Job Purpose:

To conduct a regional analysis on gender equality setbacks and pushbacks in Eastern Europe and in Central Asia with agreed policy recommendation and advocacy messages to address regressive gender equality trends and pushbacks across the two subregions.

You would be responsible for:

Desk based literature review and analysis of the effect of the pushback to gender equality and human rights in Eastern Europe and in Central Asia:

• Identify the main areas/issues of contestation, their drivers and narratives in the
  following fields:
  • Policy discussions and changes in the legal and normative frameworks as laid out in the ICPD and consequent human right instruments and platforms.
  • Changes in social norms and individual behaviours and believes that explains or contest the pushback to gender equality, women’s rights and Sexual and reproductive health and rights using national, regional and global data sources such as but not limited to, images studies, World Value Surveys, HDRs, etc.;
  • Shrinking civil space and its effects on the gender equality and rights agenda
  • Identify key main narratives driving the pushback in Eastern Europe and in Central Asia and the spaces of influence where it is manifested.
• Draft key recommendation and advocacy messages to address regressive gender equality trends and pushbacks across the region, with granular analysis as pertinent to clusters of countries or subregions.