International Consultancy Technical Support at UNICEF

Support the ending violence against children and women CFA and harmful practices (child marriage and FGM)

• Conduct/update situation analysis on violence against children and women in times of the COVID-19 pandemic to inform the regional framework on ending violence against children and women. The regional framework will provide an outline to all the engaged country offices in the region in strengthening child protection systems for the prevention and response to violence against children and women. Furthermore, provide support to the team and/or COs on building a regional research agenda on VAC for the current SP period, identification of evidence gaps and lessons learned, including those linked to the social and behavior change programming
• Review and report on development trends and (economic, social, health etc.) data for use in ending Harmful Practices (HP) and VAC programme management, monitoring, evaluation and delivery of results, and prepare required program documentations/materials/data to facilitate the ending violence against children and HP progress review processes.
• Maintenance of simple results database or data visualizations (SMQ/RAM data) on ESAR's regional results, support in establishing the baseline and targets for the CFA in ESAR, in collaboration with Cos, and transition to the CSI platform based on the existing work done in the region.
• Develop regular country and/or regional briefs on VAC and HP, showcasing results and covering different topics each month
• Contribute towards regular updates of the Regional Framework on ending violence against children and women and HP including the evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and relevant climate change affecting the protection of boys, girls and women in in the Region.

Management, monitoring and delivery of results.

Attend Regional Office meetings as guided by the Child Protection Specialist.  Establish a virtual regional community of practice platform for the country offices to learn from each other and share knowledge on ending violence against girls, boys and women in line with the CFA and the Regional workplan.  Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, program mid-year and annual reviews with country offices and other counterparts to assess programmes and to report on required action/interventions at the higher level of program management. Support to review country level programme strategy notes, CPD and GPECM and UN JP reports with monitoring and evaluation lens

Innovation, knowledge management and sharing

Apply/introduce innovative approaches to support the implementation of the above task one and two and delivery of concrete and sustainable results.

• Keep abreast of, research, benchmark and implement best practices in child protection management and information systems in the region and globally. Assess, institutionalize and share best practices and knowledge learned in order to propose best options to countries on how they can better track case management response to children and families experiencing violence.
• Keep record of reports and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned, with a focus on ending violence against children

Work relationships: 

• Under the supervision of the Child Protection Specialist, the consultant will be expected to engage with the country offices, Regional CSO partners and other Regional Office sections (such as Health, Education and Social Protection etc) for consultation purposes to inform the data analysis and report generation.