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Consultancy: Guidelines for Programming with and for Young People in Humanitarian Settings
Deadline to apply is on 31st July.
Background & Rationale
During the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), UN Member States, UN entities, civil society organizations, private sector, media and youth-led organizations gathered on the topic of
Transforming Humanitarian Action with and for Young People, and called to align strategies, approaches and programmatic responses to reach all young and adolescent people and empower young women and men, and adolescent girls and boys to be agents of positive
transformation.
A ‘Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action’ was hence established and endorsed by at least 50 organizations that work in humanitarian settings to ensure that the priorities, needs
and rights of young women and men, and adolescent girls and boys affected by disaster, conflict, forced displacement and other humanitarian crises, are addressed, and that they are informed, consulted, and meaningfully engaged throughout all stages of humanitarian
action.
Within the Compact, 5 long-term commitments were identified and defined under 5 Actions with the first one being “Promote and increase age- and gender-responsive and inclusive programmes
that contribute to the protection, health and development of young women, young men, girls and boys within humanitarian settings”.
UNICEF co-chairs with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) a group of practitioners and organizations to oversee the implementation of Action 1, and as such is leading the development,
drafting and field-testing of Guidelines for Programming with/for Young People in Humanitarian Settings together with partner organizations which have endorsed the Compact.
This consultancy comes under the umbrella of the Compact group that is co-facilitated by UNFPA and IFRC and supported by at least 50 organizations and member states.
Purpose
The drafting and field-testing of the Guidelines for Programming with/for Young People in Humanitarian Context requires dedicated human resources to ensure that views of young people
and inputs from various COMPACT member organizations at global and country level are properly reflected and promoted.
Expected results and workplan:
The consultant will work under the supervision of UNICEF Adolescent Specialist, and in close coordination with Compact Core Action 1 Task Team including the Norwegian Refugee Council
(NRC), Mercy Corps, Plan International, the Refugee Education Trust (RET) UNFPA, UNHCR, the UN Youth Envoy Office, the International Federation of the Red Cross/Crescent (IFRC) as well as with other COMPACT member organizations and humanitarian practitioners
from different clusters and sectors. The consultant is expected to produce a set of Guidelines including practical and operational recommendations based on consultations with young people, practitioners working in humanitarian settings and case studies and
good practice documentations, reflecting different humanitarian and geographical settings and promoting the views of young people themselves.
The final guidelines document should focus on the following:
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Provides the “why” for addressing young people’s priorities, working and engaging with them in humanitarian contexts;
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Describes how emergencies and other humanitarian contexts such as protracted forced displacement affect young people’s lives (with age and gender lens within and between age groups) including briefly
explaining how forced displacement influences the realization of their rights – including by looking across the various sectors;
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Proposes the principles that should underpin programming with/for young people in humanitarian contexts and that should be respected when assessing, designing, implementing, and evaluating interventions
for/with young people;
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Provides recommendations/actions, informed by age and sex considerations, that organizations need to consider when working with young people (with age and gender lens within and between age groups)
in all phases of humanitarian crisis and across different sectors including health, education, protection, water and sanitation and nutrition. This includes strengthening the nexus between development and humanitarian programmes with a wider focus on risk
reduction including mitigation and prevention.
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Provides guidance, informed by age and sex considerations, on “how to” engage with young people (with age and gender lens within and between age groups) as partners including youth groups/organizations
in all phases of humanitarian situations;
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Provides practical guidance, informed by age and sex considerations, on how to integrate and strengthen the “young people lens” (with age and gender lens within and between age groups) within the interagency/multi-partner
processes, i.e. CERF, HRPs, Flash appeals, multi-sectoral assessments and others.
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Provides guidance, informed by age and sex considerations, for the monitoring and evaluation of programmes addressing young people (with age and gender lens within and between age groups) including
a focus on participatory and adolescent and youth led approaches.
In order to perform his/her various tasks, the consultant will be expected to:
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interact remotely through bi-lateral calls/interviews with practitioners from different organizations across the world;
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co-facilitate feedback sessions on draft and/or thematic areas during workshops including with young people or through dedicated inter-agency webinar/webex;
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travel to 2-3 countries to collect first-hand testimonies/recommendations from frontline workers and young people living in humanitarian settings, and test/validate consolidated draft content and design.
For more information and how to apply:
https://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=505971
The YUNGA Team

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