Individual Contractor - Study on the Economic impact of Child Marriage (Remote/Work from home)

Contract

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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 fulfill 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

In Nigeria, UNICEF works in a complex humanitarian and development setting to fulfill and protect children's rights in partnership with the government, civil society, children, and families. UNICEF Nigeria is one of the largest UNICEF Country Offices globally - click the link to learn more about UNICEF in Nigeria: https://www.unicef.org/nigeria/.

How can you make a difference?

The study will focus on the following four key areas:

• Scoping exercise: expenditure baseline assessment and data collection to showcase the scope of the issue (including the cost of marriage, cost for communities, cost of population increase, impact on potential productivity and earnings of young mothers and health of children born to young mothers, etc.
• Building evidence on the economic impact of Child Marriage at National Community, Household and Girls levels, looking at education and health) outcomes but also child protection-related issues.
• Cost of inaction - economic analysis which considers the economic benefits of ending child marriage and explores alternative practices that will have a direct impact on livelihoods, economic growth, and guarantee that girls and women are protected and thrive.
• The economic model for child marriage to be designed taking into account the added impact of the pandemic – economic shocks, school closures.

In carrying out this assignment, the consultant will engage with all relevant government ministries and departments responsible for implementing programmes that address the practice of child marriage (National and state ministries of Budget and Planning, Women Affairs, education, health, and justice) and will conduct a systematic review of relevant documents and past surveys, including the 2014 VAC survey and the recent analysis of the integration of ending child marriage policies and plans into budgets. The assessment will also involve a desk review of pertinent literature on the issue, including any previous evaluations, Standard Operating Procedures, legal framework relating to legal aid and access to justice costs, policy documents relating to the social service workforce, etc.

The consultancy will work under the technical guidance of the Child Protection Systems Strengthening manager, the CP Specialist on harmful Practices, and the Social Policy Specialist with overall supervision of the Chiefs of Child Protection and Social Policy.

Methodology

• Develop and submit an inception report and detailed work plan for the scoping study.
• Undertake a desk review of available literature, including documents on end child marriage policy, laws and strategy documents, state (to be discussed), and sector development plans.
• Assess the burden of child marriage using DALY (Disability Adjusted Life Years) as the unit for measuring the consequences of health outcomes of child marriage on girls and their children.
• Conduct a review of education, health, child welfare, and criminal justice costs attached to child marriage as it relates to girls, families, communities, and State/National levels.
• Conduct a meta-analysis of the budget and plans for ending child marriage.

To view the full TOR, please click ToR Economic impact of Child Marriage_Jan 2022 - for advert.pdf