National Consultancy for Development of a community-based model for prevention of child maltreatment and provision of psychosocial support (only Iranian)

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Growth of a community-based mannequin for prevention of kid maltreatment and provision of psychosocial assist

CONTRACT PROPOSED DURATION: 125 days

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BACKGROUND

Baby maltreatment is a worldwide public well being downside with severe life-long penalties for kids’s psychological and bodily well being, tutorial efficiency, and social life. Prevention is likely one of the major methods in lowering baby maltreatment. Schooling, life abilities coaching and psychosocial and psychological well being assist providers are among the many promising methods to lower baby maltreatment in communities. Rising kids’s information on the best way to shield themselves in addition to strengthening kids and communities’ engagement in creating protected and protecting atmosphere are two efficient approaches in prevention of kid maltreatment.  

UNICEF and the Youth Group of Iranian Crimson Crescent Society have signed a joint workplan (2023-2024). As a part of this partnership, UNICEF will assist growth and piloting a community-based mannequin for prevention of kid maltreatment. The platform for implementation of this mannequin is IRCS’ Homes and thru IRCS’ SAHAR (Psychosocial Assist) and YAS (Social Hurt Prevention) groups who will act because the group trainers/facilitators on this mission.

OBJECTIVE / SCOPE OF WORK

This consultancy will contribute to attaining the next key goals:

•            Enhancing kids’s information and abilities on prevention of kid maltreatment.

•            Enhancing kids and communities’ engagement in prevention of kid maltreatment and provision of psychosocial assist.

The mission can be performed in two phases I) growth of an academic bundle and capability constructing of the group trainers/facilitators and II) pilot implementation of the mannequin within the area. The present consultancy is geared toward implementing the primary part which is creating the tutorial bundle and capability constructing of the group trainers/facilitators based mostly on a necessity evaluation of the chosen provinces.

METHODOLOGY

The guide is predicted to deploy required quantitative and qualitative strategies along with the desk evaluate for assortment of inputs required for growth of the mannequin custom-made to the wants of the chosen geographical areas. To conduct the necessity evaluation specifically, the guide will determine the tutorial wants of IRCS’ SAHAR and YAS groups. This must also embrace the evaluation of the chosen group’s notion and wishes on this topic.

Elaboration on the recognized gaps and respective methodologies have to be supplied within the inception report.

ACTIVITIES, DELIVERABLES AND TIMELINES, PLUS BUDGET PER DELIVERABLE

In keeping with the above-mentioned goals, the important thing actions and deliverables of the consultancy are listed beneath:

•            Conduct a necessity evaluation: the guide will conduct a necessity evaluation to determine the tutorial wants of IRCS’ SAHAR and YAS groups. This must also embrace the evaluation of chosen group’s notion and wishes on this topic.

•            Develop instructional plan: based mostly on the evaluation of the necessity evaluation, the guide will develop an academic mannequin for the above-mentioned IRCS’s groups. This consists of growth of the required instructional supplies, toolkits and facilitators’ guideline to assist additional scale-up of the mannequin by IRCS. The tutorial supplies ought to embody the particular wants of girls and boys, kids with disabilities, and different susceptible teams of youngsters.

•            Capability constructing of IRCS’ groups: Based mostly on the tutorial plan, the guide will conduct a sequence of capability constructing trainings for IRCS’s groups to reinforce their information on prevention of kid maltreatment and provision of psychosocial assist. The coaching must also embrace subjects to reinforce contributors’ abilities to switch the information to their friends.

•            Monitoring and analysis plan: the guide ought to develop a monitoring and analysis mechanism and protocol to assist efficient and environment friendly implementation of the capability constructing part.

 

ACTIVITY	DELIVERABLES	ESTIMATED TIME	PAYMENT
Exercise 1: Develop an inception report, develop the tutorial mannequin based mostly on the results of want evaluation.	Deliverable 1: Inception report	15 days	40
Exercise 2: Conduct the necessity evaluation.	Deliverable 2: Report of the necessity evaluation and	25 days
Exercise 3: Develop the tutorial mannequin based mostly on the results of want evaluation.	Deliverable 3: Academic mannequin	15 days
Exercise 4: Develop the tutorial supplies/bundle	Deliverable 4: Academic supplies	50	60
Exercise 5: Conduct trainings	Deliverable 5: Ultimate report	20 days
Complete		125 days	100

CONDITIONS OF WORK

The guide shall use her/his personal amenities to handle the work, however, the place circumstances demand in any other case, shall be allowed to make use of obtainable UNICEF workplace area, laptop and web amenities with prior notification and association with the supervisor and UNICEF Admin/ICT. The supply of those amenities by UNICEF shall be topic to their availability.

Consultancy charges embrace the prices of journey, inter alia, flight tickets, lodging, and another journey bills, if any.

NOTE FOR CONSULTANTS AND INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTORS:

The Advisor ought to submit a technical proposal together with detailed plan, timeline, and checklist of technical staff members.

Please submit a monetary provide alongside together with your technical proposal, which comprises the next info:

•            Price for providers to be supplied – based mostly on the deliverables within the Phrases of Reference

•            Wherever attainable, point out the itemized price of the journey (air tickets and so on.)

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

The guide ought to possess the next {qualifications}:

•            PhD diploma in social work, public well being, or different associated disciplines,

•            Minimal three years of working expertise within the area of prevention of kid maltreatment and psychosocial assist providers,

•            Confirmed expertise in creating instructional fashions and community-based interventions,

•            Earlier working expertise with UNICEF/UN and IRCS is an asset.

 

Candidates are required to submit their technical proposals and monetary provides together with their functions. Solely the shortlisted candidates can be contacted for additional evaluation.

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Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

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