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Mission and objectives
UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. It is the global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to her full potential.UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide. It works globally to make the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals a reality for women and girls and stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life.To create an enabling environment for the realization of gender equality and women’s empowerment, UN Women Lebanon advocates and supports social mobilization for legislative reform, works with the partners and the Government of Lebanon to build gender responsive institutions, and delivers essential services to women and girls in need – Lebanese and refugees.Working for the empowerment and rights of women and girls globally, UN Women’s main roles are:• To Support inter-governmental bodies, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, in their formulation of policies, global standards and norms.• To help Member States implement these standards, standing ready to provide suitable technical and financial support to those countries that request it, and to forge effective partnerships with civil society.To lead and coordinate the UN system’s work on gender equality, as well as promote accountability, including through regular monitoring of system-wide progress
Context
The Legislative Review to be designed examined gender discrimination the legal frameworks, by looking deeply into 10 legislations as being directly or indirectly discriminatory. Throughout each stage of the study, different rounds of consultations were conducted with different stakeholder groups, that had different yet complementary aims. Roundtable consultations were held with CSOs and syndicates, UN agencies, academia, the private sector which included MSMEs supported under the micro and meso components, and Parliamentarians. The purpose of these consultations was present the findings of the Legislative Review and discuss the priority reforms that the stakeholder groups identify to be as most important to introduce, considering the current country climate and what is achievable, the relevance of these reforms to the work and focus of these groups, and the willingness of these groups to engage in lobbying efforts to introduce the reforms.
Task description
The Women’s Economic Empowerment department has developed a Legislative Review in Arabic which aims to examine the extent to which the Lebanese legislation and policy frameworks take into account gender diversity and women's equitable and safe economic participation in the agricultural sector and the agro-food industries (from plant and animal origin).The Women’s Economic Empowerment department at UN Women in Lebanon is looking for an experienced graphic designer that can brand the Legislative Review aforementioned using the UN Women format for branding of economic empowerment studies.Deliverables:1) Designing UN Women's legislative study using Illustrator and indesign software.2) Developing front and back cover pages for the Legislative Review.3) Allowing 4 rounds of review after submitting the first draft to UN Women.
