CRSV and GBV in Crisis Expert

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

Sudan is experiencing one of the most severe and complex humanitarian crisis in the world, driven by ongoing conflict, political instability, massive displacement, food insecurity, and the near collapse of essential services. Since April 2023, the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has triggered unprecedented displacement, with nearly 13 million people majority of them women forced to flee with 8.7 million in IDP camps and another 3.8 million as refugees impacting 7 countries across the region. It is estimated that 30.4 million people or two-thirds of the population require humanitarian assistance in 2025.1 The humanitarian response is severely hampered by restrictions on access and chronic underfunding with current HRP funded at 13.4% of the USD 3.6 billion needed in 2025.

Like many crisis contexts, women and girls face disproportionate impacts including widespread gender-based violence and other protection risks, food insecurity, increased burden of care and loss of access to basic services, including sexual and reproductive health, WASH and education. Despite these challenges, women and local women-led organizations (WLOs) have displayed great resilience, they remain at the forefront of response efforts, often in the most hard-to-reach areas.

Since the conflict began, incidents of GBV have surged to alarming levels, with sexual violence disproportionately affecting displaced women, girls, and increasingly, men and boys. Sexual violence, including gang rape, abduction, and sexual slavery, has been used as a weapon of war, particularly targeting those in transit, displacement sites, or shelters. Economic hardship, driven by rising prices for basic goods, has further exacerbated vulnerabilities, increasing the prevalence of intimate partner violence and exploitation. Survivors face profound physical and psychological trauma, with older women, adolescent girls, and women with disabilities at heightened risk. Stigma, shame and fear of retaliation continue to greatly impact survivor’s willingness to seek medical care, leading in some cases to suicide. The ability to respond to GBV is critically constrained due to limited humanitarian access, shortages of essential supplies, specialized services and the destruction and looting of healthcare facilities.

UN Women Sudan Country Office continues to respond to crisis affected communities especially women and girls with a focus on livelihood restoration, addressing protection risks, including gender-based violence, promoting the leadership and participation of women and girls across the humanitarian peace nexus, gender mainstreaming support for key humanitarian plans and strategies as well policy and advocacy influencing at national and sub-national levels. Operating out of Port Sudan, UN Women, through its Programme Partners, has programming in all the 17 states.

UN Women, Sudan Country Office, is seeking a dynamic candidate, who as a catalyst for the advancement of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment, human rights, protection, gender-based violence prevention and response and conflict related sexual violence concerns within humanitarian preparedness and response frameworks

Under the direct supervision of the Country Representative or his/her designated mandated representative(s) the international UN Volunteer Expert will undertake the following tasks:

• Support and strengthen CRSV and GBV programming in the humanitarian interventions and accountability to gender equality in humanitarian response. This includes leading the update of the UN Women’s Strategy on Ending Violence against Women and Girls in Sudan in line with the Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan in Sudan and UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2026-2029.
• Promote a comprehensive and coherent approach to how GBV and CRSV issues are addressed by the HCT and UNCT in Sudan, including conflict-related sexual violence and sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. This will include becoming familiar with the dynamics of GBV and coordination mechanisms related to different forms of GBV in Sudan in order to enable the UN Women office, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) and the humanitarian clusters to develop a sound understanding of the drivers, triggers and protective factors related to different forms of GBV and take informed decisions on integrating GBV prevention and response in planning and operations;
• Integrate GBV dimensions in emergency response, preparedness, resilience efforts, and all women’s empowerment programming aiming to insure a sustainable transition to development;
• Support strengthened advocacy and communication on CRSV and GBV needs and priorities for humanitarian response and its transition to development.
• Contribute to the GBV Sub-Cluster and guide UN Women’s institutional engagement in the broader humanitarian architecture to ensure that GBV is appropriately integrated system-wide across all the clusters;
• Mobilize women’s rights organizations and Government authorities to engage in CRSV and GBV coordination, planning and programming;
• Engage in discussions with potential partners in the country, including embassies or other inter-governmental organizations, in order to mobilize resources locally and generate interest in funding UN Women EVAWG Strategy; and set aside dedicated time for capacity development through coaching, mentoring and formal and on-the-job training;
• Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.

• As an active UN Women team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UN Women and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including:
1. High-level and technical advice to UN Women in planning and coordination to address CRSV and GBV;
2. GBV, including CRSV considerations fully integrated into all relevant strategic planning instruments/ processes;
3. GBV and CRSV prevention and response is appropriately integrated system-wide across all the clusters;
4. Local NGOs and Government authorities engaged in coordination, planning and programming;
5. Potential donors of GBV, including CRSV programming in the country identified and engaged to fund UN Women activities;
6. GBV and CRSV prevention and response capacities of national staff and (non-) governmental counterparts strengthened;
• A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed.
• At least one article written for UNV (with pictures and / or videos)