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UNFPA is one of the UN agencies implementing the Border Districts and Community-Based Conflict Prevention and Peace Building in Malawi, focusing in Mulanje and Mangochi districts. The Border Districts and Community-Based Conflict Prevention and Peace Building in Malawi project aims to strengthen capabilities to mitigate and respond to existing and projected conflict, including radicalisation and terrorism and the potential for Islamic radicalization directly from Mozambique, which is playing on existing latent religious tensions at the community level. It provides support in two border districts in areas of institutional, professional, and community resources to identify, mitigate, and respond to violent conflict or risk of conflict. This includes supporting community networks, increasing their engagement in conflict identification, mitigation, and prevention, strengthening border security management, and increasing the capacity of the national peace architecture.
The CO is centrally situated in Lilongwe while the target districts for the project are Mangochi and Mulanje, hence the requirement of the presence of individual consultants to work with the existing partners in the districts to speed up implementation of the phase 1 of the project which is expected to end by March, 2023. The Peace Building Consultants will be part of the UNFPA Country Office project team under the overall direction of the UNFPA Malawi Representative and will be resident in the target districts.
In respect to the projected threats of border insecurity, the project will support a border security approach that integrates security, socio-cultural factors and the local economy into a single system. The approach recognises that border communities are unique in livelihoods, socioeconomic relationships, and cultures, and that successful peacebuilding initiatives are owned and led by people in their local context. It includes support for established formal institutional structures, including the legal framework and district peace committees, as well as community-led initiatives and platforms. The deployed officer will provide technical and operational support to gender equality and mainstreaming and youth empowerment for the project’s implementation specifically in service provision for women survivors of conflict, response to and prevention of gender-based violence, and access to wide range of networks of women, youth and adolescent girls . He / She will strengthen capacity of communities to mitigate and respond to conflict and ensure that women and young people in the border districts are better equipped to identify and resolve conflict and other disputes using formal and informal mechanisms without recourse to conflict and improve service delivery and community empowerment by also utilising the model for safe spaces.
The Peace Building Consultant will work closely with the focal points in the Country Office, District departments of the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Gender, and Ministry of Youth, implementing partners and sister UN agencies (UNDP, UNWOMEN, and UNODC) to ensure improved coordination and synergies for implementation, monitoring and reporting on UNFPA SRH and GBV components of the Peace building activities at the district
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