Gbv Cva Consultant

at  Ciudad del Saber

Fecha límite: 17 de Julio de 2023Department: Latin America & the CaribbeanLocation(s): Remote - Latin AmericaCONTEXTHIAS is the international humanitarian organization that provides vital services to refugees and asylum seekers in 18 countries. We advocate for the rights of all forcibly displaced people to rebuild their lives and seek to create a world in which they find welcome, safety, and opportunity. Today, our clients at HIAS come from diverse faiths, ethnicities, and backgrounds, as do our staff. We bring our experience, history, and values to our work across five continents, ensuring that refugees today receive the vital services and opportunities they need to thrive.
Over our expansive history, we’ve confronted—and overcome—formidable challenges facing refugees. Today, we are a leader with the expertise, partnerships, and values necessary to respond to the global refugee crisis.Organizationally, HIAS is guided by its Refugee Rights Framework. This rights-based approach, based on International Human Rights, humanitarian and refugee law and practice, provides a programming framework for HIAS’ approach to refugee protection. This framework prioritizes the impact of programming that ensures that forcibly displaced persons realize their potential and become contributors to society, and this impact is achieved through the realization of legal and civil rights and social and economic rights, including through 1) the right to protection from harm, violence, and discrimination, 2) the right to recovery from the impact of displacement, and 3) the right to economic self-sufficiency and inclusion.
HIAS is a learning community, committed to diversity and inclusion.Our programs consider the voices and needs of GBV survivors and prioritize their leadership in program design and implementation. HIAS works with community organizational systems to optimize support for survivors, creating partnership spaces to promote and protect the rights of women, girls, adolescents, people with diverse sexual orientation and gender identity, survivors of gender-based violence. This approach enables HIAS to meet the security, psychosocial, economic, and justice needs of survivors; facilitating their access to appropriate care; and generate empowerment spaces for communities and especially for women and girls. To lead efforts that challenge beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that perpetuate or tolerate violence against women, girls, people with diverse sexual orientation, and gender identity.The overall goal of HIAS’ global gender-based violence prevention and response programs are for forcibly displaced refugee women and girls, people with diverse sexual orientation and gender identity, to pursue their potential, and to access their human and legal rights, free from violence and oppression.
This means that HIAS programming in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) works to ensure that: (1) Forcibly displaced women, girls, persons with diverse sexual orientation and gender identity face a lower risk of gender-based violence,(2) Survivors of sexual and physical violence have access to coordinated psychosocial, health and legal services,(3) The family, community and institutions support women, girls, people with a diverse sexual orientation and gender identity in accessing and guaranteeing their rights.(4) working with men to transform social norms that contribute to gender-based violenceSince September 2021, HIAS has been implementing the regional project of prevention and response to Gender Based Violence (Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru), whose purpose is to enhance social and economic protection of women, adolescent girls, survivors, and individuals identifying as LGBTIQ+, through a regional continuum of care and support, risk reduction and response services, and learning and knowledge generation. This Project has the following four objectives: Objective 1: Survivors of GBV, including those in transit and border areas, can access specialized response services.Objective 2: Women, adolescent girls, LGBTIQ+, and other vulnerable groups are at reduced risk of GBV and trafficking.Objective 3: Men and young men have an improved understanding of the impact of GBV and their role in supporting survivors.Objective 4: Enhanced quality of regional GBV programming and partnerships through creation and dissemination of good quality evidence shared with local and international practitioners.In the regional project, HIAS delivers CVAs as part of the comprehensive GBV response offered (Objective 1) and as part of the GBV mitigation actions (objective 2). As part of the response, HIAS delivers multipurpose CVAs to GBV survivors in border areas who are in transit and survivors with a vocation of permanence. In addition, HIAS offers CVAs within a comprehensive GBV response where survivors receive other services such as GBV case management, mental health and psychosocial support services, accommodation, food, an

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