Consultancy - Multi Country Wash Emergency - Panamá - UNICEF

UNICEF

Empresa verificada

Panamá

hace 2 semanas

Publicado por:

Lorenzo González

Reclutador de beBee

Descripción

Job no: 562067

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.

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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 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 humanitarian crisis and ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective preparedness and response by the WASH actors at country level in WASH in support of the Governments in Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay and Dominican Republic.

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 fulfilment of the minimum coordination requirements for the WASH sector through increased preparedness.

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, floods, droughts, public health emergencies, etc.
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 crosscutting 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;
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