Internship with Child Protection: To Support Parenting Initiative

UNICEF Jakarta is opening an internship with Child Protection section, to support Parenting Initiative.

UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Defending children's rights throughout their lives requires a global presence, aiming to produce results and understand their effects. UNICEF believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfill their potential – to the benefit of a better world.

For every child, Protection

A steadily growing economy isn't benefiting all. Half the population still lives in poverty and children's changes can vary dramaticaly depending on their families wealth or where they live.

For more information, visit the UNICEF Indonesia Country Office website: https://www.unicef.org/indonesia/

How can you make a difference?

The 2006 World Report on Violence against Children recommends reducing violence against children in their homes through: changing cultural practices that contribute to violence to violence against children, including the elimination of corporal punishment; promoting non-violent communication and relationships with children; building parents’ skills in non-violent discipline,  problem-solving and conflict resolution; respecting the whole child and their family, their dignity and their development needs; increasing understanding of child development and increasing awareness of children’s rights. INSPIRE or the Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children highlights parenting as one of the seven strategies aiming to reduce harsh parenting practices and create positive parent-child relationship. The strategy highlights that helping parents and caregivers to understand the importance of positive, non-violent discipline in child development and of close, effective parent-child communication reduces harsh parenting practices, creates positive parent-child interactions and helps increase bonding between parents or other caregivers and children – all factors that help prevent violence against children. Supporting families, parents and caregivers to learn positive parenting can prevent the separation of children from families, the risk of child maltreatment at home, witnessing intimate partner violence against mothers or stepmothers, and violent behaviour among children and adolescents. [1]

In Indonesia, the draft National Strategy on the Elimination of Violence against Children (2016-2020) focuses on 6 key components, including Parenting interventions that support safe and loving relationships between caregivers and their children to prevent violence. This is in line with the Decree of the Minister of Social Affairs No. 21 of 2013 on Child Care. This decree defines  child care is an effort to meet the need for affection, attachment, safety and prosperity that is permanent and sustainable for the best interests of children performed by parents or families up to third degree of consanguinity or foster parents, adoptive parents, care givers and residential based care as the last alternative.” Parents and caregivers need to be supported to provide a holistic care for children including psycho-social, physical and emotional.  In Indonesia parenting cuts across various sectors resulting to the production of various materials on parenting however it is not supported by sound evidence.

[1]INSPIRE: Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/207717/1/9789241565356-eng.pdf?ua=1

Assignments:

1. Review of Literature on parenting programmes. Output: Review on parenting programmes with SWOT analysis.
2. Mapping of tools and indicators for parenting programmes. Output: Inventory of tools and indicators for baseline and end line  on existing parenting programmes.

To qualify as a champion for every child you will have..

• Basic understanding of  child protection
• Basic knowledge on social research and ability to document
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and write concisely and accurately in English and Bahasa Indonesia
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision

For every Child, you demonstrate…

Our core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified candidates from all backgrounds to apply.