Home-based: Child Protection Consultant

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**Job no**: 575682
**Contract type**: Consultant
**Duty Station**: Geneva
**Level**: Consultancy
**Location**: Switzerland
**Categories**: Child Protection

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

**For every child, **_hope._**

**Purpose of Activity/Assignment**

Mixed migration flows of children arriving in Europe and its borders are inherently unpredictable, driven by political instability, conflict, climate change, natural disasters, and the need to find better economic opportunities. Whilst the nature of migration routes is fluid, Europe has consistently been a point of transit and destination, with increasing numbers of children and families arriving in search of safety, peace, and a better life. Migration in search of better opportunities can have a largely positive impact on children, their families, as well as host and sending communities. But forced displacement has hugely detrimental impacts on people, particularly children, who may make perilous journeys to Europe.

In the last decade, around 4.1 million refugees and migrants have arrived in Europe, approximately 27% of whom are children. As of 2023, roughly 64% (35,510) of refugee and migrant children arriving in Greece, Spain, Italy, Malta, Bulgaria and Cyprus were unaccompanied or separated. The Mediterranean migration route, documented as the most dangerous migration flow globally, has recorded 120,778 persons crossing from North Africa to Italy (43,269), Spain (37,521), Greece (34,957), Cyprus (4,929) and Malta (102) so far this year. Roughly 24% of these arrivals are children. Around 6,000 unaccompanied and separated children are known to be in the Canary Islands, which has capacity in the childcare system for only 2,000 children. Between January and July, some 7,900 refugees and migrants were estimated to have transited through the Western Balkans as part of mixed movements.

National child protection and asylum and migration systems in European countries of transit and destination have been strained to respond to protection needs of refugees and migrants, leaving vulnerable children at heightened risk. The agreement on the European Union (EU) Pact on Migration and Asylum has set in motion a significant reform of the EU's approach to migration and asylum, with both internal EU and external impacts. While welcomed as an important step towards a more predictable system for managing migration and sharing solidarity, the agreement carries risks for eroding child-specific safeguards if not implemented in a manner which puts the protection of children and their rights at the fore.

In this context, UNICEF has remained engaged at both European and Country level to support transit and destination countries to uphold the rights of refugee and migrant children, as well as in the development of guidance and policy that safeguards the protection of children on the move. The UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) is engaged in convening and promoting a route-based approach to addressing protection needs of children and families transiting the Mediterranean migration route. This includes liaising cross-regionally with UNICEF offices in North Africa and beyond. UNICEF is strengthening cooperation with European Institutions and sister agencies to promote child safeguards and protection in policy development and advocacy. In countries where UNICEF has a presence, ECARO has sought to position at country level to act as a technical support on child rights and protection issues to capitalise on opportunities presented by EU and other funding mechanisms.

In order to support this work, dedicated capacity is required to assist the ECARO Child Protection team in legal and policy analysis, technical support and coordination.

**Scope of Work**

**_ 1. Legal and Policy Analysis on implementation and impact of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum_**

a. Deliverable 1: Mapping of the good practices and gaps in child-friendly safeguards included in selected national implementation plans
b. Deliverable 2: Technical note on the real and potential impacts of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum on protection concerns and population flows in key non-EU transit countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia) to inform programmatic responses and advocacy

**_ 2. Technical assistance and engagement in identifying opportunities for route-based programmatic work and engagement._**

a. Deliverable 3: Draft mapping of route-based response opportunities to address child protection, including GBV, concerns arising for unaccompanied and separated children arriving in Europe along the Mediterranean Sea route, utilising ECARO-MENARO cross-regional forum
b. Deliverabl

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