Consultancy to Support to Establishing

**Job no**: 552442

**Contract type**: Consultancy

**Duty Station**: Cairo

**Level**: Consultancy

**Location**: Egypt

**Categories**: Child Protection

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**_ Objective:_**

To contribute to establishing community-led accountability mechanisms (informal Parent-Teacher-Association model) in refugee community schools, to support continued access to education and learning of refugee children in a safe and conducive learning environment.

**_ Methodology:_**

The consultant will support the development of approaches, mechanism and materials/tools which will contribute to:

- Mobilizing stronger engagement of parents/caregivers and communities to support a more protective and conducive environment in order to retain in education and eliminate risks of drop-out.
- Equipping and strengthening the capacities of school management and community groups (community-based accountability structures) members to hold constructive community dialogues on the quality of the education service provided by the school, which includes both education quality and school safety concerns.
- Enhancing community outreach to advocate for the importance of education continuation, as well as raising awareness of available services for children and their families provided at local PHUs.

The consultant will be requested to undertake the following tasks:
Induction Meetings
- Participate in a briefing meeting with the UNICEF Egypt team.
- Participate in briefing meetings with Education and Child Protection Working Groups.
- Submit inception report

Designing of the community-led accountability mechanism
- Conduct desk review of the possible models of accountability mechanisms and hold consultation meetings with schools and communities as needed, including teacher associations.
- Design proposed mechanisms, including the composition of members such as representatives of caregivers/parents, school administration, community leaders etc., the selection process of members, development of strategic documents, main activities.
- Develop capacity-building materials on social accountability tools and basic skills needed to hold constructive community dialogues as well as to lead the development and implementation of school improvement plans for the members of community groups. This will be based on the minimum standards established as a result of school assessments conducted by UNICEF and partners.
- Present proposed mechanisms and tools to UNICEF and relevant stakeholders, including the Education and Child Protection Working Groups.

Capacity building on the developed community-led accountability mechanism and tools
- Design and deliver a ToT programme on the developed content for selected stakeholders.
- Support the development of comprehensive school improvement plans in the target refugee community schools based on a set of minimum standards.
- Provide coaching for trained community group members to support the implementation of the school improvement plans.

Reporting
- Develop a final assignment report, including recommendations and suggested way forward.

**ACTIVITIES, DELIVERABLES AND TIMELINES, PLUS BUDGET PER DELIVERABLE**

**DELIVERABLES**

**ESTIMATED DURATION TO COMPLETE (over the duration of 4 months)**

**PAYMENT**
- 0.0 Induction meetings2 days

10%
- Deliverable 1: Community-led accountability mechanisms for community schools identified.1.1 Visits to some of the target community schools to review the situations and needs around their governance.

5 days

30%

1.2 Desk review of good practices nationally and regionally produced.

3 days

1.3 Inception Report Submitted.

4 days

1.4 Contextualised and culturally sensitive community engagement mechanisms for a more protective and conducive environment for learning designed and documented in the presentation based on the identified good practices.

6 days
- Deliverable 2: Training package for the members of the community groups designed and delivered._

2.1 Capacity-building material on social accountability and community dialogues for the members of the accountability mechanisms developed.

8 days

50%

2.2 Capacity-building programme on the developed content/tools for selected community groups delivered.

12 days

2.3 Coaching for trained community group members delivered.

18 days
- Deliverable 3: Final assignment report developed._

3.1 The final report with key findings and recommendations developed.

4 days

10%

**TOTAL**

**62 working days**

**_Conditions of work:_**

The consultant will work remotely but will be required to participate meetings (face-to-face or virtual whenever p