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Purpose of Activity/Assignment
In ongoing humanitarian conditions, sturdy efficiency monitoring is a core accountability and is crucial to help efficient emergency response, aligning to the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs), and enabling course corrections as wanted. Thus to make sure efficient monitoring of the programme actions is in place, the UNICEF ECA Regional Office seeks help from an skilled skilled to lend experience to the ECARO Programme Planning and Data crew in humanitarian planning, monitoring and analysis to guarantee high quality and efficiency targets are met in our humanitarian programmes.
The guide will help the Planning & Monitoring Manager (Humanitarian Performance Monitoring) in sustaining a useful HPM system that meets the monitoring and reporting necessities, working carefully with the Refugee Response and Country Office Teams, the RO Emergency part and Programme sections. S/he’ll conduct analysis on the humanitarian-growth nexus in excessive-revenue international locations, specializing in monitoring frameworks, finest practices, and alternatives for integration. Additionally, s/he’ll analysis methods to combine the Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) workstream into HPM and analysis techniques for gathering and analysing suggestions to tell efficiency monitoring and strengthen accountability throughout the area.
Scope of Work
This consultancy goals to strengthen the humanitarian monitoring and reporting framework to make sure well timed, correct, and actionable insights that help proof-based mostly choice-making. The focus can be on enhancing knowledge assortment, evaluation, and visualization techniques, aligning them with the most recent requirements and operational wants, and fostering capability-constructing initiatives that empower programme groups to successfully monitor, consider, and report on humanitarian interventions. This can be additional enhanced with analysis into techniques approaches that may allow UNICEF to watch and report on humanitarian programmes that contribute to techniques strengthening and align with growth frameworks, in addition to analysis on how suggestions and complaints from beneficiaries might be utilized to watch efficiency and inform future planning cycles.
The primary obligations for this consultancy embrace:
1. Planning, Monitoring and Reporting of Humanitarian Responses:
- Provide ongoing steering on methodologies, knowledge assortment, and reporting to make sure consistency and effectiveness throughout the area.
- Lead reporting for ongoing humanitarian responses, primarily to tell SitReps, with a deal with prioritized efficiency indicators.
- Ensure well timed submission and high quality of information submitted by international locations. Tracking efficiency tendencies of indicators (bi-month-to-month) and highlighting areas the place corrective actions could also be wanted for program consideration.
2. Humanitarian Performance Monitoring Capacity Building:
- Develop the Humanitarian Performance Monitoring and Reporting Package to help speedy, constant deployment throughout emergency conditions, enhancing the velocity and reliability of UNICEF’s response capabilities.
- Deliver Humanitarian Performance Monitoring webinars and workshops overlaying proof-based mostly planning, monitoring, evaluation, and knowledge visualization, with arms-on coaching utilizing instruments like Excel, ARC, Power BI, and Infogram.
3. Conduct Research and Develop Frameworks to Enhance Monitoring, Accountability, and System Integration:
- Conduct Research on the HDP Nexus System in High-Income Countries:
- Perform a literature assessment of current HDP nexus approaches, monitoring frameworks, and finest practices from UNICEF places of work to grasp its specificities, challenges and alternatives in excessive-revenue international locations.
- Analyze current frameworks and practices, complemented by stakeholder interviews and focus group discussions, to validate knowledge and collect extra examples of finest practices.
- Develop actionable suggestions to reinforce the combination of humanitarian and growth techniques. This consists of devising methods for incorporating numerous knowledge assortment strategies, similar to enter from affected populations, and proposing approaches to unify reporting techniques right into a cohesive framework.
- Develop a Research Framework for Monitoring Feedback and Complaints Mechanisms:
- Develop a structured plan that outlines how suggestions and complaints from affected populations can be systematically collected, analyzed, and utilized to tell choice-making and enhance accountability.
- Research instruments, protocols, and processes to make sure suggestions mechanisms are efficient, dependable, accessible to numerous populations, and absolutely built-in with efficiency monitoring techniques.
- Establish clear methodologies for figuring out tendencies, patterns, and anomalies in suggestions knowledge, and hyperlink these findings to actionable suggestions for program adaptation.
Ensure the framework incorporates mechanisms for safeguarding delicate info and defending the confidentiality of respondents.
Work Assignment Overview
| Deliverables / Outputs | Products | Timeline / Deadline |
| Output 1: Planning, Monitoring and Reporting of Humanitarian Responses | ||
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Standard Operating Procedure for Data Collection and Reporting on Emergencies, making certain consistency and standardization throughout all knowledge assortment efforts. |
10 working days; By June 2025 |
| Monitoring Table that tracks the progress of key efficiency indicators, offering a transparent overview of humanitarian response standing. |
6 working days; By June 2025 |
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| Quarterly report with visualizations that spotlight efficiency tendencies, points, and areas for enchancment to reinforce the effectiveness of the response. |
8 working days; By June 2025 |
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| Output 2: Humanitarian Performance Monitoring Capacity Building | ||
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Standardized Regional Reporting Form created on ActivityInfo for constant knowledge assortment and reporting throughout the area. |
5 working days; By June 2025 |
| Customized Partner Reporting Forms for places of work using ActivityInfo for knowledge assortment and reporting. |
15 working days; By June 2025 |
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| Excel template for automated regional knowledge aggregation, making certain environment friendly and correct consolidation of collected knowledge. |
4 working days; By June 2025 |
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| Step-by-step information for establishing an Information Management Monitoring & Reporting System inside ActivityInfo, offering clear directions for implementation. |
20 working days; By June 2025 |
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| Series of three webinars specializing in the efficient use of Excel, Power BI, and Infogram for knowledge evaluation and visualization. (12 days) |
12 working days; By June 2025 |
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| Output 3: Conduct Research and Develop Frameworks to Enhance Monitoring, Accountability, and System Integration | ||
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Comprehensive evaluation of the HPD Nexus, together with findings from a literature assessment and stakeholder consultations, with clear suggestions for subsequent steps. |
20 working days; By July 2025 |
| Report on potential frameworks for Complaints and Feedback Mechanism techniques, together with suggestions for system design and efficient knowledge utilization. |
20 working days; By July 2025 |
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Estimated Duration of the Contract
120 working days between February and July 2025.
Consultant’s Work Place and Official Travel
The Consultant can be distant/home-based with no travels foreseen.
Estimated Cost of the Consultancy & Payment Schedule
Payment can be made on submission of an bill and passable completion of the above-talked about deliverables. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withhold all or a portion of fee if efficiency is unsatisfactory, if work/outputs are incomplete, not delivered or for failure to fulfill deadlines. All supplies developed will stay the copyright of UNICEF and UNICEF can be free to adapt and modify them sooner or later.
Please submit an expert price (in USD) based mostly on 120 working days to undertake this task.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
- Bachelors diploma (with desire for Masters) in Political Science, International Relations, International Affairs, Statistics, International Development and associated areas to humanitarian efficiency administration.
- A minimal of 5 years’ related work expertise in planning, monitoring and reporting is required.
- Extensive information of M&E rules, frameworks, and finest practices, with a deal with humanitarian and growth programming.
- Experience in designing and implementing knowledge assortment techniques, instruments, and methodologies, in addition to in analysing each qualitative and quantitative knowledge.
- High proficiency in Excel, Power BI/Tableau, and ActivityInfo.
- Prior expertise with UNICEF, different UN businesses or related International Organizations, together with first-hand information of humanitarian response frameworks, efficiency indicators, and inner techniques, is a powerful asset.
- Experience working in emergency response in Europe and Central Asia a powerful asset.
- Strong potential to interpret advanced knowledge, establish patterns, and generate actionable insights for choice-making.
- Fluency in English.
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Remarks:
Please embrace a full CV and a Cover Letter in your application. Additionally, point out your availability and skilled price (in USD) to undertake the phrases of reference above. Applications submitted with out a skilled price is not going to be thought of. Only shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
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Remote/Home-based: Planning, Monitoring, Reporting & Research Consultant (120 working days) – Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECARO)
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