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Therefore requires stronger institutional capacity, clearer governance structures, improved coordination among ministries and local governments, and enhanced monitoring and safeguards that are inclusive and gender-responsive to ensure high-integrity implementation. * Conduct and document GESI and safeguard reviews of project documents to ensure compliance with UNDP Social and Environmental Standards (SES), safeguards, and national regulations prior to approval Support Gender-Responsive Reporting and Compliance * Provide technical GESI analysis and inputs for of quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports with integrated GESI analysis, in line .
Last checked: 3 hours ago
Closing date: Thursday, 2 July 2026
Country: Indonesia
Duty station: Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia
Contract type: National PSA- Regular
Grade: Not specified
Applicant eligibility: Local / national only
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Indonesia has made significant progress in advancing its climate commitments, as reflected in its Enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 2.0) and the national Forest and Other Land Use (FOLU) Net Sink 2030 target. These commitments include ambitious emission reduction goals, relying heavily on reduced deforestation, strengthened forest governance, and enhanced restoration efforts. The Government has also strengthened its policy framework through Presidential Regulation No. 110/2025 on Carbon Economic Value, which provides the foundation for carbon trading, results-based finance, and other climate-related economic instruments.
Despite this progress, translating national commitments into effective and inclusive action at the subnational level remains a key challenge. There is a need to ensure that climate policies and interventions are gender-responsive and socially inclusive, recognizing the differentiated roles, needs, and contributions of women, men, and marginalized groups in forest and land-use management. Limited integration of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) considerations in planning, implementation, and monitoring processes can reduce the effectiveness, equity, and sustainability of climate actions.
Indonesia therefore requires stronger institutional capacity, clearer governance structures, improved coordination among ministries and local governments, and enhanced monitoring and safeguards that are inclusive and gender-responsive to ensure high-integrity implementation. Strengthening policy alignment, technical capacity, and evidence-based decision-making while systematically integrating GESI perspectives will be essential to accelerate the achievement of the FOLU Net Sink 2030 and support Indonesia’s long-term low-carbon and climate-resilient development pathway.
In parallel, UNDP Indonesia is implementing a Plastics Circularity Project, which aims to advance inclusive and sustainable plastics circularity in Indonesia by strengthening systems for plastic waste reduction, collection, reuse, recycling, and circular economy solutions. The project contributes to Indonesia’s broader environmental and low-carbon development priorities by addressing plastic pollution, improving resource efficiency, and promoting sustainable livelihoods across the plastics value chain.
Plastic waste management and circularity are strongly linked to gender equality and social inclusion. Women, informal waste workers, community groups, micro and small enterprises, youth, and other vulnerable groups play important roles in waste collection, sorting, recycling, reuse, and community-based behaviour change. However, these groups often face barriers related to recognition, decent work, access to finance, skills, occupational safety, participation in decision-making, and equitable benefit-sharing. Integrating GESI principles into plastics circularity interventions is therefore essential to ensure that project benefits are inclusive, risks are mitigated, and circular economy models support just and equitable outcomes.
In this context, the Gender and Social Inclusion Associate will play a critical role in supporting the integration of GESI principles across both CREDDIN and the Plastics Circularity Project. For CREDDIN, this includes supporting gender-responsive NDC implementation, REDD+ strategies, safeguards, and carbon market development. For the Plastics Circularity Project, this includes ensuring that plastic circularity interventions are inclusive, gender-responsive, and sensitive to the needs and contributions of informal workers, women-led enterprises, communities, youth, and marginalized groups involved in the plastics value chain.
Duties and Responsibilities
The GESI Associate will report directly to both the National Project Coordinator of CREDDIN and the National Project Manager of the Plastics Circularity Project, by working in close coordination with relevant project team members. The incumbent will be responsible for supporting project implementation, monitoring, data collection, results tracking, safeguards, and preparation of progress reports across both projects, ensuring compliance with UNDP gender, social inclusion, and safeguards requirements. The GESI Associate will collaborate closely with the UNDP Indonesia Gender Focal Point, Country Office programme and operations teams, government counterparts, civil society, private sector actors, and community stakeholders to ensure timely reporting, quality assurance, and effective implementation of gender-responsive and socially inclusive project activities.
Support the GESI integration Lead technical inputs to the integration of GESI into implementation, monitoring and reporting systems for REDD+ and NDC implementation at national and subnational levels, contributing to high-integrity climate actions:
Support Gender-Responsive Reporting and Compliance
Ensure that project reporting reflects inclusive, transparent, and gender-responsive implementation:
Support Knowledge Building and Capacity Development on GESI
Promote knowledge generation and capacity strengthening on gender-responsive climate action:
Support Inclusive Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement
Strengthen partnerships to promote inclusive and equitable climate governance:
Ensure Compliance with Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Principles
The incumbent is expected to uphold and promote GESI principles across all activities:
The incumbent may perform other duties within the functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Organization.
Competencies
Core Competencies
Cross functional and technical competencies
Digital
2030 Agenda: Engagement and Effectiveness
2030 Agenda- people
External Relations and Advocacy Partnership management
Business management
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