National Consultant: Roadmap, strategy and advocacy for accelerating universal and equitable access to safely managed drinking water in Indonesia

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Title: National Consultant: Roadmap, strategy and advocacy for accelerating universal and equitable access to safely managed drinking water in Indonesia

Duty Station: Jakarta

Type of Contract: Individual Consultant

Duration: 100 days over a period of July 2021 – January 2022 (6 months)

BACKGROUND:

Improving access to safely managed water, sanitation and hygiene are key development priorities for the GOI and part of its commitment to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals agenda. Despite significant progress made in improving access to basic sanitation through national sanitation programmes such as the STBM (Sanitasi Total Berbasis Masyarakat), poor drinking water quality remains a persistent problem in Indonesia with serious impacts on child mortality, morbidity, undernutrition, and stunting. A UNICEF supported study showed serious fecal contamination in drinking water (89%) in one of best performing provinces in Indonesia despite high sanitation coverage. Diarrheal diseases remain amongst one of the leading causes of death among children under the age of 5. Women and girls are also particularly affected by poor access to safe water, with negative impacts on their time and health, security, wellbeing, and education.

Currently, a number of initiatives such as a roadmap for (1) water safezone and reducing non-revenue water, (2) HR capacity for PDAM, (3) water safety plan, and (4) water quality monitoring are underway, and water security and integrated urban water management conducted by development partners. Yet, an umbrella roadmap to guide Indonesia to accelerate universal and equitable access to safely managed drinking water is missing. The development of country-wide roadmap of safely managed drinking water together with evidence-based advocacy materials is fundamental to providing guidance and focus for all actors involved in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions.

SCOPE OF WORK:

The Consultant will be based in the UNICEF Indonesia Country Office, in Jakarta and work under the overall supervision of the WASH Specialist and in close coordination with the UNICEF WASH team. The Consultant will also work closely with staff members working on at Bappenas, Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Home Affairs. As the responsibility for achieving safely managed drinking water falls under several ministries, this work will require intense consultation and engagement with all relevant directorates of different ministries. Additionally, the Consultant will identify and engage with different working groups, development partners, PERPAMSI and NGOs involved in safely managed drinking water programs. The tasks will involve visits to various organizations and agencies within and outside Jakarta and virtual meetings. The person months required for this assignment is expected to be four and a half months spread over a period of 6 months.

TASKS:

Under the leadership of WASH Specialist team, the consultant will deliver the following:

1. Safely managed drinking water roadmap development:

• Review of existing policies, strategies, initiatives and financing landscape: Conduct a detailed review of all policy, strategy, and program documents relevant to safely managed drinking water developed and implemented by different government and non-government WASH actors in Indonesia. This review will mainly include desk research and interviews with key informants across the sector. At the end of the review stage, the consultant should produce a clear analysis of the current context and existing enabling environment for safely managed drinking water in the country. The information collected should include latest available data and gap analysis on access to safely managed drinking water in all key settings; policies, plans and budgets of all relevant ministries and other organisations for safely managed drinking water; mapping of all key stakeholders engaged in drinking water sector and their roles and responsibilities; the institutional mechanisms for implementing the policies and strategies at national and sub-national level; analysis of financing landscape for safely managed drinking water; programme intervention strategies including during emergencies; and capacity building and monitoring mechanisms in place for safely managed drinking water.
• Bottleneck and gap analysis via consultation meetings with key task force members and wider stakeholders: Engage in wide consultations and discussions to do a bottleneck analysis of existing gaps and challenges in implementing policies and programs; and capacity building and monitoring mechanisms for achieving safely managed drinking water. Consultation should involve various key actors at both national and sub-national level including all relevant ministries (MOH, MOPWH etc.), NGOs, CSOs, development partners, key donors, private sector, academic institutions; youth networks and community groups including vulnerable populations.
• Development / adaption of costing tool and associated costing data collection: Develop and/or adapt existing safely managed costing tool. Collect costing data relevant to safely managed drinking water (e.g. capital cost, operation & maintenance, costing related to emergency preparedness, climate resilient services, enabling environment strengthening such as monitoring, evidence generation etc, in the Indonesia contexts) in order to estimate overall costs needed for achieving safely managed drinking water targets, using/adopting existing (internationally or nationally available) costing tools.
• The national roadmap development support: Draft sections of the national roadmap for safely managed drinking water with a costed implementation plan by working closely with the task force team. The Roadmaps should clearly indicate the following:

- Situational analysis including access with a focus on equity issues, policy framework, enabling environment, stakeholder analysis (roles/responsibilities, community/youth engagement), institutional arrangements, financing (financial flow), monitoring framework (accountability)

- Setting a target by 2030 (consolidated targets, sub-national/regional targets, piped vs non-piped targets) and trajectory/milestone, geographic targets / equity analysis

- Bottlenecks / gap analysis

- Strategies (collection of interventions): interventions addressing key issues under different pillars, importance of access and use, potential cross-sectoral / integrated approaches with rural/urban sanitation sector to minimize fecal contamination risks etc

- Costing: desk review of costing tools and costing estimate for achieving the target including developing/adapting existing costing tool

- Phasing and implementation plan: preparatory phase (e.g. roadmap development, sensitization etc) 2-3 years, implementation & acceleration phase (initial, acceleration, consolidation/evaluation)), influencing budget allocation

- Financing: where the cost comes from (financial resources from national, sub-national etc), who to fill the gaps (donors, Zakat, private, etc), advocacy strategies including resource mobilization strategy

- WASH contribution to economy including job creation & strategies to fulfil HR gaps for achieving 2030 targets

- Lessons learned & regular evaluation/review

• Share the draft roadmaps for feedback from UNICEF, Bappenas, Ministry of Public Works and Housing and MOH (i.e. task force team) and revise drafts based on inputs received
• Support UNICEF to facilitate a meeting with all relevant stakeholders including sub-national government in the course of development process to validate and finalize the roadmap.
• Submit final versions of the Costed Roadmaps ensuring that all feedback and inputs have been incorporated as required. The final documents submitted should meet international quality standards to enable global dissemination of the documents.

KEY DELIVERABES:

The consultant will develop several outputs, i.e.:

1. Inception report, containing detailed workplan of the assignment.
2. A situational analysis report including review of current data, existing policies, strategies, initiatives, stakeholder mapping and financing landscape that will feed into key components of the roadmap
3. A consolidated bottleneck analysis and feedback report from both national and sub-national stakeholders by facilitating Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) or any relevant methodologies as basis for developing safely managed drinking water roadmap.
4. Costing data summary including the safely managed costing tool
5. Draft safely managed drinking water roadmap
6. Draft briefing notes/ knowledge products on safely managed drinking water strategies for upcoming SMM in 2022

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

• She/he should have a minimum 8 years of relevant professional experience since graduation, and have necessary professional qualification in water sector
• Disciplines: education in engineering, public health or a field relevant to international WASH related development assistance. Master of higher qualification is preferable.
• Experienced with WASH governance issues, as well as familiarity with the institutional and regulatory framework of WASH sector development in Indonesia.
• Proven ability in research, dialogue and synthesis of complex information in strategic reports.
• Strong writing and analytical skills for quality report writing (a sample of recent analytical report will be requested).
• Previous work experience with UNICEF in a similar capacity, is an advantage.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies:

• Builds and Maintains Partnerships

• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others

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.

Closing date: 12 July 2021

Disclaimer: The screening of your application will be conducted based on the information in your profile. Before applying, we strongly suggest that you review your profile to ensure accuracy and completeness. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. This vacancy is open for Indonesians only.