LTA (for 3 years) to conduct Data collection, Secondary analysis, Developing knowledge products and Training (for individuals) - Nationals only (Re-advertise)
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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, Care.
How can you make a difference?
Objective:
UNICEF Egypt CO is seeking the services of a national individual consultant to undertake data collection, secondary analysis, developing knowledge products on issues that will be identified by UNICEF and training. The national individual consultant will be required to provide all or some of the services outlined in the deliverables below in the field of qualitative data collection, analysis, report writing, training, presentation, infographic designing, technical writing and editing in both English and Arabic languages.
The type of data collection will be identified according to the needs of UNICEF to fill in information gaps in some locations for targeted population. It will be detailed in terms of reference that will be developed related to the required tasks. The analysis should examine the progress, challenges and opportunities for achieving child rights and well-being, and the patterns of deprivation that children, adolescents and women face. It should also be objective and verifiable and is expected to be used by all partners and stakeholders in the country in addressing key challenges preventing children, adolescents and women, especially the most disadvantaged, from enjoying their rights as laid out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international obligations that the country has committed to.
The analysis should also highlight inequalities between groups, socio-economic characteristics, urban/rural and intra-urban disparities, genders, geographic locations and other dimensions. It should pay special attention to looking at disaggregated data and unpacking national and/or subnational averages. Besides presenting an analysis of why inequities exist, the analysis will also present contextualized recommendations on what could be done by key stakeholders to attain/sustain inclusive social development that guarantees equal inclusion and participation of all groups of children, adolescents and women.
Analysis should be grounded in the country’s political, economic and social realities, review progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and regional and global issues that affect children’s rights and well-being. The knowledge products are expected to be relevant to a wider audience which includes government bodies, development partners (including UNICEF), civil society, children, adolescents, women, academia, private sector actors, parliamentarians, media and others. The process of developing specific knowledge products may anticipate engagement with the government and key stakeholders, including children and young people. It serves as an opportunity to promote meaningful dialogue between the main child rights actors in the country on children’s and adolescents’ issues.
CONCEPTIUAL FRAMEWORK AND METHODOLOGY:
The individual consultant will primarily rely on available data sources to conduct statistical analysis. In some cases, the individual consultant would be required to collect data in specific locations and on specific population to fill in data gaps. A detailed term of reference will be shared with the individual consultant, requesting specific tasks with expected duration, personnel and modality based on the type of services listed in this LTA.
For every assignment, UNICEF will set the number of days required to complete the specific tasks and request relevant LTA holders to submit a short technical and financial proposal. The technical proposal should reflect the experience of carrying out all or some of the four main activities/deliverables listed in the following table (i.e., Data collection, Secondary analysis, Developing Knowledge Products and Training).
Within the assignment, the individual consultant would engage directly with relevant stakeholders that can contribute to the research and analysis. This process will be supported by the UNICEF Country Office, together with the individual consultant and partners such as CAPMAS, IDSC, NCCM, MOPED, NCW etc. As part of data collection, secondary analysis and developing of knowledge products, it is expected from the individual consultant to provide required documents for ethical clearance as a prerequisite before conducting any research, evaluation or data collection and analysis as specified in the below section for Ethical Considerations.
Activities and Deliverables:
Service description/Deliverable
Proposed cost in EGP*
Consultant fees – to be filled for the financial proposal
- Data collection services:
1.1 Develop research protocol detailing the methodology, sampling, data collection tools and relevant information.
Per person per day
1.2 Focus Group Discussion
Per facilitator
1.3 Key Informant Interview (KII)/In-depth interview
Per interview
- Secondary Analysis:
2.1 Analysis of Focus Group Discussion
Per person per day
2.2 Secondary analysis of HH surveys: narrative and tables
Per person per day
2.3 Context/Situation analysis of children, adolescents, youth, women and households in Egypt
Per person per day
- Developing Knowledge Products:
3.1 English/Arabic analytical report, paper, brief, factsheet etc.
Per person per day
3.2 English/Arabic text editing/proof reading
Per person per day
3.3 English/Arabic technical content translation
Per person per day
3.4 Graphic designing
Per person per day
3.5 English/Arabic presentation
Per person per day
- Training
4.1 Training on data collection tools
Per trainer per day
4.2 Training on secondary data analysis
Per trainer per day
Kindly indicate your proposed cost in EGP, Cost does not include travel, venue, transportation.
Please make sure that your technical and financial proposals (separately not in the same document) will be sent to the e-mail address accessible only by the designated staff for the receipt of bids or proposals which is egy-bids@unicef.org
Conditions of work:
Management and Supervision
The individual consultant will work in close consultation and under the supervision of the Child Rights Monitoring Specialist at UNICEF Egypt.
Quality Assurance
The individual consultant should do a preliminary review and apply quality assurance measures on any draft/products before sharing with UNICEF. UNICEF will only accept products of good quality in terms of conclusive content, clarity, consistency, alignment with this ToR, format, language and other elements that may emerge during implementation or any subsequent details to be provided for each specific activity to be implemented under the LTA. UNICEF would engage partners, other technical persons, staff of UNICEF Egypt Country Office, the MENA Regional Office and Headquarters in the review process. The individual consultant should reflect the received reviews from UNICEF before claiming for any payments.
Terms of Payment
Payment schedule will be based upon the successful completion and submission of the deliverables and invoices by the required dates. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold all or portion of the payment if performance was unsatisfactory or failed to meet the deliverables.
Approval Procedures and Logistics
-Consultants should act with integrity and respect for all stakeholders in line with UNICEF ethical guidelines regarding evidence generation.
-UNICEF Egypt Office holds copyrights for all reports and data. The documents (including raw materials, data sets etc.) may not be reproduced, distributed or published without the written permission from UNICEF.
-All personal data should be accessible to the individual consultant, but no one else. The consultant needs to set up secure systems (to ensure no one can access their data via the shared drives, and (b) to ensure secure data transfer. Cloud based storage with limited sharing rights could be considered in this instance. Different personal data files need to be linkable, they need to be held separately so that they can only be linked purposely, by the individual consultant who is authorised to do so. There is also a need to ensure that data cannot be removed from secure systems in ways that might compromise data security.
-UNICEF Egypt Office will share with the selected consultants all the relevant materials it has and provide required expertise.
-UNICEF Egypt Office and the Regional Office experts will review and provide feedback on reports prepared by consultants.
-UNICEF Egypt will provide required administrative support for the work of consultants.
-All information from produced reports cannot be shared with the media without the written approval of UNICEF Egypt Office.
Ethical considerations:
The individual consultant is required to clearly identify any potential ethical issue, as well as the processes for ethical review and oversight of the research/data collection process in their proposal. UNICEF Procedure for Ethical Standards in Research, Evaluation, Data Collection and Analysis is attached to this ToR and should be consistently applied throughout the research process. The procedure contains the minimum standards and required procedures for research, evaluation and data collection and analysis undertaken or commissioned by UNICEF (including activities undertaken by individual and institutional contractors, and partners) involving human subjects or the analysis of sensitive secondary data.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Proven experience in qualitative research, data collection, secondary analysis, training and report writing.
Advanced degree in social sciences or related fields relevant for the assignment.
Strong analytical skills – references to previous work or institutions;
At least 5 years of relevant experience in development of analytical reports and policy documents related to children and adolescents;
Proven experience in qualitative research, data analysis, policy analysis (including experience in the consistent use of age and sex-disaggregated and gender sensitive data) and report preparation;
Proven experience in training researchers on field related activities;
Proven experience in facilitating consultations with government representatives, NGOs, academia, children, adolescents and other stakeholders;
Fluency in English, Excellent writing skills in English and Arabic;
Previous experience with UNICEF is an advantage.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
To view our competency framework, please visit here.
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.
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