The primary purpose of this consultancy is to provide guidance and support to three Country Offices (COs) – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan – in UNICEF’s South Asia region which are undertaking costing exercises (including a financial gap analysis), cost-effectiveness, and fiscal space analyses for community health and nutrition. Each CO will employ the services of a national consultant, who will be primarily responsible for the additional data collection analysis required to develop these knowledge products. It is worth noting that COs are building on previous work that has already been conducted, with Community Health Worker strategies and nutrition plans already fully or partially costed, supported by Social and Behavior Change (SBC) strategies.
The role of the consultant will be to harmonize the approach taken across the COs, and to provide detailed guidance and hands-on support to COs with methodological guidance, guiding and reviewing data collection and analysis, and supporting the drafting of succinct knowledge products that are suitable for advocacy purposes. This will involve the development of guidance and template documents.
Furthermore, the consultant will be responsible for bringing these work streams together to produce regional overview documents for South Asia which synthesize the CO investment cases and costing exercises, producing a compelling regional narrative for investing in CHN.
UNICEF Togo is seeking for a passionate and skilled Health & Nutrition Officer, NOB and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to making a difference and getting results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and dynamic team.
The main objective of the Quality Review is to provide an evidence base on the quality of the CPDs submitted in 2024 and to determine the extent to which they:
- Convey UNICEF’s commitment to foundational norms and programming principles.
- Adhere to the relevant guidance or guidelines.
- Are results-based, coherent and convincing: conveying UNICEF’s relevance, strategic positioning, comparative advantage or value-added in the country
The main objective of the review of the Country Programme Planning is to determine the extent to which the Country Offices:
- Adhered to the new CPP guidance.
- Promoted the reflection and conceptualization of systemic changes necessary to contribute to outcome-level results in the lives of children.
- Have designed country programmes for scale and impact, that effectively leverage partnerships towards the realization of higher results for children.
- Have benefitted from the strategic intentions of the new CPP methodology aimed at:
o Strengthening the evidence base and linking evidence better to programme interventions
o Better reflecting on government and partners' contributions and commitment in line with National Development Plans
o Clearly laying out the systemic changes that need to occur for Outcomes to be achieved
o Better combining emergency and development interventions towards these systemic changes
o Providing clear “visibility” of the private sector in our work (if applicable)
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
The Senior Procurement Services Specialist, with support from the PS Manager and the PS Specialist through a matrix management set-up, will lead the sub-unit and will work in collaboration especially with Policy and Partnership unit (PnP) but also across PSC as well as with other centers to provide strategic leadership and support at the different phases of special projects and new initiatives (preparing of CE cover letters for complex and sensitive projects and transactions, managing and having oversight of all operational aspects falling under Procurement Services, ensuring correctness of transaction documents, consistent quality review and signatory in line with set table of authority), streamlining and monitoring of transactions (including oversight on KPIs) and partnership management from an operational aspect (e.g. African Union) with particular focus on both supporting PnP as well as on facilitating BU engagement throughout the process.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to provide guidance and support to three Country Offices (COs) – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan – in UNICEF’s South Asia region which are undertaking costing exercises (including a financial gap analysis), cost-effectiveness, and fiscal space analyses for community health and nutrition. Each CO will employ the services of a national consultant, who will be primarily responsible for the additional data collection analysis required to develop these knowledge products. It is worth noting that COs are building on previous work that has already been conducted, with Community Health Worker strategies and nutrition plans already fully or partially costed, supported by Social and Behavior Change (SBC) strategies.
The role of the consultant will be to harmonize the approach taken across the COs, and to provide detailed guidance and hands-on support to COs with methodological guidance, guiding and reviewing data collection and analysis, and supporting the drafting of succinct knowledge products that are suitable for advocacy purposes. This will involve the development of guidance and template documents.
Furthermore, the consultant will be responsible for bringing these work streams together to produce regional overview documents for South Asia which synthesize the CO investment cases and costing exercises, producing a compelling regional narrative for investing in CHN.
UNICEF Togo is seeking for a passionate and skilled Health & Nutrition Officer, NOB and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to making a difference and getting results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and dynamic team.
The main objective of the Quality Review is to provide an evidence base on the quality of the CPDs submitted in 2024 and to determine the extent to which they:
- Convey UNICEF’s commitment to foundational norms and programming principles.
- Adhere to the relevant guidance or guidelines.
- Are results-based, coherent and convincing: conveying UNICEF’s relevance, strategic positioning, comparative advantage or value-added in the country
The main objective of the review of the Country Programme Planning is to determine the extent to which the Country Offices:
- Adhered to the new CPP guidance.
- Promoted the reflection and conceptualization of systemic changes necessary to contribute to outcome-level results in the lives of children.
- Have designed country programmes for scale and impact, that effectively leverage partnerships towards the realization of higher results for children.
- Have benefitted from the strategic intentions of the new CPP methodology aimed at:
o Strengthening the evidence base and linking evidence better to programme interventions
o Better reflecting on government and partners' contributions and commitment in line with National Development Plans
o Clearly laying out the systemic changes that need to occur for Outcomes to be achieved
o Better combining emergency and development interventions towards these systemic changes
o Providing clear “visibility” of the private sector in our work (if applicable)
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
The Senior Procurement Services Specialist, with support from the PS Manager and the PS Specialist through a matrix management set-up, will lead the sub-unit and will work in collaboration especially with Policy and Partnership unit (PnP) but also across PSC as well as with other centers to provide strategic leadership and support at the different phases of special projects and new initiatives (preparing of CE cover letters for complex and sensitive projects and transactions, managing and having oversight of all operational aspects falling under Procurement Services, ensuring correctness of transaction documents, consistent quality review and signatory in line with set table of authority), streamlining and monitoring of transactions (including oversight on KPIs) and partnership management from an operational aspect (e.g. African Union) with particular focus on both supporting PnP as well as on facilitating BU engagement throughout the process.