International Consultant: Senior Socio- Economic Expert, Kathmandu, Nepal

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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, result

As Nepal rolls on planning fir its 16th periodic plan and a host of other reforms, in the social protection and Public Finance Management, in the run up to the agenda 2030 and ensuring that the post pandemic recovery agenda stays firmly a-track, UNICEF aims to aim ensure sufficient attention to its children. Attention to children is not only an issue of the fulfillment of Nepal’s commitment to the CRC, but also to its ensure that it can leverage the ‘demographic window and investment in human capital. This will ensure that the national panning and investment are effective, efficient, and equitable as children specific/ sensitive investments typically have been found to be so.

UNICEF’s Social policy, Governance and Evidence section is looking for an expert to assist its data analysis and advocacy for enhancing investments in children, in the context of the above challenges and opportunities, challenges while supporting its ongoing commitment to social protection, evidence and public finance for children. This is to ensure that the section’s key mandate for supporting the Nepal with the evidence and the data analysis is both enhanced and adjusted, with higher and additional skills to incorporate a strengthened capacity to both assess as well as respond to the post pandemic challenges while maintaining attention to the chronic deprivations and challenges impeding outcomes for children.

How can you make a difference?

There is an urgent need to examine and bolster support in three inter-related areas: Develop robust estimates under alternative scenarios to examine the emerging and rapidly changing fiscal space and the risk of crowding out health and social sector budgets. Transparency of procurement and spending, noting the importance of balance speed and flexibility with accountability, and government sensitivity in this area.

All the above requires a sharpening of the analysis of the national investment backed by the data that draws out a sharper and dynamic profile of chronic and emerging deprivations. A international consultant is being hired to provide technical expertise to achieve the intended results timely and effectively.

KEY END-RESULTS

Within on an overall objective of strengthening data analysis and evidence generation, the specific objectives of the assignment are:

1. Support children data analysis and advocacy

2. Support Public Finance for children-strengthening evidence-based advocacy to address chronic and emerging deprivations through an analysis of the efficacy and the effectiveness of the national, provincial and local budgets

3. Support Fiscal space analysis and estimation of the crowding out of the investments in children to strengthen advocacy for maintaining investments in children’s relevant sectors.

Duration of Contract: The total duration of the contract is for 104 working days over the period of 9 months.

This consultancy assignment is both Kathmandu based and remote working.

Deliverables for this Assignment:

Tasks/Milestone****Deliverables/Outputs****Timeline****Proposed Fee ( In Nepalese Currency)Developing a Child Friendly framework developedDeveloping a Child Friendly planning and budget analysis framework for 3 tiers of the GoN / In partnership with NNRFC, MOFA and PLGSP (25 days) Oct - Nov 2023 National Budget Analysis reports preparedNepal National Budget analysis-rapid budget analysis/After the publication of the national budget/ with 2 pages each on education, health, nutrition and social protection , WASH and Child Protection (30 days) Nov - Dec 2023 CFT 12 conductedPhase 2: CFT Round 12 : 1. Data analysis 2. Presentation (14 days) Feb - March 2023 Policy papers producedSupport Economic Lab in production of 5 policy papers (20 days) Feb - March 2024 Peer review report producedPeer review of 5 reports based on the secondary analysis of Census 2021 data(15 days) - Oct 2023 to June 2024 To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• PHD in economics, statistics or any other relative field
• Minimum of 10 years relevant progressive professional working experience in
• Data modelling
• Economistic modelling including costing
• Experience and expertise in multi-purpose, humanitarian cash programming
• Experience and expertise of working with UN preferably on a multi-agency assignment

• Work experience in Nepal an asset Languages:

  Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

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:

Request to submit financial proposal as per deliverables in US Dollar.

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.