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Consultancy: Administrative Data Guidance on Violence against Children, D & A Section, DRP - NYHQ, Requisition #512433

New York City

  • Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
  • Location: New York City
  • Grade: Consultancy - International Consultant - Internationally recruited Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Operations and Administrations
    • Statistics
    • Logistics
    • Information Technology and Computer Science
    • Children's rights (health and protection)
    • Supply Chain
    • Statistics and Monitoring
    • Gender-based violence
    • Drugs, Anti-Money Laundering, Terrorism and Human Trafficking
  • Closing Date: Closed

The Data and Analytics section is seeking a consultant to draft a guidance document and strategy for engagement on administrative data on violence against children. This work will build on a recently completed review and assessment of administrative data sources on violence against children in a selection of countries by developing guidance and strategies for engaging with countries to support them with strengthening and improving administrative data on VAC.

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Background & Rationale

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest among governments and international development partners in exploring ways to better utilize existing administrative data for monitoring and reporting. Making use of administrative data offers an important and effective complement to large-scale data collection efforts such as household surveys. Administrative data in many, but not all, countries are typically collected on a routine basis and are continuously updated. Such data can also be useful in exploring historical trends and often capture hard to reach populations that may not accessible via traditional survey methods. Administrative data will also help to inform general programme planning as it will demonstrate utilization of systems (in particular, health, justice and social welfare). Utilizing administrative data has the advantage of relieving respondent burden since the data are collected as part of routine administrative processes. However, there also are some important limitations with regards to administrative data. Administrative data typically reflect incidence (i.e., the number of cases in a given time period) and it is therefore difficult to calculate prevalence as denominators need to be estimated. Other challenges are differences in national or sub-national definitions and inconsistencies with international definitions, a lack of comparability across sources and/or countries given that there can be significant differences in definitions, coverage, samples and data collection methodologies, and potential duplication in recording of cases due to parallel monitoring systems. The likelihood of underreporting (particularly for some administrative sources such as police records) or over-reporting due to multiple service delivery points, high levels of missing or incomplete data, and inconsistent and/or limited data quality assurance processes are additional constraints. 

Despite these challenges, in some areas of child protection where international standards and guidelines and solid data collection methodologies and tools are still lacking, administrative records might be the only (or best) source of data for producing prevalence estimates. Strengthening such records could therefore be an important and useful investment. Additionally, administrative records can be a good source of data in those countries with well-developed and functional administrative systems; such is often the case in upper middle income and high-income countries. In addition, by working more systematically with administrative data, the limitations that are specific to each country can be identified. This, in turn, can be used to inform efforts towards systems strengthening.

Purpose

The Data and Analytics section is seeking a consultant to draft a guidance document and strategy for engagement on administrative data on violence against children. This work will build on a recently completed review and assessment of administrative data sources on violence against children in a selection of countries by developing guidance and strategies for engaging with countries to support them with strengthening and improving administrative data on VAC.

Expected Results

The consultant is expected to develop and prepare, in consultation with UNICEF HQ, an inception report that outlines the suggested sections for the guidance and strategy document and the approach that will be taken for completion of the work. This inception report will be reviewed and approved by UNICEF HQ and Regional Offices before implementation.

Building on the conclusions and recommendations outlined in the administrative data review report, the document should include the following components:

  1. A desk review to summarize and highlight illustrative examples of similar investments or initiatives undertaken in other sectors (such as health and education) that have been supported by international agencies and successful at strengthening national administrative data systems.

  2. A description of the characteristics and qualities of an ideal and effective administrative data system on violence against children.

  3. Guidance and concrete suggested strategies for UNICEF to undertake to engage with countries in support of systems strengthening and improving administrative data on VAC. This section should outline possible scenarios of different national administrative systems and what would be needed at country level in each scenario in terms of capacity, processes, mechanisms/partnerships and resources (including financial) to support work to address a country’s data needs and build (or improve) the system.

A final list of deliverables will be defined in detail and mutually agreed between the consultant and supervisor once the inception report is finalized.

Duty Station : Remote-based

Timeframe

Start date:  28 May 2018                     
End date:  26 October 2018            

Deliverables

Duration

(Estimated # of Days)

Deadline

Final draft inception report

5

8 June 2018

First draft guidance document and engagement strategy for admin data on VAC

20

9 July 2018

Second draft guidance document and engagement strategy for admin data on VAC, incorporating comments received as part of review process

15

31 August 2018

Final draft guidance document and engagement strategy for admin data on VAC, incorporating comments received as part of review process and related communications/dissemination activity in the form of a webinar to present the main findings/conclusions

7

26 October 2018

Total

47

 

Copyright : UNICEF will retain all copyrights of any materials produced by the consultant under this contract.

Remuneration : Payments will be made upon the satisfactory and timely submission and approval of the deliverables and not actual number of days worked.


Key competences, technical background, and experience required

  • An advanced university degree (preferably at the PhD level) in demography, statistics, public health or other social science field is required
  • A minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience in conducting international or national research, monitoring, data collection and/or data analysis is required, preferably in the area of violence against children 
  • Previous experience and knowledge of issues related to administrative data is required, preferably with a focus on violence against children or other child protection-related topic
  • Proven experience in report writing is required
    Strong analytical, methodical and precise style of writing is required
  • Excellent command of English is required. Proficiency in Spanish, French or Arabic is an asset
    Demonstrated communication skills, both written and oral
  • Previous experience working with UNICEF, other UN agencies or relevant national government ministries is highly desirable


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.

Remarks

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.  

At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.

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

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

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