Consultancy – Support LACRO with the Formulation of Project Proposals for the ECHO HIP 2024, LACRO, Panama city

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Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in all places, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

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Objective of Exercise/Project:

Background

With 190 million individuals affected by disasters between 2000 and 2022, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the second most disaster-prone area on the planet. Three out of ten individuals in LAC have been affected by disasters of their communities. Between January 2022 and September 2023, 13.4 million individuals have been affected by disasters in LAC, together with 4 million youngsters. Along with the publicity to pure hazards and the consequences of local weather change, different dangers intertwine, growing the necessity for enhanced preparedness, response and resilience capacities in LAC international locations.

Migration by means of South and Central America elevated exponentially in 2023, overwhelming international locations’ capacities. Tens of millions of weak households and kids are migrating throughout borders or inside their international locations resulting from poverty, inequality, violence (together with gender-based), climate-related shocks, restricted entry to satisfactory vitamin, well being, water, sanitation, safety and schooling companies.

Practically 32 million individuals are estimated to be going through multidimensional poverty within the area and could be among the many most weak to new shocks. Girls and kids are more and more uncovered to dangers, in international locations the place socio-economic and political instability, restricted humanitarian entry and fragility of states, have an effect on governments and companions’ means to reply to crises successfully.

In 2024, fast impacts are anticipated associated to El Niño phenomenon. Drought in Central America and elements of South America, in addition to heavy rains within the South, are anticipated to disrupt agricultural actions and meals manufacturing, growing ranges of meals insecurity and malnutrition for youngsters in areas with already restricted entry to meals and secure water.

Storms proceed to be extra frequent in LAC, leaving affected individuals with much less time to recuperate between occasions. Tropical cyclones in small island and creating states within the Caribbean are anticipated in 2024; difficult meals safety, entry to earnings and fundamental companies, and dwelling situations for tens of millions of youngsters.

UNICEF LAC Regional Workplace manages a number of interventions of humanitarian preparedness and response financed by ECHO within the body of the HIP attraction (2022 – 2023), together with 3 tasks: 1) Response to the migration Outflow in South America (Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela); 2) Constructing resilience in safety and schooling companies (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama); 3) Strengthening schooling, youngster safety and social safety shock responsive techniques within the Caribbean (Belize, Cuba, Anguila).

The chosen marketing consultant will work beneath the steering of the LACRO Emergency Supervisor, to assist the event of two (2) multi-country undertaking proposals, together with consolidating inputs from totally different Nation Workplaces, throughout the interval of December to January for the next-coming ECHO HIP 2024.

Scope of Work:

The marketing consultant engaged on a particular geographical and thematic proposal, will work in collaboration with UNICEF LAC Regional Workplace (LACRO) Emergency and Public Partnerships items, being a part of the staff that may assist the chosen Nation Workplaces (COs) to write down, consolidate, elaborate, and embrace essential data for the submission of undertaking proposals to ECHO by means of using the donors’ templates.

The consultants will particularly:

• Construction and guarantee follow-up of communications with COs for the formulation of the undertaking proposals in keeping with the donor´s necessities and templates:
  • Characterization of humanitarian wants evaluation and its geographical delimitation.
  • Evaluation of humanitarian response and technique.
  • Identification of beneficiaries and weak teams.
  • Definition of the logic of the intervention (i.e., aims, sectorial indicators, targets, actions, required price range and workplan).
  • Assumption statements with corresponding danger evaluation and administration.
  • Monitoring and analysis in addition to accountability mechanisms.
• In shut coordination with LACRO and COs, programme and useful resource mobilization groups, guarantee opportune consolidation, and elaboration of undertaking proposals (multi-country) in acceptable alignment with UNICEF’s and the donor’s pointers.
• Some other associated duties as required for the event of the tasks.

Deliverables

Work Assignments Overview	Deliverables/Outputs	Supply deadline
First draft of the sections: 3. Humanitarian Organisation within the Space 4. Wants Evaluation and Danger Evaluation	3.1 Presence within the space 3.2 Synergies, hyperlinks, complementarity together with your different actions 4.1 Evaluation dates and methodology 4.2 Drawback, wants and danger evaluation 4.3 Response evaluation	Week 1 upon contract signature
First draft of the sections: 2. Challenge Knowledge Overview by Nation 5. Beneficiaries 6. Gender & Age Marker	2.1 Geographical data 2.2 Locations of intervention 2.3 Data on beneficiaries 2.4 Sectoral data 5.1 Beneficiaries identification standards 5.2 Involvement of the beneficiaries 5.3 Particular goal teams 6. Gender and Age Marker	Week 2
First draft of the sections: 7. Logic of the Intervention 8. Resilience Marker 9. Monitoring and Analysis	7.1 Principal goal 7.2 Particular Goal Indicators  7.3 Outcomes 7.4 Outcomes Context and Circumstances 8.1 Resilience 9.1 Criticism mechanism 9.2 Monitoring of the motion	Week 5
Required Annexes	Finances annex Workplan annex Checklist of anticipated Implementing Companions	Week 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have… 

• Bachelor’s diploma in Social Sciences, Worldwide Relations, Schooling, Public Coverage, Social Coverage, Social Improvement, Neighborhood Improvement, or different related disciplines.
• Minimal of 5 years of related skilled work expertise in undertaking administration and coordination within the humanitarian and or human rights sector.
• Worldwide and creating nation work expertise at regional, nationwide or sub nationwide stage.
• Familiarity with emergency response methods, as a part of the principle UNICEF programme areas.
• Expertise in Humanitarian Motion and with ECHO tasks.
• Networking expertise with worldwide organizations, NGOs and different key companions at regional and nation stage.
• Intensive information of UNICEF programme works within the LAC Area within the areas of Humanitarian Motion.
• Availability throughout holidays.in Social Sciences, Worldwide Relations, Schooling, Public Coverage, Social Coverage, Social Improvement, Neighborhood Improvement, or different related disciplines.

Administrative particulars

Supervision

The marketing consultant will work beneath the supervision of the Emergency Supervisor.

Office

It is a home-based consultancy.

Period

This contract is anticipated to have an estimated length of two.5 months, from November 2023 till February 2024.

The right way to Apply

Software needs to be submitted on-line and may embrace: TMS utility kind duly accomplished, Cowl Letter and Monetary proposal. Certified candidates are requested to point an all-inclusive (lump sum) charges for the companies to be supplied, together with all related administrative prices.

Journey

There isn’t any journey foreseen for this consultancy. Ought to journey is included, it will likely be lined by UNICEF as per coverage.

• Journey prices will probably be estimated and added to the contract as soon as they’re decided primarily based on UNICEF Monetary Guidelines and Laws.
• For agreed nation visits, the contractor/marketing consultant will probably be accountable in administering their very own journey. UNICEF will reimburse journey associated bills primarily based on precise prices or on the beneath standards whichever is decrease and upon presentation of receipts.
• Any journey concerned needs to be budgeted in keeping with UN Journey Requirements as a ceiling.
• UN Secretariat Administrative Instruction on Official Journey, ST/AI/2013/3: Sect. 4, para. 4.2, numerals (d) and (e)
• For data on Every day Subsistence Allowance (DSA), may be discovered on the Worldwide Civil Service Fee web site (all international locations and locations may be discovered by navigating on the map).

For each Baby, you display… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

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Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. 

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought of “workers members” beneath the Workers Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (reminiscent of depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Basic Circumstances of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are answerable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for all the interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and usually are not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF at some point of their consultancy contracts.