Partnership Consultant

Afghanistan has strong informal community systems with an array of community-based institutions and structures that play various roles. Their power and ability to mobilize resources varies across regions and communities. These structures provide an important opportunity for the bottom-up approach and accountability that can contribute to the country’s effective humanitarian response and could be leveraged to support long-term results for the children and women of Afghanistan. To complement and directly support UNICEF ACO interventions, UNICEF would like to strengthen its work with these community systems/structures.
The national consultant will engage with various UNICEF program section teams and implementing partners and other relevant actors (e.g., other UN agencies) to carry out an assessment that aims to identify existing community structures and systems in Afghanistan. The consultant should also produce a detailed report on the strengths and weaknesses of each structure/network and subsequently develop a framework on how UNICEF should engage with structures to implement some of its activities. In the second phase of the consultancy and with support from UNICEF teams, the consultant should carry out targeted capacity-building activities to strengthen the capacities of these structures in areas of community engagement and program implementation and monitoring.
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