International Consultant: Baseline Survey for KOICA-Funded Climate Action for the Last Mile: Reaching the Most Vulnerable Children at UNICEF

Activities and Tasks:

• Under the supervision of RO and in coordination with the Programme Specialists in UNICEF Centre of Excellence on Climate Resilience, the consultant will provide expert guidance and direct support to CO and the RO for the following key deliverables:

Objectives

• Tasks
• Submit inception report with consultancy work plan
• Develop a workplan detailing the activities to be implemented, partners contacted and strategy for each work to achieve the planned results;
• Submit the inception report.
• Review the existing logical framework including all the Output indicators, overall and yearly targets, and existing MoVs for each indicator source of data, and frequency of data collection as well as ToC and identifying missing elements in the existing logical framework
• Review all the elements of the existing logical framework to validate if the overall and yearly target of each indicator is realistic; if MoVs, source of data, and frequency of data collection of all indicators are adequate to measure the indicators; and if the existing ToC is adequate.
• To identify all the missing elements in the logical framework currently marked as ‘TBD’ in the logical framework.
• This work must include organising a learning event (i.e. a virtual or hybrid consultative workshop) to review, update, and validate the existing logical framework including its ToC and to identify missing elements. This learning event needs to include a discussion related to Outcome indicators which is described below as the item 3.
• This work can be done during the consultant’s travel to each country.
• To review and identify any discrepancies in the Logframe.

Requirements:

• Education: Minimum Master’s degree in M&E, programme management or relevant social discipline
• Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience in M&E and programme management in developing countries;
• Engaged at least 1 project on multi-sectoral development programme, preferably related to climate change;
• Possess at least 5 years of working experience and knowledge in any of social sector (i.e. education, health, nutrition, etc.) preferably in Comoros and Zimbabwe.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills in English and French.