Oxfam NGO Consultancy Jobs in Kenya - Development of Policy Brief on Ensuring Accountability for SGBV in Conflict

Oxfam NGO Consultancy Jobs in Kenya - Development of Policy Brief on Ensuring Accountability for SGBV in Conflict

Oxfam Pan Africa Program and Strategic Initiatives for Women’s Rights in Africa (SIHA) are implementing a project entitled “Ensuring accountability for Sexual Gender Based Violence
(SGBV) and increased participation of women in Peace and Security in Africa”.

This project aims at addressing the consequences of sexual and gender based violence on women as a result of conflict, increasing the participation of women in the Peace and Security agenda in Africa and
enhancing their contribution in the implementation of the overall African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA).

In addressing the consequences of sexual and gender based violence on women as a result of
conflict, this project seeks to support the acceleration of the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda in Africa and contribute to the overall African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA).

The project will make the crucial linkages between good governance, development and
the place of women in development while analysing how these are affected by sexual and gender based violence.

Rationale

During conflict, there is a fundamental breakdown of the structures of law and order and the unfortunate reality is that sexual and gender based violence, which is an issue even in peace time, escalates exponentially.

Studies have shown that SGBV is often used as a strategy by opposing forces and as a result the scourge of SGBV disproportionately affects women.

Crimes of sexual violence are usually on the rise during conflict and include different forms of penetrative rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy and forced sterilisation or abortion.

Crimes of sexual torture, sexual humiliation and forced nudity may likewise constitute sexual violence.

Despite this reality, there is a lack of accountability on the part of national governments to tackle the appalling trend that render women’s bodies’ as tools of war.

Furthermore, women are largely
excluded from formal processes both during and after conflict.

These processes deny them a voice
both about obtaining access to justice and ensuring that conflict and post conflict plans take SGBV issues such as the under or non-reporting of sexual violence, social stigma facing both male and female SGBV victims, limited domestic investigations and the lack of available evidence, into consideration.

Africa has extensive instruments and policies relevant to the women peace and security agenda.

At the continental level we have the Protocol to the African Union Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) and the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (SDGEA).

However, implementation of these instruments has been It is for this reason that Oxfam is seeking to recruit a consultant to develop a policy brief on “Ensuring Accountability for SGBV in Conflict: The Human Cost of Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) in Africa”.

Objectives