Joint United Nations Programme on
Experience: 5 to 10 Years
Skill Required: Research, Survey and Report Writing
Apply By: 24-01-2023
The Equitable Financing Practice delivers on the UNAIDS Secretariat's goals to identify and promote strategies to expand the future financing options of the HIV response, with a clear preparedness and inequalities lens. It does that by systematizing knowledge and building capacities on equitable resource allocation and implementation of efficiency, equity (including in access to health technologies), transition planning, community response. It also explores and expands outcomes for countries, regions and globally on upstream financing instruments, including tax and domestic revenues, debt and innovative sources of international, domestic and private finance. Finally, the team also tracks HIV financing resources and provides a range of analytical products that help understand - and inform actions to reduce - inequalities, including wealth and poverty inequalities, and integrate HIV financing within the wider international financing system.
The RST LAC provides leadership and coordinates support for an expanded UN system response to ending the AIDS epidemic at regional and country level. Equitable Financing works hand in hand with countries in developing and supporting the full design and implementation of equitable financing advocacy strategies, providing technical guidance and knowledge, capacity building to ensure a minimum standard for UCOs, as well as clear and signed off policy on critical areas to ensure a sustainable response to the HIV pandemic and related areas.
Main tasks and Responsibilities of the Position:
Within the matrix management reporting structure of the RST LAC and the Global Equitable Financing Practice, the Regional Adviser, Equitable Financing, focuses on a manageable set of deliverables that are aligned with the UNAIDS equitable financing vision and strategy, providing support to the assessment of the finance side of the epidemic evolution and its response, and the financing needs and challenges in the region.
He /she has the following key responsibilities:
Regional strategy and provision of technical guidance to countries:
Resource tracking:
Capacity building, partnerships, knowledge management and advocacy activities:
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Source: https://erecruit.unaids.org/public/hrd-cl-vac-view.asp?o_c=1000&jobinfo_uid_c=38738&vaclng=en