Mapear y caracterizar organizaciones juveniles en 11 municipios del Chocó
Organizational Context
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is the UN agency dedicated to sexual and reproductive health. Its mission is to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health, realize reproductive rights, and reduce maternal mortality. UNFPA Colombia focuses on supporting youth engagement and humanitarian response in 11 prioritized municipalities in Chocó, particularly after an earthquake. This involves understanding the youth organization ecosystem to facilitate meaningful participation and identify community capacities for preparedness, humanitarian response, and recovery.
Job Purpose
This assignment aims to map and characterize youth organizations within 11 prioritized municipalities in Chocó, Colombia, to strengthen UNFPA's understanding of the local youth ecosystem and identify opportunities for collaboration. The collected and systematized information will guide actions for meaningful adolescent and youth participation and identify relevant community capacities for humanitarian preparedness, response, and recovery efforts. Given the recent earthquake's impact, this mapping is crucial for ensuring UNFPA's humanitarian response, focused on sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence prevention, and protection, is pertinent, inclusive, and rights-based. The output will serve as a reference tool for territorial coordination.
Responsibilities
The primary responsibility is to identify, map, and characterize youth organizations, collectives, platforms, networks, and groups operating in the 11 prioritized municipalities of Chocó, Colombia. Information will be gathered remotely from public sources, existing directories, and available institutional/community contacts. Each volunteer will cover an agreed set of municipalities, using a common matrix and criteria. Data to be recorded includes organization name, location, contact details, type of organization, target population, key themes, and identified activities. Special attention will be given to youth-led initiatives and those promoting adolescent and youth participation, including community, ethnic, rural, and urban groups. Relevant thematic areas include sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence prevention, youth participation, protection, human rights, humanitarian action, and peacebuilding. Expected deliverables include a cleaned database, a characterization matrix for each organization, and a brief synthesis of territorial presence, themes, networks, and coordination opportunities or gaps.
Work Experience
Interest or experience in youth participation, community work, territorial development, social research, stakeholder mapping, or information systematization is required. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to search, verify, organize, and record information from public sources and directories, with basic proficiency in spreadsheets and digital collaborative tools. Strong communication, organizational, attention to detail, and autonomous work skills are necessary.
Skills
Key competencies include sensitivity to human rights, gender, ethnic and cultural diversity, inclusion, and meaningful participation of adolescents and youth. Experience in community development, gender equality, women's rights, and youth engagement is highly valued. Knowledge of Chocó's dynamics and local community organizations, as well as sexual and reproductive health, GBV prevention, or humanitarian action, is desirable.