Overview : UN Cares, the UN’s work place programme on HIV/AIDS is designed to reduce the impact of HIV in the UN workplace by supporting “universal access” to a comprehensive range of benefits for all personnel and their families, known as the UN Cares 10 Minimum Standards. In Uganda, it promotes issues of wellbeing and wellness through fitness, access to quality care (in collaboration with the UN Clinic) and awareness/sensitization while keeping the UN work place environment free of stigma around HIV/AIDS. In recognition of the critical situation under which staff work, the UNCT called for an expanded and more wholistic approach to addressing staff wellness and wellbeing. Premised on the fundamental mandate of UN Cares, through the UN Resident Coordinator, the UN Wellness Committee (inter-agency and responsible to the UNCT), bringing an expanded approach the UN Cares mandate, was established under the leadership of WHO. Others include the Un Cares itself, UN Clinic, UNDSS, RCO, the UN Staff Associations and representation from every UN agency resident in Uganda. The committee’s mandate includes: - Facilitating and overseeing timely staff access to quality care
- Promote staff Health through advocacy of wellness activities, regular field outreaches for spot checks, Health education, vaccinations etc.
The overall objective of the assignment is to support the UN Clinic in the provision of psychosocial counselling and stress management services to UN staff and their families. |