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The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.
UNICEF’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan recognizes that Climate Change and environmental degradation are existential threats to a child’s ability to survive, grow, and thrive and that all levels of the organization need to work together in a coordinated fashion. The Strategic Plan acknowledges that children increasingly need holistic solutions to adverse events such as droughts and floods, and resilient solutions that promote climate-smart development for the long-term. The new Strategic Plan activates all UNICEF’s levels of impact on these issues - our global programmes, our advocacy and communications infrastructure and our own operations and supply chain. Climate Change is an equity issue, with boys and girls impacted differently based on their intersecting economic status, rural/urban location, sexual orientation, ethnicity. Climate change amplifies inequalities in relation to land rights, livelihoods, health, domestic labour and safety. Addressing Climate Change issues is therefore vital for building a more sustainable future for children.
PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT:The Contractor, with support from UNICEF’s Climate Change Focal Point, will produce a Climate Landscape Analysis for Children (CLAC) report for UNICEF Iran.
Main Duties/Responsibilities: The Contractor will be responsible for collecting, compiling, and reviewing key resources and coordinating the information gathering and review processes. The Contractor will undertake key informant interviews with key national stakeholders on the topic when possible. The Contractor will analyse the information and provide recommendations for the country office.
Methodology
The Contractor will follow UNICEF’s CLAC guidance note (to be shared by UNICEF). A thorough desk review will be required of both country specific working documents and UNICEFs global and regional reports, in addition to the 7th development plan of the Government of Iran and other relevant policy and strategy documents. A key understanding of UNICEF programming will be essential. Interviews with key stakeholders will also be essential. The analysis will be validated in workshops. The analyses should align and contribute to the Climate Change pillar of the Iran United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF).
Expected results: (measurable results)
Workplan: Provide a detailed workplan agreed by UNICEF.
Desk review: The work should start from data collection and review of all relevant information including, but not limited to the following:
Country specific documents
National sector policies and strategies such as, for example, the 7th National Development Plan, the annual national budget, Climate Change policy frameworks, socio-economic policy frameworks, related national development plans.
Climate Change related research, studies, or analysis covering the country, including climate-related projections.
Documentation related to the Climate Change pillar of the Iran United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF).
Past, ongoing, and planned Climate Change initiatives and programmes from public, private and social sectors.
Internal UNICEF documents:
- UNICEF's analysis produced by the UNICEF CO including the situation Analysis for Children (SitAn) and others
- Review of Climate Change components in UNICEF’s existing programming (including review of Country Programme Cycle documents (CPD, Programme Strategic Notes, etc.)) and the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF).
- Previous CLAC reports prepared by UNICEF country offices in similar contexts.
- Relevant global policies, strategies, analysis (e.g. global Climate Change strategies and guidance, Strategic Plan, NDC mapping, etc.).
Stakeholder mapping
Mapping and analysis of key Climate Change stakeholders, with a focus on potential partners (including, but not limited to, UN partners, governmental, multilateral, bilateral, CSOs, private sector and academia) whose priorities and strategies directly address Climate Change issues impacting children and young people.
Summary presentation
Based on the desk review, the consultant will prepare a PowerPoint presentation that will include an initial assessment of the Climate Change situation of the country and how it relates to child survival and development.
The PowerPoint presentation should show:
- The impact of Climate Change issues on children and adolescents and their families (including those with greater vulnerabilities).
- Observed and projected changes in climate in the country and related impacts, including high exposure areas (this will likely be a number of maps for various Climate Change parameters such as e.g. floods and sea level rise, droughts, vector borne diseases, storms, heat or cold waves, water scarcity hotspots, etc.).
- Other relevant environmental issues affecting children and adolescents such as environmental degradation, air pollution, marine/aquatic environment, mining/extractive industry, rapid urbanization, and chemical pollution.
- Considerations in relation to vulnerable areas or households (including exposure to climate change hazards, safety dimensions and social roles).
- Status of integration of climate education in school curriculum and barriers of access for children and adolescents
- The energy situation for children and adolescents (e.g. at home, school, health clinics, public lighting, etc).
- Initial review of existing and past work from civil society on climate change, and how this has been received
- Initial thinking on comparative advantage of UNICEF on Climate Change issues in the country context, relating to both soft and hard approaches, as well as considerations realting to the topic in Iran, and links to the Climate Change pillar of the Iran United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF).
In addition, the presentation should include a draft list of stakeholders to be interviewed and associated list of draft interview questions.
Following completion of the PowerPoint presentation, the contractor will organize a half-day inception workshop for UNICEF staff, and potentially selected partners, to review proposed the results to date and next steps. The venue and the agenda will be approved by UNICEF.
- Compile additional information related to Climate Change issues
Based on the inception presentation meeting, the consultant will follow-up on any action points and conduct interviews and triangulate information from stakeholders with reference materials from the desk review. This will include:
- Follow-up review of additional documents.
- Conduct follow-up meetings with UNICEF programme sections:
- Collect additional information and reports from different sections in UNICEF ICO on work and linkages to Climate Change as well as potential future opportunities.
- Conduct interviews of key stakeholders (list approved by UNICEF):
- Collect additional information, reports, and programming perspectives from key government, development partners, private sector, and civil society
- Focus Group Discussions with relevant counterparts
- Analysis
The Contractor will analyse the impact of Climate Change issues on children with a focus on children living in areas exposed to Climate Change threats. The contractor will then develop strategic recommendations for UNICEF.
The key questions to be answered in the CLAC include, but are not limited to, the following:
- What are the main Climate Change issues affecting the country?
- What risk analysis exists (Climate Change, natural hazards, environmental, economic, conflict, etc.)? What is the likelihood of these risks? Are there risks resulting from the combination of threats or dangers and vulnerabilities at different levels, to which children and adolescents are exposed? Are there particular risks associated with childrens’ vulnerabilities, including those without caregivers, with disabilities, street children etc. Are the risk analysis child sensitive and aim to protect the rights of children and adolescents? Does the analysis go down to the subnational and local levels? Has the analysis been used to inform any action to date?
- What are the main factors related to Climate Change in the country that would most affect livelihoods, capacities and opportunities for children and adolescents? Which groups of children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable? What are the gender differences? What will be the impact on children (especially the most vulnerable) if the risks of the above factors are not mitigated at associated timelines?
- What are the main synergies and entry points between UNICEF’s mandate and the priorities under the new Climate Change pillar of the Iran United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF)?
- What are the government policies and strategies/priorities on Climate Change issues? What are the budgetary commitments? Which are the partners / counterparts involved and what do they do together (e.g. Department of Environment, Ministry of Energy, Municipalities, private sector, etc.)?
- How can UNICEF work with the Government to include climate change for children in the 7th National development plan? What indications or entry points are there in the annual budget plan for work on climate change and children?
- Do Government or sector policies and strategies/priorities on Climate Change areas take into account children? Do child-related strategies/priorities take into account Climate Change?
- Who are the main actors in Climate Change initiatives? What are the ongoing Climate Change initiatives and programmes, including UNICEF CO if relevant? Do ongoing Climate Change initiatives and programmes benefit children?
- How do the Climate Change issues identified affect UNICEF’s current and planned initiatives and programmes?
- What are the capacities that exist at the national and provincial levels to reduce the risk associated with Climate Change?
- What are the opportunities and gaps in the design of Climate Change plans and strategies to protect the rights of children and adolescents?
- Identify knowledge gaps on Climate Change issues and recommended actions to fulfil the gaps.
- How to strengthen Government efforts to address identified Climate Change risks in a way that increases their resilience and enables the full development of their potential.
- How to inform and improve policy, strategies and plans, legal and regulatory frameworks, as well as budgeting to ensure better preparedness and response to Climate Change risks on children and adolescents.
- How best to inform child-centred updates to national strategies.
- What are the key messages for UNICEF to increase awareness and action for adaptation and resilience to Climate Change.
- How to build resilience of vulnerable communities and populations through Climate Change, with reflections on individuals’ daily lives and behaviours.
- What is UNICEF's comparative advantage, strategic partnerships and intervention platforms.
- What are the opportunities and entry points for programming on child-centred Climate Change action.
- How can UNICEF address gaps in Climate Change programming to benefit children and adolescents?
- Which donors are most likely to fund UNICEF Climate Change initiatives and programmes.
- CLAC report
Draft CLAC report:
Arrange the findings and recommendations are around the four pillars from "UNICEF’s Approach to Climate Change”[1]:
- Make children a focus of environmental strategies
- Consider children’s concerns with regards to climate change and environmental degradations
- Reduce emissions and pollution
- Protect children from impacts
- CLAC report drafted in line with global CLAC guidance.
- Recommendations sections for programming is the most key part and should contain strong and clear steps for how UNICEF can and should integrate climate change into existing and future programming, and how this links with the Climate Change pillar of the Iran United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF). This will include, but not limited to, evidence needs, strategies for behaviour change and technological solutions to be considered by programme colleagues.
- Validation and dissemination workshop:
- Validate the report with stakeholders in a one-day workshop.
- Views and perspectives of both internal and external stakeholders collected during the workshop and comments addressed.
- The invitees, venue and the agenda to be approved by UNICEF.
- Final CLAC reports:
Based on the views and perspectives of both internal and external stakeholders, incorporate changes to a final version of the internal CLAC report. The revised, formatted and referenced final report will include and executive summary (not longer than 4 pages) with key findings and recommendations. The full report and the summary should be available in Farsi and English.
Based on the final approved CLAC, the consultant will prepare the following additional documents:
- Summary PowerPoint presentation (max. 20 slides)
- A set of communication materials in consultations with UNICEF ICO Communication team and based on the findings of CLAC (e.g. press release, info-note, tweets, etc.)
- A 4-page policy brief presenting the main findings from the report with infographics and engaging language, incl. separately key data set in response to climate financing needs. See Policy Brief Climate Landscape Analysis For Children In Viet Nam (UNICEF, 2021).
- An external-facing, shorter CLAC report that removes internal recommendations and reflections. This report will be used to clearly articulate the situation for children with respect to the climate crisis and highlight UNICEF’s key areas of response. The audience of this report is government and development partners and should be a sub-set of the full CLAC report and will need to be available in English and Farsi versions.
Deliverables:
The Contractor is expected to produce the following deliverables which, after approval, will be linked to payments as shown in the table below:
DELIVERABLES 1: Workplan
Main Components: Detailed workplan agreed by UNICEF
DELIVERABLES 2: Draft PowerPoint presentation + workshop
Main Components: PowerPoint presentation, Minutes of the first workshop, Electronic versions of all available documents
Link Payment 1&2: 30%
DELIVERABLES 3: Draft CLAC report
Main Components: Draft CLAC report available in English for final consultation with both internal and external stakeholders.
Report of the second workshop
Link Payment: 30%
DELIVERABLES 4: Final CLAC report package
Main Components: English versions and Farsi versions. PowerPoint presentations with English and Farsi versions
The policy brief, Communication materials based on the CLAC
External-facing CLAC report in English and Farsi
Link Payment: 40%
Technical Evaluation Criteria: Proposals should include a technical proposal which will be measured against the ToR and requirements of contractor. All proposals should include a proposed methodology and a timeline for completion of the work, as well as experience of the team/contractor and resume. Ideally, the contractor will provide reports of previous assignments. Previous experience with UN agencies, and governmental and nongovernmental organizations on WASH and climate/environment-related issues are a plus. Reference letters are also an advantage. Financial evaluation Criteria: The lowest financial offer will obtain extra points in the evaluation.
[1] UNICEF, An Environment Fit for Children, 2019
QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES:
UNICEF assumes that a team consisting of 2-3 people, with a varied background of competencies relevant to the study, and with experience working in Iran on environmental topics. However, UNICEF will also accept proposals from individuals who are interested in undertaking this work singlehandedly, if the individual can demonstrate relevant experience and networks in Iran on the relevant topic.
Education: Advanced university degree in geography, environmental science, natural resource management, meteorology, social and economic development, or related areas.
Experience:
- Experience working in the Iran country context
- Expertise working in environmental fields in Iran
- Demonstrated expertise in UNICEF’s main areas of work (health, WASH, nutrition, child protection, social policy, education, gender, health) is considered an asset.
Skills and knowledge: Excellent Persian and English writing/speaking skills and Excellent research skills required.
Languages: English and Farsi/Persian are required.
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