The Elsie Initiative Fund jobs and careers

About The Elsie Initiative Fund

Women continue to face barriers preventing them from playing meaningful roles in national security institutions and in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, including due to unequal access to career development opportunities, social-cultural stereotypes, a lack of gender-sensitive infrastructure and facilities, and family-friendly policies. Based on the idea that financial resources should not be an impediment to advancing gender equality or eliminating barriers facing women peacekeepers, the UN Women manages the Elise Initiative Fund, supported by the Canada Elsie Initiative, to incentivise the increased meaningful participation of uniformed women in UN peace operations. The EIF finances projects, from troop- and police-contributing countries (T/PCCs) as well as UN organisations, that are supported by an evidence-based barrier assessment report and designed to drive transformative and sustainable changes to increase the participation of uniformed women peacekeepers. The EIF also provides a premium to T/PCCs that deploy uniformed units with substantial representation of women overall and in leadership positions.