International Consultancy Service to Conduct Situation Analysis (SitAn) of Children and Adolescents in Uzbekistan

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The Scenario Evaluation (the SitAn) of youngsters’s rights and wellbeing is a flagship product designed to tell coverage dialogue, partnerships and interventions to enhance the lives of youngsters. It’s an evaluation and evaluation of the nation state of affairs, with respect to kids’s rights and significant points affecting their realisation. The SitAn is an important a part of the kid rights monitoring (CRM) framework and represents a key UNICEF’s programmatic output that helps deal with data gaps associated to inequities and little one deprivations. By selling the broad engagement of all stakeholders, the SitAn is predicted to tell coverage dialogue within the nation and child-focused coverage advocacy to make an essential contribution to accelerating the achievement of child-related objectives with fairness.

The SitAn displays UNICEF’s position to induce all ranges of presidency and all key stakeholders to make use of the Conference on the Rights of the Little one as a guiding mechanism in coverage making and laws to:

• Develop a complete nationwide agenda;
• Develop everlasting our bodies or mechanisms to advertise coordination, monitoring and analysis of actions all through all sectors of presidency;
• Be certain that all laws is absolutely suitable with the Conference and, if relevant the Optionally available Protocols, by incorporating the provisions into home regulation or guaranteeing that they take priority in instances of battle with nationwide laws;
• Make kids seen in coverage growth processes all through authorities by introducing little one impression assessments;
• Analyse authorities spending to find out the portion of public funds spent on kids and to make sure that these sources are getting used successfully;
• Be certain that enough information are collected and used to enhance the state of affairs of all kids in every jurisdiction;
• Increase consciousness and disseminate info on the Conference and the Optionally available Protocols by offering coaching to all these concerned in authorities policy-making and dealing with or for kids;
• Contain civil society – together with kids themselves – within the technique of implementing and elevating consciousness of kid rights.

Present transient background of earlier SITAN findings and the way the state of affairs has developed, significantly in relation to emergencies.

As Uzbekistan and UNICEF put together to focus on the priorities of latest Nation Programme cycle, there’s a rising must replace the evaluation and supply UNICEF and its companions with new and strong proof on state of affairs of youngsters and adolescents within the nation, significantly essentially the most weak, to tell programme choices and information coverage advocacy and partnership efforts, in addition to to trace progress of kid rights implementation.

UNICEF, its companions and different stakeholders carried out plenty of main analysis, research and evaluations that supplied new proof that might be used to strengthen and broaden information/info proof on the state of affairs of youngsters and adolescents within the nation.

In view of the above, UNICEF Uzbekistan CO is looking for the companies of a person guide (or establishment) to guide the consultations and deliberations with key stakeholders and develop the SitAn report utilizing the out there proof, whereas paying due consideration to the newest suggestions of the Committee on the Rights of the Little one, Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDG) agenda, UNICEF Strategic Plan for 2022-2025, UNICEF Gender Motion Plan 2022-2025, and important nationwide and international priorities Uzbekistan Technique- 2030, De-I Technique, Technique on adolescents’ psychological well being, J4C Technique, and different nationwide methods.

PURPOSE, SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE ANALYSIS

The principle function of this task is to conduct a human-rights primarily based and equity-focused Scenario Evaluation of youngsters and adolescents with respect to the realisation of youngsters’s and adolescents’ rights. The evaluation ought to look at the progress, challenges and alternatives for attaining little one rights and well-being, and the patterns of deprivation that kids and adolescents face. The Evaluation needs to be goal and verifiable and is predicted for use by all companions and stakeholders within the nation in addressing key challenges stopping kids and adolescents, particularly essentially the most deprived, from having fun with their rights ensured within the Conference on the Rights of the Little one (CRC) and different worldwide obligations of the nation.

The Scenario Evaluation report is to focus on the strategic priorities for the nation to cut back disparities and tackle vulnerabilities, and therefore make a contribution to additional form the nationwide growth agenda and to speed up the achievement of nationwide and worldwide growth objectives relating to kids and adolescents, together with SDGs. It ought to look critically on the progress that coverage and programme interventions have made in the direction of at-scale protection of all weak teams; the adequacy of coverage supply and when related emergency response, significantly by way of price range; and the sources for leaving no little one behind.

The SitAn is predicted to current strong proof and spotlight alternatives for socially-inclusive growth. It ought to unpack and look at the bottlenecks to realisation of kid rights, in addition to the interrelated roles of duty-bearer establishments. It ought to spotlight inequalities between teams, socio-economic traits, city/rural and intra-urban disparities, genders, geographic areas and different dimensions. The SitAn ought to pay particular consideration to taking a look at disaggregated information and unpacking nationwide and/or subnational averages. Apart from presenting an evaluation of why inequities exist, it also needs to current contextualised suggestions and techniques on what might be completed by key stakeholders to achieve/ maintain inclusive social growth that ensures equal inclusion and participation of all teams of youngsters and adolescents. SitAn needs to be grounded within the nation’s political, financial and social realities, assessment progress in the direction of the SDGs, and regional and international points that have an effect on kids’s rights and well-being. Within the core of SitAn needs to be nationwide points however, it additionally explores international and regional points that have an effect on the nationwide agenda. By having a robust fairness focus, the SitAn ought to make clear the state of affairs of youngsters and younger people who find themselves most disadvantaged, left invisible or uncounted for.

The Scenario Evaluation is related to a wider viewers which incorporates authorities our bodies, all growth companions (together with UNICEF), civil society, ombudspersons, kids and adolescents, academia, non-public sector actors, media and others. The method of growing the Scenario Evaluation, due to this fact, anticipates engagement with the federal government and key stakeholders, together with kids and younger folks. It serves as a possibility to advertise significant dialogue between the primary little one rights actors within the nation on kids’s and adolescents’ points.

Conceptual Framework and Methodology

The SITAN ought to undertake the next indicative framework:

Conceptual framework

The general conceptual framework of the state of affairs evaluation is the Human Rights-Based mostly Method to Programming (HRBAP). It ought to present an understanding of the prevailing deprivations and inequities and set up the linkages between the underlying causes and obstacles to attaining little one rights and well-being. The conceptual framework situates the evaluation within the nation context and clearly recognises the regional and international points which are impacting kids’s lives within the nation. Moreover, it explores the explanations behind the uneven realisation of kid rights and inequities in well-being, and the alternatives for attaining progress for all kids, particularly those that are left behind or at best danger of being left behind.

Along with the causality evaluation that features key deprivation, quick, underlying and structural causes, 10 determinants needs to be utilized.

The guide will primarily depend on secondary information evaluation, whereas restricted main information assortment from main little one rights duty-bearers and different key informants could happen. This may particularly embody:

• Desk assessment of current nationally and internationally out there information and proof on chosen matters revealed in research, analysis, analysis and survey experiences.
• Desk assessment of knowledge, programme experiences and evaluation generated by UNICEF, together with research, analysis and evaluations.
• Desk assessment and comparative evaluation of accessible laws, social coverage, authorities methods and price range allocation and evaluation of public expenditure paperwork.
• Background notes on particular matters the place UNICEF and different actors working with and for kids should not have or have restricted data for a complete Scenario Evaluation (e.g. gender evaluation of disparities; environmental/local weather points affecting kids, psychological well being points, migration and so on.).
• Key informants’ interviews and Focus Group Discussions, together with those that form and implement public insurance policies in addition to kids and adolescents.

The evaluation should absolutely think about and articulate disparities associated to gender, revenue, geographic location (nationwide/ regional views) and ethnicity.  The evaluation ought to look throughout all little one rights and determine the place there are deprivations.

The methodology for information assortment and evaluation and the method of documentation ought to allow the periodic replace of the state of affairs evaluation.

Consultants are required to suggest a extra exact methodology inside the Inception part. UNICEF Steering on conducting the Scenario Evaluation is requested as a reference for this function.

Phases of the state of affairs evaluation (actual timeframe to be agreed with consultants): 

Throughout the task consultants needs to be engaged in establishing partnerships with all related stakeholders that may contribute to the SitAn growth. This course of can be supported by the UNICEF CO.

1. Inception part: 

• Preliminary desk assessment to evaluate availability of knowledge/info
• Growth of a closing conceptual framework for the SitAn and particular instruments for information assortment.  
• Presentation of the conceptual framework and the instruments to UNICEF and key stakeholders mapping to facilitate an in-depth frequent understanding of the framework
• Presentation of an inception report, together with finalised conceptual framework and methodology.

2. Knowledge assortment and evaluation: 

• Knowledge assortment and in-depth desk-review of current proof relating to the state of affairs of youngsters and adolescents. This consists of information/info on most deprived and disadvantaged teams of youngsters. Nationwide methods and planning paperwork, insurance policies and budgets. Related information and knowledge on local weather points, vitality and surroundings, gender equality, public monetary administration, position of the enterprise sector, and the significant kids and adolescent’s participation needs to be collected and analysed.
• Interviews and/or focus teams with key informants.
• Secondary evaluation of accessible information/info.
• Dialogue and settlement on methods to take away bottlenecks to the realisation of kid rights, significantly for weak teams.

3. Reporting: 

Growth of draft and closing experiences, presentation and annexes  

Moral Issues

Consultants are required to obviously determine any potential moral subject, in addition to the processes for moral assessment and oversight of the analysis/information assortment course of of their proposal. UNICEF Process for Moral Requirements in Analysis, Analysis, Knowledge Assortment and Evaluation needs to be constantly utilized all through the analysis course of. The process comprises the minimal requirements and required procedures for analysis, analysis and information assortment and evaluation undertaken or commissioned by UNICEF (together with actions undertaken by particular person and institutional contractors, and companions) involving human topics or the evaluation of delicate secondary information.

Necessities

Key deliverables and time-frame
The work is predicted to be carried out inside a interval of 5 months.

A complete of fifty consultancy working days are estimated for this task with the next estimated share of days:

• Inception Section – complete of 14 working days
• Knowledge Assortment Section – complete of 10 working days
• Evaluation and Reporting Section, together with shows/workshops for validation of bottlenecks and nationwide actions – complete of 26 working days

The occasions are indicative and might be adjusted in perform of the preparations.

The staff is predicted to supply and submit following deliverables:

• SitAn inception report, which incorporates the preliminary evaluation of the data that must be up to date as a precedence within the SitAn.
• Preliminary report on key findings and conclusions, which follows the prompt Define, together with, an influence level presentation for validation of the findings. It additionally consists of an Annex of State of Youngsters’s Rights (SoCR) with points, bottlenecks and nationwide actions in addition to main data/information gaps organized by the proposed little one rights domains and sub-domains (format supplied)
• Remaining draft report for validation – as per the prompt Tips.
• Remaining Report – which integrates feedback from the validation course of, ideally restricted to ~ 50 pages (not together with Annexes).
• Remaining PowerPoint presentation and, as relevant, detailed causality analyses.

Inputs on submitted inception and draft experiences supplied by UNICEF and different stakeholders needs to be addressed within the course of and closing paperwork.

All submissions needs to be digital. All supplies submitted to UNICEF needs to be delivered in English, whereas preliminary report on key findings and conclusions, SoCR, SitAn Studies and PPTs needs to be submitted in each, English and Russian/Uzbek language.

Define of the report needs to be primarily based on the UNICEF Core Steering: New Era Scenario Evaluation

Required {qualifications} and expertise:

The task is predicted to be undertaken ideally by a staff of two consultants – one worldwide and one nationwide knowledgeable. UNICEF shall approve all members of the staff (nationwide and worldwide).

• Acknowledged establishment/researcher with confirmed expertise in public coverage, social coverage and coverage evaluation, public finance and little one/human rights
• Superior diploma in social sciences, worldwide growth or associated fields related for the task. 
• Sturdy analytical expertise – references to earlier work or establishments
• Glorious data of statistics, social service methods, growth agenda
• Earlier expertise with UNICEF is a bonus.
• At the very least 5 years of related expertise in growth of analytical experiences and coverage paperwork associated to kids and adolescents;
• Confirmed expertise in in quantitative and qualitative information evaluation, coverage (and finance) evaluation (together with expertise within the constant use of age and sex-disaggregated and gender delicate information) and report preparation;
• Information of human rights-based strategy to programming
• Expertise in facilitating consultations with authorities representatives, NGOs, academia, kids, adolescents and different stakeholders
• Fluency in English – for all staff members; Information of Russian and/or Uzbek is an asset
• Glorious writing expertise

COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION
Based mostly on suggestions from the evaluation, UNICEF will create communication technique for dissemination of findings, conclusions and proposals.

UNICEF employees members, consultants, contractors and companions will comply with the UNICEF Steering on Exterior Tutorial Publishing (January 2017) when participating in publishing the Scenario evaluation experiences, whether or not in print or digital type.

MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION
The consultants will work in shut session and underneath the supervision of UNICEF Uzbekistan Little one Rights Monitoring Specialist.

TERMS OF PAYMENT
The guide/s will make their very own preparations for the journey. Journey prices (if related) needs to be estimated and included into the proposal (lump sum and break down by price range traces) together with the requested day by day price. Journey prices shall be calculated primarily based on economic system class journey; prices for lodging, meals and incidentals shall not exceed relevant day by day subsistence allowance (DSA) charges, as promulgated by the Worldwide Civil Service Fee (ICSC).

Three funds are envisaged throughout this consultancy:

• First instalment: Upon UNICEF’s acceptance of submitted Inception report – 30%
• Second instalment: Upon passable supply of the draft SitAn experiences (full and annexes report) – 40%
• Third instalments: Upon passable acceptance of the ultimate SitAn Studies (full and annexes, together with SOCR) and closing PPT and different agreed deliverables/databases – 30%

APPROVAL PROCEDURES AND LOGISTICS

• Consultants ought to act with integrity and respect for all stakeholders in step with UNICEF moral pointers relating to proof era.
• UNICEF Uzbekistan Nation Workplace (CO) holds copyrights for all experiences. The paperwork (together with uncooked supplies, and so on.) might not be reproduced, distributed or revealed with out the written permission from UNICEF.
• All private information needs to be accessible to staff members, however nobody else. The consultants must arrange safe methods (a) to make sure that different employees inside their establishments can not entry their information through the shared employees drives, and (b) to make sure safe information switch between establishments. Cloud primarily based storage with restricted sharing rights might be thought of on this occasion. Completely different private information recordsdata have to be link-able, they have to be held individually in order that they will solely be linked purposely, by researchers who’re authorised to take action. There’s additionally a necessity to make sure that information can’t be faraway from safe methods in ways in which may compromise information safety.
• UNICEF Uzbekistan CO will share with the chosen consultants all of the related supplies it has and supply required experience.
• UNICEF Uzbekistan CO and the Regional Workplace knowledgeable will assessment and supply suggestions on experiences ready by consultants.
• UNICEF Uzbekistan CO will present administrative help for the work of consultants.
• All info from produced experiences can’t be shared with the media with out the written approval of UNICEF Uzbekistan Nation Workplace.

ESTIMATED COSTS

Estimated prices can be recognized primarily based on proposals and will embody the next prices:

1. Consultants’ charges
2. Journey prices

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