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Overview of the assignment
In South Sudan, the armed conflict have had a disproportionate impact on women, with sexual violence being used as a weapon of war. Discriminatory social norms and unequal gender inequalities and relationshipsinSouth Sudanentrenchthevulnerabilitiesofwomenandgirlswhilestereotypesandsocial norms have shaped the roles, opportunities and behaviors for women and men in the community. Further, the gender norms frequently expose women to protection risks including personal safety and security. However, women have also made concerted efforts to be included in the peace process and had relative success in their efforts.

South Sudan has ratified several international, continental, and regional frameworks on women, peace and security. Further, South Sudan is a member of regional and continental institutions like African Union, IGAD and the East African community. Therefore, South Sudan is expected to implement and report on the progress of status of implementation of the WPS on the international and regional frameworks on gender, women, peace and security as well as on the regional and continental commitments on gender and WPS.

However, the National Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare continue to face capacity challenges especially at the state level in implementation and adequately reporting on the obligations.

The Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare is collaborating with the United Nations Development programme (UNDP) to enhance the capacity of the gender machineries in South Sudan for effective implementation of the genderprovisionoftheR-ARCSS and the women, peace and security agenda. One of the Project outputs under the partnership is secondment of an expert on Women, Peace and Security to support implementation and reporting on WPS. The Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare will be supported with a national women, peace and security advisor who will be engaged to support the policy issues on the women, peace and security agenda in the country with a major focus on reporting on WPS as well as support on implementation of the WPS agenda.

To this end, the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare in collaboration with UNDP are seeking a national consultant as an advisor on Women, Peace and Security to support implementation and reporting onWPS.

The consultant will work under the supervision of PaCC Programme Advisor & Manager, as well as under the guidance of the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare.