Background
Over the past years, through the regional project “Promoting Gender Responsive Polices in South-East Europe”, UN Women has provided support to national and local stakeholders in strengthening democratic governance and advancing women’s rights through initiatives aimed at mainstreaming gender in policy planning and budgeting. As result, gender responsive budgeting has increasingly been recognized as important tool for advancing gender equality in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYRoM) and the Republic of Moldova.
In this framework, FYR Macedonia has made important steps towards the institutionalisation of gender responsive budgeting at central level. The Law on Equal opportunities between women and men (2012), Articles 11 and 14 introduced obligation for state authorities to incorporate the principle of equal opportunities of women and men their strategic plans and budgets; to follow the effects and impact of their programs on women and men and report in the framework of their annual reports. Further, the Government adopted a Strategy for the promotion of gender responsive budgeting (2012-2017), while the Ministry of Finance amended the budget circular requiring pilot Ministries to select programs for gender budget analysis and develop gender indicators to improve their gender responsiveness.
Responsibilities
- Review existing European charters, National strategic documents and laws relating to decentralization and local governance, gender
equality, citizen’s participation and the obligations of the LSGUs to enact those commitments
- Provide an overview of the types of participatory and consultative mechanisms established at the level of the ten Local self-government
units covered by the project
- Conduct consultations with LSGU officials on preliminary findings and recommendations and share findings and recommendations of the
mapping study with LSGU officials for validation
Requirements
- University degree in public administration, public policy, development, gender studies or similar. Master’s degree would be considered an
asset
- More than 5 years demonstrated working experience in the area of gender and public policy, particularly focusing on local governance,
participatory and decentralisation processes
- Knowledge of national gender equality and citizen’s participation commitments, participatory, policy development and budgeting processes
at local level and the gender responsive budgeting initiatives in the country
- Previous experience working with international organizations
- Excellent knowledge of Macedonian and English language
Deadline: 28 August 2014
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