National Consultancy: Human Development Reports Consultant, UNICEF Pakistan, Req, 8.5 months (For Pakistan Nationals Only)

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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, a safe home!

Pakistan was the sixth country in the world to sign and ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, less than one year after it was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. However, children and adolescents living in Pakistan still face acute challenges.

UNICEF supports the Government of Pakistan to accelerate progress for children, work to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and help children realize their rights under the Convention on the Rights of Children. This will be made through, among others things, strong partnerships with provincial authorities, teachers and health professionals, frontline workers and social mobilisers, communities and families, and of course the children and adolescents themselves.

In particular, UNICEF will work so that:

• Every child survives and thrives -- being in good health, immunized, protected from polio and accessing nutritious food.
• Every child learns.
• Every child is protected from violence and exploitation and registered at birth.
• Every child lives in a safe and clean environment, with access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.

To learn more about UNICEF’s work in Pakistan, please visit the country website www.unicef.org/pakistan and videos on YouTube and Vimeo

How can you make a difference?

The National Human Development Reports (NHDRs) are UNDP’s flagship publication, combining research, data, and policy recommendations to explore and elaborate on themes of human development. These reports bring a human development perspective to national policy concerns through local consultations and research. In 2021, UNDP Pakistan published the Pakistan National Human Development Report on inequality, called ‘The Three Ps of Inequality: Power, People and Policy’. UNDP is now preparing the fourth National Human Development Report on the theme of Digital Transformation. In this regard, UNICEF has partnered with UNDP and it is hiring the services of a Senior Expert to design and implement a strategic approach and framework for the report agenda, production, governance, partnerships, from UNICEF’s perspective.

For the last NHDR report, UNICEF partnered with UNDP and provided financial support for the development of the NHDR, particularly Chapters 4 and 8 that discussed special measures of inequality—youth, gender, and labour development indices. In addition, the NHDR 2020 included the first Child Development Index for Pakistan, which measured the inequality among the country’s children.

The forthcoming NHDR 2023 will focus on ‘Digital Transformation and Human Development’. Recently, UNICEF launched the first of its kind interactive map visualizing the digital divide in education, and published research on digital connectivity during COVID-19, which called for fostering digital literacy, developing transferable skills, and creating access to safe digital learning opportunities for all children and adolescents. UNICEF intends to work in partnership with UNDP in the forthcoming NHDR 2023, as it strives to provide every child and adolescent digital access safely and responsibly that can be a powerful equalizer to human resource development. The key themes UNICEF will collaborate for the NHDR 2023 on Digital Transformation are:

• Refining Pakistan’s Digital Policy Landscape to Achieve Agenda 2030
• Overcoming the Digital Divide for Inclusive Human Development
• Using Digitalization to Focus on Women’s Empowerment

Scope of Work:

Reporting to UNICEF’s Chief Social Policy and UNDP’s Assistant Resident Representative, Development Policy Unit, the consultant will work closely with UNICEF and UNDP Sections and key stakeholders to collaboratively design and implement the NHDR approach and strategic framework and related elements. In particular, the consultant will be responsible for:

• Reviewing materials, documents and publications, globally and nationally, on the topic of digital transformation
• which could inform the strategic framework of the Report.
• Undertaking consultations with relevant stakeholders, including Government, development partners, UN entities, private sector entities, policy research institutes, civil society, etc. and relevant UNICEF and UNDP regional office colleagues.
• In agreement with UNICEF and UNDP, Defining the overall research process and scope of the report, and developing
• the sub-themes and structure of the report based on material emerging from consultations and research.
• In agreement with UNICEF and UNDP, Developing external partnerships with individual experts, policy makers,
• development partners, private sector entities, academia, think tanks and others to lead a consultative and engaging
• process for the NHDR.

Tasks

• Undertake a Country situation analysis, baseline assessment, literature review, ecosystem and policy mapping, and stakeholder mapping;
• Review materials, documents and publications, globally and nationally, on the topic of digital transformation which could guide and inform the strategic framework of the Report;
• Undertake consultations with relevant stakeholders, including Government, development partners, UN entities, private sector entities, policy research institutes, civil society, etc. and relevant UNICEF and UNDP regional office colleagues.

Deliverables

• Produce an inception plan along with a methodology and workplan to achieve the deliverables of the assignment;
• Develop the Report’s strategic approach and structural framework, focusing on the following pillars: authorship, content, governance and resource mobilization;
• Develop the Report’s institutional and governance structure and build partnerships with key stakeholders.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• First University degree in relevant field.

  *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.

• Minimum 06 years of experience in policy making, research or development.
• Thorough understanding of national development context, policies and socio-economic trends; with experience of working on themes related to digital transformation,
• Demonstrate experience of designing and publishing reports and leading research teams.
• Demonstrated experience of engaging stakeholders, establishing, partnerships, designing and leading consultations
• Technical Proposal that includes methodology to achieve the objectives of the assignment and deliverables

For every Child, you demonstrate…

• UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and core competencies in: Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness; Works Collaboratively with others; Builds and Maintains Partnerships; Innovates and Embraces Change; Thinks and Acts Strategically; Drives to achieve impactful results and Manages ambiguity and complexity. View our competency framework at: Here
• 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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

NOTE:

• Estimated Duration: 8.5 months, estimate starting date: 25th December 2021
• The consultant will be based in Islamabad
• The consultancy is at NOD equivalent level.
• Applicants are requested to submit a financial quotation indicating monthly fee as part of the application against each deliverable.
• HEC Attested and verified degrees are a pre-requisite for employment at UNICEF. Candidates will be required to present attested and verified degrees.
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.

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.