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Consultancy Advert – Individual Consultant to conduct a Situation Analysis (SitAn) of Children, Adolescents, and Youth in Maldives, 2025.
For each child, a champion!
Background
The Republic of Maldives, a Small Island Developing State located on the Indian Ocean, is the world’s most geographically dispersed nation. It includes over 1,190 islands, 187 of that are inhabited. By constitutional mandate, the Maldives is a 100% Muslim nation and holds the excellence of being Asia’s least populous nation. The 2022 census revealed a complete inhabitants of 515,132, of which 24% (119,159) are kids. The complete fertility charge stands at 1.7, under the alternative stage. Foreign residents account for over a quarter of the inhabitants, with 132,493 non-citizens dwelling in the nation. Additionally, 41% of the full inhabitants resides in the Greater Malé area, making it one of essentially the most densely populated city areas globally. Migration to Malé is primarily pushed by higher entry to training, healthcare (20%), employment alternatives (19%), and household causes resembling marriage.
Economically, the Maldives faces important challenges, with debt ranges reaching 122% of GDP in 2024, low overseas reserves, and growing public expenditure. Although the tourism sector has rebounded post-pandemic, financial development has slowed, with GDP development estimated at 4.0% in 2023, far under pre-pandemic ranges. While vacationer arrivals elevated by 12%, this didn’t translate into increased GDP development due to diminished spending per vacationer and shorter stays. These fiscal and exterior pressures spotlight the pressing want for structural reforms to obtain macroeconomic stability and defend weak teams.1.
Despite financial difficulties, the Maldives has made important strides in selling kids’s rights and well-being, reaching common entry to healthcare and training, and sustaining low maternal and child mortality charges. Maldives has sustained the low child and maternal mortality charge and offered common well being protection. Reducing neonatal mortality and stopping child anemia and stunting stay main challenges (DHS 2016/17). However, the nation faces rising challenges, resembling making certain sustainable financing for social providers, addressing child vulnerabilities and inequalities, and mitigating the consequences of local weather change on kids. Neonatal mortality, childhood anemia, and stunting stay persistent well being points, as indicated by the DHS 2016/17 survey.
The Maldives continues to present free training for all, dedicating round 33% of GDP to social providers. With 24% of its inhabitants being kids, these investments are important for the nation’s future. However, the Maldives is extremely inclined to local weather change, with rising sea ranges and coral reef degradation posing extreme dangers to its surroundings and economic system. The World Bank warns that, below a worst-case state of affairs, these challenges might shrink the nation’s GDP by 11% by 2050. To tackle these dangers, important investments in local weather adaptation and renewable vitality are important to safe the Maldives’ long-term sustainability.
As UNICEF Maldives Country prepares for its new Country Programme Development (2027-2031) in the context of the brand new United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) and nationwide priorities, the necessity to conduct a Situation Analysis (SitAn) to assist this course of is crucial. The final UNICEF Situation Analysis (SitAn) of kids and ladies in the Maldives was performed in 2022. Within the framework of the worldwide pointers, the brand new SitAn 2025 will likely be carried out in partnership with the Government and different related stakeholders. The SitAn 2025 ought to be aligned with the present authorities manifesto, the Long-Term National Development Plan, and with key sectoral plans and the worldwide SDGs making an allowance for the brand new challenges introduced on by the present financial state of affairs.
The evaluation strategy ought to be rights-based, equity-focused and gender-based to study the progress, challenges, and alternatives for reaching child rights and well-being, and the patterns of deprivation that kids face. It analyses the causes of these deprivations and the boundaries that forestall the fulfilment of child rights. It considers the progress that coverage and programme interventions have made in direction of at-scale protection of inclusive social providers for key populations; the adequacy of coverage supply, impression/classes learnt/alternatives due to present financial state of affairs, notably in phrases of finances; and the sources for leaving no child behind. It appears to be like on the unequal realization of rights and the depths of disparities throughout completely different fairness dimensions. Finally, it highlights the state of affairs of kids left behind, in addition to these kids most in danger of being left behind – all of whom are entitled to social providers and alternatives.
How are you able to make a difference?
Objective:
The objective of this task is to develop a Situation Analysis 2025 to be sure that the UNICEF Maldives Country Programme Document (2027-2031) will likely be aligned to the wants of kids and younger folks in Maldives and contemplating the Government of Maldives coverage and authorized frameworks, and the worldwide SDGs. The SitAn will present essentially the most related proof for built-in planning and implementation to guarantee the perfect outcomes for all kids in Maldives. The broad focus will likely be to:
- Assess the general state of affairs of newborns, kids, adolescent, and youth in Maldives, together with the standing, progress in opposition to the present CPD targets and the nationwide coverage and authorized frameworks, and tendencies, with a give attention to essentially the most disadvantaged.
- Identify potential eventualities, priorities and drivers of change and present programme and coverage suggestions to information the event of Country Programming Document, preparation of the following Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Periodic Report, Country Analysis and the brand new UNSDCF course of and alignment to the nationwide coverage and authorized frameworks.
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To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
Education
• A minimal of grasp’s diploma in social sciences, training, well being, child safety, planning and monitoring, and/or associated fields. PhD in comparable area will likely be an added worth.
Work Experience
- At least 5 years of work expertise on manufacturing of nation evaluation stories.
- At least 2 years of working expertise inside the final decade engaged on tasks associated to Maldives.
- Provide a portfolio with of earlier tasks with not less than three tasks utilizing proof on gender to form and implement gender-focused and disability-focused programmes.
- Familiarity with UNICEF mandate and coverage, together with the human rights-based strategy and of gender dimensions.
- Provide a portfolio of workshops led that embrace causality evaluation workshop and Theory of Change.
- At least 5 years of expertise working with social coverage contexts together with decentralization and experience in coverage evaluation.
- 5 years of working expertise associated to communications and facilitation expertise, together with the factors, participating in evidence-based coverage dialogue with Government and different key stakeholders.
- Work pattern of their earlier work on comparable assignments have to be offered. Applications with out it won’t be thought-about.
Language Proficiency:
Excellent writing expertise in English
For each Child, you show…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embrace those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with numerous boundaries, might hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to improve the quantity of staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related assist necessities of candidates and staff with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you might be an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility assist in finishing the net application, please submit your request by means of the accessibility e-mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals below 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to promote the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will likely be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of tutorial credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to present extra data to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “staff members” below the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (resembling depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.
The chosen candidate is solely accountable to be sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the whole interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met prior to taking over the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.
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