National Consultancy for Development of a community-based model for prevention of child maltreatment and provision of psychosocial support (only Iranian)
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Development of a community-based model for prevention of child maltreatment and provision of psychosocial support
CONTRACT PROPOSED DURATION: 125 days
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BACKGROUND
Child maltreatment is a global public health problem with serious life-long consequences for children’s mental and physical health, academic performance, and social life. Prevention is one of the primary strategies in reducing child maltreatment. Education, life skills training and psychosocial and mental health support services are among the promising strategies to decrease child maltreatment in communities. Increasing children’s knowledge on how to protect themselves as well as strengthening children and communities’ engagement in creating safe and protective environment are two effective approaches in prevention of child maltreatment.
UNICEF and the Youth Organization of Iranian Red Crescent Society have signed a joint workplan (2023-2024). As part of this partnership, UNICEF will support development and piloting a community-based model for prevention of child maltreatment. The platform for implementation of this model is IRCS’ Houses and through IRCS’ SAHAR (Psychosocial Support) and YAS (Social Harm Prevention) teams who will act as the community trainers/facilitators in this project.
OBJECTIVE / SCOPE OF WORK
This consultancy will contribute to achieving the following key objectives:
• Enhancing children’s knowledge and skills on prevention of child maltreatment.
• Enhancing children and communities’ engagement in prevention of child maltreatment and provision of psychosocial support.
The project will be conducted in two phases I) development of an educational package and capacity building of the community trainers/facilitators and II) pilot implementation of the model in the field. The current consultancy is aimed at implementing the first phase which is developing the educational package and capacity building of the community trainers/facilitators based on a need assessment of the selected provinces.
METHODOLOGY
The consultant is expected to deploy required quantitative and qualitative methods in addition to the desk review for collection of inputs required for development of the model customized to the needs of the selected geographical areas. To conduct the need assessment in particular, the consultant will identify the educational needs of IRCS’ SAHAR and YAS teams. This should also include the assessment of the selected community’s perception and needs on this subject.
Elaboration on the identified gaps and respective methodologies must be provided in the inception report.
ACTIVITIES, DELIVERABLES AND TIMELINES, PLUS BUDGET PER DELIVERABLE
In line with the above-mentioned objectives, the key activities and deliverables of the consultancy are listed below:
• Conduct a need assessment: the consultant will conduct a need assessment to identify the educational needs of IRCS’ SAHAR and YAS teams. This should also include the assessment of selected community’s perception and needs on this subject.
• Develop educational plan: based on the analysis of the need assessment, the consultant will develop an educational model for the above-mentioned IRCS’s teams. This includes development of the required educational materials, toolkits and facilitators’ guideline to support further scale-up of the model by IRCS. The educational materials should encompass the special needs of boys and girls, children with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups of children.
• Capacity building of IRCS’ teams: Based on the educational plan, the consultant will conduct a series of capacity building trainings for IRCS’s teams to enhance their knowledge on prevention of child maltreatment and provision of psychosocial support. The training should also include topics to enhance participants’ skills to transfer the knowledge to their peers.
• Monitoring and evaluation plan: the consultant should develop a monitoring and evaluation mechanism and protocol to support effective and efficient implementation of the capacity building phase.
ACTIVITY
DELIVERABLES
ESTIMATED TIME
PAYMENT
Activity 1: Develop an inception report, develop the educational model based on the result of need assessment.
Deliverable 1: Inception report
15 days
40
Activity 2: Conduct the need assessment.
Deliverable 2: Report of the need assessment and
25 days
Activity 3: Develop the educational model based on the result of need assessment.
Deliverable 3: Educational model
15 days
Activity 4: Develop the educational materials/package
Deliverable 4: Educational materials
50
60
Activity 5: Conduct trainings
Deliverable 5:
Final report
20 days
Total
125 days
100
CONDITIONS OF WORK
The consultant shall use her/his own facilities to manage the work, but, where circumstances demand otherwise, shall be allowed to make use of available UNICEF office space, computer and internet facilities with prior notification and arrangement with the supervisor and UNICEF Admin/ICT. The provision of these facilities by UNICEF shall be subject to their availability.
Consultancy fees include the costs of travel, inter alia, flight tickets, accommodation, and any other travel expenses, if any.
NOTE FOR CONSULTANTS AND INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTORS:
The Consultant should submit a technical proposal including detailed plan, timeline, and list of technical team members.
Please submit a financial offer along with your technical proposal, which contains the following information:
• Fee for services to be provided – based on the deliverables in the Terms of Reference
• Wherever possible, indicate the itemized cost of the travel (air tickets etc.)
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
The consultant should possess the following qualifications:
• PhD degree in social work, public health, or other related disciplines,
• Minimum three years of working experience in the field of prevention of child maltreatment and psychosocial support services,
• Proven experience in developing educational models and community-based interventions,
• Previous working experience with UNICEF/UN and IRCS is an asset.
Applicants are required to submit their technical proposals and financial offers along with their applications. Only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further assessment.
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:
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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