AGD Promising Practices Consultant

Hardship Level (not applicable for home-based)

H (no hardship)

FamilyCONS International

2023-03-20-07:00February 10, 2023TERMS OF REFRENCE
Individual Consultant Home Based

1. Organisational context
The Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) approach is part of UNHCR's efforts to ensure accountability towards displaced and stateless persons. UNHCR’s AGD Policy (2018) is structured along 3 areas of engagements and 10 core actions to ensure progress on AGD inclusive programming, Accountability to Affected People (AAP) and Gender Equality. In the past few years UNHCR developed tools to support the implementation of the policy including a Gender Equality toolkit, and the operational guidance on AAP, and documented promising practices from the field to support the advancement of the core actions under the AGD Policy.

In 2022, UNHCR launched its new result-based management approach COMPASS and renewed its global strategic directions (2022-2026) that guide its efforts to achieve a sustainable impact for forcibly displaced and stateless people.

Implementing community-based and AGD approaches, engaging forcibly displaced and stateless persons in decisions that affect them, and acting on their feedback, is the responsibility of all UNHCR staff and partners.

Each year, the AGD Accountability Report (see 2021 report) provides descriptions of examples of the implementation of AGD at the field level. Documenting such promising practices is key to enhance learning and accountability within the organization and is essential for improving response and supporting innovation. This includes creating a record of what works in various contexts in a way that contributes to a process of learning and knowledge building, and facilitates cross-fertilization, replication and up-scaling across the organisation.

The purpose of this consultancy is to identify, analyze and document 7 field practices, following a pre-defined methodology. These promising practices will be uploaded to the UNHCR Website, for both internal and external audiences.

2. The position
The aim of this consultancy is to conduct an analysis of UNHCR field practices that illustrate the successful and/or innovative ways UNHCR operations implement the AGD approach in areas relevant to age, gender and diversity, accountability to affected people and community-based protection. The selected practices will need to be finalised by 30 June 2023, to ensure their incorporation in the AGD Accountability Report 2022.

The consultant will be responsible for developing a workplan, review various sources to identify examples for documentation, and hold consultations with Regional Bureaux, operations and Headquarter Divisions/Services working in various sectors. It is expected that the information provided through existing resources will require further elaboration. The consultant will therefore work closely with the relevant country operations to collect and/or draft additional content and ensure the accuracy and validity of the practices. The consultant will also be responsible of identifying photos and visuals that illustrate the documented practices.

The consultant will report to the Community-based Protection (CBP) Officer with weekly meetings held between the consultant and the CBP Officer to discuss progress and receive guidance. The consultant will also work closely with other members of the Field Protection Service particularly colleagues working on CBP, gender, and accountability to affected people. Regular meetings will also be held with the Snr. Community-Based Protection Advisor (Head of CBP Unit) for further feedback.

3. Duties and responsibilities
This consultancy is task-based. Under the direct supervision of the Community-Based Protection Officer in the UNHCR DIP/CBP Unit, the consultant will carry out the following tasks:
• Develop a strategy for communicating with the field with the purpose of collecting and disseminating good practices, which aligns to the methodology developed by FPS for documentation of field practices;
• Carry out a desk review of existing reports and other information extracted from COMPASS, including mid-year and end-year reports, mission reports, and examples shared by the field through various channels, with the purpose of identifying trends and potential field practices;
• Depending on the analysis of trends, identify the theme for the documentation of promising practices in consultation with the Snr. CBP Advisor and the CBP Officer;
• In consultation with the RBs, confirm the selected promising practices and identify country level focal persons;
• Carry out consultations including through interviews with the regional bureaux and relevant operations to collect existing resources and compliment those by drafting additional content;
• Draft (in 3 versions per practice) UNHCR’s AGD promising practices, coordinate the review of multiple versions, and integrate feedback received;
• Identify relevant visuals to be included in the documented practices, including through the operations and UNHCR Media library (e.g. photos, graphical visualizations)


4. Monitoring and Progress Controls
a. The final product:
• 7 documented practices: Each promising practice is expected to be of approx. 10-15 pages including photos and graphics.
b. Delivery periodicity:
• By 10 May – Deliverable 1: draft 1 of the promising practices
• By 31 May 2023 - Deliverable 2: Draft 2 of the promising practices
• By 30 June 2023 - Deliverable 3: Draft 3 of the promising practices

5. Essential minimum qualifications and professional experience required
The ideal candidate will have: 
a. Education
- Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree (PhD or Masters) in social sciences, anthropology, sociology, international/community development studies, law or a related field.

b. Experience
- 6 years’ work experience if with bachelor’s degree; 4 years’ work experience if with post graduate degree in desired field of education.
- Preference will be given to candidates familiar with UNHCR’s AGD work.
- Proven previous experience in producing similar reports/publications (*please include examples of publications with your application).

c. COMPETENCIES
- Analytical skills: including the capacity to collect and analyse qualitative data from multiple sources;
- Excellent drafting skills: with ability to write with clarity, and conciseness;
- Organisational skills: the ability to work independently and productively in a fast-paced environment;
- Communicates sensitively and effectively across different constituencies; and
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

 

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