Consultancy – analysis of currently available identification and early intervention services for young children with and disabilities in Namibia 100 views0 applications


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.

Background and Justification

Namibia as a country has been addressing the rights of person with disabilities through the ratification and implementation of global, regional and national instruments. The 1990 Namibian Constitution explicitly recognizes the inalienable human rights and freedoms of all its citizens. In line with its constitutional obligations and arguably as a sign of good will the Namibian Government ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Optional Protocol on 4 December 2007. Equally, Namibia has ratified, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) of 1989, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) of 1990, and have signed, in support of the goals enunciated therein, the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2063 of the AU. Equally, at the national level, the National Policy on Disability was launched in 1997 and the National Disability Council came into force after the enactment of the National Disability Council Act, (Act No. 26 of 2004) in 2004. As recent at 2013, with the support of UNICEF, the Sector Policy on Inclusive Education was launched in 2013.

According to the national data, 26, 992 children under 18 have a disability[1], and 5 529 of these children are receiving a disability grant[2]. According to the Namibia Inter-Censual Demographic Survey Report (2016), 52.2 % of persons aged 4 years and above had difficulties in engaging in any learning activity. The majority of these are found in rural areas. The National Housing and Population Census of 2011 revealed that 87% of children with disabilities between the ages of 0-4 years have never attended early childhood development (ECD) programmes while the proportion of persons with disabilities aged 5 years and above that never attended school was higher in rural (82.1%) than in urban areas (17.9%).

UNICEF is promoting early identification and early intervention (EI) to ensure children with disabilities have access to the necessary services at an early stage in their lives and have maximum opportunity to participate in inclusive settings. Providing services early helps children catch up and increases their chances for success in school and life overall. . EI is a “systematic and planned effort to promote development through manipulations of environmental or experiential factors”[3]. It consists of multidisciplinary service provision for developmentally vulnerable children from birth to 3 years and their families[4]. The environment is extremely important for a child’s brain development and there is evidence that EI is effective in bringing measurable impact on the development of these children. Early detection and intervention for children with disabilities that improve the chances of lifelong inclusion, wellbeing and productivity are not only good for the children and their families but also cost effective for the country.

One of the barriers to timely provision of appropriate continued services for children with identified developmental delays and difficulties is the absence of a clear referral system. Several service providers both from government and non-governmental institutions are not well coordinated and tend to work in a duplicative and parallel way with the application of different approaches.

Theory of change is that by supporting, in particular, the Ministry of Health and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, Office of the Vice-President Disability Affairs and service providers to establish multi-sectoral provision of good early intervention services for young children with disabilities and their families, this will result in:

  1. Improved participation in early childhood development and education.
  2. Increased understanding of parents about their child’s needs amongst parents and families to enhance their skills for engaging with their children to optimize their potential and participation in the family and community reduction in the number of children placed in residential care; and
  3. Greater inclusion of children with disabilities in disabilities into school and society and support their transition to primary school.

The participating UN Agencies seek to provide technical support to improve service delivery for persons with disabilities at national, regional and local authority level. The UN Country Team (UNCT) has a joint approach to the promotion of disability rights within the framework of the United Nations Partnership Framework (UNPAF) 2014-2018. UNPAF II (2019-2023) advocates for equity and equal opportunities for all and the UNCT will continue to advocate for mainstreaming disability across the different government ministries and agencies. This partnership supports system strengthening and coordination amongst and between organisations of persons with disabilities (DPOs) to ensure access to services such as early childhood development, health, education, nutrition and protection of persons with disabilities in Namibia. Further, there has been a recent push by the UNCT in Namibia to strengthen data collection systems, and create synergies and information sharing between these systems. The move towards strengthening data systems provides a unique opportunity to ensure that data collected is representative of the whole population and is tailored to include persons with disabilities, benefiting the upstream objectives of this project.

Scope of Work

1) Goal and Objective: Under the overall guidance and oversight of the Chief of Child Survival and Development the consultant will work directly with the Education Specialist to conduct an analysis of the scope and quality of currently available global good practice and Namibian early identification and early intervention services for young children with disabilities and developmental delays in Namibia and develop training modules for different service providers. The modules will focus on strengthening the capacity of service providers and parents to be able to identify children with disabilities as early as possible and to refer them for early assessment and early intervention.

2) The specific purpose and objective

The specific objective will be for the Consultant to conduct an extensive review of existing manuals, guidelines and documents used by different service providers for the early identification of children with disabilities and developmental delays in Namibia and to develop modules that are internationally accepted to be used in Namibia to improve services for the early identification, referral and assessment practices for children with disabilities.

3) Provide details/reference to AWP areas covered: The assignment is being implemented within the framework of the UNPRPD programme and is reflected in the 2019 Annual Work Plan under: under Outcome 1.1: By 2023, the government has strengthened capacity to plan equitable resource allocation and efficient spending for child survival and development, learning and child protection and Output indicator 1.1.4 Availability and implementation status of policies and strategies by sector.

4. Activities and Tasks

1. Early Identification

  1. Observe the practice and review existing manuals, guidelines and documents used by different service providers (health, ECD, education, social work) for the early identification of children with disabilities and developmental delays in order to identify the gaps and barriers which are hampering access to services by families with children in need of these services;
  2. Early Intervention
  3. Facilitate the process of the development of the theory of change to improve the multi-sectoral coordination and support to families of children with disabilities and developmental delays. Prepare the theory of change description based on the Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development Framework[6]. Based on the theory of change, engage with service providers, families, institutions of higher education, NGO and professional associations to prepare an analytical report on current early identification, referral and assessment practices for children with disabilities.
  4. Develop validated, standardized ‘open source’ training modules on early identification and early intervention of disabilities. The modules should consist of core parts such as a) assessment of the young child development stages and progress; b) referrals for further assessment and links to support services where needed c) relevant elements of the international classification of functions.
  5. The training should be aimed at service providers from different sectors working at community level (health providers, social workers, ECD centres and parents.).
  6. Training workshop for service providers
  7. Develop training materials and facilitate a training workshop with the different service providers on the use of the training modules and develop a roadmap for the implementation of the early identification/early intervention and inclusive ECD programme in selected communities with the aim of gradually scaling up across the country.

It is expected that tertiary education institutions will integrate the training into their core curriculum for nursing, social work, and ECD and pre-primary pre-service training courses to produce graduates who have been trained in disability mainstreaming and the early identification of disability.

The Consultant will be expected to travel to Namibia and meet with different service providers at national, regional and community level.

5) Work relationships:

The activity will be undertaken by a service with expertise in disability mainstreaming, in particular, with technical skills and capacities in early childhood development and disability. The Consultant will work under the supervision of the Chief, Child Survival and Development and the Education Specialist, UNICEF. The Consultant will provide ongoing feedback to the project Steering Committee through the Office of the Vice-President: Disability Affairs.

6) Outputs/Deliverables:

Deliverables

Duration

(Estimated # of days or months)

Timeline/

Deadline

Schedule of payment

  1. Inception report with detailed information on the process of conducting the analysis of early identification and early intervention services for children with disabilities and developmental delays in Namibia and approaches to develop training modules and a roadmap to enhance these services in a multi-sectoral and inclusive way.

10 working days (remote)

3 working days (in country)

05 August

40%

  1. Review existing manuals, guidelines and documents used by different service providers (health, ECD, education, social work) for early identification of children with disabilities and developmental delays, and submit a concise and comprehensive report highlighting current practice and gaps in early identification.

20 working days

(remote)

26 August

  1. Consult different service providers at national and regional level in selected regions of Namibia and develop a theory of change which should result in the identification of appropriate training materials that would enhance service provision in Namibia and submit a draft report with clearly articulated theory of change and proposed framework for delivery of appropriate multi-sectoral early identification services, including referral chain, roles and responsibilities of various sectors and actors.

15 working days (in country)

10 working days (remote)

30 September

30%

  1. The First draft report and the different training modules for early identification and early intervention

30 working days (remote)

29 December

  1. Incorporate comments into the first draft report based on the feedback received

10 working days (remote)

13 January

  1. Facilitate three training workshops for groups of national experts to present the draft modules and prepare the first draft roadmap for implementation of early identification/early intervention program on a level of selected communities with the possibility of further scaling up.

20 working days in country

28 February

30%

  1. Final training modules with graphs and tables/charts and roadmap in soft copy submitted and approved

20 working days remote

30 March

  1. In total

90 working days (remote) and 38 days in country

3 visits to the country

138 working days

Following reports and materials should be developed and provided to UNICEF:**

  1. Inception report (up to 10-15 pages)
  2. Final report (not more than 30 pages)
  3. Training workshops Plans
  4. Early identification modules
  5. Finalized Roadmap

Desired profile

The Consultant must have an advanced degree (Master’s Degree) in early childhood development, education, psychology or similar social science. He/she must have a minimum of 5 years work experience as a researcher, practitioner, and/or policy development in the area of disability, in particular as it relates to Paediatrics in the area of early identification of children with disabilities. Extensive experience in disability inclusion, mainstreaming and systems strengthening particularly in developing country contexts. He/she must have experience in development of training materials development.

  1. Other skills/competencies required:
  2. Experience of designing inclusive Evaluation/research methods and data-collection skills;
  3. Critical analytical skills;
  4. Excellent team working and communication skills;
  5. Sound programme management skills;
  6. English language proficiency;
  7. Ability to work under pressure;
  8. Excellent writing, communication and interpersonal and intercultural skills.
  9. Creativity and innovation.

Overall consultant’s performance rating will be based on the rating (from 1 to 6) of following competencies:

  1. Technical and professional competence;
  2. Quality of work;
  3. Quantity of work;
  4. Initiative;
  5. Responsibility;
  6. Work relations;
  7. Communication skills.

Administrative issues

The consultant will be contracted by UNICEF through a competitive bidding process. He/she will be under the leadership of the chief Child Survival and Development and direct supervision of the Education Specialist UNICEF.

The Consultant will work remotely but will be required to travel to Namibia for the Inception meeting, interviews and meetings with service providers and families, for facilitation of the TOC and Roadmap development exercises.

Payment will be made upon approval of deliverables. All travel required for this TOR should be quoted for in the financial proposal based on economy class fares

a. The contractor will work on its own computer(s) and use its own office resources and materials in the execution of this assignment. However, when in the country, UNICEF shall arrange temporary office space for the Contractor.

b. The contractor’s fee shall be inclusive of all office administrative and travel costs including any visas required which must be arranged by the contractor prior to commencement of work.

c. Government and the UN system shall be entitled to all property rights, including but not limited to patents, copyrights and trademarks, with regard to material which bears a direct relation to, or is made in consequence of, the services provided to the Organization by the consultant. In certain cases, Government and the UN system would be prepared to share intellectual property rights, requiring at a minimum, that Government and the UN system must be acknowledged in all use and publications of the data generated under the present consultancy, and retains the right to use the data for further analysis and publication with acknowledgement of the research institution concerned.

How to Apply

Please indicate your ability, availability and financial proposal/quote to complete the terms of reference above. Rates must include all expenses related to the assignment (e.g. consultancy fee, travel/flights, field trips, living allowance). Applications submitted without a fee/ rate will not be considered.

[1] Namibia Census report, 2011.

[2] Social Protection Budget Brief, UNICEF Namibia, 2017

[3] Developmental Difficulties in Early Childhood Prevention, early identification, assessment and intervention in low ‘and middle- income countries. A Review WHO

[4] Handbook of early childhood intervention Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (1990) Shonkoff JP, Meisel’s SJ

[5] Early Childhood Development and Disability, A Discussion paper, WHO-UNICEF, 2012

[6] Nurturing care for early childhood Development: a Framework for helping children survive and

Thrive to transform health and human potential, 2018, UNICEF/WHO

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

View our competency framework athttp://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. **

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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.

Background and Justification

Namibia as a country has been addressing the rights of person with disabilities through the ratification and implementation of global, regional and national instruments. The 1990 Namibian Constitution explicitly recognizes the inalienable human rights and freedoms of all its citizens. In line with its constitutional obligations and arguably as a sign of good will the Namibian Government ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Optional Protocol on 4 December 2007. Equally, Namibia has ratified, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) of 1989, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) of 1990, and have signed, in support of the goals enunciated therein, the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2063 of the AU. Equally, at the national level, the National Policy on Disability was launched in 1997 and the National Disability Council came into force after the enactment of the National Disability Council Act, (Act No. 26 of 2004) in 2004. As recent at 2013, with the support of UNICEF, the Sector Policy on Inclusive Education was launched in 2013.

According to the national data, 26, 992 children under 18 have a disability[1], and 5 529 of these children are receiving a disability grant[2]. According to the Namibia Inter-Censual Demographic Survey Report (2016), 52.2 % of persons aged 4 years and above had difficulties in engaging in any learning activity. The majority of these are found in rural areas. The National Housing and Population Census of 2011 revealed that 87% of children with disabilities between the ages of 0-4 years have never attended early childhood development (ECD) programmes while the proportion of persons with disabilities aged 5 years and above that never attended school was higher in rural (82.1%) than in urban areas (17.9%).

UNICEF is promoting early identification and early intervention (EI) to ensure children with disabilities have access to the necessary services at an early stage in their lives and have maximum opportunity to participate in inclusive settings. Providing services early helps children catch up and increases their chances for success in school and life overall. . EI is a "systematic and planned effort to promote development through manipulations of environmental or experiential factors"[3]. It consists of multidisciplinary service provision for developmentally vulnerable children from birth to 3 years and their families[4]. The environment is extremely important for a child's brain development and there is evidence that EI is effective in bringing measurable impact on the development of these children. Early detection and intervention for children with disabilities that improve the chances of lifelong inclusion, wellbeing and productivity are not only good for the children and their families but also cost effective for the country.

One of the barriers to timely provision of appropriate continued services for children with identified developmental delays and difficulties is the absence of a clear referral system. Several service providers both from government and non-governmental institutions are not well coordinated and tend to work in a duplicative and parallel way with the application of different approaches.

Theory of change is that by supporting, in particular, the Ministry of Health and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, Office of the Vice-President Disability Affairs and service providers to establish multi-sectoral provision of good early intervention services for young children with disabilities and their families, this will result in:

  1. Improved participation in early childhood development and education.
  2. Increased understanding of parents about their child's needs amongst parents and families to enhance their skills for engaging with their children to optimize their potential and participation in the family and community reduction in the number of children placed in residential care; and
  3. Greater inclusion of children with disabilities in disabilities into school and society and support their transition to primary school.

The participating UN Agencies seek to provide technical support to improve service delivery for persons with disabilities at national, regional and local authority level. The UN Country Team (UNCT) has a joint approach to the promotion of disability rights within the framework of the United Nations Partnership Framework (UNPAF) 2014-2018. UNPAF II (2019-2023) advocates for equity and equal opportunities for all and the UNCT will continue to advocate for mainstreaming disability across the different government ministries and agencies. This partnership supports system strengthening and coordination amongst and between organisations of persons with disabilities (DPOs) to ensure access to services such as early childhood development, health, education, nutrition and protection of persons with disabilities in Namibia. Further, there has been a recent push by the UNCT in Namibia to strengthen data collection systems, and create synergies and information sharing between these systems. The move towards strengthening data systems provides a unique opportunity to ensure that data collected is representative of the whole population and is tailored to include persons with disabilities, benefiting the upstream objectives of this project.

Scope of Work

1) Goal and Objective: Under the overall guidance and oversight of the Chief of Child Survival and Development the consultant will work directly with the Education Specialist to conduct an analysis of the scope and quality of currently available global good practice and Namibian early identification and early intervention services for young children with disabilities and developmental delays in Namibia and develop training modules for different service providers. The modules will focus on strengthening the capacity of service providers and parents to be able to identify children with disabilities as early as possible and to refer them for early assessment and early intervention.

2) The specific purpose and objective

The specific objective will be for the Consultant to conduct an extensive review of existing manuals, guidelines and documents used by different service providers for the early identification of children with disabilities and developmental delays in Namibia and to develop modules that are internationally accepted to be used in Namibia to improve services for the early identification, referral and assessment practices for children with disabilities.

3) Provide details/reference to AWP areas covered: The assignment is being implemented within the framework of the UNPRPD programme and is reflected in the 2019 Annual Work Plan under: under Outcome 1.1: By 2023, the government has strengthened capacity to plan equitable resource allocation and efficient spending for child survival and development, learning and child protection and Output indicator 1.1.4 Availability and implementation status of policies and strategies by sector.

4. Activities and Tasks

1. Early Identification

  1. Observe the practice and review existing manuals, guidelines and documents used by different service providers (health, ECD, education, social work) for the early identification of children with disabilities and developmental delays in order to identify the gaps and barriers which are hampering access to services by families with children in need of these services;
  2. Early Intervention
  3. Facilitate the process of the development of the theory of change to improve the multi-sectoral coordination and support to families of children with disabilities and developmental delays. Prepare the theory of change description based on the Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development Framework[6]. Based on the theory of change, engage with service providers, families, institutions of higher education, NGO and professional associations to prepare an analytical report on current early identification, referral and assessment practices for children with disabilities.
  4. Develop validated, standardized 'open source' training modules on early identification and early intervention of disabilities. The modules should consist of core parts such as a) assessment of the young child development stages and progress; b) referrals for further assessment and links to support services where needed c) relevant elements of the international classification of functions.
  5. The training should be aimed at service providers from different sectors working at community level (health providers, social workers, ECD centres and parents.).
  6. Training workshop for service providers
  7. Develop training materials and facilitate a training workshop with the different service providers on the use of the training modules and develop a roadmap for the implementation of the early identification/early intervention and inclusive ECD programme in selected communities with the aim of gradually scaling up across the country.

It is expected that tertiary education institutions will integrate the training into their core curriculum for nursing, social work, and ECD and pre-primary pre-service training courses to produce graduates who have been trained in disability mainstreaming and the early identification of disability.

The Consultant will be expected to travel to Namibia and meet with different service providers at national, regional and community level.

5) Work relationships:

The activity will be undertaken by a service with expertise in disability mainstreaming, in particular, with technical skills and capacities in early childhood development and disability. The Consultant will work under the supervision of the Chief, Child Survival and Development and the Education Specialist, UNICEF. The Consultant will provide ongoing feedback to the project Steering Committee through the Office of the Vice-President: Disability Affairs.

6) Outputs/Deliverables:

Deliverables

Duration

(Estimated # of days or months)

Timeline/

Deadline

Schedule of payment

  1. Inception report with detailed information on the process of conducting the analysis of early identification and early intervention services for children with disabilities and developmental delays in Namibia and approaches to develop training modules and a roadmap to enhance these services in a multi-sectoral and inclusive way.

10 working days (remote)

3 working days (in country)

05 August

40%

  1. Review existing manuals, guidelines and documents used by different service providers (health, ECD, education, social work) for early identification of children with disabilities and developmental delays, and submit a concise and comprehensive report highlighting current practice and gaps in early identification.

20 working days

(remote)

26 August

  1. Consult different service providers at national and regional level in selected regions of Namibia and develop a theory of change which should result in the identification of appropriate training materials that would enhance service provision in Namibia and submit a draft report with clearly articulated theory of change and proposed framework for delivery of appropriate multi-sectoral early identification services, including referral chain, roles and responsibilities of various sectors and actors.

15 working days (in country)

10 working days (remote)

30 September

30%

  1. The First draft report and the different training modules for early identification and early intervention

30 working days (remote)

29 December

  1. Incorporate comments into the first draft report based on the feedback received

10 working days (remote)

13 January

  1. Facilitate three training workshops for groups of national experts to present the draft modules and prepare the first draft roadmap for implementation of early identification/early intervention program on a level of selected communities with the possibility of further scaling up.

20 working days in country

28 February

30%

  1. Final training modules with graphs and tables/charts and roadmap in soft copy submitted and approved

20 working days remote

30 March

  1. In total

90 working days (remote) and 38 days in country

3 visits to the country

138 working days

Following reports and materials should be developed and provided to UNICEF:**

  1. Inception report (up to 10-15 pages)
  2. Final report (not more than 30 pages)
  3. Training workshops Plans
  4. Early identification modules
  5. Finalized Roadmap

Desired profile

The Consultant must have an advanced degree (Master's Degree) in early childhood development, education, psychology or similar social science. He/she must have a minimum of 5 years work experience as a researcher, practitioner, and/or policy development in the area of disability, in particular as it relates to Paediatrics in the area of early identification of children with disabilities. Extensive experience in disability inclusion, mainstreaming and systems strengthening particularly in developing country contexts. He/she must have experience in development of training materials development.

  1. Other skills/competencies required:
  2. Experience of designing inclusive Evaluation/research methods and data-collection skills;
  3. Critical analytical skills;
  4. Excellent team working and communication skills;
  5. Sound programme management skills;
  6. English language proficiency;
  7. Ability to work under pressure;
  8. Excellent writing, communication and interpersonal and intercultural skills.
  9. Creativity and innovation.

Overall consultant's performance rating will be based on the rating (from 1 to 6) of following competencies:

  1. Technical and professional competence;
  2. Quality of work;
  3. Quantity of work;
  4. Initiative;
  5. Responsibility;
  6. Work relations;
  7. Communication skills.

Administrative issues

The consultant will be contracted by UNICEF through a competitive bidding process. He/she will be under the leadership of the chief Child Survival and Development and direct supervision of the Education Specialist UNICEF.

The Consultant will work remotely but will be required to travel to Namibia for the Inception meeting, interviews and meetings with service providers and families, for facilitation of the TOC and Roadmap development exercises.

Payment will be made upon approval of deliverables. All travel required for this TOR should be quoted for in the financial proposal based on economy class fares

a. The contractor will work on its own computer(s) and use its own office resources and materials in the execution of this assignment. However, when in the country, UNICEF shall arrange temporary office space for the Contractor.

b. The contractor's fee shall be inclusive of all office administrative and travel costs including any visas required which must be arranged by the contractor prior to commencement of work.

c. Government and the UN system shall be entitled to all property rights, including but not limited to patents, copyrights and trademarks, with regard to material which bears a direct relation to, or is made in consequence of, the services provided to the Organization by the consultant. In certain cases, Government and the UN system would be prepared to share intellectual property rights, requiring at a minimum, that Government and the UN system must be acknowledged in all use and publications of the data generated under the present consultancy, and retains the right to use the data for further analysis and publication with acknowledgement of the research institution concerned.

How to Apply

Please indicate your ability, availability and financial proposal/quote to complete the terms of reference above. Rates must include all expenses related to the assignment (e.g. consultancy fee, travel/flights, field trips, living allowance). Applications submitted without a fee/ rate will not be considered.

[1] Namibia Census report, 2011.

[2] Social Protection Budget Brief, UNICEF Namibia, 2017

[3] Developmental Difficulties in Early Childhood Prevention, early identification, assessment and intervention in low ‘and middle- income countries. A Review WHO

[4] Handbook of early childhood intervention Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (1990) Shonkoff JP, Meisel's SJ

[5] Early Childhood Development and Disability, A Discussion paper, WHO-UNICEF, 2012

[6] Nurturing care for early childhood Development: a Framework for helping children survive and

Thrive to transform health and human potential, 2018, UNICEF/WHO

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

View our competency framework athttp://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. **

2019-07-22

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