1.BACKGROUND:Close to six years after the fall of Gaddafi’s regime, heightened uncertainty, political rifts, conflicts, displacement, migration, and insecurity have continued to mark the political and economic transition in Libya. The UN has strived to support the country with its transition to the democracy. In December 2015, the Presidential Council was created to act as head of state, leading up to the establishment of Government of National Accord (GNA) according to the Libya Political Agreement (LPA). Today, different governments still scramble for power in Libya and security is precarious, with the presence of conflicting militias who continue to fight and control border crossings. Violence is thus commonplace and living conditions are hard.
In April 2015, UNICEF launched the ‘Together for Children’ national campaign with 15 municipalities followed by an Award for the “Child-Friendly Municipality” in Libya, announced during April 2017. In January 2017, UNICEF signed a Cooperation Framework with the Ministry of Local Government for a seven-year period that serves as a structure to work directly with the local authorities to deliver UNICEF’s interventions and to spearhead UNICEF supported programmes including provision of psychosocial support for the internally displaced children, establishment of child friendly spaces, prevention of school dropouts, integration of school-based psychosocial activities, non-involvement of children in the armed conflict and empowering young people and engaging their parents through community action. Decentralization and focus on local governance is a principal strategy for UNICEF Libya; municipalities play a key role for UNICEF work in Libya with the affected communities and provide important programme oversight.
In 2016, at least 4,579 people died attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Libya, or 1 in every 40 of those who made the attempt. It is estimated that at least 700 of those who lost their lives were children. As highlighted in a recent UNICEF report, refugee and migrant children and women represent easy preys on every step of their journey and routinely endure sexual violence, exploitation, abuse and detention along the route from North Africa to Italy, including in Libya. Migrants, including children, who are rescued at sea or intercepted are transferred from points of disembarkation to detention centres, the majority of which are run by the Department for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM).
UNICEF’s mission is to protect the rights of children and young people wherever and whenever they are not ensured. UNICEF is anticipating a funding from the EU in June 2017 of 11 million EUR to implement the “Resilience building programme for vulnerable children in Libya” programme. This expected EU-UNICEF partnership will include the direct provision of services for the vulnerable children and their families, with a focus on migrant and refugee children, at the same time as efforts to build the capacity of duty bearers to fulfil their responsibilities. Additionally, UNICEF under this programme will strive to strengthen and develop the systems and policies for child-friendly basic service delivery with a particular sensitivity for the specific vulnerabilities of the different groups of children, and with high consideration to migrant, refugee and Unaccompanied and Separated Children, and to protection mainstreaming.
2.JUSTIFICATION:Within the current context, municipality councils have remained the only viable local governance bodies in Libya that can facilitate the delivery of basic services. The Senior Local Governance Consultant will spearhead the 6-month inception phase of the “Resilience building programme for vulnerable children in Libya” programme aimed at generating relevant information and knowledge for the design of longer-term interventions and establishing the necessary partnership with the Line Ministries, Targeted Municipalities and NGO partners. Due to the delivery by municipalities and limited duration of the consultancy, it is important that the Consultant have knowledge and experience of the Libya context and municipalities as well a strong background in Local Governance and experience with the EU programming and funding requirements.
3.UNICEF IN LIBYA:Despite the temporary evacuation of all UN agencies and most of the international NGOs from Libya in 2014, UNICEF has succeeded in maintaining a presence in the country with national staff and with qualified national consultants to monitor the on-going programmes. Since beginning of 2017, UNICEF international staff have been going to Libya on missions as a part of UNCT rotational plan. If the security situation remains the same, UNICEF will continue implementation remotely, mainly relying on national staff, consultants, cooperation agreements with NGOs and Memorandums of Cooperation signed with municipalities to deliver results for women and children.
UNICEF has put in place a monitoring system to overview the programme activities and results for women and children by contracting an international NGO to undertake independent monitoring, quality assurance and reporting. Regular review processes are in place together with partners to review the programme results and address the bottlenecks.
4.SCOPE AND RESULTS OF WORK:Under the strategic guidance of the UNICEF Special Representative and the supervision of the Deputy Representative, the Senior Local Governance Consultant will undertake the following:
1.Spearhead the inception phase of the EU funded programme “Resilience building programme for vulnerable children in Libya”, for which the main stakeholders are municipalities.2.Generate relevant information and knowledge for the design of a longer-term and sustainable interventions and refine accordingly the implementation strategy and planned activities based on consultations with the municipalities and stakeholders, available partnership, and assessed data.3.Develop a detailed programme document which will include, amongst other points: •Partnership arrangements, detailed work plans, implementation modalities, monitoring plan and distribution of the budget over the three year period.•Completion of a mapping and assessment of local capacities in target regions and locations.•Identification of expected beneficiaries, catchment populations, target groups and selection of implementing partners and project’s locations. 4.Establish the programme Steering Committee and finalize its Terms of Reference by clearly making the difference with the EU TF Steering Committee. 5.Ensure a coherent planning of the activities with and adequate leverage on ongoing education, child protection and youth programmes, through a close collaboration with the relevant section and avoid unnecessary overlap.6.Build up the linkages, implementation modalities, and scale up partnership in the programme documents on the intermediate results of the EU-funded Youth programme entitled “Towards Resilience and Social Inclusion of Adolescents and Young People in Libya” implemented at four target municipalities.7.Get the required buy-in from the targeted four targeted municipalities and dedicated buildings to establish transitional centers for the unaccompanied and separated children as a part of alternative to detention strictures. Organise all the required contracts, procedures and processes to have two of the transitional centers running at the end of the inception phase.8.Develop a data collection system for the programme that includes disaggregated data (gender, sex and migration status). Ensure that all the required reporting tools are in place for the partners reporting. 9.Organize and facilitate a two-day programme launching workshop in Tunis for Libyan partner municipalities, line ministries and relevant stakeholders to nurture local leaders’ commitment to and awareness of UNICEF values and present the plan of the Action.10.Submit the inception report to the EU in close cooperation with the LCO programme team, the Regional office and Brussels Programme Partnership Division. The Senior Local Governance Consultant will contribute to achievement of results according to Results Based-Management approaches and Methodology (RBM) and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.5.DELIVERABLES:The consultant should deliver a final report at the end of the consultancy period, with payment being subject to deliverables and based on the timelines provided.
PaymentDeliverablesDuration1st payment: 30% of the total consultancy fee•Outline of the inception report for the EU funded programme ““Resilience building programme for vulnerable children in Libya”•Support LCO in identifying expected beneficiaries, catchment populations, target groups and implementing partners together with child protection and education programme sections. •Advise LCO on the selection of target municipalities based on the analysis of the governance context and undertake the required arrangements with the targeted municipalities, line ministries to establish the Transitional Centers for unaccompanied children on the move2 month 2nd payment:35% of the total consultancy fee•Support LCO to establish a programme Steering Committee and draft its ToR building on the experience of the EU funding programme entitled “Towards Resilience and Social Inclusion of Adolescents and Young People in Libya” and clearly defining the difference with the EU TF steering committee. •Draft a detailed work plan, implementation modalities, monitoring plan and distribution of the budget over the three year period•Organize and facilitate a two-day programme launching workshop for Libyan partner municipalities and stakeholders in Tunis and present the plan of the Action2 months3rd payment:35% of the total consultancy fee•Submission of the inception report for the EU funded programme “Resilience building programme for vulnerable children in Libya”. The Inception report will have to prepared with the close collaboration of education and child protection sections under the leadership of the Deputy Representative •Assist LCO child protection and education sections to finalise all the partnerships with the NGOs, AWP with the line ministries and contractual agreements with the service providers required to implement the “Resilience building programme for vulnerable children in Libya” programme•Roll out the M&E data collection to support the required data collection and evidence generation for the “Resilience building programme for vulnerable children in Libya” programme. Come up with a clear reporting template for all the partners in line with the M&E structure that has gender , age and migration status disaggregated data2 months
- IMPACT OF RESULTS:Inception phase of “Resilience building programme for vulnerable children in Libya” programme implemented with the line ministries, municipalities, national and international NGOs is finalised. In collaboration with Child Protection and Education sections, key partnerships are developed and M&E system for data collection and evidence generation is in place.
- MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES: •Academic qualifications: oAdvanced university degree (Master’s Degree or equivalent) in public policies, law, social science or related discipline. •Work experience:oA minimum of 10 years of work experience in the fields of decentralization and local governance; including hands on expertise in providing technical support and advisory to local governments in emergency context.oA minimum of 10 years of work experience in managing large-scale development/humanitarian projects in conflict/post conflict countries. oExperience with EU-funded programmesoA relevant work experience and networks in Libya oExperience with migration related programmes will be an advantage •Language requirements: oFluency in English and Arabic (verbal and written) is required. •Competency Profile: (For details on competencies please refer to the UNICEF Professional Competency Profiles.) Core values: Commitment, Diversity and Inclusion, Integrityi) Core Competencies (Required)Communication, Working with People, Drive for Results.
ii)Functional Competencies (Required)Leading and Supervising, Formulating Strategies and Concepts Analysing, Relating and Networking Deciding and Initiating Action, Applying Technical Expertise iii) Technical knowledge (Required)Proven strong writing, research, analysis and presentation skills.
- TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:The consultant will be based in Tunis, Tunisia. However the consultant will be expected to regularly travel to Libya.
Interested qualified candidates are expected to submit a detailed financial proposal for this consultancy along with their application.
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