Remote/Home-based: Consultancy to support mainstreaming AAP in program planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation (52 working days; Nov 2023 to Mar 2024) – Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS)

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Function of Exercise/Project

Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) is an organization-wide precedence and is being scaled-up throughout programmes and areas. It’s mainstreamed inside UNICEF’s key guiding frameworks, such because the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-2025, Core Dedication of Kids in Humanitarian Motion (CCCs), and Nation Programme Planning Steerage. As an integral a part of UNICEF’s totally different phases of this system cycle, AAP ensures that views of affected populations, particularly from all weak and at-risk and women, boys, girls, and males, are heard; supplied equal alternatives to take heed to and supplied suggestions on all elements of programming. Supported by the group, they maintain UNICEF accountable for selling and defending their rights, producing efficient outcomes for them while working in ways in which improve their dignity, capacities, and resilience. For UNICEF and companions, it improves programme outcomes, notably by means of elevated demand for and use of high quality providers and higher accountability.

Underneath the steerage of the AAP Part Emergency Specialist, EMOPS Geneva, the guide will contribute to UNICEF’s commitments to scale up AAP in UNICEF, notably in mainstreaming it in international program planning, implementation and monitoring insurance policies and procedures, and evaluate associated steerage to nation places of work accordingly. This contributes primarily to strategic goal 1 and a pair of of the UNICEF AAP Technique 2022-2025.

• Strategic Goal 1: all nation places of work have AAP built-in into their nation plans, with appropriatetechnical and monetary help in place to help this effort
• Strategic Goal 2: all nation programmes are knowledgeable by the views, participation and suggestions fromcommunities and supply well timed info to affected communities, Nation places of work with processes forconsultation and take part of affected populations programmes
• Strategic Goal 3: collective accountability approaches are championed by UNICEF in all emergencyresponses. Nation workplace participates in and contributes to wider AAP coordination mechanism/s at thenational, subnational, and/or native degree
• Strategic Goal 4: a coherent, organization-wide people-centered and inclusive tradition is promoted byUNICEF management

The guide will work in shut cooperation with different members of the HQAAP Part, international DAPM and different HQ-based colleagues as related, in addition to AAP regional advisors.

Scope of Work

During the last three years, AAP has been included into related international programme insurance policies and procedures, and benchmarks on AAP had been launched as a part of the brand new “Core Commitments for Kids in Humanitarian Motion (the CCC’s)”. A variety of revisions of these international insurance policies and procedures have been made or are nonetheless beneath means and may have substantial impression on the dimensions up of AAP in UNICEF if AAP inputs had been effectively mainstreamed in these, and effectively outlined for nation places of work. The AAP group has been in a position to enter in a lot of these, nonetheless some gaps stay on the program monitoring degree that require a bit extra in depth work.

On this sense, this consultancy helps us in:

1. Reviewing present international DAPM developed steerage for RRBM, CPD, Sit AN, International UNICEF’s monitoring steerage, and others (together with checking UNICEF’s inputs in these) and the worldwide AAP group’s enter into the revisions of these international procedures, and suggesting additions if any.
2. Revising already present pointers developed by the AAP group to assist mainstream AAP in PME processes, and mainlythe “mainstreaming AAP in CPD”, mainstreaming AAP in program planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluationaccording to the newest developments and revisions made by UNICEF to the worldwide PME procedures.
3. Guarantee AAP Indicators are mainstreamed in international insurance policies and procedures, primarily the CCC indicators, the CSIs andtheir associated methodology notes, HAC, RAM, and others and being a part of the evaluate of the CSIs international course of takingplace in direction of the top of 2023-2024, in addition to revise the AAP Monitoring steerage accordingly.
4. Adapting the steerage developed in ECAR on use suggestions from CFMs to tell program selections, to theglobal context, and revising this chapter of the worldwide AAP handbook accordingly.
5. Guiding on how AAP might be mainstreamed in sectors similar to Well being, WASH, Vitamin, Schooling, Little one Protectionand Social Safety

Work Project Overview

Duties / Milestone		Deliverables / Outputs	Timeline / Deadline
Evaluate and guarantee adoption of AAP inputs in international steerage on program planning and implementation, and work on the revision of AAP indicators in numerous processes (CSIs, CCC, HAC, RAM, and so forth.)	Preliminary Inception report	Submit an Inception Report	2 working days; By 14 November 2023
	Program monitoring	Revise AAP inputs to the DAPM international monitoring companion steerage, make amendments as wanted and validate AAP inputs with DAPM.	2 working days; By 16 November 2023
		Nation Commonplace Indicators (CSIs): Evaluate the DAPM accepted CSI change requests coming from COs and modifications that will likely be carried out earlier than the beginning of 2023 CSI Reporting (all out there in a recorded name) Have interaction in Preparations for 2023 CSI Reporting together with Thematic webinars if wanted and the evaluate of the AAP; CSI methodology word as wanted	6 working days; By 24 November 2023
		Take part in HAC 2024 revision calls and discussions, and suggest a lit of latest HAC indicators for AAP, together with their methodology notes.	7 working days; By 05 December 2023
		Finalize the revised AAP CCCs Indicators and steerage, and validate with EMOPS.	3 working days; By 08 December 2023
		Have interaction with and validate with international DAPM for a listing of AAP RAM indicators.	2 working days; By 12 December 2023
		Revise the worldwide AAP Monitoring steerage and guarantee it contains all the varied parts associated to the above deliverables.	3 working days; By 15 December 2023
	Program Planning	Evaluate and validate with DAPM the adoption of the AAP inputs made to the varied DAPM program planning pointers: the CPD pointers, the Nation Program Planning (CPP) steerage, the SitAn new steerage, and RRBM coaching modules	7 working days; By 19 January 2024
	Program implementation	Evaluate the AAP inputs within the International Program Implementation Handbook and elaborate the DAPM accepted parts for correct AAP integration. Validate with DAPM.	5 working days; By 02 February 2024
AAP Steerage & Capability constructing	Replace present steerage on AAP within the Program Cycle in addition to AAP pages within the PPPx	Revise chapter 5 of the Handbook on “Mainstreaming AAP in this system cycle” together with the instruments, guaranteeing it’s hyperlinked to all merchandise finalized throughout this consultancy (this chapter will then be thought of the company steerage on Mainstreaming AAP within the Program Cycle)	5 working days; By 13 February 2024
		Evaluate the AAP pages within the PPPx in alignment with the above steerage	2 working days; By 15 February 2024
	Guarantee the brand new AAP capability constructing curriculum displays all steerage on AAP which was developed and up to date throughout this consultancy	Conduct a gathering with the worldwide AAP capability constructing group & share related paperwork & steerage for the event of associated modules	2 working days; By 21 February 2024
		Guarantee revision of the ultimate capability constructing product to make sure alignment with the work finished beneath this consultancy	4 working days; By 29 February 2024
Reporting on total deliverables		Report on deliverables submitted and handover notes and proposals on transfer additional	2 working days; By 06 March 2024

Estimated Period of the Contract

52 working days (between November 2023 and March 2024)

Guide’s Work Place and Official Journey

The project will likely be home-based, and no journey is foreseen.

Estimated Price of the Consultancy & Cost Schedule

Cost will likely be made on submission of an bill and passable completion of the above-mentioned deliverables. Please point out knowledgeable price (in USD) primarily based on 52 working days to undertake this project.

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

• Grasp’s diploma in public well being, information and analytics, humanitarian subject.
• At the least 8 years {of professional} expertise in of growth and humanitarian response and/or worldwide growth.
• Familiarity with the ideas of accountability to affected populations and neighborhood engagement (suggestions and complaints mechanisms, participation, info provision).
• Thorough expertise with and data of ideas and present approaches to monitoring and analysis in humanitarian and growth programmes, utilizing each quantitative and qualitative strategies.
• Familiarity with and expertise mainstreaming AAP in program planning, implementation and M&E modalities (together with fashions, information evaluation and interpretation, creating suggestions and dissemination of M&E outcomes, operational and methods implementation).
• Expertise with managing and conducting multi-stakeholder consultations at totally different ranges.
• Ideally work experiences with UNICEF, ideally in a rustic workplace, on creating pointers/steerage paperwork and capacity-building modules.
• Glorious analytical abilities with sturdy drive for outcomes and capability to work independently.
• Proficiency in written and verbal English language.

For each Little one, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS), and core competencies in Communication, Working with Individuals and Drive for Outcomes.

To view our competency framework, please go to here.

UNICEF is dedicated to variety and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, spiritual and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to use to turn out to be part of the group.

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 ideas. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can subsequently 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 test.

Remarks:

Please embody a full CV and Monetary Proposal in your utility. Moreover, point out your availability {and professional} price (in USD) to undertake the phrases of reference above. Purposes submitted with out a skilled price is not going to be thought of. Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.

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