National consultant for the development of a National Social Protection Implementation Plan and finalization of M&E Framework for the Implementation of the National Social Protection Strategy (Open for International consultants only)

Maseru

Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
Location: Maseru
Grade: Consultancy - National Consultant - Locally recruited Contractors Agreement
Occupational Groups:
- Public Health and Health Service
- Social Affairs
- HIV and AIDS
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Civil Society and Local governance
- Protection Officer (Refugee)
Closing Date: Closed

To support the Ministry of Social Development to develop costed National Social Protection Implementation Plan. Formulation of the SP Implementation Plan shall serve as the blueprint for policymakers, planners and program implementers on what specific approaches and strategic interventions are best suited to be carried out by responsible agencies on SP to cover specific target vulnerable groups.

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Background and Justification

The Government of Lesotho developed a national social development policy with the vision to eliminate all forms of vulnerabilities among all Basotho people. In an effort to actualize the policy, the Government has recently issued and endorsed a comprehensive National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) document which will have a considerable impact on establishing a social protection system in the country. The vision that drives the NSPS is a decent and dignified quality of life for all Basotho, free from poverty and hunger that allows them to share in the benefits of national economic growth. And its immediate objectives are the following:

To operationalize an integrated set of core social protection programmes aimed at reducing vulnerabilities throughout the life course;
To establish coherent and progressive social protection synergies by ensuring strong positive linkages with other Ministries and key stakeholders;
To integrate and harmonize operational systems for the effective implementation of social protection programmes.

To achieve these objectives, there is a need to establish/ develop an implementation plan under each of the life course stages, proposing a comprehensive integrated set of core programmes to address vulnerabilities throughout the life course.

The plan will outline a number of social development initiatives and complementary activities to social protection, focused on providing additional support to vulnerable households and helping families graduate out of poverty. The plan then discusses the necessary implementation framework, in terms of (i) the institutional mechanisms for coordination at national, district and community council levels; (ii) the need for capacity building at all levels; (iii) the required legislative framework and effort to implement it; (iv) reform and further development of the various processes that underpin social assistance (discussed under the five headings of identity, eligibility, enrolment, transactions and management information systems) integrating NISSA as a single registry; and (v) the development of a costed functional Â monitoring and evaluation plan for management of the implementation and assessment of the effects and impacts of the NSPS.

UNICEF, along with other development partners, supports the Ministry of Social Development in the design and implementation of a national action plan for the implementation of NSPS and regional specific action plans as well as its costed functional monitoring and evaluation plan. The development of the national and regional SP Implementation Action Plan (IAP), and the costed functional monitoring and evaluation plan are going to be based on the core strategic direction and focus areas of the NSPP and the draft social protection strategy which is already developed.

In view of UNICEF Lesotho commitment to support the Government in the implementation of the newly endorsed social protection strategy, a national consultant in Social Protection is needed to support the elaboration of a National Social protection implementation Plan and the costed functional monitoring and evaluation plan by providing both technical and strategical assistance.

Objective:

Specific Objectives of the assignment

The SPIP is complemented by a reporting matrix that will be reviewed every six months by the SP committee to monitor progress in the implementation of the NSPS. Operational details of the Implementation Plan are set out in a matrix which should be added in the final Section of the document. The matrix should be designed so that it can be up-dated on an annual basis by MOSD and the Social Protection committee or Working Group and relevant Ministries should complement the NSPIP by producing detailed annual action plans. Prior to the matrix, present a narrative section of the Implementation Plan summarizing the commitments set out in the NSPS and explains how they relate together.

Description of Assignment and Payment:

Major Tasks	Deliverable	Timeframe
Conduct desk review of all relevant materials and initial consultations.	Inception report detailing the background, objectives of the assignment, analysis of scope of work, methodology and timeline	1 Week (1^st week of May)
Facilitate participatory consultation process ensuring that views and inputs of all stakeholders are considered within the drafting process of the National Social Protection Implementation Plan,	Consultation Report	2 Weeks (3^rd Week of May)
Develop a draft 2017-2020 National Action Plan on different main components and activities for achieving each output, which have been agreed with the responsible lead stakeholders (since this is an Implementation Plan of a national strategy, the activities have been kept at a strategic level to enable monitoring of the outputs); and submit for review	Draft Social Protection Implementation Plan with timelines for each activity, indicating the date by which the activity should be finalized	2 Weeks (Second Week of June)
Draft and submit M&E framework with baseline, clear targets at outcome and output levels and the performance indicators for each output, outcome and impact, their corresponding data sources and frequencies of data collection	Draft monitoring and evaluation framework	2 Week(last week of June)
Cost the NSIP and provide the total budget necessary for achieving the activities successfully	Costed Draft of the NSPIP	1 Week (1^st Week of July)
Share the consolidated NSIP and M & E framework for final review prior to validation	Consolidated and Costed draft of NSPIP, together with the M and E framework	1 Week (1^st Week of July)
Conduct Validation workshop to present the costed plan and M & E framework then incorporate the comments	Validation workshop minutes and comments	1 Week (Second Week of July)
Submit final Costed NSPIP with M and E framework	Final Costed NSPIP with M and E framework	1 Week (Second Week of July)

4. DURATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT

May 2018 to July 2018

5. Supervisor: The consultant will work closely with the officials of the Ministry of Social Development and other social sector Ministries for consultation and development of the plan and M & E plan; and is reportable to the Chief of Social Policy, UNICEF, Lesotho.

6. Payment: Payment will be made upon submission of the specified deliverables and approval by UNICEF and submissions of invoices.

Payment	Deliverable
1^st instalment (30% of the total payment)	Inception report detailing the background, objectives of the assignment, analysis of scope of work, methodology and timeline
2^nd instalment (40% of the total payment)	Consolidated and Costed draft of NSPIP, together with the M and E framework
3^rd instalment (30% of the total payment)	Final Costed NSPIP with M and E framework

7. Expected background and Experience

Master degree in Sociology, Social work, Economics or other relevant discipline

A Minimum of 5 years working experience in areas of social protection

Relevant working experience through other consultancy experience;

Ability to work through networking and in partnership

Good analytical, negotiating, communication and advocacy skills

Good writing and editing skills

Leadership and teamwork abilities

Familiarity and experience working with government counterparts

Call for proposals

UNICEF Lesotho is seeking technical assistance from individual consultants to support the Ministry of Social Development with development of the National Social Protection Implementation Plan together with monitoring and evaluation framework.

Technical Proposal

The bidder must provide sufficient information in the proposal to demonstrate compliance with the requirements set out in each section of this Request for Proposal. The proposal shall include, as a minimum:

Description of the services offered, as per the services requested;
Information on the expertise and capabilities of the consultant submitting the proposal;
Exercise Approach, expertise and experience of the consultant including Curriculum Vita;
List / references of current clients

Financial proposal

The bidder must submit rates for the services requested in LSL.

Rates/Prices offered shall be all inclusive and shall remain fixed for 2.5 month periods from the commencement of the contract

No Letter of Credit or Advance Payment

The Financial Regulations and Rules of UNICEF preclude advance payments and payments by letter of credit, except in special circumstances. Such provision in a proposal will be prejudicial to its evaluation by UNICEF.

How to apply:

Applications to be sent to:

https://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=511265 by 30 March 2018

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

This vacancy is now closed.
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