Extension - Lta to Conduct Data Collection

**Job no**: 562511

**Contract type**: Consultant

**Duty Station**: Cairo

**Level**: Consultancy

**Location**: Egypt

**Categories**: Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

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, **_Care._**

**How can you make a difference?**

**_ Objective:_**

UNICEF Egypt CO is seeking the services of a national individual consultant to undertake data collection, secondary analysis, developing knowledge products on issues that will be identified by UNICEF and training. The national individual consultant will be required to provide all or some of the services outlined in the deliverables below in the field of qualitative data collection, analysis, report writing, training, presentation, infographic designing, technical writing and editing in both English and Arabic languages.

The type of data collection will be identified according to the needs of UNICEF to fill in information gaps in some locations for targeted population. It will be detailed in terms of reference that will be developed related to the required tasks. The analysis should examine the progress, challenges and opportunities for achieving child rights and well-being, and the patterns of deprivation that children, adolescents and women face. It should also be objective and verifiable and is expected to be used by all partners and stakeholders in the country in addressing key challenges preventing children, adolescents and women, especially the most disadvantaged, from enjoying their rights as laid out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international obligations that the country has committed to.

The analysis should also highlight inequalities between groups, socio-economic characteristics, urban/rural and intra-urban disparities, genders, geographic locations and other dimensions. It should pay special attention to looking at disaggregated data and unpacking national and/or subnational averages. Besides presenting an analysis of why inequities exist, the analysis will also present contextualized recommendations on what could be done by key stakeholders to attain/sustain inclusive social development that guarantees equal inclusion and participation of all groups of children, adolescents and women.

Analysis should be grounded in the country’s political, economic and social realities, review progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and regional and global issues that affect children’s rights and well-being. The knowledge products are expected to be relevant to a wider audience which includes government bodies, development partners (including UNICEF), civil society, children, adolescents, women, academia, private sector actors, parliamentarians, media and others. The process of developing specific knowledge products may anticipate engagement with the government and key stakeholders, including children and young people. It serves as an opportunity to promote meaningful dialogue between the main child rights actors in the country on children’s and adolescents’ issues.
- _**_CONCEPTIUAL FRAMEWORK AND METHODOLOGY:_**

The individual consultant will primarily rely on available data sources to conduct statistical analysis. In some cases, the individual consultant would be required to collect data in specific locations and on specific population to fill in data gaps. A detailed term of reference will be shared with the individual consultant, requesting specific tasks with expected duration, personnel and modality based on the type of services listed in this LTA.

For every assignment, UNICEF will set the number of days required to complete the specific tasks and request relevant LTA holders to submit a short technical and financial proposal. The technical proposal should reflect the experience of carrying out **all or some** of the four main activities/deliverables listed in the following table (i.e., Data collection, Secondary analysis, Developing Knowledge Products and Training).

Within the assignment, the individual consultant would engage directly with relevant stakeholders that can contribute to the research and analysis. This process will be supported by the UNICEF Country Office, together with the individual consultant and partners such as CAPMAS, IDSC, NCCM, MOPED, NCW etc. As part of data collection, secondary analysis and developing of knowledge products, it is expected from the individual consultant to provide required documents for ethical clearance as a prerequisite before conducting any research, evaluation or data collection and analysis as specified in the below section for Ethical Considerations.

**_ Activities and Deliverables:_**

**Servic