Apply for International Consultant for Children’s Environmental Health (CEH) Assessment in Cameroon (WCAR), (Home-based and workdays in country). Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

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UNICEF has been working in Cameroon since 1975 to permit ladies and kids to totally notice their rights to improvement with out restriction, as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. UNICEF offers monetary and technical assist to Cameroon throughout seven areas to totally notice the rights of ladies and kids. These areas embrace Health, HIV/AIDS, Water-sanitation-Hygiene, diet, training, child safety, and social inclusion. UNICEF focuses primarily on kids and essentially the most weak and excluded households. Cameroon’s 2020 inhabitants is estimated at 26,545,863 individuals in response to UN knowledge. The inhabitants is younger and generates sturdy socioeconomic demand. In rural areas, restricted entry to primary social providers and the consequences of local weather change result in family impoverishment and extreme child deprivations. The process is immense however not insurmountable; it requires the vitality of all stakeholders in Cameroon and outdoors of Cameroon: additionally, ladies, males, youth and kids, authorities, technical and monetary companions, donors, civil society, the non-public sector, parliamentarians, and communities. Everyone is invited to take part in the wrestle to fulfill the challenges forward. Together, we’ll act for Cameroon, a rustic that summarizes the challenges and hopes of Africa.

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Background: 

Climate change and environmental degradation threaten to reverse progress on child and adolescent survival, well being and well-being. Children worldwide face a bunch of environmental hazards, like polluted air, water and meals; publicity to poisonous chemical compounds; unsafe infrastructure; and threats associated to climate change. Urgent investments, consideration, political will and motion is required to handle these growing threats.

Globally, 850 million kids – 1 in 4 – are uncovered to at the very least 4 local weather and environmental hazards, shocks or stresses[1]. All kids, however particularly indigenous kids, internally displaced kids, women and younger ladies, kids with disabilities and kids dwelling in poverty, are essentially the most weak to environmental dangers and local weather change. Children are bodily, physiologically, socially and economically extra weak and much less capable of survive shocks from floods, droughts, heatwaves, extreme climate and publicity to poisonous substances. Children are additionally extra liable to dying, in contrast with adults, from illnesses which can be more likely to be exacerbated by air pollution and local weather change, comparable to pneumonia, malaria and diarrhea. Any deprivation attributable to local weather and environmental degradation at a younger age may result in a lifetime of misplaced alternative. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 26 per cent of deaths in kids could be prevented by addressing environmental dangers.

In 2021, UNICEF established the Healthy Environments for Healthy Children framework[2], which identifies the important thing hazards affecting child well being and improvement globally and goals to assist nation workplaces in addressing them by means of UNICEF’s well being programmes, complementary to the group’s WASH technique, meals system method, and the group’s general coverage on local weather change and setting. The framework moreover emphasizes the hazards of lead poisoning in kids, as highlighted initially in the 2020 UNICEF report on kids’s publicity to steer air pollution[3] and its subsequent neurological, cognitive and bodily penalties; proof demonstrates that not solely local weather but additionally environmental hazards – from lead poisoning to plastic air pollution – pose a higher risk to kids than beforehand understood.

For extra particulars, see 

 CEHA Consultant TOR 2025_.docx

Scope of Work:

The marketing consultant will likely be supporting the WASH Section at UNICEF Cameroon Country Office (CCO).  Using the technical note of the Country Assessment on Children’s Environmental Health as a information, the scope of the consultancy consists of:

1. Work intently with related departments of the Ministry of Health (e.g. Department of Preventative Medicine, National Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, National Maternal and Child Health Centre), Ministry of Environment, and related nationwide establishments and analysis our bodies, in designing and finishing up an in-depth nation evaluation on a spread of environmental and local weather hazards and threat elements to child well being, together with warmth stress, vector-borne illnesses, air air pollution, lead poisoning, poisonous metals and chemical compounds, e-waste, pesticides, and different key pollution. This consists of desk overview of current knowledge, conducting stakeholder consultations and a panorama train, supporting knowledge assortment, evaluation and report writing.
2. Support the Government in accomplice and stakeholder coordination on environmental well being points, together with technical assist to the organisation and documentation of conferences and workshops. This consists of supporting evidence-based advocacy and facilitating nationwide and sub-national stakeholder conferences and consultations with consultants, program focal individuals from numerous organisations and Ministries as required.
3. Support the Government to conduct a capability wants evaluation and develop a plan to supply well being employees and managers on coaching associated to environmental well being. This consists of figuring out coaching priorities, entry factors to combine into present well being employee coaching curriculums, and so forth.
4. Support communications and consciousness on environmental well being points affecting kids, in collaboration with UNICEF Communications and WASH/local weather change groups, together with technical assist to the combination of messages and supplies into nationwide deliberate campaigns, constructing upon HEHC materials that UNICEF has developed globally.

The marketing consultant/contractor will likely be particularly required to handle these following matters throughout the period of the contract in addition to in the deliverables. The UNICEF CO group will be capable to assist the marketing consultant in accessing vital and current paperwork and knowledge, to keep away from redundancy in analysis.

• Analysis of the nation’s well being techniques: This consists of main causes of morbidity and mortality in kids, related sectoral capacities, and each current insurance policies and gaps in nationwide frameworks, monitoring instruments and applied sciences, well being infrastructure, well being price range and expenditure essential to deal with local weather and environmental hazards adequately. This may also embrace a abstract of current CEH programmes in the nation
• Exposure of kids to environmental and local weather hazards: This will embrace assessing the child-specific well being impacts of a spread of hazards which can be environmental (heavy metals, poisonous chemical compounds, hazardous waste, different environmental hazards), climactic (extreme flooding, warmth stress, drought, altering vector-born illness patterns) and a mix of the 2 (air air pollution).
• Stakeholder and accomplice mapping in the environmental and local weather well being area: This consists of companions starting from the general public to the non-public
• National and international environmental governance
• Analysis for prioritizing key matters in the nation based mostly on the analysis and consultations

Duration:

The consultancy will run from 01/04/2025 to 30/06/2025. The consultancy is Home-based for 75 days and 15 workdays in nation.

Deliverables:

To obtain the targets of the consultancy, the next deliverables are anticipated:

 

Work Assignment Overview
Tasks/Milestone	Deliverables/Outputs	Timeline	Estimate Budget
Development of inception report, together with CEH evaluation framework and work plan	Inception report, together with CEH evaluation framework and work plan	15/04/2025	17%
Draft report summarizing literature overview and stakeholder consultations, together with with authorities focal factors and different key companions recognized	Draft literature overview report	31/04/2025	22%
Conduct National workshop disseminating the report, and capturing suggestions for subsequent steps and one (1) presentation for inner dissemination with the worldwide HEHC group	Workshop facilitation together with ppt presentation for inner dissemination.	15/05/2025	11%
Draft CEH Assessment and related communication merchandise (e.g. presentation PowerPoint) shared for suggestions	CEH Assessment and related communication merchandise (e.g. presentation PowerPoint)	01/06/2025	33%
Develop Final CEH Assessment report with evaluation, key suggestions and priorities recognized for the approaching two years of programming associated to local weather and setting well being. Should embrace prompt technique for programme implementation based mostly on priorities recognized	Final CEH Assessment report with evaluation, key suggestions and priorities recognized for the approaching two years of programming associated to local weather and setting well being	30/06/2025	17%

Payment particulars and additional concerns:

Payment {of professional} charges will likely be based mostly on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the proper to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted are lower than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the marketing consultant. 

Submission of functions:

Interested candidates are kindly requested to apply and add the next paperwork:

• Letter of Interest (cowl letter), CV or Resume
• Performance analysis reviews or references of comparable consultancy assignments (if accessible)
• Financial proposal: All-inclusive lump-sum value together with medical insurance coverage with medivac, journey and lodging value for this task as per work task. Cf.  Consultancy Financial Proposal Template.xlsx
• Technical Proposal: An in depth methodological notice for the conduct of this mission, with an indicative schedule of the totally different phases of the session and the anticipated merchandise or deliverables in addition to the relative prices.
• A duplicate of the diplomas.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have… 

• An superior college diploma (Master’s or greater) in Environmental Health, Public Health, Medical Sciences, Epidemiology, Health analysis or another associated disciplines 
• A minimal of ten (10) years of related skilled expertise in the areas of public well being, environmental well being
• Demonstrated expertise in design of research and assessments, and conducting analysis associated to the setting, environmental well being, child’s well being, pollution and/or poisonous metals
• Experience in capability constructing, authorities relationship constructing, coaching and/or facilitation an asset
• Good information of French and English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset. 
• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset. 

Assessment Criteria: the choice standards will likely be assessed as follows:

 

	Criteria	Points
1	Educational background	10
2	Knowledge of analysis, monitoring, and analysis strategies, each quantitative and qualitative, and statistical strategies and software program	20
3	Demonstrated expertise in design of research and assessments, and conducting analysis associated to the setting, environmental well being, child’s well being, pollution and/or poisonous metals.	30
4	Quality of previous work (e.g. previous research, assessments, study design and reviews on analysis matters related to environmental well being)	15
5	Financial proposal	25

General Terms and Conditions:

Please overview UNICEF’s General Terms and Conditions for Consultants here for vital data concerning contract obligations, together with medical insurance coverage, SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) vaccination, and earnings tax necessities.

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UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).   

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UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals underneath 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 based mostly on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply 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 underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “staff members” underneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and is not going to be entitled to advantages supplied therein (comparable to go away 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 cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous 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 period of their consultancy contracts.