Mission and objectivesUNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is a specialized agency dedicated to strengthening our shared humanity through the promotion of education, science, culture, and communication. We set standards, produce tools and develop knowledge to create solutions to some of the greatest challenges of our time, and foster a world of greater equality and peace. Protecting biodiversity, responding to artificial intelligence, advancing quality education, safeguarding heritage, and ensuring access to reliable information are some examples of the work that UNESCO does with its 194 Member States across the globe. UNESCO's vision is to build inclusive, just, and peaceful knowledge societies while protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms. UNESCO's mission is to contribute to building a culture of peace, eradicating poverty, promoting sustainable development, and fostering intercultural dialogue through education, science, culture, communication, and information. This is achieved by setting standards, creating tools, and advancing knowledge to address global challenges.
ContextUNESCOโs Communication and Information (CI) Unit of the Regional Office for Southern Africa (UNESCO ROSA) aims to promote freedom of expression, free, independent and pluralistic media, and to build an inclusive knowledge society. This includes the promotion and advocacy of free, independent, and pluralistic media, professional and quality journalism, strengthening self-regulation mechanisms of the media, promoting media and information literacy including countering disinformation, hate speech and harmful content online. UNESCO ROSA Office works with all stakeholders including the government, civil society, academia, and media to achieve these goals in countries covered by ROSA. Within the framework of the EU-funded Social Media 4 Peace (SM4P) project, UNESCO works to build the resilience of societies to the impact of disinformation, hate speech and harmful content in socially polarized environments and foster peace through new technologies, particularly social media. This project takes a comprehensive approach through research and advocacy, coalition-building and capacity building activities. That is, it conducts a mapping of the existing governance mechanisms as well as legislative and policy responses to these challenges in order to identify gaps and root causes. It works to cultivate dialogue and multi stakeholder collaboration, using UNESCOโs convening power to bring together relevant actors, including media councils, civil society, academic, regulatory and judicial bodies and national authorities, and builds national coalitions to coordinate and amplify joint actions and advocacy efforts
Task Descriptionโข Contribute to the design, development, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of project activities. โข Develop concept notes/proposals to support resource mobilization; prepare publications, briefings, and other related documents. โข Provide support in programme/project administration with regard to organization of outreach activities, partnership initiatives and special events. โข Plan and prepare periodic communication outputs to ensure project visibility. โข Drafting and/or production of public information materials, such as news items, infographics, and other necessary documents or materials, for UNESCOโs website, newsletter and social media channels in coordination with the SM4P team.
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