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VACANCY GENDER AND WATER PROGRAMME OFFICER Global Water Partnership-Central Africa (GWP-CAf) INTRODUCTION The Global Water Partnership (GWP) is an international non-profit network organisation created in 1996. With a diverse partnership of more than 3000 organizations from 178 countries, including governments, the private sector, civil society groups, the GWP network is made up of 13 Regional Water Partnerships and 85 Country Water Partnerships (CWPs), which are neutral platforms for dialogue on development policies from the bottom to the top. Global Water Partnership Central Africa (GWP-CAf), the GWP Regional Water Partnership in Central Africa (https://www.gwp.org/en/GWP-Central-Africa/) was formally established in 2008. Its vision is for a "Central Africa where water security is guaranteed", and its mission is to "support sustainable development through the promotion and implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Central Africa". The guiding principles for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) were adopted by experts from all over the world in Dublin in January 1992, and approved by heads of states and governments at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The third of these four guiding principles states that: “Women play a central part in the provision, management, and safeguarding of water”. World leaders, governments and water professionals thus acknowledged that gender equity is inextricably bound up with sustainable water resources management and sustainable development in general. With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, gender equality is placed at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through SDG 5: “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. GWP has been advancing gender issues based on its gender strategy and more recently its “Gender Action Piece” through which it continues to play a crucial role in promoting gender issues in water resources management by supporting water sector stakeholders in …