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The nationwide professional might be employed to provide assist, mentoring and technical steerage to the above-mentioned municipalities to improve the construction of NARU, assist coaching and mentoring of the construction to function gateway to case administration and provide essentially providers for every particular person or household in want of assist.
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The construction of Needs Assessments and Referral Unit, as stipulated by the Law 121/ 2016, is a comparatively new construction on the native degree, part of the directorate of Social Services. Main capabilities are want evaluation, referral, and assist coordination. Design of the service presumes advocacy and preventive position as nicely. NARU is a gatekeeping mechanism, supporting a strategic shift away from the use of residential care. As a gatekeeping mechanism on the level of referral NARU ought to assist redirecting circumstances into preventive and family-based providers and forestall institutionalization. More particularly the duties of the NARU embrace: a) identification of circumstances of people and households in want; b) preliminary evaluation of wants and dangers for people in want; c) data and public consultations on rights and alternatives for care and therapy, counselling for doable well being, schooling and different providers on the native degree; d) put together the person plan of care and assist; e) assist getting ready documentation for people to facilitate benefiting from totally different providers ; f) populating the National Electronic Register on case administration and so on. Several municipalities in Albania have began over the past 3-4 years the institution of these construction, nevertheless, most of municipalities face with totally different challenges comparable to: a) restricted monetary and human assets to allocate to the construction of the NARU-s; b) restricted understanding on how to set up and make the construction practical; c) lack of readability on the authorized and regulatory framework on facilitating the interplay of the construction of NARU with different providers and e) overlapping of this construction with different present buildings on the native degree; f) geographic composition and protection of the municipality with enough social care providers to enable for a practical NARU construction. UNICEF in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Social Protection has already established a Guidance for Municipalities for planning and administering Social Care Services, as part of Leave No One Behind Project. The Guidance has served to assist municipalities in the method of planning, organizing and establishing the construction of social care providers, together with the construction of Needs Assessment and Referral Units. |
The nationwide consultant will assist the indicated municipalities to arrange the construction of Needs Assessments and Referral Units (NARU) and assist them by way of mentoring and coaching in shut collaboration with the State Social Services and Ministry of Health and Social Protection. In addition, he/she’s going to develop a bundle with instruments and coaching supplies that may serve to scale up such assist in all different municipalities in the nation. The professional will report to the Social Protection Specialist.
Specific deliverable to be submitted as part of this consultancy are:
Deliverable 1: Revision of the prevailing bundle for establishing NARU, enriching with data and steerage based mostly on the latest improvement of providers on the native and regional degree accomplished. Initial consultations with municipalities carried out.
Task: Review and enhance the prevailing bundle as a user-friendly steerage for native authorities in establishing the Needs Assessment and Referral Units in shut session with MoHSP and UNICEF.
Timeline: 25 working days (by finish of April 2025)
Deliverable 2: Document on steerage/ idea paper, supplies common conferences and inputs ready. Meetings and consultations organized with every municipality.
Task: Provide steerage to 15 municipalities on the construction of the NARU, based mostly on the prevailing authorized framework, native social plan and present providers and assets for every municipality.
Timeline:17 days (1 journey to every municipality and 2 days to consolidate the report – by 20 June 2025)
Deliverable 3: Report on exploring the choices for the institution of NARU (max. 20 pg)
Task: Explore and put together a report on choices on how the NARU construction could possibly be adopted in every of the 15 focused municipalities
Timeline: 5 days (by 30 July 2025)
The length of the consultancy might be from 01 March – 20 December 2025.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have:
- An superior college diploma (Master’s or larger) in social sciences and humanities, public insurance policies; improvement research, financial, public administration, communication or a associated self-discipline.
- Have a minimum of 10 years of confirmed expertise in planning, implementing, assessing, designing and evaluating social safety/ social providers insurance policies at central and/or native degree;
- Experience with native social planning and particularly working with youngsters, youth and girls is a bonus.
- Experience in supporting native degree buildings of social care providers, particularly NARU is a bonus.
- Demonstrate expertise in partaking and partnering with totally different key stakeholders particularly native degree authorities, and skills to influencing and constructing possession and capacities;
- Excellent writing expertise in English and Albanian language and capacity to synthetize complicated data, put together coaching modules
What to submit
1. Letter of curiosity, summarising the academic background, the working expertise that’s related to the project, and the precise position the candidate will play in collaboration with the important thing stakeholders concerned in the method in specific engagement with native authorities and Ministry of Health and Social Protection
2. Proposed methodological method and administration plan responding to the ToR duties (5 pgs max)
3. Updated Resume clearly indicating related expertise to the ToR
4. The monetary proposal shall be submitted in native forex (LEK) and should embrace the consultancy charge (all taxes inclusive), journey provide for three journeys in every of the 15 municipalities, communication prices and all different particular person bills or relevant prices. The monetary proposal should be damaged down per deliverable.
If any query associated to the duties and deliverables for this project, please contact epernaska@unicef.org
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National consultant with UNICEF Albania office to provide technical capacities of Needs Assessments and Referral Units (NARU) in 15 municipalities
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