Roster for Knowledge, Learning and Communication Consultants on Climate, Environment, Energy and Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED) Req # 575790

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. 

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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant

Consultancy Title: Roster for Knowledge, Learning and Communication Consultants on Climate, Environment, Energy and Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED)

Section/Division/Duty Station: NY HQ - Remote

Duration:, 16 October 2024 to 15 October 2027

 About UNICEF

 If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

BACKGROUND

 As part of UNICEF’s 2022-25 Strategic Plan and its Results Framework, disability inclusion is anchored as one of the guiding principles and disability inclusive programming is a cross cutting priority ensuring disability inclusion across the organizational mandate.  The new UNICEF Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy (DIPAS) 2022-2030 will guide the organization’s work on disability in both programmes and operations.  It's linked to UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, its Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action, the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS), and the UN 2030 Agenda.  The DIPAS specifically outlines UNICEF’s priorities for children with disabilities and provides strategic direction and a framework for accelerating disability-inclusive programming and results at scale, based on evidence, lessons learned and good practices. 

In order to scale up and mainstream disability inclusion across all its work, the Disability Section, aims to establish a roster of pre-vetted and technically qualified individual consultants to support this expanding area of work in headquarters, regions and countries.

 Purpose of Activity:

Advocating for and carrying out child-centred action on climate change, environment, energy, and disaster risk reduction (DRR) (CEED) benefits all targeted SDGs, and UNICEF has a unique comparative advantage not only to help reduce impacts on children/young people, but to also enable them as key agents of change—a true opportunity for a paradigm shift in countries’ socio-economic trajectory post-Covid. This is a time of great opportunity with growing child, adolescent and youth activism aimed at ensuring that economic recovery and development is sustainable, disaster and climate-smart, and environmentally sound. UNICEF is supporting this through well-established partnerships and innovative programming across multiple key sectors including WASH, education, health, nutrition, child protection, and social policy. As UNICEF carries out its Sustainability and Climate Action Plan 2023-2030, it is critical to continue to learn from what is working in countries around the world, to take stock, and to share good practices on CEED topics. Doing so will maximize UNICEF’s support to countries and communities with the best practical solutions that achieve ambitious targets for children globally. While a challenge remains to systematically collect results and evidence across the organization, given that CEED topics are cross-cutting areas and may not be adequately or explicitly addressed across sectors, having stronger knowledge management systems can help ensure results and evidence will be captured. Knowledge management (KM), learning, and communication are vital for advancing UNICEF’s open, inclusive learning culture underpinned by the cultivation and implementation of formal internal and external structures and incentives. The main purpose of the Knowledge, Learning and Communication Consultant on Climate, Environment, Energy and DRR roster is to build a database of consultants who can respond to future activities specific to CEED and SCAP activities through a proposal process that would go to people on the CEED roster. The roster participants will support ongoing knowledge management learning and communication efforts to foster and support an environment for staff to capture, organize, share, and use CEED knowledge that improves organizational performance toward deve