Remote -Consultancy: Child Rights Promotion and Protection in MENA (100 Days)
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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, Future
How can you make a difference?
The Child Rights Expert will provide specialized technical guidance to advance the child rights agenda in MENA. This includes strengthening institutional and stakeholder capacity, analyzing recommendations from treaty bodies, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), and special procedures relevant to child rights for strategic decision-making, and collaborating with child rights defenders (CSOs).
Scope of Work:
The assignment will encompass the following key areas: 1. Analysis of child rights recommendations from treaty bodies (with a focus on CRC, CEDAW, and CRPD), UPR, Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs), and special procedures. This analysis will move beyond description to identify key outstanding and emerging issues, trends, and systematic violations of child rights. Visualizing recommendations and "push-backs" to ensure they are actionable and not confined to traditional report formats. Reaffirming children as child rights holders (weakening child rights, legislations child rights obligations) 2. Co-designing a regional plan for capacity building of human rights institutions regarding children’s rights, including organizing an in-person workshop and conducting online consultations. 3. Developing a framework for technical cooperation with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) involved in promoting and protecting child rights. 4. Creating various technical documents for disseminating knowledge and raising awareness as part of advancing Child Rights in MENA. 5. Developing tools to support UNICEF MENA Advocacy Strategy cross cutting priority related to CRC and integrating child rights issues into Country Programme Document s needed to bridge efforts with national strategies.
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Timeline
- Co-design a regional capacity building plan, in-person workshops and online consultations for human right institutions as per concept note (Annex 1)
Workshop delivered and supported by agenda, session plans, resource persons, final report, and a multi-year capacity building plan
20 days
- Regional Analysis of child rights issues of concern and recommendations in line with human rights treaty bodies, UPR and special procedures
Analytical report with country specific data on key recommendations with focus on key trends, outstanding and emerging issues (10 pages + annexes)
Visualizing recommendations and "push-backs" to ensure they are actionable and not confined to traditional report formats.
30 days
- Engagement with Civils Society on child rights promotion and protection
Framework of cooperation developed (update mapping CSO, 2 webinars and multi-year capacity building plan)
20 days
- Knowledge dissemination and awareness as part of advancing Child Rights in MENA.
Develop various technical documents for knowledge dissemination and awareness as part of advancing Child Rights in MENA.
10 days
- Strengthening MENA Advocacy Strategy’s cross cutting priority on CRC and bridging child rights issues into Country Programme Documents.
Developing tools to support UNICEF MENA Advocacy Strategy cross cutting priority related to CRC and integrating child rights issues into Country Programme Documents as needed to bridge efforts with national strategies.
20 days
- Travel International: 1 Roundtrip Flights to and from Amman- Jordan for a total of approximately 10 days.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- Education: Advanced University Degree on Public Policy, International Affairs, Internal Law/ Law. Based on experience other degrees can be considered: Bachelors ,Masters ,PhD, Other.
Experience: At least 8-10 years international experience on child rights promotion and protection.
Language: Fluency in English (written and spoken) Arabic and French are an asset
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
To view our competency framework, please visit here.
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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