In the camps in Cox’s Bazar, the Rohingya refugees face multiple challenges, incuding, overcrowding, poor shelter, food insecurity, colapsed household economies, and environmental risks such as annual monsoon rains, and cyclones. The overcrowding is a concern during the COVID-19 pandemic, for both the Rohingya Refugees, and humantarian community, after the first positive COVID-19 case was confirmed in the Rohingya Refugee camps in May 2020. Gender-Based Violence remains a serious protection concern for Rohingya refugee women and girls, according to incidence reports, physical, and sexual violence, emotional abuse, denial of resources, and forced marriage are among the primary forms of violence frequently reported. (GBVIMS, 2020).
The Rohingya GBV in Emergencies (GBViE) program focuses on response, prevention, risk mitigation, and community engagement initiatives to end all forms of violence against women and girls, boys, and men. As part of its global mandate to address gender inequalities and fundamental rights challenges, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, leads GBV specialist and non-specialist partners to achieve three transformative results; end maternal death, end unmet need for family planning, and end gender-based violence and all harmful practices. (UNFPA, 2020).
The National GBV Field Coordinator will coordinate, represent and support the GBV Sub-sector implementing partners to promote GBV prevention response activities in the Rohingya refugee camps and in the adjacent host community locations. She/he is responsible to strengthen the capacity of the GBV partners in coordination, advocacy and information sharing with various sectors at the field level representing Sub-sector.
The National GBV Field Coordinator will represent and GBV SS and support to inter-agency and cross-sectoral coordination, creating awareness on GBV Response, prevention and risk mitigation interventions at camp level. She/ he will work to strengthen the capacity of GBV service providers and improve coordination to ensure quality of GBV service provision in the camp.
For more information, please refer to the attached terms of reference.
Applicants with the required qualifications and experience stated above (required expertise, qualifications and competencies, including language requirements) should submit a copy of curriculum vitae (CV) with a cover letter.
Please send your application electronically to dedicated email addresses of: unfpabangladesh@unfpa.org and malek@unfpa.org
Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
The application deadline is 30 March 2021.
Note: Only those candidates who meet all qualifications and experience will be contacted for further consideration.
