Advocacy and Outreach Assistant_Maroua

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded on 16 November 1945. UNESCO’s office in Yaounde was established in 1991 as a cluster office but with a regional status in the sector of Communication and Communication covering countries of West and Central Africa. In January 2014, the Office was transformed into a Multisectoral Regional Office covering 10 countries: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Sao Tomé e Principe. The Yaounde Office has the mandate to implement programmatic activities and projects within UNESCO’s areas of competence: Education, Culture, Science, Communication, Information, Social, and Human Sciences. The UNESCO Regional Office in Yaounde is actively represented in the United Nations’ Country Team (UNCT) in Cameroun and in other countries of the region that it covers, cooperating actively as well with Peace Keeping missions in the region. UNESCO also participates all UNCT working groups; Governance, Communication, Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDPN), etc., and is a member of the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT).
The Yaounde office implements programmes and activities in all thematic areas (youth and civic engagement, gender equality, marginalized communities, media pluralism, cultural diversity, artificial intelligence, employment) and pursuant of the 2014 2021 Medium Term Strategy, which contributes to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, and sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, sciences, culture, communication and information.

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day.
Every year, the UNITE Campaign focuses on a specific theme. The campaign calls on citizens to show how much they care about ending violence against women and girls by sharing the actions they are taking to create a world free from violence towards women.
UNFPA in cooperation with UNV has established a Special programme Initiative, aiming at engaging UN Volunteers to support UNFPA and in particular the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign in the Cameroon

The selected UN Community Volunteers will assist the UNFPA team in Cameroon in:
• Awareness, Advocacy and Outreach: Supporting UNFPA to organize local events, online campaigns, and use social media to amplify messages about ending violence against women. In addition selected UN Community Volunteers will engage in creative activism through art and community outreach, raising awareness and promoting stories.

Under the direct supervision of the Office of the GBV Coordinator, the UN Volunteers will undertake the following tasks:

• Undergo training on processes and activities undertaken by UNFPA under the 16 Days of Activism against GBV campaign
• Assist UNFPA to organize local events such as marches, panel discussions, or webinars that raise awareness of violence against women and girls at the community level, in line with the UNFPA planned activities.
• Assist in amplifying messages about ending violence against through social media campaigns managed by UNFPA by sharing this information with peers and online community.
• Engage community members, volunteers, and leaders in spreading messages of ending gender-based violence.
• Assist in the creation of content and stories and promote messages of ending Gender Based Violence.
• Assist UNFPA to organize and facilitate small group discussions or meetings to educate the public about the 16 Days of Activism campaign.
• Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.