National Consultant to abridge the UNICEF Climate Landscape Analysis for Children to inform consultations with external stakeholders, Tbilisi, Georgia.

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in 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 little one, in every single place, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each little one,  

Objective of Exercise/Task:

Local weather change, vitality entry and environmental degradation are fairness points, with youngsters and younger folks usually being essentially the most susceptible and affected. Local weather change threatens youngsters’s survival, improvement, vitamin, training, and well being – all of that are youngsters’s rights and shrined within the Conference on the Rights of the Baby (CRC). The impacts of local weather change are solely simply starting and can possible proceed to worsen over the lifetime of right this moment’s youngsters and future generations. The selections made now may have best influence on youngsters. Kids can even really feel these results longer than adults, making them important in right this moment’s choices about local weather change responses. Unaddressed, local weather change will hurt the poorest and most susceptible youngsters first, hardest, and longest. Motion on local weather change is crucial to reaching the Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs), and requires built-in motion throughout social, financial, and environmental spheres. Addressing local weather change, vitality entry and environmental degradation is subsequently important for constructing a extra sustainable future for kids.

UNICEF has been engaged all sectors regarding youngsters (well being, vitamin, HIV, water and sanitation, little one safety, social inclusion, and training, and so forth.) which can be affected indirectly by local weather change and/or environmental degradation. Luckily, every stream of UNICEF work additionally presents alternatives to take motion on local weather, vitality and/or the atmosphere to be able to ship extra sustainable outcomes. There are main implications of local weather change, lack of vitality 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 vitality for kids. Local weather, vitality, atmosphere, and catastrophe danger discount (DRR) are cross-cutting priorities in addition to a devoted outcome space in Purpose Space 4 – Each little one lives in a secure and clear atmosphere. The brand new Strategic Plan acknowledges that local weather change and environmental degradation are existential threats to a baby’s capability to outlive, develop, and thrive and that every one levers of the group have to work collectively in a coordinated trend. The brand new Strategic Plan attracts stronger hyperlinks between responses to local weather change with catastrophe danger discount as youngsters more and more want holistic options that deal with each sudden-onset impacts of disasters, together with these which can be exacerbated by local weather change — comparable to hurricanes and floods — and resilient options that promote climate-smart improvement for the long-term.  

Inside this context, on the finish of 2022 UNICEF Georgia performed a Local weather Panorama Evaluation for Kids (CLAC), to look at the baseline scenario of local weather, vitality and environment-related points affecting youngsters and the way they relate to UNICEF’s priorities. The target of the CLAC, which is an inner working doc for the nation workplace, was to generate consciousness on dimensions of local weather, atmosphere, and vitality (CEE) subjects and the impacts on youngsters, together with from a gender perspective. The report focuses on key CEE subjects that have an effect on youngsters in Georgia and on how inequalities exacerbate these impacts. Furthermore, the report offers suggestions on how UNICEF Georgia might additional incorporate and strengthen work on local weather, vitality, and environment-related points in its Nation Programme.

Herewith, UNICEF Georgia is looking for a nationwide guide to assessment the CLAC report, replace the suggestions and switch the report right into a concise exterior doc to be shared with related stakeholders.

Scope of Work:

The incumbent should assessment the CLAC report to show it into an exterior doc focusing on a variety of stakeholders. The ultimate report ought to inform coverage choices and advocate for motion. It ought to

• summarize key findings from the inner report (utilizing language match for a broader viewers) with a give attention to essentially the most essential climate-related impacts on youngsters.
• Primarily based on the inner report’s suggestions, suggest an motion plan for UNICEF.

Anticipated outcomes and timelines

1)            CLAC abridged to 10-15 pages  – finish of April 2024              

2)            Presentation of the report ready together with local weather motion plan  – finish of Might 2024

3)            Record of stakeholders compiled and invited to the roundtable dialogue  – 1st week of June 2024

4)            Roundtable organized and report with suggestions & motion plan offered to stakeholders                                                           – final week of June 2024

Period:  from 08.04.2024 to 30.06.2024

Location: Dwelling-based

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

Grasp’s diploma in Local weather Science and Environmental Research, Ecology, or associated fields.

At the very least 2 yr’s work expertise in related fields.

Information of local weather change and environmental degradation and their influence on well being, improvement, and well-being of youngsters.

Good understanding of vulnerabilities to local weather change coupled with data of the native context.

Glorious writing expertise each, in Georgian and English.

Good analytical expertise.

Good understanding of kid rights or any of UNICEF’s foremost areas of labor is taken into account an asset.

Earlier work expertise with UN is an asset, particularly in climate-resilient companies provision, CEE insurance policies and/or UNICEF local weather panorama for kids assessments.

For each Baby, you display… 

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, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

UNICEF gives reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This will likely embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your utility in case you want cheap lodging through the choice course of and afterwards in your project. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict little one safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates might 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 supply extra data to conduct a background examine. 

Remarks:  

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

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought of “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 offered therein (comparable to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service might be ruled by their contract and the Normal Situations of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are answerable 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 in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF in the course of their consultancy contracts.