Consultant - Lac Menstrual Hygiene and Dignity
hace 3 semanas
**Job no**: 556697
**Contract type**: Consultant
**Duty Station**: Panama City
**Level**: Consultancy
**Location**: Panama
**Categories**: WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)
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.
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**Background**
UNICEF promotes the rights and welfare of all children and adolescents in everything we do. Together with our allies, we work in 190 countries and territories to transform this commitment into practical actions that benefit all children, especially focusing our efforts on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded, worldwide.
The UNICEF Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office is based in in Panama, operating in 36 territories, including 24 country offices.
UNICEF works to put the rights and well-being of the most disadvantaged children at the heart of the social, political, and economic agenda, in line with our equity focus, working across our organization and with our partners in government, civil society and the private sector to support shifts in public policy, fuel social engagement, and increase investment for children.
**Purpose of the Assignment**
Under the overall guidance of the regional WASH Specialist and LACRO menstrual hygiene and dignity (MHD) focal point, and in coordination with Gender, Social Policy and ADAP, the consultant will review the public policy dialogue status for MHD for all countries in LAC, identifying opportunities for UNICEF’s engagement and advocacy for MHD policy formulation and implementation through a phased approach.
Secondly, the consultant will systematize UNICEF country offices (and other relevant organizations) experience with policy practice on MHD for women, girls, and menstruating people, drawing particularly from the experience of UNICEF Brazil, Ecuador and Peru country offices, to help guide other countries in this area of work. Recognizing the importance of adolescent and youth participation, as well as women’s organizations, in WASH policy, the consultant will develop a strategy for adolescent engagement in this topic.
**Specific Tasks**
Under the supervision of the regional WASH Specialist and regional focal point for menstrual hygiene and dignity (MHD), the consultant interview and gather information from UNICEF country office colleagues in WASH, ADAP, Social Policy and Gender sections, as well as government and civil society, including youth and adolescents.
1. Review and map the related available data and public policy dialogue status and entry points for UNICEF’s engagement on MHD for menstruating people, producing a regional policy review
- Desk review of key documents, data and key informant interviews focused on public policy dialogue space to define the status and identify entry points/opportunities for progress per country in LAC
- Write a policy review with details of the mapping per country and overall for the region
2. Capture the experience of UNICEF Brazil, Ecuador and Peru CO (and any other relevant organizations) on MHD policy and produce a guidance/recommendations document to guide other UNICEF COs and LACRO
- Desk review and interview with UNICEF, partners and the wider WASH sector to map good practice, bottlenecks and lessons learnt, particularly Gender and WASH colleagues from UNICEF Peru, Ecuador and Brazil
- Based on UNICEF’s MHD policy and WASH enabling environment guidance, produce a user-friendly guideline with recommendations to enable UNICEF LACRO and country offices to engage and contribute to MHD policy development, implementation and practice design and implement, recognizing the diversity of region, and considering a multi sectorial and integrated approach
3. In consultation with the Brazil CO WASH, ADAP, Gender and Social Policy staff, analyse gaps, bottlenecks, and good practices for guidance on operationalization of the MHD law, including a roadmap for local governments
- Recognizing the existing policy in Brazil, and the different levels of progress made nationally and at state and municipal level, analyse the progress and identify champions municipalities and states
- Write an “operationalization of the law’ guidance that captures bottlenecks and good practices to be used to advocate and mobilize state and municipal governments with less progress, embedding the guidance within the Agenda Cidade UNICEF and the SELO program
- Produce a roadmap that UNICEF can provide to local governments for the operationalization and implementation of the law at their level. These products should be useful for Brazil CO as well as applicable to other countries in the region
4. In consultation with key COs and relevant
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