International Consultancy Service to Conduct Situation Analysis (SitAn) of Children in Turkmenistan

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The State of affairs 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 realization. The SitAn is an important a part of the kid rights monitoring (CRM) framework and represents a key UNICEF 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 anticipated to tell coverage dialogue within the nation and child-focused advocacy to make an essential contribution to accelerating the achievement of child-related objectives with fairness.

The SitAn displays UNICEF’s function to induce all ranges of presidency and all key stakeholders to make use of the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster 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;
Make sure that all laws is totally appropriate with the Conference and, if relevant the Elective 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 improvement 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;
Make sure that enough knowledge are collected and used to enhance the state of affairs of all kids in every jurisdiction;
Elevate consciousness and disseminate data on the Conference and the Elective Protocols by offering coaching to all these concerned in authorities policy-making and dealing with or for youngsters;
Contain civil society – together with kids themselves – within the means of implementing and elevating consciousness of kid rights.
Temporary background of earlier SITAN findings and the way the state of affairs has advanced, notably in relation to emergencies.

As Turkmenistan and UNICEF put together to debate the priorities of latest Nation Programme cycle, there’s a rising have to replace the evaluation and supply UNICEF and its companions with new and strong proof on the state of affairs of youngsters within the nation, notably probably 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 performed a variety of main analysis, research, surveys and evaluations that supplied new proof that could possibly be used to strengthen and broaden knowledge/data proof on the state of affairs of youngsters in Turkmenistan.

In view of the above, UNICEF Turkmenistan is in search of the providers of a person advisor to guide the consultations and deliberations with key stakeholders and develop the SitAn report utilizing the obtainable proof, whereas paying due consideration to the most recent suggestions of the Committee on the Rights of the Youngster, Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDG) agenda, UNICEF Strategic Plan for 2022-2025, UNICEF Gender Motion Plan 2022-2025, most important nationwide priorities together with Nationwide socio-economic programme 2052, Nationwide Motion Plan on little one rights 2023-2028, Technique on psychological well being, and different nationwide methods.

Objective of the Job

The principle objective of this task is to conduct a human-rights primarily based and equity-focused State of affairs Evaluation of youngsters and  with respect to the realisation of youngsters’  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 face.  The Evaluation needs to be goal and verifiable and is anticipated for use by all companions and stakeholders within the nation in addressing key challenges stopping kids, particularly probably the most deprived, from having fun with their rights enshrined within the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster (CRC) and different worldwide obligations of the nation. 

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

The SitAn is anticipated to current strong proof and spotlight alternatives for socially-inclusive improvement. It ought to unpack and look at the bottlenecks to realization of kid rights, in addition to the interrelated roles of duty-bearing establishments. It ought to spotlight inequalities between teams, socio-economic traits, city/rural and intra-urban disparities, genders, geographic places and different dimensions. The SitAn ought to pay particular consideration to disaggregated knowledge and unpacking nationwide and/or subnational averages. Apart from presenting an evaluation of why inequities exist, it also needs to current contextualized suggestions and techniques on what could possibly be completed by key stakeholders to achieve/ maintain inclusive social improvement that ensures equal inclusion and participation of all teams of youngsters. SitAn needs to be grounded within the nation’s political, financial and social realities, evaluate progress in direction of the SDGs, and regional and world 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 world 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 principle goals of a rights- primarily based, fairness centered SitAn in Turkmenistan are the next:

Develop a deep understanding of the state of affairs of youngsters (together with related teams of younger folks in weak conditions) by analysing the insurance policies and techniques, social and financial traits affecting them (knowledge disaggregated by age, gender, city/rural, ethnicity, socio-economic standing and different related traits).
Establish and analyse the boundaries and bottlenecks that stop kids and particularly probably the most deprived kids and households from benefiting from social providers throughout sectors and having fun with their rights; draft methods and proposals on how the bottlenecks and boundaries may be eliminated.
Establish and analyze gaps within the continuum of providers indicating that kids could also be coming into residential care unnecessarily and develop suggestions on what extra may be completed to guard and assist kids and households in troublesome conditions.
Coaching nationwide facilitator/facilitators from youth cohort and interact them for the SitAn
Establish essential knowledge gaps and contribute to the era of proof, by engagement of younger academicians, that may enhance the monitoring of the rights of youngsters, particularly probably the most weak teams
Assess the present or potential emergency dangers (disasters and different potential shocks); the chance of their prevalence, the underlying vulnerabilities and the capacities and coping mechanisms of households, communities and native and nationwide establishments.
Analyse to what extent there may be an enabling atmosphere for the realisation of the rights of all kids, and analyse how evidence-based interventions and providers wanted to deal with deprivations are prioritised in nationwide insurance policies, legal guidelines, methods, plans and budgets
Seize new or rising space of considerations concerning kids], resembling environmental points affecting them, psychological well being points and so on.
Analyse the function/impression of enterprise sector on little one rights in addition to public monetary administration.
Present nationwide authorities companions with complete equity-sensitive and evidence-based evaluation on kids  for result-based decision-making;
Present strategic data to non-government companions (NGOs, community-based organisations, civil society, media and enterprise sector) for use of their planning and interventions to deal with probably the most pressing points affecting kids
Contribute to the (re)formulation of key UNICEF methods to assist most deprived kids as a contribution to the event of the nationwide the socio-economic improvement agenda.

The State of affairs Evaluation is related to a wider viewers which incorporates authorities entities, UNICEF and all improvement companions, civil society, ombudsperson, kids, academia, personal sector actors, media and others. The method of growing the State of affairs Evaluation, subsequently, anticipates engagement with the federal government and key stakeholders, together with kids and younger folks. It serves as a possibility to advertise significant dialogue on kids points between the principle little one rights actors within the nation.

 

Conceptual Framework and Methodology

The SITAN ought to undertake the next indicative framework:

The general conceptual framework of the state of affairs evaluation is the Human Rights-Primarily based Strategy 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 boundaries to attaining little one rights and well-being. The conceptual framework situates the evaluation within the nation context and clearly acknowledges the regional and world points which might be impacting kids’s lives within the nation. Moreover, it explores the explanations behind the uneven realization of kid rights and inequities of well-being, and the alternatives for attaining progress for all kids, particularly those that are left behind or at biggest threat of being left behind.[1]

Along with the causality evaluation that features key deprivation, quick, underlying and structural causes, the next 10 determinants (or a custom-made model of it) ought to assist classes essential bottlenecks and boundaries:  

Determinants of bottlenecks and boundaries

 

What inhabitants teams are affected by nationwide/subnational legal guidelines; insurance policies together with budgets; battle; and financial, social and environmental components that result in inequities?
How does the broader nation context contribute to little one rights and the well-being of younger folks?
What macro components exacerbate inequities? What modern options are accelerating inclusive improvement?
How are establishments – regional, nationwide, subnational, personal, public, and so on. – systematically attaining their obligations on inclusive providers and enabling alternatives for youngsters and younger folks to satisfy their full potential?

Causes,

Challenges

And dangers

What particular components have contributed to the realisation of kid rights and well-being? What are the principle little one rights violations within the nation?
What are the highest components, together with dangers (prioritisation is essential right here), that stop the realisation of kid rights and well-being?
What are the important thing components that drive inequities within the realisation of kid rights and well-being? How are kids engaged as energetic brokers in choices?
Do kids and younger folks, particularly probably the most weak, get pleasure from their rights to (obtainable, entry, use, ample and efficient) protection of commodities, providers and alternatives?

Youngster rights

And wellbeing:

Progress and

Inequities

What progress has been made in attaining kids’s rights and well-being in opposition to all rights and throughout related age teams, resembling newborns, kids below 5 years, younger kids, youth and adolescents, as outlined inside the nationwide context, literature and proof?
Has progress been equal? How massive or deep are the deprivations confronted by probably deprived teams, resembling women and girls, these residing in poverty, kids with disabilities, kids in residential care, minorities, refugee/IDP kids and youngsters affected by migration, amongst others? Who’re the teams left behind, the place and why? Who, among the many kids who’re being left behind, face extreme and/or intersecting deprivations and downsides, or a number of types of discrimination that make them more likely to be the furthest behind? How resilient are kids to shocks and stressors?

World and

Regional

Points

What are the worldwide and regional points that impression little one rights and well-being? Has there been nation progress in addressing the concluding observations of the periodic reviews of the United Nations Conference on the Rights of the Youngster and associated human rights treaties? How are cross-border points and openings (migrations, trafficking, digitalisation, and so on.) being addressed/harnessed at scale?
How does the realisation of kid rights and well-being contribute in direction of the achievement of the SDGs within the nation, and addressing rising points?

Methodology 

The advisor will primarily depend on secondary knowledge evaluation, whereas restricted main knowledge assortment from main little one rights duty-bearers and different key informants might happen with assist of younger academicians. This may particularly embody: 

Desk evaluate of current nationally and internationally obtainable knowledge and proof on chosen subjects revealed in research, analysis, analysis and survey reviews.
Desk evaluate of knowledge, programme reviews and evaluation generated by Authorities and UNICEF, together with research, analysis and evaluations.
Desk evaluate and comparative evaluation of obtainable laws, social coverage, authorities methods and price range allocation and evaluation of public expenditure paperwork. 
Background notes on particular subjects the place UNICEF and different actors working with and for youngsters do not need or have restricted data for a complete State of affairs Evaluation (e.g. gender evaluation of disparities; environmental/local weather points affecting kids, psychological well being points, migration and so on.). 
Coaching of younger facilitators and capability constructing of academia to runs SitAns
Key informants’ interviews and Focus Group Discussions with assist of younger academicians, together with those that form and implement public insurance policies in addition to kids. 

The evaluation should totally 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 knowledge assortment and evaluation and the method of documentation ought to allow the periodic replace of the state of affairs evaluation.

Advisor are required to suggest a extra exact methodology inside the Inception section. UNICEF Steering on conducting the State of affairs Evaluation is offered as a reference for this objective.

Levels of the state of affairs evaluation (actual timeframe to be agreed with advisor): 

Throughout the task advisor needs to be engaged in establishing partnerships with all related stakeholders that may contribute to the SitAn improvement. This course of will likely be supported by UNICEF CO.

1. Inception section: 

Preliminary desk evaluate to evaluate availability of knowledge/data
Growth of a ultimate conceptual framework for the SitAn and particular instruments for knowledge assortment.  
Presentation of the conceptual framework and the instruments to UNICEF and key stakeholders mapping to facilitate an in-depth widespread understanding of the framework
Presentation of an inception report, together with finalized conceptual framework and methodology.
2. Coaching of younger academicians to run the evaluation

Develop standards for number of younger specialists for the coaching and assist throughout knowledge collections stage
Present important expertise and prepare to conduct SitAn
Information assortment and evaluation: 
Information assortment and in-depth desk-review of current proof concerning the state of affairs of youngsters. This contains knowledge/data on most deprived and weak teams of youngsters. Nationwide methods and planning paperwork, insurance policies and budgets. Related knowledge and data on local weather points, vitality and atmosphere, gender equality, public monetary administration, function of the enterprise sector, and the significant kids’s participation needs to be collected and analysed.
Interviews and/or focus teams with key informants.
Proof synthesis and completion of pattern Desk
Secondary evaluation of obtainable knowledge/data.
Dialogue and settlement on methods to take away bottlenecks to the belief of kid rights, notably for weak teams.
Strategic Prioritization workshop and Presentation of Proof Synthesis

4. Reporting: 

Growth of draft and ultimate State of affairs Evaluation reviews, presentation and annexes.  

Inception Section – whole of 10 working days
Coaching for younger academia – 5 days
Information Assortment Section – whole of 10 working days
Evaluation and Reporting Section, together with shows/workshops for validation of bottlenecks and nationwide actions – whole of 20 working days
The timeframes are indicative.

The Advisor/s is anticipated to supply and submit the next deliverables:

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

Inputs on submitted inception and draft reviews supplied by UNICEF and different stakeholders needs to be addressed within the course of and ultimate 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 Stories and PPTs needs to be submitted in each, English and Russian language.

[1] For extra particulars on Conceptual framework and methods to analyze Kids’s rights within the new era of SitAn please see UNICEF (2019), Core steering; New Era State of affairs Evaluation, p 14. (Annex 1)

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