To support the implementation of current and future WASH infrastructure construction interventions, UNICEF Indonesia seeks to establish a roster of qualified WASH Infrastructure Construction Engineers who may be engaged as individual consultants on a short-term or long-term basis to provide specialized technical support for planning, design, implementation, supervision, quality assurance, and contract management of WASH infrastructure projects, as and when required.
The Foresight and Policy Unit at UNICEF Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE) is establishing a roster of qualified consultants to respond to a recurring need for on-demand, short- to medium-term technical support across a range of foresight methods and applications (strategic foresight, horizon scanning, and futures thinking). The roster will serve as a standing, pre-qualified pool of experts from which UNICEF and its country, regional, and headquarters offices can draw upon to support foresight-related initiatives. The roster of consultants is organized along 4 roster streams: Strategic Foresight; Facilitation and Participation; Quantitative Modelling; Knowledge Management and Capacity Building.
The consultant will work under the supervision of the Chief of Education, UNICEF Eritrea, and in close collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Local Education Group (LEG), GPE Secretariat and development partners.
Working in close partnership with DPC, GPD and OED, the consultant will design and build the architecture of a structured technical leadership track with a proposal for how to organize, establish, implement, maintain and govern it.
To advance and finalize the evaluation report, UNICEF is seeking an independent senior consultant to conduct further analysis and triangulate the existing primary and secondary evidence in order to improve the existing report and finalize a high-quality evaluation report in accordance with UNICEF and UNEG standards. The assignment will build on the initial data analysis and reporting already completed. The consultant will present the findings, incorporate feedback from UNICEF and the Evaluation Reference Group, and finalize the report and related communication products.
UNICEF works to realize every child’s rights, everywhere. Grounded in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and guided by the Sustainable Development Goals, UNICEF supports resilient systems and communities through risk-informed programming, social protection and preparedness. As humanitarian and development financing becomes increasingly constrained, UNICEF’s Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) plays a critical role in mobilizing private sector partnerships and resources to drive results for children.
UNICEF is seeking a national consultant to support the Aleppo Field Office in revitalizing and advancing the Child Friendly City initiative in Aleppo. The consultant will support the development of a results framework and a multi-sectoral action plan aligned with recognized Child Friendly City criteria and the priorities of the Aleppo local government.
The consultancy will be implemented in two phases over an initial period of six months, with each phase lasting three months. Subject to progress, results achieved, and the continued needs of the initiative, the consultancy may be extended.
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Fundraising Officer, the Digital Fundraising (FR) Consultant provides specialized technical support to the Communications and Fundraising Section in the development, implementation, execution and monitoring of private sector fundraising activities, with a particular focus on digital donor acquisition.
The Consultant contributes to the effective and timely delivery of digital fundraising initiatives, ensuring alignment with UNICEF strategies, policies, procedures, standards and applicable rules and regulations, while supporting the achievement of agreed fundraising objectives and results.
This consultancy is to develop a practical toolkit to support country teams responsible for leading or promoting vaccine acceptance and uptake during public health emergencies. The toolkit will provide practical guidance and tools for integrating vaccine demand and acceptance throughout the emergency vaccination cycle, from preparedness and activation through vaccine deployment, monitoring, and adaptation.
The consultancy will also provide technical support to promote vaccine uptake and demand for vaccine trials and vaccine roll out in response to ebola disease outbreaks.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will support the development of a global Legal Atlas covering all countries and territories for which authoritative legal information can be verified. The Atlas will document the statutory age of majority and MACR, including exceptions, differentiated thresholds and relevant implementation provisions, and assess alignment with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and General Comment No. 24,
The consultant will contribute to three sections of the sections for the report. First ‘detailed country profiles for each country’ which encapsulate the nutrition situation, availability of policies, programmes and systems readiness Second, ‘short case studies’ capturing type of systems engaged (health, food, social protection, women empowerment) pathways to deliver universal and differentiated packages for reaching those left out and left behind and triangulating the case studies to identify pathways for differentiated programme response. Third, scoping UNICEF country team capacity needs and their experienced barriers and opportunities to deliver at committed results at scale. This will also entail in discussions with programme teams, scoping partners and mapping local institutional capacity to map pathways for workforce development, South-South cooperation, Implementation science, and fulfilling Country demand for technical assistance.
In 2025, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd), the Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Council, and other key government stakeholders, undertook a comprehensive review of the Programme Convergence Budgeting (PCB) for Early Childhood Development (ECD), now referred to as PCB for Building Early Growth through Integrated Nurturing (PCB BEGIN), with technical support from UNICEF. The review examined the relevance, effectiveness, implementation experience, and institutional arrangements of the PCB mechanism, while assessing its potential to evolve from a coordination platform into a more budgeting strategy for advancing Early Childhood Development outcomes.
To support the Government of the Philippines in advancing these reforms, UNICEF seeks to engage a consultant who will work closely on strengthening the policy, operational, financing, monitoring, and accountability architecture required to sustain inter-agency convergence as an integral component of the country's public financial management system. The consultant will be working in close coordination and with technical oversight from the Department of Education and the ECCD Council, under the strategic oversight of the PCB Steering Committee and the Department of Budget and Management-Fiscal Planning and Reforms Bureau. It will also work closely with other agencies contributing in the PCB implementation such as National Nutrition Council (NNC), Department of Health, Department of Social Welfare and Development, and other while maintaining oversight coordination with DepEd, the ECCD Council, and DBM to ensure coherence with existing nutrition governance and financing reforms.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
Governments across Africa forgo significant revenue through tax expenditures such as exemptions, deductions, credits, preferential rates and tax holidays. In 32 African countries with available data, these incentives cost at least USD 56 billion annually, equivalent to 2% of GDP and 18% of tax revenue in the median country. Unlike direct spending, tax expenditures are rarely scrutinized, approved, time-limited or evaluated, and little is known about who benefits. Most reported tax expenditures lack a clear policy objective, beneficiary group or sector classification, making their impacts on children and poor households largely invisible at a time of rising fiscal pressure and debt burdens. This assignment will assess the scale, composition and equity implications of tax expenditures across Africa, examine how they are granted and reviewed, identify lessons from reform efforts, and support UNICEF country offices in engaging governments on the issue.
The purpose of the assignment is to provide technical leadership, coordination and quality assurance for the nationally owned process of revising and strengthening the project entitled “Climate-resilient WASH services and water security to support the resilience of community, health and education systems in Chad”, together with all mandatory annexes and supporting documentation, to ensure alignment with UNICEF pipeline selection requirements and the GCF investment criteria.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) in the preparation and finalisation of the 2026 Education Sector Performance Report (ESPR) and to provide technical support for the preparation, coordination and reporting of the Joint Sector Review (JSR).
Under the direct supervision of UNICEF Social Policy Officer, the Consultant will work and collaborate with UNICEF and implementing
partners including the Social Welfare Fund (SWF), the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP) and others to deliver and carryout
the proposed activities and tasks related to the cash plus project funded by KFW in Tuban and Al-Mukha districts.
UNICEF Afghanistan's Polio Section requires time-limited, specialized Information Management (IM) expertise to deliver a set of defined technical outputs during a critical six-month program phase (October 2026 – March 2027). This consultancy is temporary in nature, tied to specific deliverables, and required to support the piloting and national scale-up of the polio program 'reset' strategy, which introduces new data systems, monitoring frameworks, and field-level digitization processes that are beyond the current capacity and expertise of the existing Polio Section team.
The consultant will produce defined outputs across three areas: (1) integration of SBC, VCCM, and polio extender monitoring data into the Afghanistan Polio Management Information System (APMIS) to enable real-time analysis under the national 'pull' strategy; (2) structured IM technical support to the M&E team and field offices during the reset pilot phase in the South and Southeast regions; and (3) design and piloting of an AI-assisted digitization workflow for paper-based Registration Books in the East Region, including a proof of concept, field pilot, scale-up concept note, and trend analysis.
According to UNICEF Afghanistan MICS 2022-2023 data, 29.8 per cent of children aged 3-17 years have some type of functional difficulty.3 According to evidence, challenges in analysis and design of programmes for people and children with disabilities limited their access to services and equitable outcomes. A lack of specific indicators to track progress for people and children with disabilities hampers the ability to measure and prioritize their needs effectively.
This assessment is needed because children with disabilities in Afghanistan face heightened and often invisible barriers to accessing essential services, including health, nutrition, education, child protection, and social protection, particularly in a context of increasing poverty, displacement, and restrictions on participation. At the same time, disability data and systematic analysis remain limited, constraining evidence-based planning, equitable targeting, and accountability to Leave No One Behind commitments. By combining a situation analysis with an internal readiness assessment, UNICEF Afghanistan and partners will be better positioned to identify practical entry points for disability inclusion, strengthen program design and implementation, and ensure that interventions reach and benefit children with disabilities in a measurable and sustainable way.
To support the implementation of current and future WASH infrastructure construction interventions, UNICEF Indonesia seeks to establish a roster of qualified WASH Infrastructure Construction Engineers who may be engaged as individual consultants on a short-term or long-term basis to provide specialized technical support for planning, design, implementation, supervision, quality assurance, and contract management of WASH infrastructure projects, as and when required.
The Foresight and Policy Unit at UNICEF Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE) is establishing a roster of qualified consultants to respond to a recurring need for on-demand, short- to medium-term technical support across a range of foresight methods and applications (strategic foresight, horizon scanning, and futures thinking). The roster will serve as a standing, pre-qualified pool of experts from which UNICEF and its country, regional, and headquarters offices can draw upon to support foresight-related initiatives. The roster of consultants is organized along 4 roster streams: Strategic Foresight; Facilitation and Participation; Quantitative Modelling; Knowledge Management and Capacity Building.
The consultant will work under the supervision of the Chief of Education, UNICEF Eritrea, and in close collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Local Education Group (LEG), GPE Secretariat and development partners.
Working in close partnership with DPC, GPD and OED, the consultant will design and build the architecture of a structured technical leadership track with a proposal for how to organize, establish, implement, maintain and govern it.
To advance and finalize the evaluation report, UNICEF is seeking an independent senior consultant to conduct further analysis and triangulate the existing primary and secondary evidence in order to improve the existing report and finalize a high-quality evaluation report in accordance with UNICEF and UNEG standards. The assignment will build on the initial data analysis and reporting already completed. The consultant will present the findings, incorporate feedback from UNICEF and the Evaluation Reference Group, and finalize the report and related communication products.
UNICEF works to realize every child’s rights, everywhere. Grounded in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and guided by the Sustainable Development Goals, UNICEF supports resilient systems and communities through risk-informed programming, social protection and preparedness. As humanitarian and development financing becomes increasingly constrained, UNICEF’s Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) plays a critical role in mobilizing private sector partnerships and resources to drive results for children.
UNICEF is seeking a national consultant to support the Aleppo Field Office in revitalizing and advancing the Child Friendly City initiative in Aleppo. The consultant will support the development of a results framework and a multi-sectoral action plan aligned with recognized Child Friendly City criteria and the priorities of the Aleppo local government.
The consultancy will be implemented in two phases over an initial period of six months, with each phase lasting three months. Subject to progress, results achieved, and the continued needs of the initiative, the consultancy may be extended.
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Fundraising Officer, the Digital Fundraising (FR) Consultant provides specialized technical support to the Communications and Fundraising Section in the development, implementation, execution and monitoring of private sector fundraising activities, with a particular focus on digital donor acquisition.
The Consultant contributes to the effective and timely delivery of digital fundraising initiatives, ensuring alignment with UNICEF strategies, policies, procedures, standards and applicable rules and regulations, while supporting the achievement of agreed fundraising objectives and results.
This consultancy is to develop a practical toolkit to support country teams responsible for leading or promoting vaccine acceptance and uptake during public health emergencies. The toolkit will provide practical guidance and tools for integrating vaccine demand and acceptance throughout the emergency vaccination cycle, from preparedness and activation through vaccine deployment, monitoring, and adaptation.
The consultancy will also provide technical support to promote vaccine uptake and demand for vaccine trials and vaccine roll out in response to ebola disease outbreaks.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will support the development of a global Legal Atlas covering all countries and territories for which authoritative legal information can be verified. The Atlas will document the statutory age of majority and MACR, including exceptions, differentiated thresholds and relevant implementation provisions, and assess alignment with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and General Comment No. 24,
The consultant will contribute to three sections of the sections for the report. First ‘detailed country profiles for each country’ which encapsulate the nutrition situation, availability of policies, programmes and systems readiness Second, ‘short case studies’ capturing type of systems engaged (health, food, social protection, women empowerment) pathways to deliver universal and differentiated packages for reaching those left out and left behind and triangulating the case studies to identify pathways for differentiated programme response. Third, scoping UNICEF country team capacity needs and their experienced barriers and opportunities to deliver at committed results at scale. This will also entail in discussions with programme teams, scoping partners and mapping local institutional capacity to map pathways for workforce development, South-South cooperation, Implementation science, and fulfilling Country demand for technical assistance.
In 2025, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd), the Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Council, and other key government stakeholders, undertook a comprehensive review of the Programme Convergence Budgeting (PCB) for Early Childhood Development (ECD), now referred to as PCB for Building Early Growth through Integrated Nurturing (PCB BEGIN), with technical support from UNICEF. The review examined the relevance, effectiveness, implementation experience, and institutional arrangements of the PCB mechanism, while assessing its potential to evolve from a coordination platform into a more budgeting strategy for advancing Early Childhood Development outcomes.
To support the Government of the Philippines in advancing these reforms, UNICEF seeks to engage a consultant who will work closely on strengthening the policy, operational, financing, monitoring, and accountability architecture required to sustain inter-agency convergence as an integral component of the country's public financial management system. The consultant will be working in close coordination and with technical oversight from the Department of Education and the ECCD Council, under the strategic oversight of the PCB Steering Committee and the Department of Budget and Management-Fiscal Planning and Reforms Bureau. It will also work closely with other agencies contributing in the PCB implementation such as National Nutrition Council (NNC), Department of Health, Department of Social Welfare and Development, and other while maintaining oversight coordination with DepEd, the ECCD Council, and DBM to ensure coherence with existing nutrition governance and financing reforms.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
Governments across Africa forgo significant revenue through tax expenditures such as exemptions, deductions, credits, preferential rates and tax holidays. In 32 African countries with available data, these incentives cost at least USD 56 billion annually, equivalent to 2% of GDP and 18% of tax revenue in the median country. Unlike direct spending, tax expenditures are rarely scrutinized, approved, time-limited or evaluated, and little is known about who benefits. Most reported tax expenditures lack a clear policy objective, beneficiary group or sector classification, making their impacts on children and poor households largely invisible at a time of rising fiscal pressure and debt burdens. This assignment will assess the scale, composition and equity implications of tax expenditures across Africa, examine how they are granted and reviewed, identify lessons from reform efforts, and support UNICEF country offices in engaging governments on the issue.
The purpose of the assignment is to provide technical leadership, coordination and quality assurance for the nationally owned process of revising and strengthening the project entitled “Climate-resilient WASH services and water security to support the resilience of community, health and education systems in Chad”, together with all mandatory annexes and supporting documentation, to ensure alignment with UNICEF pipeline selection requirements and the GCF investment criteria.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) in the preparation and finalisation of the 2026 Education Sector Performance Report (ESPR) and to provide technical support for the preparation, coordination and reporting of the Joint Sector Review (JSR).
Under the direct supervision of UNICEF Social Policy Officer, the Consultant will work and collaborate with UNICEF and implementing
partners including the Social Welfare Fund (SWF), the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP) and others to deliver and carryout
the proposed activities and tasks related to the cash plus project funded by KFW in Tuban and Al-Mukha districts.
UNICEF Afghanistan's Polio Section requires time-limited, specialized Information Management (IM) expertise to deliver a set of defined technical outputs during a critical six-month program phase (October 2026 – March 2027). This consultancy is temporary in nature, tied to specific deliverables, and required to support the piloting and national scale-up of the polio program 'reset' strategy, which introduces new data systems, monitoring frameworks, and field-level digitization processes that are beyond the current capacity and expertise of the existing Polio Section team.
The consultant will produce defined outputs across three areas: (1) integration of SBC, VCCM, and polio extender monitoring data into the Afghanistan Polio Management Information System (APMIS) to enable real-time analysis under the national 'pull' strategy; (2) structured IM technical support to the M&E team and field offices during the reset pilot phase in the South and Southeast regions; and (3) design and piloting of an AI-assisted digitization workflow for paper-based Registration Books in the East Region, including a proof of concept, field pilot, scale-up concept note, and trend analysis.
According to UNICEF Afghanistan MICS 2022-2023 data, 29.8 per cent of children aged 3-17 years have some type of functional difficulty.3 According to evidence, challenges in analysis and design of programmes for people and children with disabilities limited their access to services and equitable outcomes. A lack of specific indicators to track progress for people and children with disabilities hampers the ability to measure and prioritize their needs effectively.
This assessment is needed because children with disabilities in Afghanistan face heightened and often invisible barriers to accessing essential services, including health, nutrition, education, child protection, and social protection, particularly in a context of increasing poverty, displacement, and restrictions on participation. At the same time, disability data and systematic analysis remain limited, constraining evidence-based planning, equitable targeting, and accountability to Leave No One Behind commitments. By combining a situation analysis with an internal readiness assessment, UNICEF Afghanistan and partners will be better positioned to identify practical entry points for disability inclusion, strengthen program design and implementation, and ensure that interventions reach and benefit children with disabilities in a measurable and sustainable way.
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