Consultant: Child Protection Monitoring and Evaluation, Nairobi, Kenya-ESARO

The consultant will provide overall technical assistance to ESARO and ESAR COs to improve their capacity to effectively monitor the two Global Programmes, the VAC programmes and the ESA Regional Priorities.

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.

For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.

Purpose of the Assignment

Under the supervision of the Child Protection Specialist the consultant will provide overall technical assistance to ESARO and ESAR COs to improve their capacity to effectively monitor the two Global Programmes, the VAC programmes and the ESA Regional Priorities. In particular, the consultant will:

1. Review all programme and monitoring documents related to the Global Programmes (HQ, RO and COs in ESAR), the VAC evaluation and management response, the ESA Regional Priorities and the findings and recommendations from HQ-led assessments of UNICEF programme countries’ routine administrative systems.
2. Provide technical support to the country offices[1] part of the Global Programmes to sharpen their TOC and monitoring framework and mechanisms, including if necessary, the establishment of baselines, targets, and frequency of updates and data sources. This will be based on the outcomes of the evaluability assessment of the child marriage programme.
3. Provide technical assistance to country offices in the development of country specific monitoring systems linked to VAC in line with the SDGs and the ESA Regional Priorities.
4. Document good practices in monitoring results for child protection and share lessons learned and actionable recommendations with COs in the form of a webinar (Global Programmes and VAC).
5. Develop the data section in the regional VAC framework.

By the end of the consultancy, country offices will have an increased capacity to report progress on the Global Programmes and VAC with specific focus on the ESA Regional Priorities related to Child Protection. To facilitate progress and ensure timely delivery of outputs, the consultant will submit an initial workplan, travel schedule and a final report including lessons learned, and way forward as well as a summary list of outputs/deliverables.

Payment Schedule

Payment is made upon receipt of draft and final material delivered as follows:

• 1^st payment                10%
• 2^nd payment               25%
• 3^rd payment                               15%
• 4^th payment                                15%
• 5^th payment                                15%
• 6^th payment                                10%
• 7^th payment                                10%

Deliverables that meet UNICEF’s quality standard.

Duration:  Tentative start date is September, 2017 and ending in August 2018

Qualifications of Successful Candidate

• Post graduate qualification in social sciences and/or statistics
• Minimum 8 years of experience in designing and/or implementing M&E systems
• Ability to collect, collate and analyse data in a scientific and effective manner
• Analytical, methodical and precise style of writing
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in English
• Knowledge of child protection is a merit
• Availability to travel frequently in the region

Please indicate your ability, availability and daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable).  Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.

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