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Women in Rwanda Urged to Apply for UN Jobs

Rwanda 1Women in Rwanda have been urged to apply for various positions in the United Nations.

According to  the Human Resource Officer Standing Diversity and Outreach Section at UN, Floresha Berisha,"We want to encourage female candidates to apply. Currently, the organisations have a gender gap; for example, in peacekeeping we have 29 per cent women yet our objective is to have fifty-fifty gender party.''

Berisha who was speaking at  the outreach briefing on UN field careers that seeks to inform Rwandans of opportunities to work with UN and how to apply using its recruitment system (INSPIRA) and practical tips on how to prepare their applications or tests said ''

'The purpose of this outreach is to raise the awareness about job opportunities to work in UN missions' secretariat including peacekeeping operations, Rwanda is ranked the third country in contributing troops to peacekeeping missions and we believe that raising awareness of job opportunities among the nationals of Rwanda we give them the opportunity to apply for the jobs," Berisha said.

"Informing them about the requirements and about the recruitment process, the organisation aims at having diverse geographically and gender balance and multi-talented workforce, having that in mind we would want to raise awareness among all member states," she stated.