National Consultant: Victims Support information package and training manual, Accra-Ghana, 6 months (For Ghanaian National Only)

UNICEF works in among 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 youngster, in every single place, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each youngster, Safety 

Background

It’s estimated that, globally, 736 million ladies – nearly one in three – have been subjected to bodily and/or sexual intimate companion violence, non-partner sexual violence, or each a minimum of as soon as of their life (30 % of girls aged 15 and older). This determine doesn’t embrace sexual harassment. 

Violence in opposition to ladies and ladies is each a trigger and consequence of gender inequality. It may well take many varieties, together with home violence; sexual violence, together with sexual harassment or rape; human trafficking. feminine genital mutilation; youngster marriage; or on-line and ICT-facilitated violence, e.g., cyber-bullying or doxing. Violence impacts ladies and ladies all through their life cycle, regardless of revenue ranges or their social standing. VAWG additionally has a ripple impact for households, communities, wider society and the economic system. For instance, misplaced employment and productiveness (work and college), impede long-term financial development. If unaddressed, VAWG has severe value implications and penalties for poverty discount and improvement, together with hampering efforts to attain the SDGs and the 2030 sustainable improvement agenda.

UNICEF continues to assist the federal government of Ghana in its effort to advertise equal rights of girls, ladies and boys and to assist their full participation within the political, social and financial improvement of their communities. That is performed inside the broader body of gender equality in accordance with the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster (CRC) and the Conference on the Elimination of All Types of Discrimination in opposition to Girls (CEDAW) as an necessary key doc underpinning the group’s mandate and mission. Ending abuse and violence, together with sexual and gender-based violence is a key precedence for SDG aim 16.2 (Finish abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all types of violence in opposition to and torture of youngsters), and aligns to a number of priorities and frameworks, together with: UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2022-2025, specifically Objective Space 3, which goals at defending each youngster from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and dangerous practices. UNICEF Ghana Nation Workplace Biannual Work Plan (2023 – 2024), has particular indicator devoted to making sure that ladies and boys who’ve skilled violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect are reached by well being, social work, or justice/regulation enforcement providers.

It’s broadly acknowledged that youngster sexual abuse happens extra typically than reported. But when reported, there are situations the place the circumstances are now not pursued. To this finish, UNICEF supported the Judicial Service to undertake an evaluation of Sexual Abuse Circumstances Earlier than the Gender-Based mostly Violence Courts and different Circuit Courts in Ghana” to audit the extent of attrition and the underpinning elements that contribute to the phenomenon, present the much-needed understanding of the hole between coverage and observe and strengthening youngster safety mechanisms to enhance entry to justice to ladies and youngsters.

To fight this epidemic of violence in opposition to ladies and ladies and enhance their entry to justice, it’s mandatory to offer survivors and individuals vulnerable to Gender Based mostly Violence with high quality and well timed entry to complete multi-sectoral providers reminiscent of psychological/psychosocial assist providers, well being care providers, in addition to police and justice response providers. Growing the standard and accessibility of those providers is important in mitigating the results of violence together with the impact violence has on the wellbeing, well being, and security of survivors, breaking the cycles of violence ladies and ladies face, aiding of their restoration, bringing perpetrators to justice and empowering ladies and ladies by enhancing capability for dealing with of victims and offering survivors the requisite data wanted to assist them take part within the justice course of.

Goal of the Task

UNICEF Ghana along with Judicial Service, DOVVSU and Social welfare need to interact the providers of a extremely expert and skilled guide to develop a guide or pointers for professionals working inside the justice and social providers for youngsters and girls who’re survivors. The guide will embrace a side completely supposed to information survivors from the purpose of contact with the Police, by means of to the judicial course of.

Work Task

1. Conduct desk assessment of the out there sources and most up-to-date efforts on this space carried out by different related actors. Arrange consultations with key informants and submit an inception report detailing transient abstract of key findings.
2. Based mostly on activity one, develop a complete coaching package deal (workshop supplies and coaching modules on sufferer assist), together with extra references, technical explanations, additional studying recommendations, sources, and written steerage. The guide ought to be tailor-made to go well with Judicial Service, DOVVSU, and Social welfare.
3. Based mostly on activity one, develop a complete data package deal for victims and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. The data package deal ought to be threefold. One for victims who come to the Police (DOVVSU)as a primary level of contact with clear data as to what processes they may undergo the second for victims earlier than the courts with content material related to the judicial course of and the third for victims involved with social improvement employees. (the identical data can be utilized by the Steering and Counselling part in colleges).
4. Maintain stakeholder consultations to solicit enter into the coaching manuals and incorporate suggestions.
5. Conduct preliminary coaching for key and related stakeholders utilizing the manuals. Use the coaching to check the sufferer data package deal as properly.
6. Finalise coaching manuals and data packages for onward submission.

Kindly confer with this TOR for particulars on the task. Victims support TOR -final.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have… 

• Should maintain a grasp’s diploma in regulation or associated subject.
• At the very least 5 years {of professional} expertise in enterprise case audits or comparable task
• Demonstrated expertise in working with authorities companions and different stakeholders in public sector improvement applications, particularly in capability improvement.
• Exhibit data of the formal authorized system
• Exhibit wonderful interpersonal {and professional} abilities in interacting with authorities and improvement companions;
• Excessive-level written and oral communication abilities in English
• Should be result-oriented, a group participant, exhibiting excessive ranges of enthusiasm
• Expertise in facilitation of stakeholder engagements/workshops;
• Proof of getting undertaken comparable assignments

Kindly present your monetary proposal as per the deliverables by finishing the hooked up Work Assignments Overview Template for Financial proposal.docx

For each Youngster, you exhibit… 

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 variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

UNICEF presents 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 software in case you want affordable lodging in the course of the choice course of and afterwards in your task. 

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 youngster safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will probably 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 offer extra data to conduct a background test. 

 

Remarks:  

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

People engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought of “employees members” below the Workers Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (reminiscent of go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Normal Circumstances of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee 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 health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your entire 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 task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should 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 capabilities for UNICEF at some stage in their consultancy contracts.