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KEY FACTS

SWTP COMPOSITION

The SWTP consists of a geographically diverse pool of senior women leaders with expertise in 5 job families: Political Affairs, Civil Affairs, Rule of Law and Security Institutions, Public Information, and Mission Support.

Candidates included in the SWTP have undergone a competitive application process, which include written application, HR assessment, written test, and desk review led by Assistant-Secretary-Generals leading an interdepartmental board of senior experts.

The SWTP is funded by extra-budgetary resources. In 2023-2024, core funding is provided by Denmark and the UN Peace and Development Trust Fund. Additional funding has been received by the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, the UK and the US.

The SWTP is actively looking for additional donors to support its activities, especially in relation to providing training and capacity development for SWTP members. 

SUPPORT TO MEMBERS

As part of its key services, and in an effort to better support its members going through the UN recruitment process and preparing, the SWTP provides support to members in the following areas:

  1. Targeted vacancy announcements for senior UN positions, especially in the field
  2. Support in the UN application process including test prep, support and coaching
  3. Tailored training and development opportunities
  4. Membership of network of global network of women leaders

The purpose of the SWTP is to have a readily accessible talent pool of qualified female candidates for senior field mission vacancies in UN peace operations. It was established as an action point from the 2013 study “Bridging the Civilian Gender Gap in UN Peace Operations”, which suggests necessary procedures to attract qualified women to UN peace operations.

Despite progress at the UN at large, reaching gender parity in UN peace operations has been slow and difficult. The Senior Women Talent Pipeline (SWTP) is the flagship project of the UN Secretariat aimed at increasing the share of civilian women in UN peace operations. In this way, the SWTP supports key objectives in the frameworks of the UN System-Wide Gender Parity agenda, the Women, Peace and Security and Action for Peacekeeping (A4P+) all of which promote the meaningful participation of women in peace and security and decision-making more widely.

Contact talentpipeline@un.org for more information