UNICEF
Purpose Of The Assignment
To support UNICEF in its core mandate as WASH Emergency Strategic Advisory Group (ESAG) co-chair as well as Sector Working Group co-chair by supporting the development, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of UNICEF’s preparedness and response to acute watery diarrhea (AWD) and cholera. Activities undertaken will focus on results related to safeguarding and improving public health of the affected population by ensuring access to safe drinking water, proper excreta disposal and promoting safe hygiene practices; ensuring overall efficiency, effectiveness, and delivery of results in accordance with UNICEF’s Core Commitment for Children in Emergencies (CCCs) and national and international humanitarian standards.
Assignments
- Under the framework of National Action Committee (NAC) structures at the national, provincial, and district levels and in conjunction with other WASH stakeholders, including disaster response mechanisms and on behalf of UNICEF, support the overall analysis of sectoral needs and priorities and the definition of strategies and standards to ensure the delivery of safe drinking water to affected population in accordance with national and international humanitarian standards.
- Attendance and participation in WASH sector Technical Working Groups and forums as and when required including dissemination of progress updates with stakeholders and ensuring alignment with other sectors.
- Provide overall technical guidance to UNICEF’s Implementing partners, RDCs, Local Authorities and NCU to carry out WASH emergency humanitarian programme delivery, formulate, implement, and monitor planned WASH activities while ensuring alignment with the country’s strategies and quality of rights-based approach.
- Conduct field visits to cholera-affected areas as required in coordination with the partners and other government counterparts and ensure dissemination of findings with the appropriate authorities for necessary action.
- Support donor missions to cholera-affected areas.
- Collaborate with the design and effective implementation of a monitoring plan to follow up the implementation of UNICEFs emergency humanitarian response in the WASH sector, incorporating required changes into WASH activities, with special attention to special needs of women, children, and people with disabilities and other cross-cutting areas.
- Provide emergency WASH situation reports, field reports and donor update reports as and when required with inputs from IPs and government ministries.
- Support collation of data from the field including making inputs for donor proposals
- Promote effective Knowledge management and communication through sharing good practices, and lessons learned, including providing inputs/liaising with Communications on Human interest stories for reporting and advocacy purposes.
- Ensure UNICEFs engagement and contribution and participation in cross-sectoral assessment, analysis and evaluations of the emergency response and post-distribution monitoring of supplies.
- Provide technical support to the WASH section in emergency preparedness and response plans based on cholera emergency programmatic requirements.
- Support convergence and joint implementation with other UNICEF sections
Tasks/Milestone
Major tasks and deliverables:
Indicative Deliverables/Outputs
Timeline
- Provide technical support to the WASH section in emergency preparedness and development of response plans, based on WASH emergency programmatic requirements
- Draft/revise the Cholera emergency preparedness and response plan.
- Support the prepositioning of WASH contingency stock in cholera hotspot and affected areas.
- Update and keep an inventory of WASH Emergency Supplies.
- Cholera Preparedness and Response plan updated and shared with UNICEF and Government stakeholders.
- WASH contingency stocks are prepositioned in 8 Provinces.
- WASH emergency supplies tracking matrix developed, updated, and shared.
5 days
5 days
10 days
- Provide overall technical guidance to Implementing partners, local councils and NAC to carry out programme delivery, and formulate, implement and monitor planned WASH Cholera response activities while ensuring alignment with the country’s strategies and quality of rights-based approach. The consultant will specifically be required to;
- Monitor and provide technical support to implementation of hardware activities that include but not limed to borehole repairs, boreholedrilling and rehabilitation of solar powered piped water schemes.
- Monitor and provide technical support to the dissemination of key hygiene messages and pre and post-distribution monitoring of hygiene kits and items.
- Monitor and provide technical support to the implementation of Case Area Targeted Interventions (CATIS) and Cluster Case Targeted Interventions (CLUSTI)
- Monitor and provide technical support on water quality monitoring, bucket chlorination, and water vendors’ water quality monitoring.
- At least 8 consolidated field monitoring reports with key follow-up actions and recommendations
29 days
- In collaboration with line Ministries, coordinate and provide technical support to the WASH sector emergency response, including ESAG and other national levels WASH and Health sector Technical Working groups and forums as and when required.
- Present UNICEF’s position and activities and dissemination/follow up of progress updates with stakeholders.
- Eight (8) updates/presentations to ESAG monthly meetings
- At least (8) ESAG monthly minutes produced and shared with WASH sector partners.
5 days
- Obtain WASH response data from local authorities and relevant Ministries (MoHCC, MoLAWCRR)
- Collate and analyze data to identify trends in implementation and bottlenecks to implementation response.
- Undertake WASH assessments in collaboration with UNICEF Health, government, and IPS in areas affected by cholera.
- Collate lessons learned and take inputs for donor reporting.
- Identify opportunities and ensure collaboration with other sectors (including but not limited to Health, Nutrition, and Education) for implementation of an integrated approach to WASH emergency response.
- At least five (5) monthly situation reports for UNICEF (format of the report to be approved by the supervisor and to include any multi-sectoral interventions undertaken).
- Draft inputs for donor reports and to any potential donor proposals or visits as needed.
20 days
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education
A Masters Degree in Environmental Public Health, Civil Engineering, Programme Communication, Sanitation Engineering, or other field related to or other field related to behavior change communication.
Experience
At least 5 years of extensive experience in Cholera Preparedness and Response planning, management, and coordination with UNICEF, other UN agencies, or INGOs.
Knowledge/ Expertise/Skills Required
Knowledge and experience in the Zimbabwe WASH sector, preferably WASH emergencies
Knowledge of public health and one or more other relevant areas (e.g behavior change, health promotion, community development, education, etc.)
Knowledge of Implementation of the cholera Case-Area Targeted Intervention (CATI) and Cluster Case Targeted Interventions (CLUSTI)
Experience working with government agencies, local authorities, international organizations, NGOs and communities in the field of water, sanitation and participatory approaches in health and hygiene promotion.
Work experience and knowledge of development, implementation, and management of climate-smart approaches to disaster risk management and reduction, resilience building, education, health, nutrition, social protection, and WASH
Languages: English
If interested and available to undertake the individual consultancy, please submit your application online and attach the required documents including the technical proposal and an all-inclusive financial proposal incorporating the approximate 40 days of travel.