Consultancy: Climate Advocacy and Negotiation Training for Youth Climate Delegates, MENARO, Jordan, 2 months ( Home based with one deliverable in UAE)

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UNICEF MENA Regional Office has been working diligently with country offices to advocate for the inclusion of young people in national delegations who will be negotating on their country’s behalf at COP 28 in Dubai, 2023. Through their inclusion in the official national delegations, UNICEF aims to empower young people to participate meaningfully in climate negotiations and policymaking, ensuring that their voices are heard and are reflected in the decision-making process. Therefore, UNICEF seeks to contract an experienced consultant with existing capacity and experience delivering climate related trainings to young people to ensure the young people participating in their national delegations are capacitated and prepared to participate meaningfully as climate negotiators and/or observers at COP 28. The envisioned consultancy will deliver a comprehensive training programme in both face-to-face and online workshops for approximately 30 young people who have been identified by UNICEF country offices across MENA

Scope of Work:

Children and young people have the right to participate in decision-making, as outlined in Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). We know from experience that engaging young people in decision-making enhances the quality and effectiveness of service delivery, improves policy formulation and evaluation, and better addresses the specific needs of children and young people. While efforts to support young people’s participation are growing, they are often limited to consultations, without any formal or tangible ways to influence the national or global frameworks. A systematic and comprehensive approach is required to ensure meaningful and sustained participation of young people and to avoid 'youth washing'. The objective of this consultancy is design and deliver a comprehensive training package to empower 30 young people from the MENA region selected by UNICEF through the UNICEF Country Offices to meaningfully participate and advocate for ambitious and just climate action at national and international levels before, during, and after COP28. The aim of the training programme is as follows:

● Increase the skills, self-efficacy and confidence of participating youth to deliver youth empowerment

● Increase youth leaders' confidence that the country’s, community’s and region’s needs will be properly considered and represented in climate negotiations - with the goal of climate justice

● Equip young people with knowledge and skills to understand climate policymaking and negotiations and building leadership skills to advocate for climate action and engage with key decision-makers.

● Empower young people to advocate for child-sensitive climate policies in alignment with the Declaration on Children, Youth, and Climate Action, and the CRC General Comment No.26 on children’s rights and the environement, which a special focus on climate change.

Deliverables:

Work Assignments Overview

Deliverables/Outputs

Delivery deadline

6 Master Class Trainings, plus 1 orientation/introductory meeting (online)

Master Class syllabus and online recording of training

Nov 24

3 Day COP 28 Simulation

Simulation Syllabus and attendance sheets

Nov 28

Final Report

Final Report

Dec 31

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Bachelors degree in one of the following fields: Social Sciences, international development.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience (At least 2 years of experience training young people and 3 years of work experience in climate change).
• Proven Climate Change Negotiations Training expertise for UNFCCC related events, including COP.
• Clarity of Training Approach -Quality of Training content -Past experience working and training with young people -Past experience in implementing simulations - Ability to travel UAE
• Fluency in English is required.

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UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.