Specifically, the
consultant will be expected to carry out the following tasks:
- Community
research and analysis on resilience
The consultant will
engage, manage and facilitate community-level human-centred design (HCD)
activities with the technica
l support of the University of Zurich to contribute
to knowledge generation and understand what resilience means at the local
level, what household-level coping mechanisms exist, and how policies and
programs could be improved. This would include adapting and implementing a
Design Thinking methodology (such as Design for Development) and conducting a
series of targeted research exercises directly with households and communities.
Communities would be engaged through various activities such as design
workshops and community consultations.
The consultant will
also undertake or facilitate a range of analyses which:
Seek
to understand the political
economy and social
norms of resilience-building, including the political settlements that affect
the capacity of communities and families to respond/cope with various shocks;
Identify
to what extent the existing legal
framework and government
policies are sufficient for the implementation of resilience
programming in Malawi;
Map
the existence and availability of required
institutions in the district-level ‘ecosystem’
Map
existing resilience
programs, including a review of similarities and gaps, and cross-sector
collaboration, within government ministries, UN agencies and development
partners
Assess
the existing nature and level of community
engagement and participation
in programs which seek to build resilience
Development
of a UNICEF Resilience Strategy for Malawi
The data gathered
during the research phase will be used to develop a Resilience Strategy for
UNICEF which identifies how future UNICEF activities can strengthen resilience
and help households to be better prepared to cope with and respond to future
shocks.
This will include
identification of issues such as
cross-sectoral
convergence of programming;
knowledge,
skills, technical expertise and infrastructure;
institutional
framework at national and sub-national level, including coordination and management
mechanisms, legal and policy reforms, and cross-sectoral collaboration;
the
role of community engagement, participation and feedback;
opportunities
for UNICEF to partner with communities, academia and the private sector;
framework
to monitor, evaluate, analyse and report on progress, and knowledge management;
Resilience
sensitive programming and packages of interventions
The consultant will
identify practical ways of improving the existing and future
resilience-sensitive UNICEF programming by articulating and proposing different
packages of interventions taking into consideration factors such as:
UNICEF’s
existing programme interventions and their compliance with the “do no harm”
principle across different sectors;
what
kind of programme interventions should be implemented to anchor resilience
aspects into UNICEF programming across different sectors;
how
to implement the proposed resilience-sensitive interventions;
effective
engagement with Government and development partners to introduce or advocate
for resilience-sensitive interventions.
Qualified candidates
are requested to submit:-
A cover letter,
performance evaluation report (if applicable), CV and Personal History Form
(P-11 form) to be downloaded from the website http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/index_53129.html),
a financial proposal (including all eligible fees, transportations and DSA for
desktop research, data collection, and fieldwork, communication, presentation
costs) on or before 27
October 2016 via e-mail address: hrmalawi@unicef.org
The detailed Terms of Reference is available from the UNICEF Malawi website: http://www.unicef.org/malawi/