You would be responsible for:
A. Coordination
• Act as co-chair for the national MHPSS Working Group, currently a working group of the Protection Sector, and maintain strong links with other clusters/sectors including the Health Cluster. This includes building effective relationship with a range of MHPSS actors in Myanmar and ensuring their activities are coordinated.
• Lead and coordinate the national GBV sub-sector and provide regular oversight and support for GBV coordination at the state level.
• Lead the GBV Information Management System (GBVIMS) Task Force, inclusive of ensuring quality reporting, analysis and presentation of data collected through GBVIMS. This also includes strong collaboration with the global GBVIMS Steering Committee as well as leading the process of GBVIMS+ rollout in Myanmar.
• Work in close collaboration with the relevant government counterparts, the chairs of the various working groups/clusters, and other stakeholders to strengthen and facilitate inter-agency, multi-sectoral GBV prevention and response interventions at national level.
• Represent GBV sub-sector/MHPSS working group at the Protection Sector, Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG) and other relevant inter-agency coordination forum.
• Work in close partnerships with other sectors/clusters to ensure GBV and MHPSS are mainstreamed across other areas of humanitarian intervention, such as, shelter, WASH and health sectors.
• Promote and facilitate the inclusion of GBV and MHPSS into all assessment tools, preparedness and contingency planning, the Humanitarian Programme Cycle and other appeal processes and documents.
B. Capacity Building and Technical Support
• Provide technical support in developing and implementing a multi-sectoral and coordinated GBV prevention and response programmes for GBV humanitarian actors to include referral and reporting mechanisms, information sharing, coordination and monitoring/evaluation
• Ensure coordinated capacity building support for MHPSS working group members by setting quality assurance and standard training packages.
• Develop harmonized guidelines and tools for MHPSS working group.
• Provide technical support to identify capacity building needs, develop capacity building plan and conduct a series of capacity building activities for GBV sub-sector members to ensure quality and multi-sectoral GBV prevention and response interventions.
• Support strengthening of coordination capacities of chairs/co-chairs of state-level GBV working groups.
• Support development of IEC materials in line with international best practices to be utilized by GBV sub-sector and MHPSS working group members.
• Provide technical support to other sectors/clusters to ensure adequate mainstreaming and integration of GBV and MHPSS related issues.
C. Advocacy and Informing Strategic Decision-Making
• Coordinate assessments and studies conducted by GBV sub-sector members and disseminate the findings/reports to mitigate GBV risks and ensure effective GBV service delivery.
• In line with the Protection Sector Strategy and Advocacy Strategy, identify key advocacy issues in consultation with GBV sub-sector/MHPSS working group members and carry out advocacy activities.
• Support GBV and MHPSS actors to collect, store, analyze and disseminate relevant data in ethical and safe manner to be utilized for advocacy, programming, strategic planning and decision-making, etc.
• In collaboration with Protection Sector, produce advocacy materials, required data, and document briefs to highlight and advance GBV and MHPSS issues.
D. Monitoring and evaluation
• Conduct monitoring and evaluation as per the Humanitarian Response Plan.
• Working closely with Protection Sector, ensure quality and timely reporting to the Protection 4Ws and any other reporting requirement.
• Support implementation of MHPSS working group indicator framework.
Carry out any other duties as may be required by UNFPA leadership.
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