Consultancy - Multi Country Wash Emergency

hace 4 días


Panamá, Panamá UNICEF A tiempo completo

**Job no**: 561912

**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.

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, **_dedication_**

**How can you make a difference?**

**Purpose of the Assignment**

Under the overall guidance of the UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and Caribbean (LACRO) WASH Specialist, the purpose of this consultancy is to support UNICEF country offices and the WASH sector to be prepared for the hurricane season and ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective preparedness and response by actors at country level in WASH in support of the Government/s.

**Specific Tasks**

The consultant, in a non emergency response context, has the double role of strengthening UNICEF office capacity in preparedness and planning of a response and the role and joint responsibility with UNICEF, partners and all WASH in emergency actors at the national level for the efficient management and functioning of the WASH sector in emergency preparedness encompassing the following 3 non-negotiable activities described below:

- Support UNICEF Country Offices (COs) to keep their Emergency Preparedness Platform (EPP) updated for the WASH sector.
- Support the establishment of an appropriate coordination mechanism (including basic information management) of the WASH sector for emergency preparedness and response in countries that do not have one yet, based on the Global WASH Cluster 6+1 functions and WASH-LAC Group minimum requirements for WASH sector coordination (Appendix 1).
- Strengthen already existing sectoral national/sub national coordination ensuring fulfillment of the minimum coordination requirements for the WASH sector through increased preparedness with primary focus on the hurricane season.

**Strategic activities 2 and 3 above include the following sub activities**:

- Dynamise the WASH in emergency actors to conduct regular coordination meetings ensuring that the group represents all key groups of interest of the WASH sector
- Revise and provide recommendations to the national emergency response plans from National Disaster Agency, from the Ministry of Health and from the National Water Agency.
- Support the national WASH coordination group in developping a comprehensive response plan and at least a Contingency Plan for Hurricanes.
- Ensure that the national WASH in emergency platforms counts with all the minimum cluster coordination tools (see toolkit box) and/or contextualized tools by UNICEF LACRO/WASH LAC Group
- Support WASH actors’ training on the use of the assessment tool (s)

In case of being deployed to the field for an emergency response or having to support remotely the country that responds to an emergency, AND IF the consultant is being given the role of Cluster lead or co-lead, he/she will:

- Support the government in leading or co-leading the coordination of the WASH sector and respond to the coordination platform participants’ needs;
- Ensure assesssment tools are agreed upon and used by actors and support compilation and analysis of the data for prioritization of the activities and areas of intervention
- Build complementarity of partner actions avoiding duplication and gaps by using appropriate tools;
- Ensure adequate resources are mobilized and are equitably allocated for the effective functioning of the cluster and its response;
- Ensure effective and comprehensive integration of relevant cross-cutting issues, including age, gender, environment and HIV/AIDs;
- Maintain flexibility within the cluster/platform to respond to changes in the operating environment, evolving requirements, capacities and participation;
- Effectively use and transfer information to, from and between cluster/platform participants and other stakeholders, lead on the preparation of SitRep inputs emphasising on plans/targets/ achievements.
- Interact with other clusters (including through inter-cluster coordination fora), humanitarian actors, government counterparts, and relevant authorities for operational planning, engagement and active contribution of operational partners;
- Ensure that the WASH platform actors/cluster actors are accountable to the affected population through effective and inclusive consultative and feedback mechanisms.
- Monitor/assess performance of the 6 + 1 core cluster functions and lead/c-lead the adjustments that are needed. Once a year the cluster should conduct a Cluster Coordination performance Monitoring (CCPM) Where there is both a national and a sub-national cluster, the consultant will ensure that there is effective commun



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