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

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The State of affairs Evaluation (the SitAn) of kids’s rights and wellbeing is a flagship product designed to tell coverage dialogue, partnerships and interventions to enhance the lives of kids. 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 a vital a part of the kid rights monitoring (CRM) framework and represents a key UNICEF’s programmatic output that helps concentrate on information 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 coverage advocacy to make an necessary 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 sure that all laws is absolutely suitable with the Conference and, if relevant the Non-compulsory Protocols, by incorporating the provisions into home legislation or guaranteeing that they take priority in circumstances of battle with nationwide laws;
• Make kids seen in coverage improvement processes all through authorities by introducing little one influence assessments;
• Analyse authorities spending to find out the portion of public funds spent on kids and to make sure that these assets are getting used successfully;
• Be sure that adequate information 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 Non-compulsory 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 strategy 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 debate the priorities of recent Nation Programme cycle, there’s a rising have to replace the evaluation and supply UNICEF and its companions with new and strong proof on state of affairs of kids and adolescents within the nation, significantly essentially the most susceptible, 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 numerous main analysis, research and evaluations that supplied new proof that might be used to strengthen and broaden information/data proof on the state of affairs of kids and adolescents within the nation.

In view of the above, UNICEF Uzbekistan CO is looking for the companies of a person marketing consultant (or establishment) to steer the consultations and deliberations with key stakeholders and develop the SitAn report utilizing the accessible proof, whereas paying due consideration to the newest suggestions of the Committee on the Rights of the Little one, Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDG) agenda, UNICEF Strategic Plan for 2022-2025, UNICEF Gender Motion Plan 2022-2025, and fundamental 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 objective of this project is to conduct a human-rights primarily based and equity-focused State of affairs Evaluation of kids and adolescents with respect to the realisation of kids’s and adolescents’ rights. The evaluation ought to look at the progress, challenges and alternatives for reaching little one rights and well-being, and the patterns of deprivation that kids and adolescents face. The Evaluation must be goal and verifiable and is anticipated 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 State of affairs Evaluation report is to spotlight the strategic priorities for the nation to cut back disparities and tackle 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 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 susceptible teams; the adequacy of coverage supply and when related emergency response, significantly by way of finances; and the assets 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 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 places and different dimensions. The SitAn ought to pay particular consideration to disaggregated information and unpacking nationwide and/or subnational averages. In addition to 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 improvement that ensures equal inclusion and participation of all teams of kids and adolescents. SitAn must be grounded within the nation’s political, financial and social realities, evaluation 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 must 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 kids and younger people who find themselves most disadvantaged, left invisible or uncounted for.

The State of affairs Evaluation is related to a wider viewers which incorporates authorities our bodies, all improvement companions (together with UNICEF), civil society, ombudspersons, kids and adolescents, academia, personal sector actors, media and others. The method of growing the State of affairs Evaluation, due to this fact, anticipates engagement with the federal government and key stakeholders, together with kids and younger individuals. It serves as a chance to advertise significant dialogue between the principle 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-Primarily based 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 reaching 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 might be 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 reaching 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, instant, underlying and structural causes, 10 determinants must be utilized.

Methodology

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

• Desk evaluation of present nationally and internationally accessible information and proof on chosen subjects revealed in research, analysis, analysis and survey stories.
• Desk evaluation of knowledge, programme stories and evaluation generated by UNICEF, together with research, analysis and evaluations.
• Desk evaluation and comparative evaluation of obtainable laws, social coverage, authorities methods and finances 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 information 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 many others.).
• 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 Steerage on conducting the State of affairs Evaluation is requested as a reference for this objective.

Levels of the state of affairs evaluation (precise time frame to be agreed with consultants):

Inside the project consultants must be engaged in establishing partnerships with all related stakeholders that may contribute to the SitAn improvement. This course of shall be supported by the UNICEF CO.

1. Inception part:

• Preliminary desk evaluation to evaluate availability of knowledge/data
• Improvement of a ultimate 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. Information assortment and evaluation:

• Information assortment and in-depth desk-review of present proof concerning the state of affairs of kids and adolescents. This consists of information/data on most deprived and disadvantaged teams of kids. Nationwide methods and planning paperwork, insurance policies and budgets. Related information and data on local weather points, power and atmosphere, gender equality, public monetary administration, position of the enterprise sector, and the significant kids and adolescent’s participation must be collected and analysed.
• Interviews and/or focus teams with key informants.
• Secondary evaluation of obtainable information/data.
• Dialogue and settlement on methods to take away bottlenecks to the realisation of kid rights, significantly for susceptible teams.

3. Reporting:
Improvement of draft and ultimate stories, presentation and annexes

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Consultants are required to obviously determine any potential moral difficulty, in addition to the processes for moral evaluation and oversight of the analysis/information assortment course of of their proposal. UNICEF Process for Moral Requirements in Analysis, Analysis, Information Assortment and Evaluation must be persistently utilized all through the analysis course of. The process accommodates 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.

REQUIREMENTS

Key deliverables and timeframe

The work is anticipated to be carried out inside a interval of 5 months.
A complete of fifty consultancy working days are estimated for this project with the next estimated share of days:

• Inception Section – whole of 14 working 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 26 working days

The occasions are indicative and will be adjusted in operate of the preparations.

The staff is anticipated to provide 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 advised 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 information/information gaps organized by the proposed little one rights domains and sub-domains (format supplied)
• Last draft report for validation – as per the advised Tips.
• Last Report – which integrates feedback from the validation course of, ideally restricted to ~ 50 pages (not together with Annexes).
• Last PowerPoint presentation and, as relevant, detailed causality analyses.

Inputs on submitted inception and draft stories supplied by UNICEF and different stakeholders must be addressed within the course of and ultimate paperwork.

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

Define of the report must be primarily based on the UNICEF Core Steerage: New Technology State of affairs Evaluation.

Required {qualifications} and expertise:

The project is anticipated to be undertaken ideally by a staff of two consultants – one worldwide and one nationwide professional. 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 improvement or associated fields related for the project. 
• Robust analytical expertise – references to earlier work or establishments
• Glorious information of statistics, social service programs, improvement agenda
• Earlier expertise with UNICEF is a bonus.
• Not less than 5 years of related expertise in improvement of analytical stories 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;
• Data 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; Fluency in Uzbek and Russian for nationwide marketing consultant.
• Glorious writing expertise

COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION

Primarily based 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 Steerage on Exterior Tutorial Publishing (January 2017) when partaking in publishing the State of affairs evaluation stories, whether or not in print or digital kind.

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

TERMS OF PAYMENT
The marketing consultant/s will make their very own preparations for the journey. Journey prices (if related) must be estimated and included into the proposal (lump sum and break down by finances strains) together with the requested every day charge. Journey prices shall be calculated primarily based on economic system class journey; prices for lodging, meals and incidentals shall not exceed relevant every 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 stories (full and annexes report) – 40%
• Third instalments: Upon passable acceptance of the ultimate SitAn Studies (full and annexes, together with SOCR) and ultimate PPT and different agreed deliverables/databases – 30%

APPROVAL PROCEDURES AND LOGISTICS

• Consultants ought to act with integrity and respect for all stakeholders consistent with UNICEF moral pointers concerning proof technology.
• UNICEF Uzbekistan Nation Workplace (CO) holds copyrights for all stories. The paperwork (together with uncooked supplies, and many others.) will not be reproduced, distributed or revealed with out the written permission from UNICEF.
• All private information must be accessible to staff members, however nobody else. The consultants have to arrange safe programs (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-about on this occasion. Completely different private information recordsdata must be link-able, they must be held individually in order that they’ll 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 programs in ways in which would possibly 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 professional will evaluation and supply suggestions on stories ready by consultants.
• UNICEF Uzbekistan CO will present administrative help for the work of consultants.
• All data from produced stories can’t be shared with the media with out the written approval of UNICEF Uzbekistan Nation Workplace.

ESTIMATED COSTS
Estimated prices shall be recognized primarily based on proposals and will embrace the next prices:

A) Consultants’ charges
B) Journey prices

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