Deadline: 23 September 2024
The UN Women is undertaking this open call for applications to select 12 active and committed young men and young women (aged 18-35 years) from the Arab region to take part in an exciting regional campaign.
The 12 selected members of the Youth Advisory Group will participate and use their voices to define and amplify messages and contents of a youth-led social mobilization campaign with the goal of increasing the involvement of young men in unpaid care and household responsibilities, and promoting women’s economic empowerment.
Dare to Care (DTC) is a regional programme of UN Women aiming at transforming patriarchal masculinities and social norms and advance gender equality and women’s economic empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa.
Objective
- Mustering adequate levels of social mobilization to reduce the gender gap in time spent on unpaid care by 60 minutes among the target audiences of the youth-led social mobilization campaign, especially through effectively engaging men and boys to equally participate in household. This will be achieved through a specific call for action of the social mobilization campaign to increase the involvement of young men in unpaid care and household responsibilities. The campaign will be implemented regionally in the Arab States region, and it will require that the Youth Advisory Group members work closely with UN Women team, and a regional communications agency (recruited by UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States) and civil society organizations in three target countries (Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco) to implement the campaign at regional and country level.
Goal
- The goal of the programme is to promote the involvement of men and boys in unpaid care and household responsibilities as entry point to achieve further gender equality and women’s empowerment. Particularly, the programme aims to reduce the gender gap in time spent on unpaid care and domestic work by men and women reached by a youth-led social campaign by 60 minutes.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be young men and young women aged 18 to 35 years from any of the six countries addressed by the Dare to Care regional programme -namely Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Lebanon, and Palestine- and who are also currently living in one of those six countries.
- Proven track record of leading or working with young people on social development issues on the ground/at community level, ideally related to gender equality.
- Hands-on active experience and understanding of community mobilization and advocacy campaigns that address discriminatory social norms, ideally focused on social norms that discriminate on the basis of sex.
- Strong motivation and commitment to take part in co-leading a regional campaign to increase the amount and quality of time spent by men and boys in unpaid care and domestic work, and to promote the empowerment of women and girls.
- Sound knowledge and use of social media and local context when it comes to advocating for gender equality.
- Capacity and willingness to contribute to the gender equality and women’s rights agenda at the national and regional levels.
- Be respectful and inclusive with people holding different opinions and having different backgrounds.
- Be proficient in spoken and written Arabic language.
- Young men and young women from disadvantaged groups (i.e., youth with disabilities, from ethnic minorities, other minorities.) are encouraged to apply.
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