Terms of Reference
Consultancy on Results for Adolescents
Expected Duration of Assignment: 2 Months
1. Background:
Adolescents, defined as children age 10-18, represent a key population group under UNICEF's mandate. Adolescents comprise a large percentage of the population in most conflict-affected countries, and are especially vulnerable to violations of all of their rights including education, protection, and participation in decisions that affect them. Girls, especially those with disabilities and those from marginalized groups often face even greater risks. Yet many emergency and post-emergency response programmes do not reach and address the diverse needs of adolescents, providing neither focused investment nor inclusion in processes. The resulting failures to fulfill adolescents' rights often contribute further to social and political tensions, especially in conflict-affected and conflict-sensitive contexts. Yet if adolescents have the opportunity to grow healthily, develop their capacities, learn, share ideas, and participate actively in their communities, they can become a key resource for peace and prosperity in their countries.
In early 2012 UNICEF initiated a Peacebuilding and Education Programme with support from the Government of the Netherlands, which is now being implemented in fourteen conflict-affected or conflict-sensitive countries. As a participant in the Technical Working Group (TWG) to the Peacebuilding and Education Programme, the UNICEF Adolescents unit provides technical information, guidance and support for programming that contributes to the education and positive development of adolescents in conflict-affected countries, and engages them in the peacebuilding process.
Additionally it contributes to the development and provision of tools and a design process that facilitates adolescents' constructive input into conflict analyses, plans and findings. The unit will also collaborate with Adolescent Focal Points in the identified Country Offices to provide guidance on inclusive selection of diverse and representative adolescents, and in carrying out consultations. Specifically, the unit anticipates supporting adolescents' engagement in the conflict analysis process; Peacebuilding Programme designs generated from those analyses; national planning processes for peace-building including education plans; development of programme indicators, and monitoring and evaluation processes.
2. Purpose:
In all countries that are part of the Peacebuilding and Education Programme, the inception activity of the programme is to conduct a Conflict Analysis which will map the stakeholders and dynamics of conflict and peace in those countries. UNICEF staff members in each participating Country Office have been trained to carry out this conflict analysis process, which will begin with a desk review of existing related research and reports. The analysis will also include consultations with stakeholders in the host countries. The Conflict Analysis document that is produced through this process will, in turn be used as the foundation for the design of education and related programmes contributing to a peacebuilding process that carries the inputs of youth and adolescent voices in priority countries, and which will subsequently be developed and implemented through this programme.
The priorities and perspectives of adolescents should be reflected in the Conflict Analyses and subsequent Work Plans to ensure that they serve as a comprehensive and useful foundation for the education programmes that contribute to peacebuilding. However, research and UNICEF's own experience suggests that adolescents are rarely consulted directly in conflict analyses as well as in the development of programme plans. Even when young people are consulted, it is disproportionately older youth (those above the age of 18), those from the least marginalized groups, young men (rather than girls or women), those without disabilitie
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