The Position:
UNFPAยดs Strategic Plan includes its first Transformative Result (TR1) โreaching zero unmet need for Family Planning in 2030โ. One of the most relevant tools UNFPA rolled out for accelerating this TR is its commodity program, UNFPA SUPPLIES. In Latin America and the Caribbean there are three countries that receive direct support from UNFPA SUPPLIES (Bolivia, Haiti, and Honduras), which include supplies donations and technical assistance. Nevertheless, LACRO has assumed that for the rest of the countries within the region, promoting an evidence-based policy dialogue would be a proper way to accelerate achievements toward TR1. So LACRO supports UNFPA SUPPLIES but is also deploying initiatives for enhancing national capacities for procuring and delivering contraceptives efficiently. Among those initiatives, LACRO prioritizes five main lines of intervention:
- Promoting an evidence-based policy dialogue aiming to extend public coverage and financing for modern contraceptives, particularly looking for leaving no one behind.
- Enhancing countriesโ capacities for efficiently procuring modern contraceptives.
- Strengthening Supply Chain Management aiming to reach the Last Mile.
- Promoting the incorporation of Logistic Management Information System aiming to build the governance on the supply chain at a whole.
- Promoting the incorporation and expansion of the use of the most cost-effective contraceptives in the public rosters.
You will report to the Regional Director and collaborate with Deputy Regional Director.
How you can make a difference:
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPAโs strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to โbuild forward betterโ, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on womenโs and girlsโ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.
In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.
UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
Job Purpose:
The primary purpose of this position is to design and lead the regional strategy and work toward achieving the UNFPAยดs first Transformative Result (reaching zero unmet needs for modern contraceptives in 2030). It includes formulating and implementing the UNFPA Supplies Partnership Annual Working Plan for the LAC region, as well as monitoring and giving advice on implementing the Annual Working Plans of the countries receiving support from the UNFPA Supplies Partnership. It also includes contributing to LACRO initiatives in RHCS by working together with the regional Reproductive Health Cluster, strategic partners, and regional consultants. And to collaborate with the Regional Director and Deputy Regional Director in preparing documents, presentations and statements required by UNFPAยดs headquarters or by other institutions regarding the situation of Reproductive Health Commodity Security in the region and its contribution to achieve the TR1. Finally, the Regional RHCS advisor will have to promote innovative approaches and tools aiming to facilitate networking and advances for the TR1.
You would be responsible for:
The following list of duties and responsibilities is organized based on the five main lines identified in the regional approach for reaching TR1:
Promoting an evidence-based policy dialogue aiming to extend public coverage and financing for modern contraceptives, particularly looking for leaving no one behind.
- Formulating and reviewing a regional strategy for promoting evidence-based policy dialogue for preventing adolescent pregnancy.
- Monitoring and evaluating advances in the regional strategy for promoting evidence-based policy dialogue for preventing adolescent pregnancy.
- Implementing and disseminating assessments on the opportunity-cost of adolescent pregnancies using the MILENA model.
- Operationalizing national strategies for preventing adolescent pregnancies using the MEMI model for building a costed road map for the policies with goals and milestones.
- Promoting evaluation tools for the national policies for preventing adolescent pregnancies.
- Consolidating regional reports on socioeconomic consequences of adolescent pregnancies.
- Support regional initiatives, conferences, calls and presentations on adolescent pregnancy prevention.
Enhancing countries capacities for efficiently procuring modern contraceptives. That includes:
- To roll-out effective forecasting of contraceptiveยดs needs based in reducing the gap for the TR1 rather than in historical consumption.
- To benchmarking procurement strategies and prices paid by governments looking for better opportunities for more affordable acquisitions.