These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030.
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. 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. The specialist will be part of the Human Rights and Gender unit of the WCARO and will work under direct supervision of the Gender and Human Rights Technical Advisor. The specialist will focus on engaging the political and technical arms of intergovernmental sub-regional and regional organizations as well as sub-regional and regional academic and research institutions, relevant Civil Society Organizations, professional associations and international development agencies to promote the inclusion of adolescents and youth related matters relevant to the ICPD and SDG agenda, and the AU agenda 2063 into their policies and programmes. The specialist will provide thematic leadership and technical guidance for policy and strategy development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes related to adolescents and youth in the region, such as regional initiatives, youth policies, laws pertaining to ASRHR and access to services, youth data, adolescent pregnancy, adolescent responsive health systems and youth friendly health services, comprehensive sexuality education, menstrual health, child marriage and other harmful practices, in particular Female Genital Mutilation, youth participation, leadership and accountability and contributing to aspects of youth in humanitarian action and youth, peace and security. The Adolescent and Youth Technical Specialist post is located at the UNFPA West Africa Regional Office (WCARO) and works under the overall direction and leadership of the Regional Director.
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