The situation in Afghanistan continues to remain exceptionally complex, with a protracted emergency situation, characterized by recurrent natural disasters, an increased number of people living in poverty, continued internal displacement, unprecedented levels of food insecurity, which has been further compounded since the COVID-19 pandemic. This complexity has impacted the situation of children and women in the country. The withdrawal of United States military forces from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the establishment of a de-facto government by the Taliban has exacerbated the complexity and uncertainty of the situation. UNICEF is required to rapidly adapt the ways of working to address the multiple operational constraints present in the highly volatile and unpredictable context. This included the need to establish a Project Management Unit (PMU) to provide operational and transactional capacity to the Afghanistan Country Office (ACO) to ensure urgent lifesaving and resilience building programmes can continue.
The PMU through its Cash and Incentives Team and Beneficiary Data Management Team currently supports the implementation of the following types of cash transfer projects, at a country-wide scale:
Monthly incentive payments for service providers in priority Sectors (including teachers and Polio Social Mobilizers),
Humanitarian Cash Transfer activities such as MCCT and Winterization
Ad-hoc cash transfer projects based on the programming needs of the Afghanistan Country Office’s Programme Sections.
Additionally, the Beneficiary Data Management Team supports Information and System Management to enable smooth operations and data-driven decision-making for the PMU and Programme Sections.
El propósito de la Consultoría es contar con asesoramiento especializado para el logro de resultados inscritos en el Programa de UNICEF en materia de DRR – EPR y específicamente para el diseño y adaptación de recursos y materiales para el desarrollo de dos Diplomados en Gestión de Riesgos, y los ToTs para aplicación a instituciones locales y comunidades. Esto en el marco del proyecto "Comprehensive Disaster Participatory Preparedness Focused on Highly Vulnerable Communities”, contribuyendo al siguiente resultado: Las comunidades y sus líderes han mejorado su capacidad para desarrollar evaluaciones de riesgo exhaustivas y definir escenarios de riesgo prioritarios para planes de contingencia y acciones de preparación, utilizando competencias multisectoriales y especializadas.
UNICEF’s Evaluation Office works on several strategic initiatives aimed at supporting capacities inside and outside the Organization. Many of the initiatives are implemented in partnerships with other organizations or networks, e.g., National University of Singapore, EVALSDGs, the Global Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, among others. The Evaluation Specialist (Partnerships) will support the continuation of the Evaluation Office’s ongoing partnership activities and support the Evaluation Office, and the wider evaluation function, with select ongoing strategic evaluation partnerships, including in national evaluation capacity development, that are grounded in the overall vision for the evaluation function in 2025 and beyond
This consultancy assignment will refine, in close coordination with the UNICEF Education RRO in Poland team, the representatives and teams of the 4 Sun Centers and representatives from the Krakow Municipality, the Sun Center business model and develop a roadmap for the Sun Centers model that will ensure their sustainability in the future years of operation. All the above-mentioned stakeholders, together with other representatives from CSOs, and Ukrainian community members, will be forming a Reference Group that will support data collection, consultation and validation of the results and model.
The model will also be shared with other Municipalities in Poland with the aim to be considered as a viable option to provide psycho-pedagogical support services to migrant and refugee children and their families.
This consultancy will play a transformative role in empowering communities and institutions through the integration of WASH-IPC and CLTS/CATS tools within climate-resilient WASH interventions across selected townships. By fostering a robust sanitation market, promoting access to sustainable sanitation infrastructure, and enhancing community resilience, this assignment will contribute to advancing Myanmar's progress toward achieving universal access to WASH services.
The situation in Afghanistan continues to remain exceptionally complex, with a protracted emergency situation, characterized by recurrent natural disasters, an increased number of people living in poverty, continued internal displacement, unprecedented levels of food insecurity, which has been further compounded since the COVID-19 pandemic. This complexity has impacted the situation of children and women in the country. The withdrawal of United States military forces from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the establishment of a de-facto government by the Taliban has exacerbated the complexity and uncertainty of the situation. UNICEF is required to rapidly adapt the ways of working to address the multiple operational constraints present in the highly volatile and unpredictable context. This included the need to establish a Project Management Unit (PMU) to provide operational and transactional capacity to the Afghanistan Country Office (ACO) to ensure urgent lifesaving and resilience building programmes can continue.
The PMU through its Cash and Incentives Team and Beneficiary Data Management Team currently supports the implementation of the following types of cash transfer projects, at a country-wide scale:
Monthly incentive payments for service providers in priority Sectors (including teachers and Polio Social Mobilizers),
Humanitarian Cash Transfer activities such as MCCT and Winterization
Ad-hoc cash transfer projects based on the programming needs of the Afghanistan Country Office’s Programme Sections.
Additionally, the Beneficiary Data Management Team supports Information and System Management to enable smooth operations and data-driven decision-making for the PMU and Programme Sections.
El propósito de la Consultoría es contar con asesoramiento especializado para el logro de resultados inscritos en el Programa de UNICEF en materia de DRR – EPR y específicamente para el diseño y adaptación de recursos y materiales para el desarrollo de dos Diplomados en Gestión de Riesgos, y los ToTs para aplicación a instituciones locales y comunidades. Esto en el marco del proyecto "Comprehensive Disaster Participatory Preparedness Focused on Highly Vulnerable Communities”, contribuyendo al siguiente resultado: Las comunidades y sus líderes han mejorado su capacidad para desarrollar evaluaciones de riesgo exhaustivas y definir escenarios de riesgo prioritarios para planes de contingencia y acciones de preparación, utilizando competencias multisectoriales y especializadas.
UNICEF’s Evaluation Office works on several strategic initiatives aimed at supporting capacities inside and outside the Organization. Many of the initiatives are implemented in partnerships with other organizations or networks, e.g., National University of Singapore, EVALSDGs, the Global Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, among others. The Evaluation Specialist (Partnerships) will support the continuation of the Evaluation Office’s ongoing partnership activities and support the Evaluation Office, and the wider evaluation function, with select ongoing strategic evaluation partnerships, including in national evaluation capacity development, that are grounded in the overall vision for the evaluation function in 2025 and beyond
This consultancy assignment will refine, in close coordination with the UNICEF Education RRO in Poland team, the representatives and teams of the 4 Sun Centers and representatives from the Krakow Municipality, the Sun Center business model and develop a roadmap for the Sun Centers model that will ensure their sustainability in the future years of operation. All the above-mentioned stakeholders, together with other representatives from CSOs, and Ukrainian community members, will be forming a Reference Group that will support data collection, consultation and validation of the results and model.
The model will also be shared with other Municipalities in Poland with the aim to be considered as a viable option to provide psycho-pedagogical support services to migrant and refugee children and their families.
This consultancy will play a transformative role in empowering communities and institutions through the integration of WASH-IPC and CLTS/CATS tools within climate-resilient WASH interventions across selected townships. By fostering a robust sanitation market, promoting access to sustainable sanitation infrastructure, and enhancing community resilience, this assignment will contribute to advancing Myanmar's progress toward achieving universal access to WASH services.
