Consultancy – Community Engagement and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP)

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfil their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, hope

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office works to ensure the rights of all children in Thailand. This means the rights of every child living in this country, irrespective of their nationality, gender, religion or ethnicity, to:

• survival – to basic healthcare, peace and security;
• development – to a good education, a loving home and adequate nutrition;
• protection – from abuse, neglect, trafficking, child labour and other forms of exploitation; and
• participation – to express opinions, be listened to and take part in making any decisions that affect them

How can you make a difference?

The Emergency Section, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) is seeking an individual contractor to provide technical support to country offices to support the mainstreaming of AAP throughout programming and to enhance preparedness for AAP to enable quick and consistent community engagement through established AAP mechanisms and tools in case of sudden-onset emergencies. The incumbent will also support advocacy, networking and capacity building for improved understanding of and adoption of AAP principles and approaches and develop a body of knowledge to support further learning across the organization.

Work Assignment:

The goal of this assignment is improved Accountability to Affected Population programming in UNICEF country offices.

Objective: To strengthen UNICEF Country offices capacity and to mainstream and systematically incorporate AAP elements into regular development and emergency programming as well as to increase preparedness to fulfil UNICEF’s AAP responsibilities in case of sudden-onset emergencies.

1) Activities and Tasks:

a) Support the design and implementation of country level strategies and action plans to scale up community engagement (CE) and accountability to affected population (AAP) interventions and processes.

b) Provide AAP related training and capacity development support to UNICEF staff, partner agencies, Implementing partners and Government counterparts through targeted support and workshops. This will include:

- Basic foundational training on AAP concepts for UNICEF staff and key partners

- Technical and practical guidance and capacity building support for the establishment, promotion and implementation of core AAP mechanisms, with specific focus on feedback and response systems

c) Review existing emergency preparedness plans and support the integration of AAP and CE into country-level preparedness efforts to enhance readiness to fulfill UNICEF’s AAP commitments in case of sudden-onset emergencies.

d) Facilitate partnership building, innovation and knowledge management on AAP in the region.

End Product(s):

Tasks

1. 7 Country Offices strategies and plans of action developed for scaling up AAP that have clear deliverables, indicators and timeframes to enable timely marked improvement in AAP/CE performance, with a focus on closing the loop (by providing feedback to the com-munity about how their views and inputs were addressed), based on operational modalities, community preferences and global best practice.

2. Capacity building needs assessment on AAP across the region conducted

3. Capacity building strategy developed to build the knowledge of, and commitment to AAP/CE approaches for UNICEF and partner staff

4. Context-specific capacity building materials developed by contextualizing global and national tools

5. AAP specific and/or integrated trainings facilitated in 7 countries

6. Emergency Preparedness Plans in the region reviewed for APP integration and CE

7. Best practices for APP and CE integration into preparedness planning identified and ana-lysed and a contextualized methodology with clear actions for APP/CE integration into preparedness planning in the region developed

8. Preparedness planning methodology rolled-out in 7 country offices

9. Partnership with UN agencies at RO level on AAP and CE strengthened through the participation in IA planning and coordination fora and the use of joint feedback and CE mechanisms promoted.

10. In close collaboration with the RO Technology for Development (T4D) team, innovative approaches to AAP/CE mapped, documented and disseminated. Best practices replicated in other offices across the region.

11. An AAP knowledge management platform established, best practices collected from CO and a dissemination strategy developed and implemented.

Duration of Contract: 11 months.

Official Travel: Official travel to three out of the seven priority countries may be required, depending on the easing of COVID-19 travel and immigration restrictions.

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

• Advanced university degree in social sciences (anthropology, sociology, psychology, social development, development studies etc.), community development or any other related field.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in community engagement with significant experience working on AAP interventions and the establishment of feedback and com-plaints mechanisms.
• Experience in working in humanitarian contexts.
• Prior experience working on emergency preparedness in the area of AAP/CE is an asset.
• Working experience in East Asia and the Pacific would be an asset.
• Strong analytical, presentation skills and communication skills.

Interested candidates are requested to submit CV or P-11, full contact information of minimum 3 references, availability, and proposed monthly professional fee in USD 25 May 2021

FORM P11.doc

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People, and Drive for Results.

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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.

UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children.