Junior Officer

Volunteering

Overview

Support child poverty data analysis and policy development

You have:

• Up to three years of experience or demonstrated interest in poverty reduction, development, or child rights.
• Previous volunteer experience or exposure to another culture such as studies, volunteer work, or internship would be highly regarded.

Contract

This is a UNV International Youth contract. This kind of contract is known as International UN Volunteer. It is normally internationally recruited only. More about UNV International Youth contracts.

In recent years, the world has made remarkable strides advancing development. Yet, more than 700 million people still live-in extreme poverty. Children are disproportionately affected.

Poverty denies children their fundamental rights to nutrition, health, water, education, protection, shelter and more – diminishing their ability to build a better future for themselves and generations to come.

Although Uzbekistan has large youthful population and child poverty remains an issue. As a result of COVID 19, almost 800 000 children fell into low income category and despite the improvements in economy later in 2021, still number of children in low income families did not return to pre pandemic period. At the same time, recent war in Ukraine and sanctions on Russia create additional challenges to the families due to potential increase in food and energy as well as labour migration. For that reason, UNICEF works actively with government of Uzbekistan to define monetary and multidimensional child poverty and develop policy response. The UNV will support Social policy Team in child poverty data analysis and use of evidence for child poverty reduction.

UNV will support Social Policy (SP) team in its work on monetary and multidimensional child poverty. This task envisages building partnerships, generating evidence and developing policy response to monetary and multidimensional child poverty issues. Under the direct supervision of Chief of Social Policy, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: 1. As part of the SP team, support in coordinating with the Centre of Economic Research and Reforms (CERR), UNDP, Innocenti and other UN partners to carry out multidimen-sional child poverty survey and subsequent analysis 2. As part of SP team contribute to development of response measures to reduce Multi-dimensional child poverty 3. As part of SP team, participate in the discussions with the World Bank and Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction and other partners to establish mone-tary child poverty rates, define the causes of monetary child poverty and development response measures to reduce monetary child poverty 4. Support the SP team in developing message box and advocacy messages on child poverty based on the evidence generated by the team 5. Participate in national consultations on multidimensional and monetary child poverty

Accountability Adaptability and Flexibility Building Trust Commitment and Motivation Commitment to Continuous Learning Communication Creativity Ethics and Values Integrity Knowledge Sharing Respect for Diversity Technological Awareness Working in Teams

(up to three years) and/or demonstrated interest in poverty reduction, development, child rights.

Previous experience as a volunteer and/or experience of another culture, (i.e. studies, volunteer work, internship) would be highly regarded.

UNICEF Uzbekistan Country Office is in the centre of Tashkent city near governmental organizations, national partners and other international organizations. The office is accessible by public transport (bus, underground, taxi) or by private vehicle.

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