UNICEF Czech Republic RRO is looking for a qualified Communications Consultant to strengthen the communication and advocacy efforts of the UNICEF Refugee Response Office by organizing key events, producing multimedia content, and supporting a range of communication initiatives.
The Syria International Education Dialogue Forum (EDF) is a platform to bring together all international efforts to strengthen education inside Syria. EDF membership includes representation from bilateral donors, UN agencies, implementing partners, and Whole of Syria education cluster and hub leads. As a platform, it aims to improve collaboration, coherence and effectiveness across the humanitarian, stabilization and development responses, and address strategic policy and technical education issues.
The EDF meets twice a year. The meetings are an opportunity for members to strengthen relationships and engage in constructive conversations to improve the effectiveness of aid delivery, share data, evidence and learning on good practice, and tackle key strategic issues which prevent or obstruct effective education across Syria. The upcoming meeting will be held on 12 and 13 November 2024 in Amman, Jordan.
The EDF is led by the EDF Steering Committee, a body which represents the different constituencies of EDF membership. The EDF Steering Committee is responsible for setting the overarching objectives and agenda for the EDF meetings.
A 2-day meeting will be held amongst international community on strengthening support to education in Syria on 12 and 13 November 2024 in Amman, Jordan.
The review of UNICEF's Operations Centre (OPSCEN) is part of the EMOPS initiative to improve support to field offices and enhance crisis response. Since its 1996 establishment, OPSCEN has provided 24/7 global information and communication services, starting with the Kosovo crisis in 1999. The upcoming “OPSCEN of the Future/OPSCEN 2.0” review will evaluate OPSCEN’s capabilities, services, and future needs to boost efficiency, strengthen partnerships, and support UNICEF’s senior leaders in decision-making for global Level 3 emergencies. This review will align with the “EMOPS 2.0” strategy and build on previous assessments to improve business continuity, knowledge management, and visibility.
The mission of the UNICEF evaluation function is to help drive results for children by fostering evidence-informed decision making. Evaluation in UNICEF supports both learning and decision-making, which in turn support better results for children. Evaluation also helps to hold UNICEF accountable for contributing to results for children, or for failing to do so. UNICEF’S evaluation function, along with the evaluation units of many other UN agencies, are a part of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), an interagency professional network that aims to promote, strengthen and advocate for a robust, influential, independent and credible evaluation function throughout the UN system. In the past few years, as a part of these efforts to understand and promote the use of evaluative methods, the UNEG Methods Working Group has developed a compendium of methods (Issue I and II) with illustrative examples and organized dedicated learning seminars. These endeavors received very positive informal feedback, but they were not necessarily based on systematic assessment of methods currently used or misused by the UN evaluation community. We know relatively little of the extent to which standard social science methods and specific evaluative approaches were applied in UN evaluation practice- what are the common patterns in approaches used? what are some of the systematic issues related to the methodological approaches of UN evaluations?
The purpose of the consultancy is to support the unit in developing outreach as well as advocacy approaches on child poverty and social protection, through a variety of policy advocacy and knowledge management initiatives. This includes supporting dialogue, learning and advocacy on shock responsive as well as inclusive & gender responsive social protection, as well as support to managing an active Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, conducting outreach to member organizations, finding synergies between the individual work of the different organizations and providing more visibility to the work of the Coalition
UNICEF Czech Republic RRO is looking for a qualified Communications Consultant to strengthen the communication and advocacy efforts of the UNICEF Refugee Response Office by organizing key events, producing multimedia content, and supporting a range of communication initiatives.
The Syria International Education Dialogue Forum (EDF) is a platform to bring together all international efforts to strengthen education inside Syria. EDF membership includes representation from bilateral donors, UN agencies, implementing partners, and Whole of Syria education cluster and hub leads. As a platform, it aims to improve collaboration, coherence and effectiveness across the humanitarian, stabilization and development responses, and address strategic policy and technical education issues.
The EDF meets twice a year. The meetings are an opportunity for members to strengthen relationships and engage in constructive conversations to improve the effectiveness of aid delivery, share data, evidence and learning on good practice, and tackle key strategic issues which prevent or obstruct effective education across Syria. The upcoming meeting will be held on 12 and 13 November 2024 in Amman, Jordan.
The EDF is led by the EDF Steering Committee, a body which represents the different constituencies of EDF membership. The EDF Steering Committee is responsible for setting the overarching objectives and agenda for the EDF meetings.
A 2-day meeting will be held amongst international community on strengthening support to education in Syria on 12 and 13 November 2024 in Amman, Jordan.
The review of UNICEF's Operations Centre (OPSCEN) is part of the EMOPS initiative to improve support to field offices and enhance crisis response. Since its 1996 establishment, OPSCEN has provided 24/7 global information and communication services, starting with the Kosovo crisis in 1999. The upcoming “OPSCEN of the Future/OPSCEN 2.0” review will evaluate OPSCEN’s capabilities, services, and future needs to boost efficiency, strengthen partnerships, and support UNICEF’s senior leaders in decision-making for global Level 3 emergencies. This review will align with the “EMOPS 2.0” strategy and build on previous assessments to improve business continuity, knowledge management, and visibility.
The mission of the UNICEF evaluation function is to help drive results for children by fostering evidence-informed decision making. Evaluation in UNICEF supports both learning and decision-making, which in turn support better results for children. Evaluation also helps to hold UNICEF accountable for contributing to results for children, or for failing to do so. UNICEF’S evaluation function, along with the evaluation units of many other UN agencies, are a part of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), an interagency professional network that aims to promote, strengthen and advocate for a robust, influential, independent and credible evaluation function throughout the UN system. In the past few years, as a part of these efforts to understand and promote the use of evaluative methods, the UNEG Methods Working Group has developed a compendium of methods (Issue I and II) with illustrative examples and organized dedicated learning seminars. These endeavors received very positive informal feedback, but they were not necessarily based on systematic assessment of methods currently used or misused by the UN evaluation community. We know relatively little of the extent to which standard social science methods and specific evaluative approaches were applied in UN evaluation practice- what are the common patterns in approaches used? what are some of the systematic issues related to the methodological approaches of UN evaluations?
The purpose of the consultancy is to support the unit in developing outreach as well as advocacy approaches on child poverty and social protection, through a variety of policy advocacy and knowledge management initiatives. This includes supporting dialogue, learning and advocacy on shock responsive as well as inclusive & gender responsive social protection, as well as support to managing an active Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, conducting outreach to member organizations, finding synergies between the individual work of the different organizations and providing more visibility to the work of the Coalition