National Consultancy for Children and Adolescent life skill

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UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for a National Consultancy for Children and Adolescent life skill. The duration of this assignment is 3 months, starting as soon as possible and the Consultant shall be home based.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

The consultancy contributes to the implementation of the UNICEF Lao PDR Country Programme 2022-2026, contributing to developing and strengthening the Child Protection System, notably:

• Outcome 4: By 2026, more children are better protected from violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and harmful practices and benefit from strengthened child protection system, services and improved behaviour
• Output 3: By 2026, parents, caregivers, children including adolescents (both boys and girls), and their communities are better equipped to prevent and respond to violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and harmful practices.
• Activity 3.1.1: Conduct adolescents social and life skills training on various topics (VAC in School, child marriage, adolescent pregnancy, online protection, voice, and agency) in linkage with education, employment, and skills development sectors

Under the supervision of the Child Protection Specialist, the consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:

Task 1: Content revision and development

• In consultation with NCAWMC, gather comments and feedback from relevant stakeholders, reflect findings from relevant studies on adolescent pregnancy and child marriage as well as good practices from the region to inform the revision of the “National Guidelines on Life Skills Development for Children and Youth in Lao PDR”. This may include a field visit to Attapeu province to engage adolescents in the revision process. (Depending on the timeline and work plan of NCAWMC).
• Revise and/or develop the content of the Guidelines to be more comprehensive, engaging and adolescent-friendly, considering gender and environment.
• Revise and/or develop training session plans with clear objectives for each module
• Develop supporting materials for the sessions, including PowerPoint presentations and handouts (or a booklet) for adolescent participants.
• Develop a brief implementation guide which includes an implementation modality with clear role and responsibility among NCAWMCand sub- CAWMC. The implementation guide will also include guidance on how training can be carried out for different age groups of adolescents from various backgrounds and consideration to be given to adolescents’ age groups, sex, language, disabilities and other factors.
• Develop M&E tools, including a pre/post-test questionnaire to assess the knowledge and understanding of participants in alignment with the monitoring framework of the C-surge project (Accelerating the prevention of child marriage and adolescent programme in Lao PDR) and a database (such as an Excel spreadsheet) to input and analyze the data from pre/post-test questionnaires.

Task 2: Training for pre-testing the Life Skills Training Guideline and M&E tools

• Prepare and deliver a training of trainer (ToT) for the NCAWMC staff (both national and some key sub-national CAWMC) on the revised Guidelines, supporting materials and M&E tools.
• Support the piloting and pre-testing of the Guidelines, its implementation guide, supporting materials and M&E tools to NCAWMC staff.
• Finalize the Guidelines, supporting materials and M&E tools based on the pre-testing.
• Write a final report with a list of recommendations and submission

Submission of applications:

Interested candidates are kindly requested to apply and upload the following documents:

Letter of Interest (cover letter)

▪ CV or Resume

▪ Performance evaluation reports or references of similar consultancy assignments (if available)

▪ Financial proposal: All-inclusive lump-sum cost including medical insurance, travel and accommodation cost for this assignment as per work assignment

Assessment Criteria:

For evaluation and selection method, the Cumulative Analysis Method (weight combined score method) shall be used for this recruitment:

1. Technical Evaluation (e.g. maximum 75 Points) Weight 75%

• Advanced University Degree in development studies, education, children and adolescent, psychology, child rights, and other relevant fields (20 points)
• Extensive experience and at least five years working in the field of development, working with children and adolescents, capacity building and developing a training manual and facilitation (30 points).
• Excellent Knowledge of life skills, child rights, protection, participatory approach, children, and youth engagement (25 points)

2. Financial Proposal (e.g. maximum of 25 Points) Weight 25%

The maximum number of points shall be allotted to the lowest Financial Proposal that is opened /evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained minimum points (50) score in the technical evaluation. Other Financial Proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.

The Contract shall be awarded to candidate obtaining the highest combined technical and financial scores, subject to the satisfactory result of the verification interview.

Please find the TOR here: Terms of Reference_NCAWMC lifeskills manual_for VA.pdf

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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 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.