In Her Words is a pilot initiative that aims to support adolescent girls living in humanitarian settings to communicate their voices in as accurate and unadulterated fashion as possible, and to gauge their worldviews on key subjects and issues that impact their daily lives. Building on the resilience-focused approach adopted in UNFPA’s Unbroken, this initiative aims to to underscore the depth, strength and potential of adolescent girls, even in the midst of turmoil and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to amplifying the voices of adolescent girls, the objective of this initiative is to accompany girls in an empowering journey to better explore and understand their thought processes, feelings and experiences in relation to their lives as adolescent girls in a humanitarian context. The project was conceived with the aim of offering an open and secure platform for them to narrate their stories as creatively as uninhibitedly as possible, using words, drawings, journaling, photos, voice recordings, videos, etc
As part of this initiative, UNFPA established a partnership with Rebel Girls to create an ad-hoc version of the Rebel Girls Journal in Arabic. Its content will include 15 activities from the original journal as well as content that will be possibly suggested by adolescent girls themselves. GBV actors have so far engaged with adolescent girls to show them existing activities, to encourage them to think of what they would like to have in their journal and to suggest other activities.
UNFPA is therefore looking for an illustrator who will develop artworks for 10 to 15 new activities to be featured as pages in the Journal. The new drawings/designs will be developed based on the suggestions collected from adolescent girls. Moreover, they will have to be culturally appropriate and, as expressed by the girls themselves, will have to be representative of Arab adolescent girls.
Once the content of the journal has been finalized, UNFPA will print and share them with adolescent girls in the region.
Work Environment:
UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, teamwork, respect for diversity, integrity and a healthy balance of work and life. We are committed to maintaining our balanced gender distribution and therefore encourage women to apply. UNFPA promotes equal opportunities for all including persons with disabilities.
How to apply:
Interested candidates are kindly requested to send their CVs and financial proposal, as well as examples from similar work or links to their professional webpage, through the email address mazahreh@unfpa.org and irshaidat@unfpa.org indicating the Consultancy Title in the e-mail's subject.
Deadline for receipt of applications is 12 Dec 2020.
Candidates who are seriously being considered will be contacted for an interview
