Individual National Consultant for child - centered impact, vulnerability, and risk assessment for Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, 40 days (Open to Zimbabwe Nationals Only)
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UNICEF Zimbabwe is seeking to hire an innovative and self-motivated Individual National Consultant for child - centered impact, vulnerability, and risk assessment
PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
The consultant will develop a national child-centres impact, vulnerability, and risk assessment for Zimbabwe by conducting an analysis of the impact of climate change on children (in WASH, health, education, child protection). The consultant will map the exposures, hazards, vulnerability and capacities of children; providing analysis and a digital interactive map that allows the overlaying of these factors.
BACKGROUND:
The climate crisis disproportionately impacts children & young people. Every child in Zimbabwe (7.1 million children under 18, 47% of the population) is exposed to at least one climate/environmental hazard and at risk of climate change impacts such as flooding, drought, heatwaves, cyclones, and air pollution, yet are the least responsible.
Zimbabwe is ranked very high, especially among Southern Africa countries, in the 2021 Children Climate Risk Index published in the “The Climate Crisis is a Child Crisis” Report[1] and the latest evidence[2] indicates that the country will continue to warm through 2080. The warming is projected to be most significant in the western and southern sections of the country. The current and projected warming trend and reduction in rainfall, environmental degradation, coupled with the increasing frequency and intensity of floods, tropical cyclones, droughts, and heatwaves, threatens children’s lives, destroys schools, water supply and infrastructure, health care facilities and children’s play spaces. Further, the reduction and increased unpredictability of rainfall risk crops critical to livelihoods and nutrition. All these impacts can result in greater poverty and increasing children’s protection risks.
To date, there is limited evidence of the impacts of climate change on young people in the different sectors of WASH, health, educaion and child protection specific to Zimbabwe. Some is not accessible and available to the public domain as it is scatered in different Ministries and organisation reports. Given the current and projected climate situation, the availability of coherent, accessible and updated information on impacts of climate change on children is a priority to inform decision makers and promote appropriate adaptation and mitigation options that are appropriate for a particular area and sector. The generated evidence is also essential to enable effective mobilisation of sustainable financing and targeting of resources and providing the climate rationale required in climate financing. To this end, a cross national sectoral vulnerability mapping and climate risk assssment on children becomes imperative. The generation of evidence will facilitate planning and prioritization of risk areas and generate a better understanding of the underlying causes of increased climate risk levels.
The overall purpose of the assignment is to develop a child-centred climate change impact, vulnerability and risk assessment for Zimbabwe The work produced will enable UNICEF and partners to understand the climate impacts, risks, and vulnerablity of children and utilize that information to influence programming, policy and advocacy efforts.
ASSIGNMENTS:
The purpose of this consultancy is to develop the national child–centred impact, vulnerability, and risk assessment for Zimbabwe.
The assignment seeks to identify the risks to deepening child deprivations and humanitarian situations affecting children as a result of their exposure to climate-related shocks and stresses, and to understand the underlying factors that could contribute to these risks and vulnerabilities. The information will be used to inform future programmes to guide targeting of beneficiaries, ensure risk-informed programming, and support for increased resilience of social and basic services for children. The analysis will equip UNICEF to better identify priorities for inclusive climate change-focused programming and advocacy work centred around the needs of children in Zimbabwe. This assignemnt will produce a report similar to the Myamar Child Centred Risk Assessment Myanmar Child-Centered Risk Assessment.pdf (unicef.org)[1], adapted to the Zimbabwean context.
The following activities will be undertaken:
- In consultation with Zimbabwe government, partners and UNICEF technical specialists (including the global UNICEF Climate Change Working Group); develop the workplan, define the methodology and procedures of the assignment, prepare tools and documents, and any other action identified as necessary for carrying out of the impact, vulnerabilty and risk assessment for Zimbabwe.,
Carry out, in consultation with UNICEF and key partners, the identification of and review of existing data,
Draft a report on the vulnerability mapping and impacts of climate change on children; drawing on existing information and resources, including climate projections/scenarios, and identifying potential areas of inclusive child-centred advocacy, programming, and intervention.
- Develop an inclusive Child-Centred Risk Analysis (CCRA)[2] for Zimbabwe conducting analysis of exposure, hazards, vulnerability and capacity mapping and analysis including a layered map of all of the above.
- Produce interactive digital maps to illustrate the impact of climate-related shocks on children (at least in the last five years) indicating how children (with and without disabilities) were affected and what measures were taken to minimize the impact as well as mitigate/prevent future risks.
- The analysis and interactive digital mapping will demonstrate:
- Extreme events profile for Zimbabwe and how boys and girls are being affected by climate change disasters
- How extreme events are impacting on inequalities and how inequalities are exacerbating child vulnerability to disasters
- Climate Change projections and potential impacts on different sectors especially those which are key for children (basic services, livelihoods);
- What risk mitigation measures are established to minimize the impact;
- Adaptation measures established by/for different population groups to prevent and lessen impact from future risks
- Mapping (at least): individual hazards analysis, multi-hazard analysis, child vulnerability, child-centred risk per sector and others as identified and relevant, exposure risks (child- and disability-sensitive), capacity to respond,
- Mapping the impact of previous disasters on boys and girls with and without disabilities illustrating the geographic and programmatic areas affected
- Gender analysis (identifying gender differences in child vulnerability but also the repercussions of gender inequalities on child vulnerability).
- Potential areas/measures for climate change adaptation applicable to Zimbabwe context and UNICEF mandate areas
7. Provide recommendations on programming design of different sectors (WASH, education, Health, nutrition, child protection) on climate change vulnerability mapping
8. Provide all data utilized in the assignment (climate and child vulnerability) in shapefile format
Major tasks and deliverables:
Tasks/Milestone:
Deliverables/Outputs:
Timeline & Schedule of Payment
1. Develop inception report, including: workplan, methodology to conduct assignment, outline of the deliverables that will be produced - including proposed interactive digital maps, definition of research and assessment tools and documents/resource material to be used
- Inception report demonstrating the methodology to be utilized for the assignment, data requirements, stakeholder mapping, proposed draft indicators for child impacts and vulnerability from climate change (including disability, age, and gender-specific considerations), proposed interactive digital maps, preliminary/proposed data sources and the draft report outline. [1] List of documents collected
One week after contract signature
4 days
2. Drafting of a comprehensive and inclusive Child-Centred Climate Change Impact, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for Zimbabwe including multi-hazard, exposure, child vulnerability and capacity maps (at least district level) and analysis
- Draft Report of the Child-Centred Climate Change Impact, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for Zimbabwe
Eight weeks after approval of inception report
20 days
50 % payment
3. Develop interactive digital maps that allow overlays of exposure, hazards, vulnerability, and capacity of children
- Interactive digital maps
5 days
3. Incorporation of comments from reviewers
- Revised report of the Child-Centred Climate Change Impact, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for Zimbabwe with comments incorporated
5 days
4. Final report including all tasks above
- Final report of the Child-Centred Climate Change Impact, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for Zimbabwe
Three weeks after submission of draft report
6 days
50 % payment
Total
40 days
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education:
An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: environmental/climate change studies, development studies and/or other related social science fields.
Languages:
Required: English
Desirable: Knowledge of a local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:
- Data management skills, working with tables and databases.
- Communication skills and interaction with different actors.
- Experience in working in Zimbabwe
Required Skills
- At least 5 years of relevant professional experience related to, management, and analysis of quantitative data.
- Knowledge of disaster risk management, including humanitarian assistance, development and resilience with an inclusion and human rights approach.
- Knowledge of the context of climate risk management in Zimbabwe, and the functioning of related (government) institutions.
- With knowledge about the approach to children's rights, gender, and inclusion.
- Experience in researching and preparing written analytical reports in an accurate, concise, and timely manner.
- Mapping/GIS skills
- Analysis skills and quantitative and qualitative synthesis of information.
- Excellent oral and written English skills.
If interested and available to undertake the individual consultancy, please submit your application online and attach the required documents including the technical proposal and an all-inclusive financial proposal incorporating an approximate number of travel days for field (local) travel.
Technical proposal: The Technical Proposal should articulate an understanding of the TOR and include the proposed Tasks/Milestones, Deliverables/Outputs, Timeline and level of effort by deliverable. The similar table provided in the TOR is indicative. Applicants may use the indicative table as a guide or deviate as per the proposed approach. The proposal should also cost-effectively propose the local travel proposed by the applicant to undertake the assignment.
Financial proposal: The Financial Proposal should include the costs (providing a daily rate as justification) for each task, including consultant fee, proposed travel costs and perdiem, communications costs and any other proposed cost.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
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.
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