International Consultancy: Contextualization of Adolescent Kits Consultancy, two Months, Kampala, Uganda

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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, a fair chance

Uganda is one of the over 190 countries and territories around the world where we work to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease, and discrimination place in a child’s path. Together with the Government of Uganda and partners we work towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the objectives of the Uganda National Development Plan, and the planned outcomes of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework.

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How can you make a difference?

This International Consultancy is aimed to support UNICEF team in contextualizing and introducing using the Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation (Adolescent Kit) as a resource to strengthen adolescent skilling in Uganda

The international consultant will be expected to work closely with the ADAP Team in Uganda to contextualize and pilot Adolescent Kit for building adolescents’ competencies through experience, practice and application in schools, Accelerated Education Centers and out of school clubs in Uganda.

The consultant will work in collaboration with UNICEF technical staff, Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES), District Local Governments and other partners to with the development of the contextualized adolescent kit for expressions and to conduct the TOT session.

The consultant will organize face to face and or virtual meetings with all relevant stakeholders listed above to ensure adequate consultation. The consultant will make two formal presentations to UNICEF and MoES on the contextualized adolescent kit for expressions.

Background:

Uganda has a longstanding history of hosting refugees and as of September 2020, a total of 1.43 million refugees and asylum seekers were living within its borders. Uganda is experiencing both protracted and ongoing forced displacement trends. Most refugees have settled in the poorest and most underdeveloped areas in the country, which poses significant development challenges to both refugees and host communities. The Refugee Act (2006) guarantees refugees’ fundamental rights, including the right to participate in gainful employment; freedom of movement; right to property; establish businesses; and the right to association such as trade unions. Refugees are entitled to access social services provided by the Government of Uganda (GoU), including education and health care. Uganda implements the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF), which further promotes the country’s progressive policy through a multi-stakeholder approach, boosting resilience and self-reliance, and expanding solutions for both refugee and host communities.

Adolescents 10-19 years constitute 35% the refugee population. Despite evident vulnerabilities, the adolescent age group is the least likely to receive assistance or protection. Among other vulnerabilities, adolescents in refugee and host communities suffer from the lack of appropriate learning opportunities leading to decent and viable livelihoods. While an estimated percentage of 57% of school-aged refugee children in Uganda are out of school, those who are in school are considerably over-age for their grade and are at risk of dropping out as a result of constrained learning achievement. The challenge of over grade for age presents in both the refugee and host population: over 60% of adolescents 15 years of age who are enrolled in school, are enrolled in primary school. With limited basic foundational skills in literacy, numeracy and skills for learning, employment and empowerment, these adolescents face limited chances of accessing decent and viable livelihoods.

In response to the growing numbers of adolescents who do not acquire basic foundational skills (literacy, numeracy) and life skills, the UNICEF Strategic Plan (2018-2021), the UNICEF Guidance for Secondary-Age Education (2019), the UNICEF School-to-Work Transition Synthesis (2019) and the global call to action of Generation Unlimited, highlight the need to establish multiple pathways for skilling and learning (formal and informal) for vulnerable adolescents. To accomplish this, UNICEF works together with government and other development partners in Uganda.

UNICEF Uganda’s adolescent programme interventions focus on supporting adolescents in primary and secondary schools with life skills (skills for learning, employability, empowerment and active citizenship) and strengthening safe and supportive learning environments. The Uganda Country Office is planning to pilot the UNICEF Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation.

The overall concept is to use the Adolescent Kit as a resource to support the life skills curriculum in schools and out of school. The aim of the Adolescent Kit is to support adolescents’ experiential learning, practice, and application of competencies, with a focus on utilizing arts and expression methodologies to support positive outcomes for adolescents, specifically with respect to their psychosocial wellbeing, acquisition of life skills, and positive, active engagement in their communities. Given that this will be a pilot for Uganda, the use of the kit will be tested in two refugee hosting districts to begin and if successful, it will be rolled out for use with young people across the country.

KEY TASKS:

The consultant will work on the following tasks;

• Identify resources from Adolescent Kit that are relevant for purpose in Uganda and develop plans for their adaptation through comprehensive overview of existing materials.
• Develop a work plan harmonized with the Country Programme implementation plan based on discussions with ADAP team and partners.
• Prepare resources: Adapt/contextualize resources from the Adolescent Kit in a separate curriculum document, create any new materials, including monitoring and evaluation tools for skills assessment, and prepare agenda, presentations for the training.
• Develop Facilitation manual for contextualized Adolescent Kit content for Uganda to be used in the ToT, that covers technical recommendations and step-by-step guidelines on carrying out the skills-building activities based on Adolescent Toolkit in in-school and out-of-school setting.
• Conduct Training of Trainers (ToT), so that lead trainers have strong understanding of key concepts in relation to adolescent’s development, practice and use of competencies, and are prepared to facilitate Adolescent Kit skills-building activities effectively using relevant methods.
• Revise Adolescent Kit curriculum for Uganda based on feedback of trainers and adolescents after the curriculum is piloted with adolescents in two selected spots.
• Conduct documentation of the introduction of the Adolescent Kit in Uganda after 4 months of implementation in various settings and with different groups of adolescents and recommendation on phased-in national expansion of the use of Adolescent Kit curriculum for skills-building of out-of-school and in-school in Uganda.

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

The selected consultant should have:

• Education: Advanced University Degree on social sciences, education, anthropology, development studies and other relevant areas.
• Work Experience: At least 10 years of international work experience in the area of Adolescent Development and Participation, education and skills-building for adolescents.
• Competencies: Excellent analytical thinking and strategic planning skills, proven ability to develop training content and to deliver training, excellent writing skills, oral communication skills and facilitation skills and ability to work under commitment and tight timeframe.
• Technical Knowledge: Good knowledge of Adolescents programming at UNICEF. Experience in provision of trainings and developing skills-building toolkits for Adolescent. Past experience of working with UNICEF in adolescent programming and contextualization of skills-building content and toolkits. Knowledge and experience of working in Uganda will be an asset.
• Language: Fluency in English.

Application Procedure/Call for Proposals

Interested candidates are required to submit a technical proposal on how they intend to approach the work. The proposal should include a timeline, and methodology, based on the Terms of Reference. The proposal must also include detailed CV of the consultant, as well as a financial proposal, clearly indicating daily rate for professional fees. The financial proposal must be all-inclusive of all costs (consultancy fees and where applicable air fares, airport transfers, daily living expenses). This is an international level consultancy and competitive market rates should apply.

Evaluation of Candidate:

The consultant will be competitively selected from a list of applicants based on their past experience of doing similar work (extensive experience in writing donor reports, in compiling and editing annual reports for various UNICEF offices).

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The competencies required for this post are….

View our competency framework at

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

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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.