Pacific Children Climate Risk Index – Disaster Risk Management (CCRI-DRM) Coordination Consultant, Pacific Multi-Country Office, Suva, Fiji, 12 Months

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each baby, all over the place, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each baby, water.

We function within the Pacific, particularly within the Prepare dinner Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. These 14 Pacific island international locations are residence to 2.3 million individuals, together with 1.2 million kids and youth. They inhabit greater than 660 islands and atolls that stretch throughout 17.2 million sq. kilometers of the Pacific Ocean. This space is akin to the mixed dimension of the USA of America and Canada. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu are labeled as Fragile States in keeping with World Financial institution/OECD standards.

All 14 Pacific Island international locations and territories have ratified the UN Conference on the Rights of the Little one. Nonetheless, solely a 3rd are on observe with reporting obligations. You’ll be able to discover the totally different areas of our work on the hyperlink offered right here: www.unicef.org/pacificislands .

Background of Task: 

The Pacific Island International locations and Territories (PICTs) are among the many most affected and susceptible areas to the impacts of local weather change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity and habitat loss. The 2021 World Threat Index identifies 5 PICTs among the many 20 most at-risk international locations on the planet (Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji and Kiribati). Whereas its collective greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions account for lower than 0.01 per cent of worldwide emissions, the Pacific area is on the frontline of the adversarial impacts of local weather change. Individuals within the Pacific Small Islands Growth States (SIDS) are three to 5 instances extra in danger than these in different components of the Asia-Pacific area. In response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change (IPCC), the Pacific area is being affected by rising temperatures, a bigger proportion of probably the most intense tropical cyclones, storm surges, droughts, adjustments in precipitation patterns, sea stage rise, coral bleaching and invasive species, all of that are already detectable throughout each pure and human methods. As well as, the area is uncovered to non-climatic hazards, with 73 per cent of the inhabitants and 65 per cent of financial inventory uncovered to seismic hazards.

Composed of 14 Pacific Island international locations and territories (PICTs), the area is residence to over 1,000,000 kids. Kids and younger persons are hit hardest by disasters and local weather change impacts, which threaten meals safety, enhance water shortage, pressure households from their properties, and enhance the danger of battle and public well being emergencies. They face lack of livelihoods, disruption of schooling and restricted entry to protected water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), well being and vitamin, and baby safety companies. There’s additionally a larger danger of exploitation, abuse, violence and household separation.

As a way to shield the lives, well being and well-being of youngsters and strengthen the resilience and capability of their communities to adapt important social companies to a altering local weather, extra frequent/excessive disasters and a degrading surroundings, a complete child-inclusive subnational danger evaluation together with information methods and insurance policies that work throughout improvement and catastrophe administration to establish and prioritize probably the most susceptible kids and companies are wanted. This information and evaluation can be utilized to tell a number of functions: catastrophe danger discount (DRR) and local weather change adaptation, preparedness planning, and wider improvement agendas. The provision of coherent, accessible, and up to date info is taken into account a precedence to tell resolution makers and promote processes of local weather change adaptation, DRR and extra sustained and resilient improvement. These efforts must be primarily based on a shared evaluation of dangers, together with a number of shocks and stress threats, each pure and human-made threats, and utilizing an built-in, multi-sectoral strategy. It will facilitate planning and prioritization of danger areas and a greater understanding of the underlying causes of elevated danger ranges.

In 2021, UNICEF undertook the primary complete evaluation of local weather danger from a baby’s perspective. Referred to as the Kids’s Local weather Threat Index – Catastrophe Threat Mannequin (CCRI-DRM), it ranks international locations primarily based on kids’s publicity and vulnerability to local weather and environmental hazards, shocks and stresses. The CCRI-DRM is a composite index developed primarily based on publicity to hazards and socio-economic vulnerabilities information with a deal with kids. It’s devised to assist perceive and measure the chance and particular areas the place local weather and environmental shocks and stresses could result in erosion of improvement progress, the deepening of deprivations, and humanitarian crises that have an effect on kids and susceptible households and teams. It seeks to establish which areas are prone to deepening baby deprivations and humanitarian conditions affecting kids because of their publicity to those shocks and stresses and to grasp the underlying components that might contribute to those dangers.

Within the second part, the CCRI-DRM is being calculated at subnational ranges masking as well as some international locations of the Pacific Islands area that weren’t included within the first part as a result of information availability limitations. The general intention is to help the institution of a national-led, multistakeholder framework on the nexus between kids’s local weather, surroundings and catastrophe dangers and the event of their full potential within the Pacific Islands. The CCRI-DRMs subnational evaluation within the Pacific Islands are envisaged to seize the next parts:

• Subnational CCRI-DRMs for Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Kiribati.
• Nation particular interactive platforms, making the Pacific CCRI-DRMs publicly accessible.
• Multi-stakeholder technical platforms guiding the manufacturing and replace of the Pacific CCRI-DRMs and the evaluation and use of its’ outcomes.
• CCRI-DRMs analytical stories to help the alignment and coordination of planning and programming efforts of nationwide actors with knowledgeable by recognized baby vulnerabilities and dangers from local weather, environmental and different shocks and stresses and local weather adjustments.
• The promotion and facilitation of the usage of proof on local weather, environmental and catastrophe dangers to help local weather change mitigation and adaptation, emergency preparedness and response, DRR, resilient improvement.

The Pacific CCRI-DRMs reply to the necessity for an built-in local weather, surroundings and catastrophe danger info system for governmental establishments at nationwide and subnational ranges that brings collectively information from information sources current in numerous establishments and supplies them and humanitarian and improvement companions up-to-date, context-specific info at subnational stage on kids’s vulnerabilities, together with these associated to well being, schooling, WASH, baby safety and social safety,  and their publicity to local weather, environmental and different pure and anthropogenic hazards, shocks and stresses and disasters. It will enable for the event of tailor-made preparedness, mitigation, and response mechanisms knowledgeable by subnational danger information and evaluation.

UNICEF Pacific is in search of a devoted, proactive marketing consultant to work intently with UNICEF Pacific and their Discipline Places of work (FO), and Authorities and Non-Authorities companions of Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Kiribati to develop a theoretical framework for the CCRI-DRM fashions, facilitating the identification of country-specific indicator information units and the development of the CCRI-DRM index indicators and fashions with authorities line ministries, and the preparation of instruments, procedures, and documentation for the event of the CCRI-DRMs. As soon as danger is known and knowledgeable by information, high-level sectoral briefs will must be ready to tell sector priorities for the mainstreaming of local weather resilience and mitigation/adaptation investments. 

How will you make a distinction? 

The aim of this consultancy is to help UNICEF Pacific and the governments of Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Kiribati to develop CCRI-DRMs contextualized to their nation particular context, making certain a excessive stage of engagement and possession by nationwide authorities and different stakeholders. For this task, the marketing consultant will work with UNICEF and related authorities and non-government companions to establish, compile and analyze current information sources and platforms to seize 1) local weather and catastrophe danger and a couple of) vulnerability, particularly for kids, households, and their communities to those dangers on the nationwide and subnational stage. Subsequently, an interactive open-source visualization platforms presenting the subnational danger fashions and underlying indicators information will probably be embedded or developed with help from UNICEF that may help with prioritization and planning for danger mitigation and adaptation – in addition to inform preparedness and improvement funding priorities. Whereas the Pacific CCRI-DRMs will share widespread ideas, the 4 CCRI-DRMs will probably be impartial and developed bilaterally with nationwide governments, establishments and different stakeholders, making certain that every mannequin displays and captures the particular vulnerabilities and local weather and catastrophe dangers for kids in every context.

She/he’ll work beneath the overall steering and supervision of the WASH Specialist, partaking and dealing intently with UNICEF Pacific programmatic areas, UNICEF Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Kiribati Discipline Places of work (FO), and nationwide authorities establishments. The method will primarily interact and coordinate with the local weather change and catastrophe administration authorities in every nation (the Local weather Change Division beneath the Workplace of the Prime Minister in Fiji; the Ministry of Local weather Change Adaptation, Meteorology & Geo-Hazards, Vitality, Atmosphere and Catastrophe Administration in Vanuatu; the Ministry of Atmosphere, Local weather Change, Catastrophe Administration and Meteorology in Solomon Islands; and the Ministry of Atmosphere, Lands and Agriculture Developments in Kiribati), involving different governments establishments such because the Statistics Divisions, the Meteorological Companies and sectoral line ministries (from the areas of well being, vitamin, schooling, WASH, baby safety, and social safety, amongst others).

Please consult with the ToR  VA TOR. 2023.CEED.CCRI-DRM coordinator.pdf for additional info on the deliverables and the timelines.

GUIDANCE FOR APPLICANTS:

All functions for this consultancy should embody a separate monetary provide together with the technical proposal.

The monetary proposal must be a lump sum quantity for all of the deliverables and may present a break down for the next:

• Each day consultancy charges – primarily based on the deliverables within the Phrases of Reference above
• Miscellaneous- to cowl communications and different prices.

 

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

Training:  

• An Superior College diploma in social sciences, public insurance policies, statistics or associated fields. In lieu of a sophisticated diploma, a Bachelor could also be accepted with 2 extra years of related expertise.

Expertise, Abilities and Language:  

• No less than 5 years of related skilled expertise associated to the event of data methods, administration and evaluation of quantitative information.
• Expertise within the statistical system, GIS, information trade and knowledge sharing mechanisms/constructions in growing international locations; this expertise being in local weather and catastrophe danger administration areas and Small Islands Growth States will probably be a powerful asset.
• Information of nationwide and native governance and local weather change and catastrophe danger administration is an asset.
• Expertise of working with authorities companions.
• Expertise designing and facilitating inter-institutional working teams and participatory processes partaking a various vary of stakeholders, together with governments.
• Expertise in researching and making ready written analytical stories in an correct, concise and well timed method.
• Evaluation abilities and quantitative and qualitative synthesis of data.
• Work expertise serving in a growing nation is required. Work expertise within the Pacific Islands area is an asset.
• Expertise working in UNICEF, or a UN system company is an asset.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

For each Little one, you reveal… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

To view our competency framework, please go to  here

Remarks:  

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should replicate the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

UNICEF affords reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This will likely embody, 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 cheap lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your task. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict baby safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply extra info to conduct a background verify. 

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “employees 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 (similar to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Common Circumstances of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are chargeable 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 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 are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF throughout their consultancy contracts. 

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of for this consultancy.