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For each child, Protection
UNICEF within the State of Palestine works to uphold the rights of kids to entry providers and safety, from early childhood by to adolescence. Our goal is to make sure that each child within the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, together with East Jerusalem, no matter background or circumstance, has an equal probability to fulfil their potential. We are working for each child and younger particular person within the State of Palestine.
Tlisted below are virtually 2.5 million youngsters[1] dwelling within the West Bank who face vital challenges because of the ongoing political, social, and financial instability within the area. This setting contributes to a variety of child safety considerations, together with publicity to violence, displacement, youngsters in touch with the legislation, lack of entry to important providers, child labor, child marriage and different types of exploitation. Vulnerable populations specifically, for instance youngsters with disabilities; youngsters in Bedouin, herder and distant communities; and kids in East Jerusalem, H2/Hebron, the Seam Zones and Area C, face heightened dangers on account of restricted sources and providers tailor-made to their wants.
Since October 7th 2023, child safety actors within the West Bank have famous a rise within the child safety wants and dangers that they’re figuring out on the bottom. While there’s some present knowledge round these considerations, a extra complete understanding of the scope and scale of child safety dangers and wishes within the space is important.
To deal with this, the Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CPAoR) and its companions’ plan to conduct a West Bank-wide Child Protection Needs Assessment. There is a crucial have to develop a whole and thorough overview of the native child safety dangers and wishes as a way to make sure that interventions are evidence-based, focused, and aligned with the priorities of affected populations. The findings will even information advocacy efforts and mobilize sources to deal with recognized gaps, in addition to strengthen coordination amongst child safety actors.
How are you able to make a difference?
main goal of this consultancy is to work with the CPAoR crew and the West Bank Needs Assessment Task Force to assist the coordination and implementation of a child safety wants evaluation within the West Bank. This consists of growing instruments, coordinating implementation and guaranteeing that the info collected gives a strong proof base to tell child safety interventions, improve coordination, and make sure that the safety wants of kids within the area are met successfully. The guide will even be accountable for finishing up the evaluation knowledge evaluation, report writing and consequence dissemination along with the CPAoR.
The particular goals of the CPAoR in conducting this child safety wants evaluation are to:
1. Identify the important thing child safety wants and dangers for youngsters within the West Bank;
2. Determine the dimensions of those child safety wants and dangers and obstacles in entry to present providers;
3. Determine potential and precise capacities present on the bottom together with native and worldwide actors and the communities to answer the prevailing dangers and wishes;
4. Provide suggestions for strengthening the present responses together with geographical and programmatic areas of precedence and supply some information of the place the primary info gaps are.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
- A Master’s diploma in Social Sciences, Education, Health, Child Protection, Planning and Monitoring, and/or associated fields
- Minimum of seven years’ expertise working in child safety and/or monitoring and analysis;
- Extensive and demonstrable expertise in conducting wants assessments (child safety wants assessments is a bonus);
- Experienced coach, particularly on analysis methodologies;
- Strong child safety expertise and perceive of child safety points within the Palestinian context;
- Proven expertise working in complicated environments just like the West Bank;
- Superior analytical, conceptual and writing expertise;
- Fluency in English and Arabic – each written and oral;
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Sound information of the Palestinian humanitarian context
For each Child, you display…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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National Individual Consultant: Needs Assessment Specialist for West Bank Child Protection Needs Assessment
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