Child Marriage Assessment Assistant

Contract

This is a UNV National Youth contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Youth contracts.

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s new strategic plan (2022-2025), focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction. UNFPA provides lifesaving information and access to adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) services. This has been done through the establishment of Youth Health Lines, Youth Health Corners and Y-PEER and Peer Education. The health line offers young people anonymous service to receive accurate and non-judgmental health information and advice, from health professionals. The Youth Health Corners are integrated with existing health services that provide Counselling and awareness sessions on family planning and provision of contraceptives, mental health issues, puberty, physical and psychosocial changes, pregnancy (including testing services) and reproductive health rights of young people etc. Finally, through Y-PEER and Peer Education, UNFPA mobilizes peer-to-peer awareness among adolescents and youth on issues related to RH and GBV. The aim of this post is to support the team lead "International Consultant Child Marriage Assessment" to produce a national data collection and analysis on Child Marriage in Afghanistan, Capturing trends in child marriage and new emerging contributing factors. The national consultants are expected to support the team leader's mission in providing concrete program recommendations, and the analysis is expected to take a provenance-specific lens that captures different factors based on different geographical locations. Most of the support will be related to contextualizing research tools and processes, translating relevant documents, translating findings from the field data collection, and full support for the field data collection of the assessment. All tools and data collection will be in line with safe and ethical data collection on GBV as well as with the strict adherence to GBV guiding principles and the survivor-centered approach.

Under the direct supervision of UNFPA Afghanistan Youth Community Mobilization Specialist, the assistant will have to provide needed support for the International Consultant (Team Lead) in the following scope:

• Provide comments and support piloting of the proposal/draft methodology plan and tools developed by the team lead • Develop together with international consultant the assessment tools and translate to required local languages • Develop together with international consultant the data collection analysis plan. • Conduct literature review of materials and documents for desk review and checklists and produce a preliminary report and matrixes. The report and matrixes will be reviewed by the international consultant and the national inputs will be used to finalize this first report. • Coordinate and arrange meetings as needed. • Take the lead to organize and conduct field work according to interview/pre-determined questions guidelines developed by the international consultant (field visits, facilitate FDG, conduct semi-structured interviews). • Report to the international consultant by emails on the progress and obstacles or needed support. • Draft the field reports and submit to international consultant for consolidation in the overall report. • Provide inputs and comments on the final draft report. • Make relevant documents available for the international consultant. • Support validation of assessment findings and dissemination of the findings.

Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers Programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:

• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day). • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country. • Provide annual and end of assignment self- reports on UN Volunteer actions, results, and opportunities.
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc. • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers. • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.

• Professionalism • Integrity • Teamwork and respect for diversity • Commitment to continuous learning • Planning and organizing • Communication • Flexibility • Genuine commitment

Social sciences, public health or other relevant field related to violence against children and women, especially in emergency context.

This position will be based in Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan. As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials. National UN Volunteers are part of the malicious insurance plan. Working week for the UN in Afghanistan is from Sunday to Thursday (for the Government from Saturday to Wednesday).