Consultancy – EAPRO Consultant for child protection, climate and migration knowledge management and support for resource mobilization, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO), Bangkok, Thailand# 570424

The child Protection Section, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to develop impactful narratives on the key pillars of our work, including on climate impact and child protection; support resource mobilization through the scanning of the donor landscape, coordination of child protection inputs for climate funding proposals and programmes, and support on the development of investment cases for key pillars of our work; generate knowledge, through the documentation of evidence-based and promising practices, tracking and analysis of activities and progress, and analysis; share knowledge through the development of knowledge products, tailored to different audiences, creation of communities of learning, through regional bulletins and through the regular updating of UNICEF share point and web pages; and manage knowledge through the maintenance of an online library of easy to access/search resources.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfilling their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a better future

UNICEF works to ensure the rights of all children in the East Asia and Pacific Region.  This means the rights of every child living in this country, irrespective of their nationality, gender, religion or ethnicity, to:

• survival – to basic healthcare, peace and security;
• development – to a good education, a loving home and adequate nutrition;
• protection – from abuse, neglect, trafficking, child labour and other forms of exploitation; and
• participation – to express opinions, be listened to and take part in making any decisions that affect them

How can you make a difference?

The child Protection Section, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to develop impactful narratives on the key pillars of our work, including on climate impact and child protection; support resource mobilization through the scanning of the donor landscape, coordination of child protection inputs for climate funding proposals and programmes, and support on the development of investment cases for key pillars of our work; generate knowledge, through the documentation of evidence-based and promising practices, tracking and analysis of activities and progress, and analysis; share knowledge through the development of knowledge products, tailored to different audiences, creation of communities of learning, through regional bulletins and through the regular updating of UNICEF share point and web pages; and manage knowledge through the maintenance of an online library of easy to access/search resources.

Work assignment, Expected deliverable and Delivery schedule:

This work assignment is remote/home based. Travel in the region to act as rapporteur may be requested if the person is based in the region.

1. Assignment: Develop key think pieces and external communication materials on climate change and child protection and climate resilient child protection systems

a. Drawing from existing research, develop a compelling narrative on the impact of climate change and climate driven disasters on child protection risks and harms, contextualized to the EAP region

2. Develop a compelling narrative that clearly explains the climate benefit of investing in child protection prevention and response mechanisms and family resilience
3. Translate the conceptual framework on climate resilient child protection systems into an external briefing, capturing the concept and components, and the measurement framework
4. Capture these briefings in an external two pager
5. Develop a visually appealing and compelling power point for internal and external use capturing the key points of the listed knowledge products
6. Develop case studies on mitigating the impact of climate change on child protection risks

Expected deliverable 1: est 31 days

1. External brief capturing the climate impact on child protection risks and harms specifically for the EAPR context (5 pages) – 6 days
2. External brief on the climate benefit of investing in child protection prevention and response systems for the EAPR context (5 pages) – 6 days
3. Based on the conceptual framework developed by EAPRO, an external briefing on setting out the concept for and components of a climate resilient child protection systems, including a climate resilient social service workforce (10-15 pages) – 8 days
4. Designed two pager summarizing the key points of listed knowledge products – 3 days
5. Power point capturing the key points of the listed knowledge products (approx. 12 slides) – 2 days
6. Three (3) case studies developed on mitigating the impact of climate change on child protection risks (2 pages per case study) = 6 days

2. Assignment: Support resource mobilization efforts of and donor reporting for the Child Protection Section, including for climate change and labour migration

1. Support donor landscape mapping of opportunities for resource mobilisation child protection and the child protection section pillars, in collaboration with the partnerships team
2. Support for the development of investment cases on four priority areas on the basis of identified opportunities from the donor landscape mapping
3. Coordinate inputs from and support country office child protection sections, as well as the Regional Office Child Protection Section, on the process of developing the proposal for the Green Climate Fund, with a focus on climate smart child protection, legal empowerment, mental health, GBViE and PSEA
4. Act as a liaison between the UNICEF regional Climate Section and the EAPRO Child Protection section and child protection sections at country office level and attend relevant consultation meetings for the Green Climate Fund and related proposals
5. Provision of support to the KOICA funded COs on the climate change programme for the Child Protection Section
6. Support narrative donor reporting, including coordination of country office inputs, including for the Safe Online and UNICEF Australia grants for child online protection, and for the PROTECT – Safe Labour Migration EU funded programme
7. Support data and information analysis for the preparation of internal and donor reports.

Expected deliverable 2: est 77 days

1. Support for and coordinated inputs from COs and RO for the climate fund proposal, including child protection, legal empowerment, mental health, disability inclusion, PSEA, GBViE = 30 days
2. Support to the KOICA supported country offices for the climate change programme = 5 days
3. Landscape mapping of resource mobilization opportunities for child protection (climate change, strengthening child protection systems, including the social service workforce, justice, child online protection, violence/GBV against children and women, child protection in emergencies) and section pillars (child rights, civil registration and vital statistics, migration, PSEA, GBViE, MHPSS) = 10 days
4. Four investment cases developed on priority areas depending on identified priorities a result of the donor landscape mapping, including on climate and child protection/migration (5 pages each) = 20 days
5. Biannual report for the UNICEF Australia grants, with coordinated inputs from relevant country offices and annual report for Safe Online - 5 days
6. Annual report and periodic progress updates for PROTECT (EU labour migration programme) = 7 days

Delivery schedule: 15 March 2025

3. Assignment: Provide knowledge management support for key regional events and meetings

1. Develop information products for the conferences, workshops and meetings

2. Act as the rapporteur for key meetings (including Child Protection Team Meetings) and conferences (including the Regional Disability Inclusion Network Meeting) in order capture critical discussions in a format that can be published and disseminated.

3. Provide knowledge management support for the ASEAN ICT Forum on Child Online Protection, including acting as the lead rapporteur for the Forum and producing the Forum report
4. Develop knowledge products for the third Regional INSPIRE Conference on ending violence against children
5. Support the virtual launch of the Disability Data Report

Expected deliverable 3: 39 days

1. ASEAN ICT Forum on Child Online Protection populated with key resources and presentations = 3 days
2. Final proof read, with all citations, participant list annex produced for the 3^rd ASEAN ICT Forum on Child Online Protection = 5 days
3. Draft case study compendium for third Regional INSPIRE Conference on ending violence against children (2 pages x minimum of 10 countries in East Asia and the Pacific) = 20 days
4. Report on the Regional Disability Inclusion Network meeting = 7 days
5. Support provided for the virtual launch of the Disability Data report = 1 day
6. Short report on the three day capacity building course on CPIE, to include linkages with climate impact and system and workforce resilience = 3 days

Delivery schedule: 28 February 2025

4. Assignment: Develop case studies and visibility pieces for the Child Protection programme and cross cutting pillars, including the impact of climate change

1. Develop information products and case studies on the impact of child labour in the context of migration and UNICEF action to meet their needs, including the linkages with climate driven labour migration
2. Develop case studies on GBViE response, prevention, and risk mitigation in collaboration with Country Offices and Regional Office
3. Develop case studies on social service work force in collaboration with Country Offices and Regional Office
4. Develop a regional case study on intersection and integration of response to and prevention of violence against children and violence against women to highlight emerging promising practices in the region
5. Conduct mapping and summary of government engagement on PSEA in the region highlighting entry points and lessons learned through consultations with Country Offices

Expected deliverable 4: 30 days

1. Overview of child labour in the context of migration (max 4 pages) and case studies from Cambodia and Thailand (max 2 pages each) = 10 days
2. Three (3) case studies developed on GBV risk mitigation and integration into emergency preparedness and response (2 pages per case study) = 6 days
3. Three (3) case studies developed on social service work force (2 pages per case study) = 6 days
4. One (1) regional case study on VAW-VAC developed (max 3 pages) = 4 days
5. Summary analysis of government engagement on PSEA (max 3 pages) = 4 days

Delivery schedule: 28 February 2025

5. Assignment: Strengthen knowledge management, sharing and generation for the Child Protection Section

1. Develop bimonthly Child Protection Bulletins capturing the latest global and regional resources and developments at country level.
2. Undertake a mapping of past (2023), current and planned country office child protection activities that contribute to UNICEF Strategic Plan, Goal Area 3, and UNICEF’s global Child Protection Strategy and outcome 6 of the regional office management plan covering child rights, migration and disability inclusion (information from existing reports, plans and summaries of bilateral meeting)
3. Undertake research, writing, and editing and proofing for the section’s annual report and publications.
4. Support the team to produce consolidated inputs for annual and mid year regional reports
5. In collaboration with the child protection team and country offices, develop information and knowledge products including thematic briefs (2-pagers), country briefing notes and PowerPoints.
6. Manage and maintain the EAPRO Child Protection, and sub SharePoint pages, including by collecting key child protection regional and country office documents relevant to regional and global priority areas.
7. Annual analysis of country office request for technical assistance from the child protection regional team and provision of support.
8. Support online communities for UNICEF practitioners and partners on key child protection areas including disability inclusion, children in the context of labour migration, online exploitation, social service workforce strengthening and public financing for children.
9. Support the biweekly Child Protection Section meeting, the bimonthly regional child protection coordination meetings, and bimonthly justice coordination meetings
10. Virtually represent EAPRO Child Protection on regional and global knowledge management coordination meetings

Expected deliverable 5: (est 75 days)

1. Bimonthly EAPR Child Protection Bulletins capturing the latest global and regional resources and developments at country level in the region x 5 x approx 6 pages = 10 days
2. Summaries of biweekly Child Protection Section Meetings, bimonthly regional child protection coordination meetings and bimonthly regional justice coordination meetings = 20 days
3. Attendance at virtual regional and global KM meetings = 3 days
4. Capitalize/visualize past, current and planned country office child protection activities that contribute to the UNICEF Strategic Plan, Goal Area 3, and UNICEF’s global Child Protection Strategy and outcome 6 of the regional office management plan covering child rights, migration and disability inclusion = 5 days
5. Section contribution to the annual (approx. 5 pages) and mid year (approx. 1.5 pages) regional reporting and quality assurance processes, including on output 6.5 on migration (compiling and editing inputs from the team) =5 days
6. Updated and new briefs - minimum of 8 (eight) 1-2 page briefs on the child protection programme and programme pillars (including, for example, on justice for children, children affected by migration with a focus on labour migration (2 days), online child protection, children with disabilities, child protection systems strengthening (including SSWS and alternative care), violence against children, civil registration and vital statistics, child protection information management systems, child rights, child protection in emergencies, GBViE, PSEA – topics to be decided depending on section priorities) in a print ready version and an editable version = 16 days
7. Up to date EAPRO Share Points on child protection and sub pages including on climate and child protection, MHPSS, Disability Inclusion, GBViE, CPiE and PSEA, migration/labour migration = 5 days
8. Support provided to pillar leads for online communities of practice = 6 days
9. Analysis of annual requests from country offices for the child protection team = 1 day
10. Additional knowledge management, knowledge generation and knowledge exchange support for the Child Protection Section, including attendance at virtual meetings and retreats = 4 days

Delivery schedule: 31st March 2025

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Duration of contract: 15 April 2024 - 14th April 2025

Duty Travel:  Travel based on the needs of the countries in East Asia and the Pacific and to attend the ASEAN ICT Forum 2024 (expected to be held in Indonesia or Laos in Q4) and the Regional Disability Network Meeting (Bangkok in Q4)

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Essential:

• An advanced degree in law, social sciences, or a related or relevant field;
• A minimum of five years’ professional work experience at national and/or international levels in research, editing, information and knowledge management, and/or in the field of child rights, child protection, and/or migration;
• Proven high quality writing skills, with an ability to convey complex ideas in a clear, direct, and accessible style to a range of audiences;
• Fluency in English and excellent proofing and editing skills in English
• Demonstrated ability to work independently;
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet tight deadlines; and
• Ability to work flexibly

Desirable:

• Experience in research and/or developing knowledge products on child protection, migration, climate and/or related fields in developing context;
• Excellent knowledge of online collaborative tools and technologies to improve knowledge sharing for internal and external partners;
• Experience in reporting on qualitative and quantitative analytics;
• Experience in working in a development context;
• Experience in research on climate change;
• Experience in working in the East Asia Pacific region; and
• Experience in working with UNICEF

Interested candidates are requested to submit CV, full contact information of minimum 3 references, availability, and proposed daily professional fee in USD by 1 April 2024.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

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