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.
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)
UNICEF is seeking candidates to support the HR Administration and HR Payroll & Offboarding Sections as Human Resources Assistants at the GS-5 level in the Global Shared Services Centre in Budapest, Hungary. This is a great opportunity for career development in a fast-paced, multicultural context and for taking the first step towards an international career as part of the UN family.
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.
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)
UNICEF is seeking candidates to support the HR Administration and HR Payroll & Offboarding Sections as Human Resources Assistants at the GS-5 level in the Global Shared Services Centre in Budapest, Hungary. This is a great opportunity for career development in a fast-paced, multicultural context and for taking the first step towards an international career as part of the UN family.