UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, in every single place, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means surrender.
For each baby, security!
BACKGROUND & RATIONALE
In case you are a dedicated, inventive skilled and are keen about making an enduring distinction for kids, the world’s main youngsters’s rights group want to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 nations and territories to advertise youngsters’s survival, safety, and improvement. The world’s largest supplier of vaccines for creating nations, UNICEF helps baby well being and diet, good water and sanitation, high quality primary schooling for all girls and boys, and the safety of youngsters from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded solely by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations, and governments.
Local weather change, power entry and environmental degradation are fairness points, with youngsters and younger individuals usually being probably the most susceptible and affected. Addressing local weather change, power entry and environmental degradation is subsequently important for constructing a extra sustainable future for kids. As well as, it’s crucial that we combine our actions on the SDGs and our humanitarian responses. Every of the core sectors UNICEF has been participating in well being, diet, HIV, water and sanitation, baby safety, social inclusion, and schooling – is affected ultimately by local weather change and/or environmental degradation. Fortuitously, every stream of UNICEF work additionally presents alternatives to take motion on local weather, power and/or atmosphere in an effort to ship extra sustainable outcomes. There are main implications of local weather change, lack of power entry and environmental degradation for kids and UNICEF has robust potential to strengthen the response to those points.
UNICEF has made a scientific effort to step up its work on local weather, atmosphere, and sustainable power for kids. The group has issued an Government Directive on integrating a local weather, sustainable power and atmosphere focus into nation programming, and established environmental points as a core pillar of its 2022-2025 Strategic Plan (Aim Space 4 – Secure and Clear Surroundings – that focuses on making a secure and clear atmosphere for kids, addressing environmental challenges, and making certain that youngsters are shielded from environmental hazards to advertise their general well-being and improvement) together with dedication to work on local weather change beneath the Frequent Chapter with varied stakeholders, together with governments, civil society organizations, and different UN companies, to advocate for insurance policies and packages that prioritize youngsters’s environmental well being.
The Local weather Panorama Evaluation for Kids (CLAC) is of utmost significance for Uzbekistan because of the nation’s vulnerability to local weather change impacts. Uzbekistan faces important dangers from hydrometeorological hazards and pure disasters, which have a detrimental affect on the economic system, in addition to the well-being and well being of the complete inhabitants, with a specific emphasis on youngsters and girls. The nation’s vulnerability to numerous local weather change-related points is rising, together with droughts, excessive temperatures, warmth waves, mud storms, desertification, land degradation, heavy precipitation, mudflows, mass actions, floods, and avalanches. Moreover, Uzbekistan is grappling with one of the crucial distinguished disasters of the twenty first century, the Aral Sea disaster. Regardless of being categorized as a rustic with a low-risk index in keeping with the 2023 Inform World Danger Index, an open-source threat evaluation for humanitarian crises and disasters, Uzbekistan stays prone to droughts (scoring 6.6 out of 10), floods (scoring 6.3 out of 10), earthquakes (scoring 8.1 out of 10), epidemics (scoring 6.1 out of 10), and different hazards. Furthermore, within the Europe and Central Asia area, together with Uzbekistan, greater than 83% of youngsters are uncovered to ambient air air pollution. These challenges straight have an effect on the well-being and rights of youngsters, who’re among the many most susceptible teams in society. The CLAC will present useful insights into the particular local weather dangers confronted by youngsters in Uzbekistan, enabling policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders to develop focused methods and interventions to guard youngsters’s rights, improve their resilience, and guarantee their general well-being within the face of a altering local weather. The findings and proposals of the CLAC will function a vital basis for evidence-based decision-making and the formulation of climate-resilient insurance policies and packages that prioritize the wants and rights of youngsters in Uzbekistan.
UNICEF Uzbekistan CO is planning to conduct a Local weather Panorama Evaluation for Kids, analyzing the baseline scenario of local weather, power and environment-related points affecting youngsters and the way they relate to UNICEF’s priorities. The report seems to be at stakeholders, authorities insurance policies and related programmes in Uzbekistan. It would additionally present suggestions on how UNICEF Uzbekistan CO may additional incorporate and strengthen work on local weather, power, and environment-related points in its nation programme.
1) Generate a baseline CEED and kids report
– Assessment instance experiences from different nation places of work and the worldwide steering supplies
– Suggest any modifications wanted to accommodate the nationwide context and CO priorities
– Conduct a desk evaluation of the CEED points (together with projected modifications), stakeholders and insurance policies within the nation, together with UNICEF and UN CEED programming (UNSDCF, CPD, RWP/AWP, joint programmes, and so on.) and nation particular paperwork e.g., NAP, NDC, DRR Nationwide Technique, local weather change coverage frameworks, socio-economic coverage frameworks, associated nationwide improvement plans, and so on.
– Present a quick synthesis of the above, and common implications for the nation’s sustainable improvement, with a give attention to points as they relate to UNICEF’s mandate
– Conduct stakeholder mapping to establish potential companions, similar to governmental, multilateral, bilateral, CSOs, personal sector entities, youth organizations, youth-led organizations, and academia, whose priorities and methods straight deal with local weather change points impacting youngsters and younger individuals
– Assessment key coverage paperwork associated to local weather, power and atmosphere and UNICEF’s company priorities with a view of assessing child-rights and CEED linkages
– Compile and consider checklist of latest and on-going and deliberate CEED actions
– Determine data and knowledge gaps
– Acquire, incorporate, and triangulate feedback from all stakeholders with reference supplies from the desk evaluation
– Analyse CEED interventions for relevance to UNICEF programming, together with figuring out direct threats to present program actions
– Analyse CEED associated nationwide and subnational knowledge assortment, evaluation, and reporting mechanisms.
– Conduct interviews with UNICEF sections, exterior companions, and stakeholders on CEED points affecting youngsters
– Present an outline of the child-CEED nexus, together with evaluation of implications for UNICEF sectors (i.e., Well being, WASH, Baby Safety, Vitamin)
– Determine partnership and funding alternatives to assist UNICEF program suggestions
– Just about local weather finance mechanisms, bilateral funding and/ or Authorities budgets, establish funding alternatives to assist CEED-child nexus actions
– Determine applicable CEED-child rights linkages and consider relevance for potential UNICEF programming choices and establish new CEED-Baby nexus points/ themes for CO consideration
– Put together and current a abstract presentation of findings for CO and related Authorities and improvement companions
– With CO sections and Administration, develop and outline precedence areas for UNICEF engagement.
– Suggest choices for prioritization of points and entry factors and facilitate the decision-making course of.
– In collaboration with the PME part, present assist for the combination of CEED into the nation programme doc (CPD) for Uzbekistan, overlaying the interval from 2021 to 2025, whereas additionally providing suggestions for its continued integration past 2025.
– The affect of local weather change points on youngsters and younger individuals (together with youngsters and younger individuals dwelling with incapacity, and gendered dimensions of local weather change and its completely different impacts on girls and boys, and so on.).
– Noticed and projected modifications in local weather within the nation and associated impacts, together with excessive publicity areas (this may probably be a number of maps for varied local weather change parameters — e.g., floods, droughts, warmth or chilly waves, water shortage hotspots, and so on.).
– Different related environmental points affecting girls and boys embrace environmental degradation, air air pollution, chemical air pollution, the aquatic atmosphere, and the mining/extractive trade.
– Important gender issues in relation to households’ roles and tasks in regard to water administration, publicity to local weather change hazards, security dimensions (together with elevated gender-based violence [GBV]) and girls’s and ladies’ engagement in decision-making processes on local weather change options (together with ladies’ management).
– Standing of the combination of local weather schooling at school curriculum and limitations of entry for girls and boys. (Can even embrace the combination of the Complete Faculty Security Framework (CSSF)
– The power scenario for kids (e.g., at residence, college, well being clinics, public lighting, and so on).
– Preliminary pondering on comparative benefit of UNICEF on local weather change points within the nation context.
– Tailored and annotated define of CLAC doc, literature checklist
December 20, 2023 (10 days)
– Checklist of proposed assembly companions, useful resource individuals
January 5, 2024 (5 days)
February 15, 2024 (30 days)
– Revised & formatted remaining report, integrated feedback
February 25, 2024 (5 days)
– Draft suggestions and choices for prioritization
March 1, 2024 (5 days)
– Facilitation of inside conferences, workshops for capability constructing and/or consensus constructing as wanted
March 7, 2024 (5 days)
– Facilitation of exterior conferences/roundtables, shows
March 14, 2024 (5 days)
– Closing report
To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…
- A bachelor’s diploma in geography, environmental science, pure useful resource administration, social and financial improvement, or a associated area is required. A grasp’s diploma in any of the aforementioned areas could be thought-about an asset.
- Alternatively, a complicated diploma in communications or journalism with demonstrated experience on environment-related points may also be thought-about.
- Minimal of 5 years of working expertise within the related area
- Expertise in working with a world assist group is extremely desired
- Expertise in Uzbekistan and within the SIDS can be an asset.
- Glorious analytical and writing abilities
- Demonstrated experience in baby rights or any of UNICEF’s essential areas of labor (well being, WASH, diet, baby safety, social coverage, schooling, gender, HIV/AIDS) is taken into account an asset
- Advocacy and presentational abilities are an asset Glorious analysis abilities required
- Aware of youngsters’s rights and gender within the context of shocks and stresses
For each Baby, you show…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
To view our competency framework, please go to here.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should mirror the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.
UNICEF gives reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may increasingly embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your software in case you want cheap lodging in the course of the choice course of and afterwards in your project.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict baby safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can subsequently endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background verify.
Remarks:
Solely shortlisted candidates can 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-about “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 (similar to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service can be ruled by their contract and the Normal Circumstances of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost 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 insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and will not be anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF during their consultancy contracts.
Marketed: 04 Dec 2023 West Asia Commonplace Time
Deadline: 18 Dec 2023 West Asia Commonplace Time
Apply now
To assist us observe our recruitment effort, please specify on the appliance kind/point out in your cowl letter the place (embasssyjobs.internet) you noticed this job posting.
