Local Consultant: Co-Facilitator to Conduct Training on Child Rights and Business Principles for Government Partners (13 Days)

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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.

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UNICEF has been an active partner of the Government of the Philippines and civil society in realizing the rights of every Filipino child, in line with priorities to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. UNICEF efforts have been focused on the most vulnerable regions identified by the Government of the Philippines Development Plan, particularly in the regions of Visayas and Mindanao. To ensure that interventions are sustainable and scaled up, UNICEF will support primarily local government units (LGUs) as the main instruments of delivering services and building systems. The level of engagement with government institutions will take into account capacities, economies of scale and sector issues.

It has a field office in Cotabato City, the second largest city in Mindanao, southern Philippines, with some 300,000 population. The city is the regional administrative centre of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and over 80 percent of the population is Muslim. Mindanao is both conflict-affected and prone to frequent earthquakes and typhoon storms.

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Terms of Reference or Work Assignment:

Task/s:

Under the direct supervision and guidance of the Child Rights and Business Programme Officer, the consultant will provide quality conduct of Child Rights and Business Principles Training to twenty (20) UNICEF government Partners (DOLE, DTI & SEC for the implementation of the Child Rights and Business Programme strategy.

At the moment, reference materials and presentations are already available. The role of the consultant will also to tailor-fit this reference documents to the target audience of this training, who are mid-level and senior level technical focal points from government agencies of DOLE, DTI, and SEC.

Output 1: Training Needs assessment conducted to tailor fit the CRBP training program

• Identifying knowledge and skills gaps of the participants with regards to human rights and business & child rights and business principles (including understanding basic child rights and impact assessment to businesses).
• Addressing specific needs of the participants of the training.
• Optimizing training investments through ensuring topics are well covered and focused based on initial knowledge and experiences of the participants.
• Prioritizing training needs and creating targeted learning experience.

Output 2: Co-developed Training Design

• Based on the results on the training needs assessment and using / utilizing available resources for the training, the consultant will co-developed CRBP Training design for the government partners of UNICEF. The design will evolved around:
• CRBP Principles as it relates to human rights and business principles
• Information about global standards, international laws, internal and national legal frameworks that support child rights and human rights in environment/ community, workplace, and marketplace
• Introduction to Family-friendly policies
• Role of government regulators and businesses in promoting child rights (children in the value chain, supply chain, in the workplace.
• Re-entry action plans as government agency champions to promote child-rights
• The training design shall also incorporate a session on potential entry points of CRBP in the programs/ mandates/ units/ bureaus of DTI, DOLE and SEC. Entry points can be within implementation of family friendly policies, sustainability / ESG, corporate governance, MSME and business development and investments.
• The training design shall also include:
• listing of supplies and materials to be used,
• ICT/ innovative/ interactive methodologies for the training,
• Template for processed documentation, and
• Pre-test and Post-test questionnaire (to be completed online).

Output 3: Co-development of training modules, presentations, guides, and tools for CRB Training based on the technical documents to be shared by UNICEF.

• Development of branded training modules/ facilitation guide
• Development of PowerPoint presentations

Output 4: Training co-facilitation

• Provide quality training co-facilitation for 6 days.
• Co-facilitation tasks will be divided within the CRBP officer by :
• 50% split of topics, lectures and workshops
• 50%- secretariat services

Output 5: Training Report and Training Evaluation

• Processed documentation report
• Training evaluation results, including re-entry plans of the participants

Technical Deliverables

1. Training needs assessment questionnaire and results
2. Training Design
3. Pre and Post test questionnaire and Guide
4. Training processed document report/ Training evaluation (including recommendations).

Work Schedule & Participants:

August and September 2024

No of participants: 20

In Metro Manila: 20 (DOLE, SEC and DTI)

No of days: 13 days

Pre- training activities: 5 days (level of effort)

Training: 3 days level of effort 3 days (Manila)

Pos-training: 5 days (level of effort)

Qualifications and Competencies of Successful Consultant:

• Graduate of social sciences, public administration, business administration band management.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills Required:

• Has 2 to 3 years combined experience in private sector engagement (corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, ESG, CSO/ corporate foundations ) and human rights, child rights and development work. Can also include work/ experience in working or partnership with government business / enterprise regulators.
• Knowledge on human rights and Business, child rights and Business.

HOW TO APPLY

Qualified candidates are requested to complete an online candidate profile in http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/ by 21 July 2024. Only applications sent through the e-recruitment portal under Job Number: 573757 will be considered.

All candidates are requested to submit a COVER LETTER, and the duly filled P11 Form which can be downloaded from our website at P11 Form.docx (sharepoint.com) indicating three (3) previous supervisors. Please indicate your ability, availability and daily/monthly rate to undertake the terms of reference above. Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.

Only shortlisted consultants will be contacted.

Remarks:

Terms of reference may be shared upon request.

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"UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations, 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."

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