Although necessary progress has been made in Brazil and around the globe lately concerning the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), there’s nonetheless a lot to be performed to ensure complete child safety and to make sure that all youngsters have their basic rights fulfilled and revered equally and with out discrimination.
The vulnerability of indigenous youngsters to the prevalence of ailments and diseases related to insufficient WASH companies is a trigger for concern and should be tackled as a key precedence for selling well being and well-being within the communities. Data from SESAI/MS point out that 88 per cent of indigenous communities in Brazil shouldn’t have a minimal water provide infrastructure or have infrastructure that must be renovated and/or expanded. In addition to the entry perspective, challenges are additionally noticed from the angle of the standard of the water consumed within the communities, the place solely 10 per cent of the villages have common monitoring methods. These challenges are additionally associated to stable waste administration, together with waste from well being companies, sewage infrastructure and hygiene practices.
In this sense, and with a view to strengthening public insurance policies geared toward altering this danger situation, UNICEF is a companion of SESAI/MS and is supporting the creation and growth of a doc that guides the actions the National Indigenous WASH Programme (PNSI) with a purpose to strengthen public insurance policies for secure entry to WASH companies and thus promote the well being and well-being of Brazil’s indigenous populations.
To obtain this goal, a guide will assist UNICEF’s work with SESAI/MS, in shut collaboration with the Department of Environmental Determinants of Indigenous Health (DEAMB), in growing methods and actions associated to the PNSI. The guide will work carefully with the UNICEF group in Brasilia, particularly the Health and WASH groups.
Purpose
UNICEF Brazil is wanting for a WASH guide to be accountable for supporting the work carried out by UNICEF in partnership with SESAI/MS within the growth of the PNSI, contemplating UNICEF’s CCCs (Core Commitments for Children). Under the general steerage and supervision of the Chief of WASH/CEED and with the assist of the WASH Officer, the chosen guide will contribute to the work of UNICEF:
1. Provide technical experience so UNICEF employees members, along with the nationwide authorities of the Department of Environmental Determinants of Indigenous Health (DEAMB) and different strategic actors of the Brazilian authorities, perform the event of the PNSI.
2. Support UNICEF’s actions with nationwide authorities to strengthen technical capacities for analyzing information and data associated to the PNSI.
Expected outcomes: (measurable outcomes)
The anticipated general outcomes are as follows:
1. Support UNICEF within the evaluation of information to assist the implementation of the PSNI in shut collaboration with DEAMB/SESAI/MS.
2. Support UNICEF in growing administration methods for WASH actions in indigenous areas, bearing in mind the specificities of the territories in Brazil.
3. Drawing up technical studies on UNICEF’s assist for the work carried out with DEAMB/SESAI/MS.
Deliverables:
The deliverables described should be submitted to UNICEF Brazil throughout the respective deadlines.
Deliverable 1: Analysis of information and preparation of a technical report on the administration of WASH actions in indigenous areas in Brazil, primarily based on information from the Special Indigenous Health Districts.
Duration: 30 days from the contract signature date
Payment: 20% of the overall quantity of the contract
Deliverable 2: Data evaluation and preparation of a technical report on the administration of WASH actions in indigenous areas in Brazil, primarily based on the diagnostic questionnaire utilized within the Special Indigenous Health Districts.
Duration: 60 days from the contract signature date
Payment: 30% of the overall quantity of the contract
Deliverable 3: Data evaluation and preparation of a technical report on the administration of WASH actions in indigenous areas in Brazil, primarily based on the main target teams of the National Indigenous WASH Program.
Duration: 90 days from the contract signature date
Payment: 20% of the overall quantity of the contract
Deliverable 4: Data evaluation and preparation of a technical report on sanitation circumstances in indigenous villages, primarily based on case research of villages within the Special Indigenous Health Districts.
Duration: 120 days from the contract signature date
Payment: 30% of the overall quantity of the contract
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- Quality of deliverables, when it comes to accuracy of technical content material, relevance to the given project and responsiveness to offered technical suggestions.
- Respect for given deadlines (i.e. well timed deliverables).
technical background and expertise required
- Bachelor’s Degree in civil, environmental or sanitary engineer; biology; geography environmental or sanitation technician or one other related technical subject.
- Four years of related expertise with WASH in indigenous context could possibly be thought-about instead of a bachelor`s or technical diploma.
- Experience in planning and growing inter-institutional public insurance policies.
- Strong communication expertise.
- Strong expertise in evaluation information and growing methodological instruments.
- Fluency in Portuguese.
FINANCIAL PROPOSAL
- A monetary proposal together with the charge for the project primarily based on the deliverables and variety of days should be submitted. Consultants are requested to stipulate all-inclusive charges, together with lump sum, administrative value, journey value and subsistence prices, as relevant.
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WASH Consultant for Indigenous People, Brasilia, Brazil [4months]
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