Consultant documentation of​/promising practices, successful models and lessons learned children’s care reform

Job no: 595843

Contract type:
Consultant

Duty Station:
Amman

Level: Consultancy

Location:

Jordan

Categories:
Adolescent Development, Child Protection, Education, Gender Development, Health, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, Social Policy, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene), Early Childhood Development, Knowledge Management, Innovation, Programme Management, Social and Behavior Change, Health and Nutrition, Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, UN Volunteer, Disability

Consultant – Documentation of good/promising practices, successful models and lessons learned on children’s care reform and family-based alternative care

Child Protection and Migration Practice, Amman Centre of Excellence, Jordan

7 months

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UNICEF seeks to engage an individual consultant to document good practices, successful models and lessons learned in children’s care reform. The assignment will draw on country, regional and global experiences, including foster care, kinship care, kafala and other contextually appropriate family-based care arrangements, with attention to inclusive family-based care options and community support and services for children with disabilities. The consultant will also provide technical support on disability inclusive child protection system strengthening.

There is growing demand from UNICEF country offices for practical, evidence-informed resources that document successful approaches to children’s care reform and translate them into actionable guidance for policy makers, practitioners and partners. While many countries are undertaking reforms to strengthen families, prioritize family-based care options, and ending institutionalization, lessons learned and implementation knowledge are often fragmented, insufficiently documented or not easily accessible across regions.

Country offices frequently seek examples of what has worked in comparable contexts, how reforms were implemented, what enabling factors contributed to success, and how challenges were addressed. At the same time, there is increasing global interest in accelerating care reform efforts, including through family strengthening, kinship care, foster care, kafala and other family-based care arrangements, while ensuring inclusive support for children with disabilities.

Systematic documentation of good and promising practices is therefore needed to support cross-country learning, inform policy dialogue, strengthen advocacy, guide programme design, support resource mobilization and enable adaptation of successful approaches to different national contexts.

Country offices also seek technical support on disability inclusive child protection systems and services including in the context of children’s care. The consultant will provide technical support and guidance to country offices for operationalizing disability inclusive child protection resources and competency framework for social service workforce.

The consultancy…