Training Coordinator (HREC)

UNDP works with the Government and people of Pakistan to develop local solutions to development challenges. In an evolving development context, we support Pakistan’s efforts to build a more equitable, prosperous, peaceful and resilient society, and to achieve its SDGs and COP25 targets. UNDP promotes transformational change by fostering strategic partnerships with national counterparts in the federal, provincial and regional governments, civil society, the private sector and the local and international community. UNDP supports transformational change by providing technical assistance focusing on developing capacity within national and local authorities, providing solutions with strong monitoring and evaluation tools, and delivering programmes with maximum efficiency, transparency and accountability.

UNDP’s ultimate goal is to improve the lives of the people of Pakistan through keeping people out of poverty; governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies; crisis prevention and increased resilience; nature-based solutions for development; clean affordable energy; and women's empowerment and gender equality.

UNDP works to improve the lives of vulnerable communities, with the overarching objective of preventing loss of development gains, promoting human rights, and finding sustainable pathways to development. UNDP projects under the democratic governance portfolio aims to strengthen state institutions, support democratic development and the rule of law, ensure crisis prevention, support policy development, and integrate gender equality into all areas of work. UNDP works to support the human rights ecosystem by strengthening human rights institutions to promote and protect human rights for all.

This UNV assignment is part of UNDP Pakistan’s Decentralization, Human Rights and Local Governance (DHL) project. The DHL project is a multi-sector project aimed at strengthening rights-based development, community stabilization, gender equality, and social inclusion across all regions and provinces of Pakistan. The core objective of the project is to ensure inclusive and equitable service delivery by providing technical assistance and capacity development support to relevant federal ministries, provincial line departments, statutory bodies, civil society, and private sector organizations. A key aim is to support the creation of an enabling environment for accelerated access to rights, people-centered justice, and people-centered security. The project focuses on institution building while connecting with vulnerable and at-risk communities to build trust between rights.

With support from the European Union, UNDP-DHL is engaged with institutes of higher education to design curricula and knowledge materials that are predicated on respect for human rights, tolerance and inclusivity. This also entails the facilitation of an exchange of best practices between academic stakeholders in Pakistan and international partners, primarily through the platform of a human rights education centre in Lahore. The centre will act as a resource hub for key partners such as academia, students, NHRIs, CSOs and government stakeholders by providing technical support such as academic advisory services, advocacy support, training workshops and by facilitating access to knowledge materials.

The Training Coordinator for Human Rights Education Centre will report to EU Human Rights Education Officer of UNDP and perform the following tasks:

Facilitate knowledge and capacity building, through the implementation of key tools and training programmes

• Coordinate with the EU Human Rights Education Officer and key personnel of the human rights education centre to design engaging platforms for the delivery of trainings, courses, and workshops.
• Coordinate with digitization and e-learning experts to ensure that all digital training materials are utilized in an efficacious manner, ensuring that all modules and courses are administered in a manner that is inclusive and accessible.
• Facilitate the capacity-building of the programme’s key partners and beneficiaries, including academics, students, NHRIs, CSOs and government, by administering training modules pertaining to human rights, gender equality, social inclusion, and other relevant areas.
• Coordinate with the Communications Expert at the human rights education centre to raise awareness regarding the various capacity-building and training opportunities available through the institution.
• Provide support to key partners such as universities, CSOs, NHRIs and government to conduct training workshops relevant to the centre’s thematic areas.
• Provide support to partner universities to develop training modules related to streamlining human resources for the promotion of careers in human rights.


Monitor and report on progress related to the implementation of training programmes and their learning outcomes

• Coordinate with UNDP-DHL’s Monitoring and Evaluation Officer to develop key tools and metrics for measuring the efficacy of the designed training programmes; ensure that these align with the Project’s strategic priorities and reporting obligations.
• Utilize knowledge of quantitative and qualitative data collection tools to design instruments such as post-training surveys and questionnaires to track progress related to the implementation of training modules and workshops.
• Utilize gathered data to identify gaps in the centre’s training programmes and provide recommendations for enhancing the quality of training and knowledge materials.
• Liaise with the Knowledge Management Expert at the Centre to develop linkages between developed modules and knowledge materials hosted by the centre’s digital repository.