Home-based international consultancy to extract gender dimensions from the Situation Analysis (SitAn) of Children in Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Tajikistan (16 days)

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1. Background

The Situation Analysis (the SitAn) of children’s rights and wellbeing is a flagship product designed to inform policy dialogue, partnerships and interventions to improve the lives of children. It is an assessment and analysis of the country situation, with respect to children's rights and critical issues affecting their realization. The SitAn is a crucial part of the child rights monitoring (CRM) framework and represents a key UNICEF’s programmatic output that helps focus on knowledge gaps related to inequities and child deprivations. By promoting the broad engagement of all stakeholders, the SitAn is expected to inform policy dialogue in the country and child-focused policy advocacy to make an important contribution to accelerating the achievement of child-related goals with equity.

To increase the dissemination and reach of the SitAns, the UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) has developed 4-page summaries of the recently developed SitAns by UNICEF Country Offices in the region.

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2. Purpose, Scope and Objectives of the Analysis

With a view to ensure that gender is adequately reflected in the 4page SitAns, UNICEF ECARO is seeking the services of an international individual consultant to draw the gender dimensions out from the existing SitAns reports of Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Tajikistan and identify the gaps using the available evidence, while paying due consideration to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda, UNICEF Strategic Plan for 2018-2021, UNICEF Gender Action Plan 2018-2021, and main national and global priorities.

The Analysis should be objective and verifiable and is expected to be used by all partners and stakeholders in the country in addressing key challenges preventing children and adolescents, especially the most disadvantaged, from enjoying their rights ensured in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international obligations of the country.

Based on the Situation Analysis of each country, the consultant is expected to look at the 24 issues under the four human rights headings as presented in graphic 1 below. Further, the consultant would extract

1. Equity issues on Gender for any relevant dimensions

2. Estimate the number of children/women affected

3. Determine the bottlenecks (enabling environment, supply, demand)

4. Highlight the respective programming strategies

If these elements are not present in the SITAN, the consultant should prepare recommendations on how to complete these gaps in the analysis.

Graphic 1 – Four human rights headings with 24 issues.

For each of these issues, the consultant needs to extract the gender dimensions, following the example of graphic 2 below.

• Equity issue

• Number of affected children

• Bottlenecks and strategies related to:

• Enabling environment

• Supply

• Demand

  Graphic 2

3. Management and Supervision

The consultants will work in close consultation and under the supervision of UNICEF ECARO Regional Gender Advisor.

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4. Requirements

Required background and experience:

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

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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.

5. Terms of payment

Payments will be made upon satisfactory completion of tasks and submission of invoices based on the number of days worked certified by the supervisor.

6. To apply:

Interested candidates should submit:

1. Letter of interest, including how your qualifications and experience match the requirements for this consultancy.
2. Daily fees. Please note that applications without a proposed fee will not be accepted.
3. Any relevant work sample similar to the requirements of this ToR.
4. A CV and/or Personal history form (downloadable from http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/P11.doc). Alternatively, if a candidate profile in the UNICEF e-Recruitment System is available, you may download it and submit it as part of application.

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.