Climate change disproportionately affects women and girls, exacerbating existing gender inequalities and increasing vulnerabilities during climate-related shocks and stresses. Structural barriers, discriminatory gender norms, unequal access to resources and services, and limited participation in decision-making processes place women and girls at heightened risk in the context of climate change and disasters. Women and girls often face unequal access to climate information, early warning systems, and recovery support, while also carrying disproportionate caregiving responsibilities during crises.
Certain groups, including adolescent girls, women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous populations, migrant communities, and those living in poverty, may experience compounded risks due to intersecting forms of discrimination and exclusion. At the same time, women and girls are critical agents of change and play a central role in strengthening climate resilience, adaptation, and community recovery efforts.
UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2026–2029, Gender Equality Action Plan (2026–2039), and Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (2023-2030) emphasize the importance of integrating gender equality and adolescent-responsive approaches across climate and resilience programming. UNICEF’s programming increasingly recognizes that climate action must move beyond gender-responsive approaches toward gender-responsive programming that addresses unequal power relations, harmful social norms, and systemic barriers limiting women’s and girls’ participation, leadership, and access to opportunities.
UNICEF Centre of Excellence for Climate Resilience for Children is seeking a consultant to support the development, implementation, and operationalization of gender-responsive climate resilience programming across policy, systems strengthening, sectoral programming, and institutional capacity development.
UNICEF’s Global Digital Education Team is seeking a dynamic Evidence and Evaluation Specialist to help drive the rollout of UNICEF’s Digital Education & AI Strategy 2025–2030. In this role, you will support the coordination of the research and M&E across Cohort 1 countries of the Digital Education Strategy implementation, engage closely with UNICEF’s country offices and partners, provide expert technical advisory services, manage independent research contracts, turn KPIs and monitoring data into actionable insights, and coordinate multi-country evidence generation on cutting-edge digital education programming.
The consultant will work with the UNICEF Global Digital Education and Learning Innovation Hub Team, the Education Centre of Excellence, and UNICEF Country Offices to coordinate monitoring, evaluation, and research approaches to understand progress, performance, and emerging evidence on the implementation of a range of digital education activities, with a particular focus on the effect of these implementations on learning and skilling outcomes.
The successful candidate will be a part of UNICEF’s Global Digital Education and Learning Innovation team based in Finland. The consultant may work on site or in a hybrid modality and is expected to be available during the EET time zone.
Limited travel may be required in line with the 2026–2027 workplan. For such travel, the Consultant is not required to include an estimated duty-related travel budget in the all-inclusive fee. UNICEF will provide the duty travel budget when travel is approved and will reimburse actual costs incurred upon submission of receipts, in accordance with UNICEF policies and procedures.
To conduct an independent Final evaluation of “The implementation of the National Child Protection Programme for 2022–2026”, UNICEF is seeking a team of an International Consultant – Evaluation Team Leader and a National consultant (under a separate ToR). The Team Leader will oversee the entire evaluation process, ensuring alignment with objectives and timelines, and maintaining quality and compliance with evaluation standards.
At the end of the five-year implementation cycle, the UNICEF Uganda Country Office (UCO) has worked on several strategic reports for its five-year Government of Uganda/UNICEF Country Programme (2021-2025). These include an internal and external Annual Report for 2025, and a Summative five-year Country Programme Report. The Summative five-year Report will be a high-level advocacy document capturing the cumulative results achieved for the five years period, major shifts in the situation of children in Uganda as a result of UNICEF programming and advocacy, key achievement from collaborations with stakeholders, with specifically highlighting transformative donor contributions and how flexible funding made a change during the implementation of the five-year Country Programme.
The UNICEF Uganda Country office requires the expertise of an individual with proven storytelling and impact writer’s skills, including good communication, adaptability, and the ability to edit and revise, ensuring the final product is clear, concise, and effective for the intended audience.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Government to develop a comprehensive costing framework for the National Action Plan (NAP) on the implementation of the European Child Guarantee in the Republic of Moldova, covering the period 2027–2030.
As part of preparations for its next Country Programme Document (CPD) 2028-2032, the UNICEF Nigeria Country Office (CO) is undertaking a comprehensive evidence synthesis process that includes a Gender Equality Programmatic Review (GPR). This review is critical to inform the CPD design, ensuring alignment with the UNICEF SP and UGEAP, and strengthen the integration of gender equality approaches across the CO’s strategic priorities.
UNICEF seeks to recruit a dedicated consultant to develop a national climate change adaptation plan for the education sector that helps to maximize co-benefits between efforts to ensure quality and equitable education for all, to build climate resilience and to restore environmental integrity across the education sector. The body of work must be aligned with the new National Education Action Plan of 2027-2031 as a way to operationalise national climate adaptation goals into education sector planning. As well as the National Adaptation Plan for the Solomon Islands process which will run at the same time.
UNICEF está buscando un Consultor/a para actualizar y modernizar integralmente el Plan Nacional para la Prevención, Detección Temprana, Control y Erradicación de la Influenza Aviaria en Honduras (2007) bajo estándares técnicos internacionales, integrando el enfoque multisectorial "Una Salud".
UNICEF’s Global Shared Services Centre in Budapest is recruiting highly dedicated individuals with structured, service-oriented working styles to join UNICEF GSSC`s Travel Unit which will be responsible for the travel administration and management of UNICEF Offices worldwide. The ideal candidates should have experience in travel administration and management functions.
This post is a Temporary Appointment until 31 December 2026.
UNICEF’s Global Shared Services Centre in Budapest is recruiting highly dedicated individuals with structured, service-oriented working styles to join UNICEF GSSC`s Travel Unit which will be responsible for the travel administration and management of UNICEF Offices worldwide. The ideal candidates should have experience in travel administration and management functions.
This post is a Temporary Appointment until 31 December 2026.
To conduct an independent Final evaluation of the Programme, UNICEF is seeking a team of an International Consultant – Evaluation Team Leader and a National consultant (present ToR).
The Team Leader will oversee the entire evaluation process, ensuring alignment with objectives and timelines, and maintaining quality and compliance with evaluation standards. The national consultant will support the Team Leader by carrying out specific tasks, providing expertise in child protection and related areas, collecting data, engaging with partners and stakeholders, and ensuring the quality of deliverables in Romanian (with translation by the international consultant).
La clasificación del gasto público es clave para planificar, monitorear y evaluar políticas orientadas a garantizar derechos y reducir brechas en grupos prioritarios. En Ecuador, los Clasificadores de Orientación de Gasto en Políticas de Igualdad permiten identificar los recursos destinados a enfoques como género, discapacidad, interculturalidad y ciclo de vida.
Desde 2010, el Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas ha incorporado progresivamente estos enfoques en el presupuesto estatal, ampliándolos en 2014 para incluir distintos ejes de igualdad. Actualmente, su uso es obligatorio en las fases de programación y ejecución presupuestaria.
Sin embargo, debido a cambios normativos y necesidades de información, es necesario evaluar su consistencia, uso y alineación con estándares internacionales, así como mejorar herramientas y metodologías para su aplicación.
La consultoría tiene como objetivo realizar un diagnóstico integral de estos clasificadores y, con base en sus resultados, proponer mejoras, desarrollar instrumentos técnicos y diseñar un plan de capacitación que fortalezca su uso para una gestión eficiente del gasto público con enfoque de igualdad.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide coordination and technical support to the National Planning Commission (NPC) and the National Nutrition and Food Security Secretariat (NNFSS) in strengthening multi-sector coordination structures at the federal, provincial, and local levels and supporting the operationalization of EU budget support for the effective implementation of the Multi-Sector Nutrition Plan III (MSNP-III, 2023-2030). The assignment will focus on strengthening multi-sector coordination mechanisms, enhancing the capacity of MSNP-III governance structures across all three levels of government, and facilitating the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of EU budget support toward the achievement of Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLIs) under the leadership of the NPC.
As a foundational support role within the Individual Giving unit, the Fundraising Assistant (Database) plays a vital part in enabling the Private Sector Fund Raising (PSFR) team’s strategic goals of data-driven growth and operational excellence. By collecting, cleaning, and preparing data for analysis, the incumbent ensures that donor and campaign data is accurate, timely, and ready for integration into broader fundraising workflows. This role directly supports the team’s emphasis on segmentation, funnel-based marketing, and evidence-based decision-making. Through meticulous data validation and transformation, the Assistant helps maintain the integrity of systems that underpin campaign execution, performance monitoring, and strategic reporting. Their contributions are essential to ensuring that PSFR and office-wide activities are implemented in compliance with UNICEF’s rules and regulations, and aligned with the strategic priorities outlined in the 2026–2030 framework.
Under the Individual Giving unit on the PSFR team, the Fundraising Assistant (Database), collects, cleans, and prepares data for analysis. Responsibilities include data extraction, transformation, validation, and ensuring data quality. Incumbent facilitates the database-ready for next steps in implementation, monitoring, and delivery of PSFR and office’s activities /programme and effective execution of tasks aligned with UNICEF rules and regulations.
Guinea is a lower-middle-income country facing significant challenges in child development and deprivation. According to the latest Human Development Index (HDI) report, Guinea has a Human Development Index of 0.480, ranking 178th out of 191 countries in 2023, reflecting its ongoing struggle with poverty and social development challenges. Since 1984, UNICEF has worked with the government and various partners, including UN agencies, NGOs, and community-based organizations, to improve conditions for children.
The population of Guinea is projected to be around 15.2 million in 2025, with 63.4% living in rural areas and women comprising approximately 50.3% of the population. The annual growth rate remains steady at about 2.8%. Children under the age of 18 account for roughly 51% of the population, underscoring the critical need for child-focused interventions in areas such as health, education, and protection (World Population Review).
The vision of the 2024-2028 country programme is: "A Guinea where children, especially adolescent girls and children from the most vulnerable families in the most disadvantaged geographical areas, have equitable opportunities for sustainable access to essential social services and quality social protection, and can reach their full potential, including in a context of climate-related vulnerabilities and emergencies".
Currently, Guinea faces several humanitarian and emergency situations with multiple health crises, including outbreaks of diseases such as poliovirus, diphtheria, yellow fever, and Lassa fever. The country is particularly vulnerable to health shocks due to weak healthcare infrastructure. In addition, the country faces regularly natural disasters, such as flooding, which displace populations, damage infrastructure, and exacerbate the already challenging humanitarian conditions. These ongoing challenges necessitate continued support and local resilience-building measures to mitigate their impact on the population.
The UNICEF Guinea office is looking for committed and creative professionals to make a lasting difference for Guinean children.
To support UNICEF in positioning and operationalizing the Heads of State Initiatives (HoSI) as a flagship mechanism for accelerating political commitment, financing, and accountability in the WASH sector. The consultant will provide technical, advocacy, and coordination support to UNICEF’s WASH Partnerships and Advocacy and WASH Systems and Governance teams in advancing the Heads of State Initiatives (HoSi), ASWA III programme priorities, and global engagements with key partners (Sanitation and Water for All) and major events (UN 2026 Water Conference), while ensuring coherence between political advocacy, systems strengthening, and UNICEF’s global advocacy plan.
The Government of the Philippines, in partnership with UNICEF and WHO, will host the Second Global Ministerial Conference (GMC) on Ending Violence Against Children (18–19 November 2026, Manila). Preparation is critical. Countries are expected to undertake national preparatory processes, including consultations to review progress, strengthen existing pledges, and generate new commitments. UNICEF Philippines will engage a National Consultant to support coordination, preparatory processes, and conference delivery.
UNICEF is seeking a qualified national consultant to support the Ministry of Health in Lesotho in strengthening the country’s environmental health framework.
The consultant will review, update, and finalize the National Environmental Health Policy to ensure alignment with national priorities, global standards, and emerging issues such as climate resilience. Additionally, they will develop a costed Environmental Health Strategic Plan (2027–2031), including priority interventions, implementation arrangements, financing strategies, and a monitoring and evaluation framework.
This assignment aims to deliver a comprehensive and actionable policy and strategic plan aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and relevant global environmental health frameworks.
Climate change disproportionately affects women and girls, exacerbating existing gender inequalities and increasing vulnerabilities during climate-related shocks and stresses. Structural barriers, discriminatory gender norms, unequal access to resources and services, and limited participation in decision-making processes place women and girls at heightened risk in the context of climate change and disasters. Women and girls often face unequal access to climate information, early warning systems, and recovery support, while also carrying disproportionate caregiving responsibilities during crises.
Certain groups, including adolescent girls, women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous populations, migrant communities, and those living in poverty, may experience compounded risks due to intersecting forms of discrimination and exclusion. At the same time, women and girls are critical agents of change and play a central role in strengthening climate resilience, adaptation, and community recovery efforts.
UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2026–2029, Gender Equality Action Plan (2026–2039), and Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (2023-2030) emphasize the importance of integrating gender equality and adolescent-responsive approaches across climate and resilience programming. UNICEF’s programming increasingly recognizes that climate action must move beyond gender-responsive approaches toward gender-responsive programming that addresses unequal power relations, harmful social norms, and systemic barriers limiting women’s and girls’ participation, leadership, and access to opportunities.
UNICEF Centre of Excellence for Climate Resilience for Children is seeking a consultant to support the development, implementation, and operationalization of gender-responsive climate resilience programming across policy, systems strengthening, sectoral programming, and institutional capacity development.
UNICEF’s Global Digital Education Team is seeking a dynamic Evidence and Evaluation Specialist to help drive the rollout of UNICEF’s Digital Education & AI Strategy 2025–2030. In this role, you will support the coordination of the research and M&E across Cohort 1 countries of the Digital Education Strategy implementation, engage closely with UNICEF’s country offices and partners, provide expert technical advisory services, manage independent research contracts, turn KPIs and monitoring data into actionable insights, and coordinate multi-country evidence generation on cutting-edge digital education programming.
The consultant will work with the UNICEF Global Digital Education and Learning Innovation Hub Team, the Education Centre of Excellence, and UNICEF Country Offices to coordinate monitoring, evaluation, and research approaches to understand progress, performance, and emerging evidence on the implementation of a range of digital education activities, with a particular focus on the effect of these implementations on learning and skilling outcomes.
The successful candidate will be a part of UNICEF’s Global Digital Education and Learning Innovation team based in Finland. The consultant may work on site or in a hybrid modality and is expected to be available during the EET time zone.
Limited travel may be required in line with the 2026–2027 workplan. For such travel, the Consultant is not required to include an estimated duty-related travel budget in the all-inclusive fee. UNICEF will provide the duty travel budget when travel is approved and will reimburse actual costs incurred upon submission of receipts, in accordance with UNICEF policies and procedures.
To conduct an independent Final evaluation of “The implementation of the National Child Protection Programme for 2022–2026”, UNICEF is seeking a team of an International Consultant – Evaluation Team Leader and a National consultant (under a separate ToR). The Team Leader will oversee the entire evaluation process, ensuring alignment with objectives and timelines, and maintaining quality and compliance with evaluation standards.
At the end of the five-year implementation cycle, the UNICEF Uganda Country Office (UCO) has worked on several strategic reports for its five-year Government of Uganda/UNICEF Country Programme (2021-2025). These include an internal and external Annual Report for 2025, and a Summative five-year Country Programme Report. The Summative five-year Report will be a high-level advocacy document capturing the cumulative results achieved for the five years period, major shifts in the situation of children in Uganda as a result of UNICEF programming and advocacy, key achievement from collaborations with stakeholders, with specifically highlighting transformative donor contributions and how flexible funding made a change during the implementation of the five-year Country Programme.
The UNICEF Uganda Country office requires the expertise of an individual with proven storytelling and impact writer’s skills, including good communication, adaptability, and the ability to edit and revise, ensuring the final product is clear, concise, and effective for the intended audience.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Government to develop a comprehensive costing framework for the National Action Plan (NAP) on the implementation of the European Child Guarantee in the Republic of Moldova, covering the period 2027–2030.
As part of preparations for its next Country Programme Document (CPD) 2028-2032, the UNICEF Nigeria Country Office (CO) is undertaking a comprehensive evidence synthesis process that includes a Gender Equality Programmatic Review (GPR). This review is critical to inform the CPD design, ensuring alignment with the UNICEF SP and UGEAP, and strengthen the integration of gender equality approaches across the CO’s strategic priorities.
UNICEF seeks to recruit a dedicated consultant to develop a national climate change adaptation plan for the education sector that helps to maximize co-benefits between efforts to ensure quality and equitable education for all, to build climate resilience and to restore environmental integrity across the education sector. The body of work must be aligned with the new National Education Action Plan of 2027-2031 as a way to operationalise national climate adaptation goals into education sector planning. As well as the National Adaptation Plan for the Solomon Islands process which will run at the same time.
UNICEF está buscando un Consultor/a para actualizar y modernizar integralmente el Plan Nacional para la Prevención, Detección Temprana, Control y Erradicación de la Influenza Aviaria en Honduras (2007) bajo estándares técnicos internacionales, integrando el enfoque multisectorial "Una Salud".
UNICEF’s Global Shared Services Centre in Budapest is recruiting highly dedicated individuals with structured, service-oriented working styles to join UNICEF GSSC`s Travel Unit which will be responsible for the travel administration and management of UNICEF Offices worldwide. The ideal candidates should have experience in travel administration and management functions.
This post is a Temporary Appointment until 31 December 2026.
UNICEF’s Global Shared Services Centre in Budapest is recruiting highly dedicated individuals with structured, service-oriented working styles to join UNICEF GSSC`s Travel Unit which will be responsible for the travel administration and management of UNICEF Offices worldwide. The ideal candidates should have experience in travel administration and management functions.
This post is a Temporary Appointment until 31 December 2026.
To conduct an independent Final evaluation of the Programme, UNICEF is seeking a team of an International Consultant – Evaluation Team Leader and a National consultant (present ToR).
The Team Leader will oversee the entire evaluation process, ensuring alignment with objectives and timelines, and maintaining quality and compliance with evaluation standards. The national consultant will support the Team Leader by carrying out specific tasks, providing expertise in child protection and related areas, collecting data, engaging with partners and stakeholders, and ensuring the quality of deliverables in Romanian (with translation by the international consultant).
La clasificación del gasto público es clave para planificar, monitorear y evaluar políticas orientadas a garantizar derechos y reducir brechas en grupos prioritarios. En Ecuador, los Clasificadores de Orientación de Gasto en Políticas de Igualdad permiten identificar los recursos destinados a enfoques como género, discapacidad, interculturalidad y ciclo de vida.
Desde 2010, el Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas ha incorporado progresivamente estos enfoques en el presupuesto estatal, ampliándolos en 2014 para incluir distintos ejes de igualdad. Actualmente, su uso es obligatorio en las fases de programación y ejecución presupuestaria.
Sin embargo, debido a cambios normativos y necesidades de información, es necesario evaluar su consistencia, uso y alineación con estándares internacionales, así como mejorar herramientas y metodologías para su aplicación.
La consultoría tiene como objetivo realizar un diagnóstico integral de estos clasificadores y, con base en sus resultados, proponer mejoras, desarrollar instrumentos técnicos y diseñar un plan de capacitación que fortalezca su uso para una gestión eficiente del gasto público con enfoque de igualdad.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide coordination and technical support to the National Planning Commission (NPC) and the National Nutrition and Food Security Secretariat (NNFSS) in strengthening multi-sector coordination structures at the federal, provincial, and local levels and supporting the operationalization of EU budget support for the effective implementation of the Multi-Sector Nutrition Plan III (MSNP-III, 2023-2030). The assignment will focus on strengthening multi-sector coordination mechanisms, enhancing the capacity of MSNP-III governance structures across all three levels of government, and facilitating the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of EU budget support toward the achievement of Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLIs) under the leadership of the NPC.
As a foundational support role within the Individual Giving unit, the Fundraising Assistant (Database) plays a vital part in enabling the Private Sector Fund Raising (PSFR) team’s strategic goals of data-driven growth and operational excellence. By collecting, cleaning, and preparing data for analysis, the incumbent ensures that donor and campaign data is accurate, timely, and ready for integration into broader fundraising workflows. This role directly supports the team’s emphasis on segmentation, funnel-based marketing, and evidence-based decision-making. Through meticulous data validation and transformation, the Assistant helps maintain the integrity of systems that underpin campaign execution, performance monitoring, and strategic reporting. Their contributions are essential to ensuring that PSFR and office-wide activities are implemented in compliance with UNICEF’s rules and regulations, and aligned with the strategic priorities outlined in the 2026–2030 framework.
Under the Individual Giving unit on the PSFR team, the Fundraising Assistant (Database), collects, cleans, and prepares data for analysis. Responsibilities include data extraction, transformation, validation, and ensuring data quality. Incumbent facilitates the database-ready for next steps in implementation, monitoring, and delivery of PSFR and office’s activities /programme and effective execution of tasks aligned with UNICEF rules and regulations.
Guinea is a lower-middle-income country facing significant challenges in child development and deprivation. According to the latest Human Development Index (HDI) report, Guinea has a Human Development Index of 0.480, ranking 178th out of 191 countries in 2023, reflecting its ongoing struggle with poverty and social development challenges. Since 1984, UNICEF has worked with the government and various partners, including UN agencies, NGOs, and community-based organizations, to improve conditions for children.
The population of Guinea is projected to be around 15.2 million in 2025, with 63.4% living in rural areas and women comprising approximately 50.3% of the population. The annual growth rate remains steady at about 2.8%. Children under the age of 18 account for roughly 51% of the population, underscoring the critical need for child-focused interventions in areas such as health, education, and protection (World Population Review).
The vision of the 2024-2028 country programme is: "A Guinea where children, especially adolescent girls and children from the most vulnerable families in the most disadvantaged geographical areas, have equitable opportunities for sustainable access to essential social services and quality social protection, and can reach their full potential, including in a context of climate-related vulnerabilities and emergencies".
Currently, Guinea faces several humanitarian and emergency situations with multiple health crises, including outbreaks of diseases such as poliovirus, diphtheria, yellow fever, and Lassa fever. The country is particularly vulnerable to health shocks due to weak healthcare infrastructure. In addition, the country faces regularly natural disasters, such as flooding, which displace populations, damage infrastructure, and exacerbate the already challenging humanitarian conditions. These ongoing challenges necessitate continued support and local resilience-building measures to mitigate their impact on the population.
The UNICEF Guinea office is looking for committed and creative professionals to make a lasting difference for Guinean children.
To support UNICEF in positioning and operationalizing the Heads of State Initiatives (HoSI) as a flagship mechanism for accelerating political commitment, financing, and accountability in the WASH sector. The consultant will provide technical, advocacy, and coordination support to UNICEF’s WASH Partnerships and Advocacy and WASH Systems and Governance teams in advancing the Heads of State Initiatives (HoSi), ASWA III programme priorities, and global engagements with key partners (Sanitation and Water for All) and major events (UN 2026 Water Conference), while ensuring coherence between political advocacy, systems strengthening, and UNICEF’s global advocacy plan.
The Government of the Philippines, in partnership with UNICEF and WHO, will host the Second Global Ministerial Conference (GMC) on Ending Violence Against Children (18–19 November 2026, Manila). Preparation is critical. Countries are expected to undertake national preparatory processes, including consultations to review progress, strengthen existing pledges, and generate new commitments. UNICEF Philippines will engage a National Consultant to support coordination, preparatory processes, and conference delivery.
UNICEF is seeking a qualified national consultant to support the Ministry of Health in Lesotho in strengthening the country’s environmental health framework.
The consultant will review, update, and finalize the National Environmental Health Policy to ensure alignment with national priorities, global standards, and emerging issues such as climate resilience. Additionally, they will develop a costed Environmental Health Strategic Plan (2027–2031), including priority interventions, implementation arrangements, financing strategies, and a monitoring and evaluation framework.
This assignment aims to deliver a comprehensive and actionable policy and strategic plan aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and relevant global environmental health frameworks.
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