Senior Consultant (Mid Term Analysis of Strategic Framework 2020-2030), Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), 50 Days (Jan-Sept 2024), REMOTE, Req: 566865

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, in every single place, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each baby, Clear Water

Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) is a world UNICEF hosted partnership of over 400 companions, together with governments, non-public sector and civil society organizations, exterior assist businesses, analysis and studying establishments, utilities and regulators working collectively to catalyse political management and motion, enhance accountability and use scarce sources extra successfully. Companions work in the direction of a standard imaginative and prescient of sanitation, hygiene and water for all, at all times and in every single place.

The Secretariat of the SWA world partnership is hosted by UNICEF at its Headquarters in New York and Geneva. The SWA Secretariat, because the operational arm of the Partnership and of the Steering Committee, is accountable for supporting the implementation of the partnership’s technique.

In 2020, SWA adopted its ten-year Strategic Framework 2020-2030, whose final imaginative and prescient is sanitation, water and hygiene for all, at all times and in every single place. The Strategic Framework has three aims:

• Goal 1: Construct and maintain political will to get rid of inequalities in water, sanitation and hygiene
• Goal 2: Champion multi-stakeholder approaches towards reaching common entry to providers
• Goal 3: Rally stakeholders to strengthen system efficiency and entice new investments

Since 2020, there have been appreciable adjustments each within the world context and in SWA’s work. When it comes to the worldwide setting, the COVID pandemic, financial insecurity, and the persevering with battle in Ukraine have all impacted priorities of nations, and obtainable sources to fulfill the Sustainable Improvement Targets, together with SDG 6 on common entry to water and sanitation. Additionally, in 2023 the UN convened a Water Convention (UNWC) and the PGA issued Conclusions from the assembly. The GA additionally adopted a decision to observe up on the UNWC.

Inside SWA, the brand new Strategic Framework has led to vital adjustments in our priorities and methods of working – for instance:

• It added a stronger nationwide degree assist element to SWA’s work. It has led the Secretariat to additional focus its efforts on work with precedence nations, that are chosen based mostly on present knowledge and demand from governments. The SWA Nation Profiles additionally assist the Secretariat to establish the primary gaps and contributes to the collection of precedence nations.
• SWA has additionally devoted appreciable consideration to make sure that water and sanitation attain past its personal “echo chamber” by way of centered efforts to succeed in OUT and UP. Reaching out to different sectors and making connections throughout key points has been crucial for SWA to type new alliances and harness interlinkages for collective progress. This work been particularly centered on well being, local weather, gender, and crises. Relating to reaching as much as the highest-level resolution makers, after nearly 15 years of existence SWA has in depth expertise in organizing high-level conferences (specifically the Sector Ministers’ Assembly and the Finance Ministers’ Assembly), whose type and content material has advanced to be extra intersectoral and its format designed for optimum impression (e.g., regional finance ministers’ conferences). SWA, along with UNICEF, the Netherlands, and IRC-WASH, has additionally just lately launch the Heads of State Initiatives, in recognition of the truth that securing political buy-in on the highest govt degree is a crucial enabling issue to sustainably rising entry to water and sanitation.
• The SWA Mutual Accountability Mechanism (MAM), established in 2018, now’s residence to over 400 commitments, and SWA persistently works with companions to report progress on these commitments in addition to make new commitments. The Water Motion Agenda on the UN Water Convention was an event to spotlight the utility of the MAM, and its potential as a concrete software for commitments that really result in progress in nation. In 2024, the second MAM world report can be launched, reflecting on progress and classes realized.
• The partnership has additionally grown considerably over the previous few years and SWA has realized lots on find out how to greatest handle its relationship with companions and to make sure that they’re absolutely dedicated to the SWA mission and imaginative and prescient. Additionally after the adoption of the Strategic Framework a brand new constituency was created (Utilities and Regulators).

How are you going to make a distinction? 

PURPOSE OF THE CONSULTANCY

In mild of this context, in 2025 SWA intends to develop an evaluation of its 2020-2030 Strategic Framework at its mid-point of implementation.

The guide is anticipated to ship a report which incorporates the next outcomes:

• A brief, top-line evaluation of the present world context, together with tendencies and indicators, which contribute in the direction of the achievement of SDG 6 on common entry to water and sanitation
• SWA’s contribution in the direction of progress in reaching SDG 6
• A evaluation of progress and classes realized within the first 5 years of the technique
• Evaluation of whether or not SWA’s focus and areas of labor, in addition to the evolution of its work, are match for delivering the Technique’s imaginative and prescient in its closing 5 years.

DELIVERABLES

 

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

• A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or greater) in Worldwide Improvement, Legislation, Political Science, or associated space.
  A minimal of 10 years of related skilled expertise in worldwide growth with confirmed related expertise within the WASH sector.
• Growing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.
• Demonstrated capability to synthesize advanced inputs into a transparent technique
• Stable expertise working with partnerships
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset. notably French and/or Spanish is fascinating.

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. 

  

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Remarks:  

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