 responds to Sustainable Development Goal 5, target 5.2 (eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls in public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation) and target 5.3 (eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation).
UNFPA addresses child marriage through policy advocacy, research, and programming. UNFPA APRO partners with UNICEF ROSA to co-lead the joint Global Programme to End Child Marriage (GPECM), which in the Asia Pacific region encompasses India, Bangladesh and Nepal along with “Rising Stars” Pakistan and Afghanistan. In addition, with support from the Government of Australia, UNICEF EAPRO and UNFPA APRO implement the Joint Programme to End Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Southeast Asia through the Towards Universal Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights in the Indo-Pacific (TUSIP) initiative in Cambodia, the Philippines, and Lao PDR.
While the gender digital divide for girls in many parts of the Asia Pacific remains significant, investment in policies and programming to improve girls’ digital access and literacy is helping to narrow the gap. However, increased use of and access to technology and online platforms and media for education, work and social interaction potentially exposes girls to increased risk of technology-facilitated GBV (TFGBV) including solicitation for early marriage. Concurrently, the global backlash on gender equality is evident online as groups emerge to promote child marriage as a traditional social norm or a strategy to control girls’ bodily autonomy and access to opportunities. More understanding is needed on how girls are being targeted and groomed through the use of technology (individually and as a group) for forced child marriage.
The UNFPA Asia and Pacific Regional Office aims to support Country Offices and partners under the scope of these joint programmes by providing evidence generation and resources to better understand the mechanisms, actors, drivers and risk factors associated with the misuse of technology to target and groom girls for child marriage. To accomplish this, the research will explore the issue at both the interpersonal level (targeting individuals) as well as the societal level (organized online promotion of social norms that promote or facilitate forced child marriage). The research will further document practices or programming that seek to counteract or prevent girls’ vulnerability to online grooming for marriage.
