Senior Women Talent Pipeline

Lead Entity/ies
Department of Operational Support (DOS)
Collaborating Partners
Entities within the United Nations System: United Nations Development Coordination Office (DCO); United Nations Department of Global Communications (DGC); Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA); United Nations Department of Peace Operations (DPO); United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC); United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
Duration
January - December 2023
Location
Global reach, with special focus on the following countries that host UN Peacekeeping Operations including Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mali, Somalia, and South Sudan.
Approved Budget
$ 313,775
Description/outline
This project established the Senior Women Talent Pipeline (SWTP) to support women’s advancement in UN recruitment. It provided targeted training, leadership seminars with UNITAR, mentoring by senior UN officials, and resources via the SWTP Learning Hub. Ten members were selected for senior UN roles, mainly in field missions. SWTP conducted operational support visits to MINUSCA and UNMISS to identify challenges and share best practices and provided gender analyses for staffing reviews at UNDOF and UNMOGIP.
Status
Closed

Synopsis

Objectives

The project aims to increase the number of civilian women in UN peace operations by providing dedicated recruitment support, training and development opportunities to members of the SWTP, and operational support to UN field missions in their efforts to promote gender parity.

Components

The SWTP provides recruitment support to members of the pipeline as they go through the UN recruitment process for positions at the P-5 to D-2 levels, with training seminars, mentoring and learning resources, support and visits to selected peace operations accounting for many recruitments and having low levels of women.

Main achievements

This project established the Senior Women Talent Pipeline (SWTP). SWTP has offered targeted training and development opportunities to SWTP members to enhance their profiles and competitiveness during UN recruitment processes. This included two induction seminars for members, training on leadership for peace in collaboration with UNITAR, mentoring of members by senior UN officials and the continued roll-out of the SWTP Learning Hub providing resources on peacekeeping.

10 selections were made of SWTP members for senior positions in the UN, primarily in UN field missions. SWTP completed operational support visits to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), to identify obstacles, share best practices and provide data relating to the current and expected representation of women. Additionally, SWTP provided gender analyses for the civilian staffing reviews conducted of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) and the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP).

Impact

The SWTP directly delivers against the Secretary-General’s gender parity strategy by supporting the recruitment of more women to international positions in UN peace operations. In addition, the programme supports key commitments in the Action for Peacekeeping (A4P+) agenda through the recruitment support and training and development provided to women candidates as well as the Women, Peace and Security agenda by promoting the inclusion of more women in peace and security.

This project, through SWTP, directly contributes to the Secretary-General’s gender parity strategy. In addition, the programme advances key commitments under the Action for Peacekeeping (A4P+) agenda and supports the Women, Peace and Security agenda.

women stand in a classroom with photocopies of photos scattered on the floorThe Women’s Leadership for Peace Course, the Rwanda Peace Academy (RPA) for Senior Women Talent Pipeline members, December 2023.