Long Term Agreement

**Job no**: 576303
**Contract type**: Consultant
**Duty Station**: Geneva
**Level**: Consultancy
**Location**: Switzerland
**Categories**: Emergency, Knowledge Management, Innovation, Programme Management, Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

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, **_a calling._**

The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF’s Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) to develop and implement strategies that ensure meaningful engagement of children in global policies and programmes. This consultancy will also provide technical support to country offices to ensure the sustainability of these mechanisms, especially in conflict or emergency contexts, and develop approaches to ensure that feedback mechanisms reach all vulnerable children, including those in underserved or crisis-affected areas.

**How can you make a difference?**

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. Across more than 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, to build a better world for everyone. UNICEF’s global support for humanitarian action is coordinated by the Office of Emergency Programs (EMOPS), the focal point for emergency preparedness and response, humanitarian policies, staff security, and support to UNICEF’s regional and country offices, as well as strategic coordination with external humanitarian partners both within and outside the United Nations system. UNICEF is committed to ensuring that the voices of affected populations, especially children, are heard and that their rights are protected in humanitarian responses.

Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) is an organization-wide priority and is being scaled up across programmes and regions, in line with the AAP Strategy 2022-2025 endorsed by UNICEF Senior Management. It is mainstreamed within UNICEF’s key guiding frameworks, such as the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-2025, Core Commitment of Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs), and Country Programme Planning Guidance. As an integral part of UNICEF’s different stages of the program cycle, AAP ensures that views of affected populations, especially from all vulnerable and at-risk and girls, boys, women, and men, are heard; provided equal opportunities to listen to and provided feedback on all aspects of programming. Supported by the organization, they hold UNICEF accountable for promoting and protecting their rights, generating effective results for them whilst working in ways that enhance their dignity, capacities, and resilience. For UNICEF and partners, it improves programme outcomes, particularly through increased demand for and use of quality services and greater accountability.

**OBJECTIVE(S)**

This consultancy will improve UNICEF’s ability to incorporate children’s voices into programme planning and implementation, thereby enhancing the effectiveness and responsiveness of its initiatives.

**MAJOR TASKS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED**

Tasks include, but may not be limited to:

- Provide technical support to Country and Regional Offices
- Support the development of child-friendly approaches and methodologies
- Integrate child-friendly approaches with other people-centered approaches and initiatives
- Contribute to the development of tools, guidance, and good practices

**Responsibilities of the Consultant**:

- The consultants will use their own equipment; hardware, software, and other accessories that may be required for this task.
- The consultant will treat UNICEF data with utmost confidentiality, in accordance with UNICEF Information Security Standards and UNICEF Policy on Personal Data Protection, including the non-disclosure of any content/material/data or any part thereof, to any third party without the written permission of UNICEF. All work will be the intellectual property of UNICEF, and the consultant will not share the same with anyone else.

**Responsibilities of UNICEF**:

- Provide oversight and guidance.
- Facilitate access to necessary resources and tools.

**DELIVERABLES AND DEADLINES**

**Task(s)**

**Deliverables**

**Timeline**
- Consultant to support the integration of child-friendly AAP approaches across regular programmes, operations, and emergency responses (with a child safeguarding background)**Provide technical support to Country and Regional Offices**
- Formulate and design the implementation of child-friendly feedback mechanisms and conceptualize how these will feed into the overall UNICEF approach to feedback management.
- Provide technical support to country offices as needed on maintaining the sustainability of child participation and child