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Goal of Exercise/Project

The conflicts in Iraq and Syria have offered a humanitarian and child-protection problem of unparalleled complexity. When the so-called “Islamic State” in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) established a self-declared “caliphate” in 2014, a transnational recruitment community was activated, resulting in round 40,000 overseas nationals from greater than 80 international locations travelling to Iraq and Syria to hitch the group – usually bringing alongside relations, together with youngsters. 1000’s of youngsters have been additionally born inside ISIL-held areas. As navy efforts to overthrow ISIL superior in 2018 and 2019, hundreds of Syrians, Iraqi and third nation nationals have been apprehended by native authorities and positioned in both detention services or designated sections of displaced individuals camps in northern Syria and Iraq. This included a lot of third-country nationals, the vast majority of whom have been lower than 12 years previous. Of the youngsters that stay in these services right now, the bulk are nonetheless lower than 12 years previous, with many underneath the age of 5. The situations within the camps are well-documented and it’s undisputed that the implications for kids are dire: various youngsters’s rights are in danger, not least together with the correct to life, to schooling, to water and sanitation, to well being, to enough housing and to be free from starvation and from torture, inhuman and degrading therapy.

Within the face of those challenges, UNICEF has repeatedly urged and supported governments to facilitate the return and reintegration of their little one and caregiver nationals who’ve been affected by battle each in Iraq and Syria. This name for motion has been endorsed by the worldwide human rights neighborhood, together with by the Committee on the Rights of the Little one, and has been responded to by some international locations, most prominently these in Central Asia. In 2019, the Authorities of Uzbekistan turned one of many first nations to hold out a large-scale repatriation of its residents – largely ladies and kids – setting a precedent which the Governments of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have maintained.

The political, monetary and logistical resolve required to undertake repatriations, and subsequent help to reintegration, is important. UNICEF has offered help to nationwide authorities within the improvement of clear plans, backed by ample sources and experience, to make sure that repatriation and reintegration efforts are age- and gender-sensitive, child-friendly and human rights-compliant. This consists of help to make sure family-based care, schooling, psychological well being and psychosocial help, and different providers that foster youngsters’s restoration and improvement, in addition to the social and monetary empowerment of susceptible people and populations. Since 2019, UNICEF in Europe and Central Asia has supported the reintegration of greater than 2,000 youngsters from Syria and Iraq. By means of this expertise, and in shut coordination with different UNICEF workplaces, a sequence of sources and instruments supporting repatriation and reintegration efforts have been developed by UNICEF or made out there by inter-agency networks.

This consultancy will accumulate and compile the prevailing repatriation and reintegration steerage and instruments out there for international locations supporting the return and reintegration of youngsters from areas affected by armed battle in Iraq and Syria. This may embrace conducting a desk assessment, in addition to a spherical of consultations with UNICEF nation workplaces who’ve engaged in large-scale repatriation and reintegration applications of youngsters from Iraq and Northern Syria, to glean insights on the instruments out there. The guide will bundle these sources in a user-friendly digital pack the place the sources can be out there in each inner and exterior variations. As such, the useful resource pack will serve the aim of supporting UNICEF nation groups within the Europe and Central Asia area and past, in addition to different worldwide and nationwide businesses, of their repatriation and reintegration efforts.

Scope of Work

1. Conduct a desk assessment of current repatriation and reintegration steerage and instruments out there for international locations supporting the return and reintegration of youngsters affected by armed battle in Iraq and Syria, together with inter-agency instruments which can appropriately be included within the useful resource pack for kids reintegration.
2. Survey programme groups at HQ and regional ranges on relevant instruments or sources to be included within the useful resource pack, for instance in relation to schooling, MHPSS, youth engagement, different care, gender and GBV.
3. Conduct consultations with key international locations supporting reintegration programming to achieve perception on related current field-level instruments and approaches, in addition to instruments that are missing.
4. Convene and seek the advice of with a cross-sectoral reference group on the compilation of a useful resource pack.
5. Develop a user-friendly digital useful resource pack the place these sources can be found in each inner and exterior variations

Work Project Overview

Duties / Milestone	Deliverables / Outputs	Timeline / Deadline
Develop a user-friendly repatriation and reintegration digital useful resource pack the place these sources can be found in each inner and exterior variations	Conduct a desk assessment of current reintegration steerage and instruments out there for international locations supporting the return and reintegration of youngsters affected by armed battle.	10 working days; By 15 April 2024
	Survey programme groups at HQ and regional ranges on relevant instruments to be included within the useful resource pack, for instance in relation to schooling, MHPSS, youth engagement, gender and GBV.	10 working days; By 10 Could 2024
	Conduct consultations with key international locations supporting reintegration programming to achieve perception on related field-level instruments	10 working days; By 20 Could 2024
	Convene and seek the advice of with a cross-sectoral reference group on the compilation of a useful resource pack, documenting group outcomes and motion factors	3 working days; By 30 Could 2024
	Develop a user-friendly digital useful resource pack the place these sources can be found in each inner and exterior variations	7 working days; By 15 June 2024

Estimated Length of the Contract

40 working days between April and June 2024.

Guide’s Work Place and Official Journey

The Guide can be distant/home-based with no journey foreseen.

Estimated Value of the Consultancy & Fee Schedule

Fee can be made on submission of an bill and passable completion of the above-mentioned deliverables. UNICEF reserves the correct to withhold all or a portion of fee if efficiency is unsatisfactory, if work/outputs are incomplete, not delivered or for failure to fulfill deadlines. All supplies developed will stay the copyright of UNICEF and UNICEF can be free to adapt and modify them sooner or later.

Please submit an expert charge (in EUR) primarily based on 40 working days to undertake this task.

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have…

• Grasp’s diploma in worldwide improvement, human rights, social work, sociology, or one other related social science discipline.
• Minimal seven (7) years demonstrated expertise of engaged on repatriation and reintegration of youngsters and households programming.
• Demonstrated expertise of manufacturing high-quality written paperwork.
• Demonstrated data administration talents, together with utilising on-line platforms.
• Demonstrated data of kid safety programming, together with within the fields of psychological well being and psychosocial help, gender-based violence service supply, juvenile justice, or different care and household tracing and reunification.
• Glorious interpersonal abilities.
• Fluency in English (oral and written).

For each Little one, you reveal…

UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS), and core competencies in Communication, Working with Individuals and Drive for Outcomes.

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Remarks:

Please embrace a full CV, a Cowl Letter and work samples in your utility. Moreover, point out your availability {and professional} charge (in EUR) to undertake the phrases of reference above. Functions submitted with out a skilled charge won’t be thought-about. Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.

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