National Consultant United Nations at UNICEF Tanzania

National
consultant to conduct a review of national and sub-national data
collection systems on violence against women and children in Tanzania (3
Months)
Job no: 574109
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: Dar-es-Salaam
Level: Consultancy
Location: United Republic of Tanzania
Categories: Child Protection

UNICEF
works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most
disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To
help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.
For every child, a voice
UNICEF
Tanzania is collaborating with UN Women and UNFPA, with financial
support from the Irish Embassy, to support the Government of Tanzania,
through the Ministry of Community Development,Gender Women and Special
Groups (MoCDGWSG), to strengthen gender coordination mechanisms. This
includes strengthening data systems and processes for performance and
results monitoring and reportin of interventions to address violence
against women and children (VAWC) under the second National Plan of
Action to End Violence Against Women and Children (NPA-VAWC II 2024/25 –
2028/29).

The NPA-VAWC II was launched on 15 May 2024. Its
overall objective is to reduce violence against women and violence
against children by 20% in five years (2024/25 – 2028/29). Like the
first plan that was implemented between 2017 and 2022, the NPA-VAWC II
sets out eight key strategies to work towards the elimination of VAWC,
in line with evidence-based strategies from the global INSPIRE1 and
RESPECT2 frameworks.

Administrative data systems are key tools
to support monitoring and reporting on progress towards the reduction of
violence and achieving the set targets. Nevertheless, generation,
collation, analysis, and use of administrative data during the
implementation of the first NPA-VAWC was challenging, making it
difficult to track, monitor and report on performance and results
promptly. Most of the existing data systems and processes in sectors
relevant to VAWC are unsystematic, fragmented and incomplete, therefore
making it difficult and costly to obtain structured, timely and reliable
reports at both national and subnational levels. In a rapid assessment
of data systems for child protection, conducted in 2011, it concluded
that the sector is data-rich but information-poor, meaning there is a
lot of data collected by different government departments and agencies,
but it is rarely analyzed, only used on an ad hoc basis, and does not
support strategic decision making. The same gaps in systems for routine
data collection and analysis are observed about violence against women.

How can you make a difference?
Scope of Work:
The
individual consultant will be managed by UNICEF and work under the
guidance of the NPA-VAWC Secretariat to conduct an assessment of the
existing administrative data systems generating data on VAWC and
determine how relevant they are or could potentially be in reporting on
VAWC indicators and targets; identify available data systems and data
being generated relevant to the NPA-VAWC, and establish baselines for
the agreed indicators where these are available from the assessed
systems;
propose feasible options for alignment of the existing
systems to improve monitoring and reporting on 3 VAWC across sectors;
develop tools to facilitate collection and consolidation of required
VAWC data from the existing tools at both national and subnational
levels; and recommend actions to address gaps where such systems to
generate and analyse required data are unavailable, unsystematic and/or
unaligned, making VAWC reporting and programme and policy decisions
challenging.

Specifically, the consultant is expected to implement the following specific tasks:
1.
Review the NPA-VAWC II results framework to understand the horizontal
logic of results (indicators, baselines, targets and means of
verification) and where needed, suggest areas that need adjustment and
streamlining to ensure each indicator can be effectively measured to
track progress towards the specific results that are outlined in the
results framework.
2. Comprehensively review existing administrative
data systems across sectors relevant to VAWC to identify types of data
that are available to report progress in implementation of the NPA-VAWC
II, including what, how and where data is collected, consolidated,
analysed, and shared for different uses, present data flow in
schematics.
3. Establish baseline data for agreed indicators from the
administrative data systems where these are available and provide
guidance and/or tools to facilitate collection of the missing baseline
data where these could not be established by this assignment.
4.
Identify indicators whose data sources are unstructured, incomplete, and
unpredictable and propose modalities to facilitate their availability
for monitoring and reporting on the NPA VAWC II.
5. Develop practical
tools to facilitate data collection, collation and sharing from
structured and unstructured systems at national and subnational levels
(regional secretariat and Local Government Authorities) for reporting on
agreed indicators in the NPA-VAWC II.
6. Propose recommendations for
strengthening comprehensive, integrated and interoperable data systems
for VAWC that facilitate reporting and information sharing across the
VAWC sectors at all levels.
7. Develop Monitoring and Evaluation Plan
that will guide how and when data is collected and consolidated from
the sources upwards, responsibilities and their use in monitoring and
reporting on NPA VAWC II. The M&E plan should facilitate
implementation of the recommendations from this assessment.

Deliverables/Outputs	Delivery Timeline	Estimated Budget
1.Submission of inception report	2 Weeks	20%
2. Submission of draft assessment report with baseline data for NPA-VAWC II indicators, a PowerPoint presentation, data collection tools and draft M&E plan	7 Weeks	50%
3. Submission of the final report with stakeholders’ inputs accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation and M&E Plan	2 Weeks	30%
Total		100%

METHODOLOGY:
Desk review
The consultant will
conduct a desk review to understand interventions and expected results
in addressing VAWC as reflected in the NPA-VAWC II. The consultant will
also review existing systems that generate administrative data within
the government, civil society and other partners that will facilitate
achievement of the specific objectives of the consultancy. The
consultant will be encouraged to consult any relevant documents that
will facilitate completion of this exercise based on national
experiences and as much as possible draw lessons from international best
practices in the area. MoCDGWSG and UNICEF will provide support with
gaining access to this information. The consultant will submit an
inception report to demonstrate their understanding of the assignment
before proceeding with an in-depth analysis of existing literature and
evidence related to the above.

Key informant interviews
The
consultant is expected to conduct key informant interviews with key
government and civil society entities that are hosting existing data
systems to get in-depth information on how the systems work, what data
is generated, collated, and stored, what mechanisms and requirements
exist for data shared withinand outside the entities, and how
frequently, etc. The desk review should support the consultant to
identify which entity is most useful to conduct key informant interviews
with. The consultant will also hold interviews with entities that
ideally should have systems to generate required data on VAWC but do not
yet have them to understand how they manage information within and
outside their entities. This should then inform recommendations for what
is needed to ensure systematization of data collection, collation,
analysis and how sharing occurs in these entities for reporting on
nationally agreed indicators.

Stakeholder consultations
One
or two stakeholders’ workshops will be organized to review and validate
the draft report, recommendations of the assessment and draft data
collection tools. The national NPA-VAWC Secretariat will play a key role
in reviewing the drafts and provide initial inputs, which may require
several meetings before inputs are incorporated into drafts and
submitted to the broader stakeholders for further inputs
and finalization

PAYMENT SCHEDULE: UNICEF
reserves the right to withhold all or portion of payment if performance
is unsatisfactory if work/output is incomplete, not delivered or for
failure to meet deadlines.

ASSESSMENT / SELECTION PROCESS AND METHODS:
Evaluations:
The applicant should submit both technical and financial proposals
which stipulate how the work will be conducted. The Financial Proposal
should include all costs of this assignment including fees, travel
costs, and accommodation as UNICEF will not pay any DSA.
Proposals
will be both technically and financially evaluated. The technical part
will carry a weight of 75%, in which the consultant will put clear
his/her technical approach to ensure the quality attainment of each
deliverable and the consultancy in totality. The financial part will
take 25% showing the proposed budget breakdown of consultancy cost for
each deliverable (fees, travel and accommodation) and eventual total
consultancy cost.

TRAVEL: Two trips to Dodoma for meetings.
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To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An
  advanced university degree in social work, sociology, international
  relations, development studies, law, child psychology or relevant field.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in conducting research and assessments, preferably in the
• field of child protection, gender equality and women’s empowerment with a specific focus on violence against women and children.
• Previous
  experience in conducting similar assessments for established
  development organisations, particularly the UN, other multi-national
  agencies, and governments.
• Experience in developing M&E plan, data collection tools and presentations.
• Excellent
  communication and interpersonal skills to engage with various
  stakeholders and to express ideas and concepts clearly and concisely in
  written and oral form.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency
  in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language
  (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an
  asset.
• Knowledge of Kiswahili necessary.

For every Child, you demonstrate:
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
To view our competency framework, please visit  here.

 UNICEF
is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global
workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone,
irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity,
sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background,
or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation
for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may
include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for
missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your
disability during your application in case you need reasonable
accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your
assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that
is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and
UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment,
abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict
child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected
to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo
rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include
the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history.
Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to
conduct a background check.

Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals
engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be
considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the
United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be
entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and
medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be
governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for
the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and
individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax
liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in
accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected
candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and
health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are
valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are
subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2
(Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine,
which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply
to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or
visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly
interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform
functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.
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