International Consultancy: Child Poverty Analysis Expert Consultant (7 months), Yemen, Home-based

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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, Protection

In the 1970s UNICEF established presence in Yemen to respond to the urgent needs of children in the poorest country in the Middle East. In 1991, Yemen ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and it was enacted immediately. Since then the country has been making steady progress for children until it plunged into a brutal conflict in 2015 but even before that, Yemen needed large amounts of humanitarian assistance.

In collaboration with local authorities, non-governmental organizations and community partners, UNICEF is working in all the governorates in Yemen to respond to the needs of children throughout the country with a continuum of services to help children survive and grow to their full potential through the following programmes: Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Basic Education, and Child protection.

For more on our work in Yemen, please visit our website: https://www.unicef.org/yemen/

How can you make a difference?

There is no clear information on child poverty in Yemen from multidimensional perspective. The latest poverty analysis was done by WB in 2016 based on the Household Budget Survey implemented in 2014 measures national poverty rates from income dimensions which measures only monetary poverty.

There is a need for up-to-date evidence on child deprivations in Yemen to inform the response and planning processes. Hence, the child poverty analysis will directly inform response by national counterparts and international humanitarian and development actors including on social protection and enhancing the equity lens of response and programming. For UNICEF, updated analysis on child multidimensional poverty is needed to inform UNICEF planning for the coming years.

Therefore, the purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF YCO and government partners - mainly Ministry of Planning and Central Statistics Organization (CSO) - in the design, preparation, execution, data management, and data analysis of child poverty study. Hence, the assignment will focus on the following specific objectives:

• Raise awareness of government decision makers on multidimensional child poverty and its impact and measures.
• Support the Ministry of Planning and the CSO to develop nationally owned methodology for measuring child poverty at national and governorate level.
• Provide capacity building training and on-the-job coaching for data analysis.
• Carry out the analysis and drafting report and findings.

To view the full profile of this consultancy, hold Ctrl and double click in the following link: Child Poverty Analysis Expert ToR_clean 12.2.2023.pdf

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

• Master’s degree in economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or other relevant disciplines is required.
• At least 10 years of experience / expertise in conducting multidimensional poverty analysis, including child poverty concept with specific expertise on the MPI/MODA and any other multidimensional poverty approach.
• Good analytical skills in gathering and consolidating data and research.
• Experience on conducting capacity building and training particularly on poverty related aspects.
• Good knowledge of Yemen context would be an asset.
• Excellent communication and advocacy skills are required.
• Familiar with policy and strategic context in MENA region is an added advantage.

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.