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Office/Unit/Project Description
UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based, regional and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan. Within the GPN, the Policy Bureau guides UNDP’s corporate development-related strategies and vision for gender equality as a key component of sustainable development and ensuring no one is left behind.
As part of the efforts to implement UNDP Global Gender Equality Strategy, in 2020 UNDP’s Gender and Energy Teams commissioned a “Gender Analysis of UNDP Energy Portfolio and a Framework for Action” study to develop an evidence-based approach that can be used in future sustainable energy strategy, policy and planning documents, programmes/projects, initiatives, and investment frameworks.
More recently, in September 2021, the IEO undertook an Evaluation of UNDP´s support to energy access and transition. The report states that the energy portfolio has integrated positive elements of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment in the design of initiatives, but the majority of energy initiatives are too reliant on assumptions that women will automatically benefit if they are simply included in energy initiatives (1).
In addition, the Gender Team, together with UNDP’s newly established Sustainable Energy Hub will support the implementation of the UN Energy Compact and commitment to?provide?energy?access to 500 million people; 1 billion to have gained access to clean cooking solutions; 30 million jobs in renewable and energy efficiency (all by the year 2025, i.e., the SDG 7 roadmap).
The Sustainable Energy Hub will build on UNDP’s existing Energy Portfolio, covering over 100 countries to harness clean energy and support the energy transition as well as on UNDP’s Climate Promise, UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub and UNDP’s Digital offer. The Sustainable Energy Hub will ensure that UNDP energy programming advances multiple SDGs and socio-economic indicators, including for gender equality.
The current work plan for the Sustainable Enery Hub includes a workstream on gender mainstreaming to ensure that a gender perspective is integrated as part of UNDP’s scaled-up energy offer and strategy. Key actions on gender, to be coordinated under the Sustainable Energy Hub, will include (1) Developing guidelines to support integration of gender-specific considerations and targets in energy project formulation and national energy plans/strategies; (2) partnering with internal and external gender experts, country-level consultations, and capacity-building exercises to ensure greater understanding of gender aspects in energy programming; (3) including gender-specific data points in the UNDP Data Futures platform to track links between energy access and improved safety and economic opportunities; and (4) ensuring that gender is considered in an integrated way across all projects deployed and supported under the Sustainable Energy Hub. The Gender and Energy Specialist will be critical to monitoring and coordinating progress on these actions.
(1) The report recommends UNDP to promote a greater integration of gender considerations and more targeted gender guidance for its energy programming and move away from the assumption that women will automatically benefit if they are simply included in energy initiatives; move beyond the pursuit of gender parity and greater participation, to a next echelon of programming that addresses also the social norms preventing women from fully and equally benefiting from improved energy outcomes; convert energy access into real changes to women’s economic status, by adequately considering and addressing, the associated social norms and impediments that limit female livelihoods and financial control and prevent them from taking full advantage of the opportunities offered by improved access to safe and clean energy; increase the level of consultation with users and ensure they are conducted by specialists with an understanding of gender aspects; guidance on the minimum steps needed in each project formulation and implementation, to recognize the perspectives of men and women, and provide prompts to overcome resistance and counter false assumptions that people automatically benefit from their involvement in an energy project or within a facility that has improved electrical supply.
Institutional Arrangement
The Gender and Energy Specialist will work under the overall guidance of the Gender and Energy Teams (BPPS). He/she will report to the Director of the Gender Team (Primary Supervisor) and work in close coordination with the Director of the Sustainable Energy Hub (Secondary Supervisor).