Review the GAVI 6.0 guidelines alongside the NIS 2026–2030 and EVM assessment recommendations to ensure alignment with national priorities. Coordinate closely with the Immunization Department and the Director General of Partnership to clarify the Ministry of Health’s financial allocation to the immunization program for 2026–2030. Based on this, analyze critical funding gaps and develop recommendations on how to leverage available resources to effectively scale up immunization activities. Review the TCA and HSS investments since January 2026, to identify the unfunded activities that are recommended in NIS 2026-2030. Finally, provide technical support to the Ministry of Health in developing a comprehensive GAVI 6.0 consolidated cash grant proposal.
Accelerated Disease Control Partnerships Consultant, Accelerated Disease Control - Immunization Section, CoE Global Health Practice, Global Programme Division, Nairobi, Kenya, remote, with travel, 11.5 months
UNICEF Belarus requires dedicated technical support to strengthen the generation, analysis, management and use of data and evidence related to children and adolescents.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the National Center for Health Promotion (NCHP), Ministry of Health, to develop a standardized, competency-based Village Health Support Group (VHSG) Training Package and Curriculum for the implementation of the Policy on Community Participation for Health (PCP-H) and its Operational Guidelines.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion
(MSSI), INDDICA, MTC and NGO partners to strengthen their capacity to manage and coordinate high-quality,
effective, and climate-informed, preventive and online child protection programming.
The Evaluation Consultant will support UNICEF ECARO, Country Offices, and government counterparts in assessing the feasibility, designing, managing, and implementing experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations of government interventions. The consultant will strengthen national evaluation capacity on counterfactual evaluation methodologies and provide technical guidance to Country Offices and government counterparts in the design and implementation of high-quality, robust strategic evaluations using quantitative methods.
The Vaccine Management and Cold Chain Logistics Specialist will support the Ministry of Health at provincial level to improve vaccine management, cold chain performance, coordination, and capacity building. Under the administrative supervision and technical guidance of the Immunization Supply Chain Manager in Kinshasa, the incumbent will also help strengthen UNICEF’s strategic engagement in provincial immunization and logistics coordination platforms.
Under the overall supervision of the Regional Data and Research manager and MICS Coordinator, the Regional Household Survey Consultant has the responsibility for supporting the preparation, implementation and quality assurance of survey processes as per MICS standards through provision of specialized technical assistance to the country and national counterparts.
UNICEF has developed Bebbo, a free parenting application that guides parents and caregivers from pregnancy through the early years of a child’s life. Bebbo provides evidence-based, age-tailored guidance across health, nutrition, responsive care, play and early learning, safety, child protection and parental well-being and mental health, and offers functional features that allow caregivers to record and monitor immunizations, growth and developmental milestones. The application is available at no cost on iOS and Android, functions offline, and is designed for multilingual deployment, with centrally curated content managed in a Drupal-based Content Management System (CMS) and adapted and translated by each participating country.
This consultancy will contribute to the identification, development, and management of partnership and fundraising opportunities, support donor engagement and proposal development, and facilitate the implementation of priority partnership initiatives and events.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support NCPD to strengthen disability mainstreaming in national and local government planning and budgeting processes through improved tools, monitoring, capacity building, coordination, and advocacy, with a focus on upcoming planning and budgeting cycles. Moreover, the consultant will provide support to several other initiatives across capacity assessment, mapping disability indicators across Government Management Information Systems (MIS), development of institutional and operational guidelines for disability management information system (DMIS) and referral as systems and supporting costing the package of disability support
The purpose of this assignment is to generate timely and robust evidence on the efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and adequacy of health spending in Malawi over the last five fiscal years (2021/22–2025/26). The analysis will assess programme prioritization within District Implementation Plans (DIPs), examine resource allocation and expenditure performance across key programme areas including PHC, SRMNCAH, HIV, immunization, and medicines financing, and identify opportunities to improve budget credibility, expenditure efficiency, and financial sustainability.
The purpose of the assignment is to provide technical and analytical support to Mozambique’s Social Policy, Social Protection and Research Section in generating PFM analytical products.
The purpose of this consultancy is to deliver analytical, policy, knowledge and technical products on gender-responsive social protection and care and support systems, in support of the Inclusive Social Protection thematic area of the Economic and Social Policy Global Practice (ESP GP) and in collaboration with UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight.
UNICEF’s Evaluation Office is launching a 2026–2029 global evaluation to strengthen child protection systems and identify high-impact investments for reducing violence against women and children. This initiative requires a Thematic Lead on Violence Against Children to drive strategic analysis across two critical workstreams.
UNICEF would like to engage the services of a copyeditor to support with the copyediting and proofreading stages in the finalization of knowledge products for different audiences such as the general public, donors, government and partners.
As funding for health shrinks and country budgets for immunization supply chains are dramatically cut, it is becoming increasingly important to demonstrate the impact that availability of potent vaccines make to overall health and broader economic goals. Linking the evidence of the availability of potent vaccines and an effective cold chain to reducing the zero-dose burden, increasing coverage, improving health outcomes and contributing to the economic outcomes of a country becomes an important lever to ensure that investments are made in the right places of the health system to ensure the greatest impact. There are also a multitude of different technologies with different purposes and utilities that governments can use to strengthen their immunization programmes. Some of these are excessively expensive and are not always justified in all contexts. A decision framework would be helpful to help governments navigate these decisions and decide on the system investments required when investing in new technologies in the supply chain.
The consultancy will provide specialized, time-bound technical expertise to sustain the quality, continuity, and performance of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) and the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) in Helmand Province, a high-priority and high-risk province for polio transmission. The assignment is designed to address critical technical and operational priorities during a temporary programme capacity gap and is not intended to replace a staff position or perform routine administrative functions. The consultant will provide advanced technical support to strengthen evidence-based planning, implementation, monitoring, and quality improvement of routine immunization and supplementary immunization activities (SIAs). This includes analysing immunization and surveillance data using DHIS2, EPI dashboards, Excel, and other programme monitoring tools to identify immunity gaps, monitor programme performance, prioritize high-risk populations, and support timely corrective actions. The consultant will also strengthen integrated immunization services by providing technical guidance on microplanning, supportive supervision, vaccine and cold chain management, surveillance, outbreak preparedness and response, and strategies to identify and reach zero-dose and under-immunized children. The consultancy will further support effective coordination among the Provincial EPI Management Team (PEMT), BPHS and non-BPHS implementing partners, provincial and district health authorities, and other stakeholders to improve programme quality, strengthen accountability, enhance community engagement and demand generation for immunization, and build the technical capacity of frontline health workers through mentoring and on-the-job support. By providing this specialized technical expertise, the consultancy will help maintain uninterrupted implementation of UNICEF supported immunization activities, improve vaccination coverage and equity, and accelerate progress.
The purpose of this consultancy is to generate reliable, disaggregated and integrated education evidence by analysing administrative and household survey datasets and transforming the findings into analytical reports, knowledge products and interactive dashboards that strengthen evidence-based planning, budgeting, monitoring and policy dialogue at national and state levels. The outputs developed under this consultancy will support UNICEF's national and state offices and will be shared with national and state government counterparts to strengthen data-informed planning, implementation and decision-making.
Adolescence is a critical period of development during which mental health challenges can have lasting impacts. In Bhutan, mental health concerns among children, adolescents, young people, and women are increasing, with anxiety and depression accounting for more than 55% of reported cases, followed by alcohol -related mental and behavioral disorders. In response, WHO and UNICEF launched the Helping Adolescents Thrive (HAT) Initiative, including evidence -based guidelines, an implementation toolkit, a teacher’ s Guide, and a Comic Book to promote adolescent mental health and socio -emotional learning. To pilot the initiative in Bhutan, UNICEF partnered with the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MOESD) and the PEMA Secretariat in 2025, implementing the adapted HAT toolkit in 24 schools over six months through school counsellors in 12 schools and mentor -mentee programmes in the remaining 12 schools.
The pilot implementation of the HAT initiative demonstrated positive outcomes in strengthening adolescents’ social -emotional skills, with participants showing improved emotional awareness and a greater willingness to seek support from peers, counsellors, and wellbeing focal persons. Teachers observed that students felt more comfortable discussing their challenges, while parents and caregivers reported being better equipped to understand and support their children after participating in the programme. A major factor contributing to the pilot’s success was the adaptation of the resources to the Bhutanese context, particularly the comic book Magnificent Meto and Friends , whose relatable characters and storylines resonated strongly with adolescents. Due to high demand, including among older adolescents aged 15 –19 years,
Review the GAVI 6.0 guidelines alongside the NIS 2026–2030 and EVM assessment recommendations to ensure alignment with national priorities. Coordinate closely with the Immunization Department and the Director General of Partnership to clarify the Ministry of Health’s financial allocation to the immunization program for 2026–2030. Based on this, analyze critical funding gaps and develop recommendations on how to leverage available resources to effectively scale up immunization activities. Review the TCA and HSS investments since January 2026, to identify the unfunded activities that are recommended in NIS 2026-2030. Finally, provide technical support to the Ministry of Health in developing a comprehensive GAVI 6.0 consolidated cash grant proposal.
Accelerated Disease Control Partnerships Consultant, Accelerated Disease Control - Immunization Section, CoE Global Health Practice, Global Programme Division, Nairobi, Kenya, remote, with travel, 11.5 months
UNICEF Belarus requires dedicated technical support to strengthen the generation, analysis, management and use of data and evidence related to children and adolescents.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the National Center for Health Promotion (NCHP), Ministry of Health, to develop a standardized, competency-based Village Health Support Group (VHSG) Training Package and Curriculum for the implementation of the Policy on Community Participation for Health (PCP-H) and its Operational Guidelines.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion
(MSSI), INDDICA, MTC and NGO partners to strengthen their capacity to manage and coordinate high-quality,
effective, and climate-informed, preventive and online child protection programming.
The Evaluation Consultant will support UNICEF ECARO, Country Offices, and government counterparts in assessing the feasibility, designing, managing, and implementing experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations of government interventions. The consultant will strengthen national evaluation capacity on counterfactual evaluation methodologies and provide technical guidance to Country Offices and government counterparts in the design and implementation of high-quality, robust strategic evaluations using quantitative methods.
The Vaccine Management and Cold Chain Logistics Specialist will support the Ministry of Health at provincial level to improve vaccine management, cold chain performance, coordination, and capacity building. Under the administrative supervision and technical guidance of the Immunization Supply Chain Manager in Kinshasa, the incumbent will also help strengthen UNICEF’s strategic engagement in provincial immunization and logistics coordination platforms.
Under the overall supervision of the Regional Data and Research manager and MICS Coordinator, the Regional Household Survey Consultant has the responsibility for supporting the preparation, implementation and quality assurance of survey processes as per MICS standards through provision of specialized technical assistance to the country and national counterparts.
UNICEF has developed Bebbo, a free parenting application that guides parents and caregivers from pregnancy through the early years of a child’s life. Bebbo provides evidence-based, age-tailored guidance across health, nutrition, responsive care, play and early learning, safety, child protection and parental well-being and mental health, and offers functional features that allow caregivers to record and monitor immunizations, growth and developmental milestones. The application is available at no cost on iOS and Android, functions offline, and is designed for multilingual deployment, with centrally curated content managed in a Drupal-based Content Management System (CMS) and adapted and translated by each participating country.
This consultancy will contribute to the identification, development, and management of partnership and fundraising opportunities, support donor engagement and proposal development, and facilitate the implementation of priority partnership initiatives and events.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support NCPD to strengthen disability mainstreaming in national and local government planning and budgeting processes through improved tools, monitoring, capacity building, coordination, and advocacy, with a focus on upcoming planning and budgeting cycles. Moreover, the consultant will provide support to several other initiatives across capacity assessment, mapping disability indicators across Government Management Information Systems (MIS), development of institutional and operational guidelines for disability management information system (DMIS) and referral as systems and supporting costing the package of disability support
The purpose of this assignment is to generate timely and robust evidence on the efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and adequacy of health spending in Malawi over the last five fiscal years (2021/22–2025/26). The analysis will assess programme prioritization within District Implementation Plans (DIPs), examine resource allocation and expenditure performance across key programme areas including PHC, SRMNCAH, HIV, immunization, and medicines financing, and identify opportunities to improve budget credibility, expenditure efficiency, and financial sustainability.
The purpose of the assignment is to provide technical and analytical support to Mozambique’s Social Policy, Social Protection and Research Section in generating PFM analytical products.
The purpose of this consultancy is to deliver analytical, policy, knowledge and technical products on gender-responsive social protection and care and support systems, in support of the Inclusive Social Protection thematic area of the Economic and Social Policy Global Practice (ESP GP) and in collaboration with UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight.
UNICEF’s Evaluation Office is launching a 2026–2029 global evaluation to strengthen child protection systems and identify high-impact investments for reducing violence against women and children. This initiative requires a Thematic Lead on Violence Against Children to drive strategic analysis across two critical workstreams.
UNICEF would like to engage the services of a copyeditor to support with the copyediting and proofreading stages in the finalization of knowledge products for different audiences such as the general public, donors, government and partners.
As funding for health shrinks and country budgets for immunization supply chains are dramatically cut, it is becoming increasingly important to demonstrate the impact that availability of potent vaccines make to overall health and broader economic goals. Linking the evidence of the availability of potent vaccines and an effective cold chain to reducing the zero-dose burden, increasing coverage, improving health outcomes and contributing to the economic outcomes of a country becomes an important lever to ensure that investments are made in the right places of the health system to ensure the greatest impact. There are also a multitude of different technologies with different purposes and utilities that governments can use to strengthen their immunization programmes. Some of these are excessively expensive and are not always justified in all contexts. A decision framework would be helpful to help governments navigate these decisions and decide on the system investments required when investing in new technologies in the supply chain.
The consultancy will provide specialized, time-bound technical expertise to sustain the quality, continuity, and performance of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) and the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) in Helmand Province, a high-priority and high-risk province for polio transmission. The assignment is designed to address critical technical and operational priorities during a temporary programme capacity gap and is not intended to replace a staff position or perform routine administrative functions. The consultant will provide advanced technical support to strengthen evidence-based planning, implementation, monitoring, and quality improvement of routine immunization and supplementary immunization activities (SIAs). This includes analysing immunization and surveillance data using DHIS2, EPI dashboards, Excel, and other programme monitoring tools to identify immunity gaps, monitor programme performance, prioritize high-risk populations, and support timely corrective actions. The consultant will also strengthen integrated immunization services by providing technical guidance on microplanning, supportive supervision, vaccine and cold chain management, surveillance, outbreak preparedness and response, and strategies to identify and reach zero-dose and under-immunized children. The consultancy will further support effective coordination among the Provincial EPI Management Team (PEMT), BPHS and non-BPHS implementing partners, provincial and district health authorities, and other stakeholders to improve programme quality, strengthen accountability, enhance community engagement and demand generation for immunization, and build the technical capacity of frontline health workers through mentoring and on-the-job support. By providing this specialized technical expertise, the consultancy will help maintain uninterrupted implementation of UNICEF supported immunization activities, improve vaccination coverage and equity, and accelerate progress.
The purpose of this consultancy is to generate reliable, disaggregated and integrated education evidence by analysing administrative and household survey datasets and transforming the findings into analytical reports, knowledge products and interactive dashboards that strengthen evidence-based planning, budgeting, monitoring and policy dialogue at national and state levels. The outputs developed under this consultancy will support UNICEF's national and state offices and will be shared with national and state government counterparts to strengthen data-informed planning, implementation and decision-making.
Adolescence is a critical period of development during which mental health challenges can have lasting impacts. In Bhutan, mental health concerns among children, adolescents, young people, and women are increasing, with anxiety and depression accounting for more than 55% of reported cases, followed by alcohol -related mental and behavioral disorders. In response, WHO and UNICEF launched the Helping Adolescents Thrive (HAT) Initiative, including evidence -based guidelines, an implementation toolkit, a teacher’ s Guide, and a Comic Book to promote adolescent mental health and socio -emotional learning. To pilot the initiative in Bhutan, UNICEF partnered with the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MOESD) and the PEMA Secretariat in 2025, implementing the adapted HAT toolkit in 24 schools over six months through school counsellors in 12 schools and mentor -mentee programmes in the remaining 12 schools.
The pilot implementation of the HAT initiative demonstrated positive outcomes in strengthening adolescents’ social -emotional skills, with participants showing improved emotional awareness and a greater willingness to seek support from peers, counsellors, and wellbeing focal persons. Teachers observed that students felt more comfortable discussing their challenges, while parents and caregivers reported being better equipped to understand and support their children after participating in the programme. A major factor contributing to the pilot’s success was the adaptation of the resources to the Bhutanese context, particularly the comic book Magnificent Meto and Friends , whose relatable characters and storylines resonated strongly with adolescents. Due to high demand, including among older adolescents aged 15 –19 years,
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