UNICEF Myanmar Terms Of Reference (TOR) for Individual Consultant
Heading: Humanitarian Performance Monitoring Specialist
Section in Charge: Emergency Unit
How does the consultancy relate to work plan: As part of the quality of UNICEF humanitarian assistance and
considering the level of ORE spent in Myanmar, the Emergency committee, in consultation with RO and HQ has
decided to implement the HPM Dashboard as a key tool to monitor UNICEF progress and support management
decision making process. Key indicators (emergency output indicators, HRP, HAC) will be informed on a monthly
basis
Outcome reference: 101,102,103,105
Output reference: 101/004;102/004;103/004;105/006
Background:
UNICEF aims to provide effective, predictable, and timely programmatic and operational support to
humanitarian action regardless of the magnitude, cause of the emergency, or any other situation which
overwhelms national capacities and puts at risk the rights and well-being of women and children.
Humanitarian action is increasingly complex, with UNICEF responding to acute and protracted emergencies
within a shifting humanitarian context. Emergencies are affecting more of the population, with the most
vulnerable women and children often the hardest affected. The faster pace of programme interventions in
humanitarian situations requires a higher frequency of data collection, sharing, analysis, management and
reporting. As part of systems strengthening and based on experience in different contexts around the world,
and the organization’s Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs), UNICEF guidance and
innovative approach, the CO in Myanmar initiate a process to developing a systematic results-based approach
to measure results and quality of the UNICEF humanitarian responses called Humanitarian Performance
Monitoring (HPM).
To date the monitoring of humanitarian assistance is largely preformed manually and based on paper. While
this was appropriated after the onset of the emergencies, experience has shown that this became an increasing
burden for longer, protracted emergencies. The cost in terms of human resources and time can be high and
can act as a barrier to effective adoption of the HPM approach. The management of data can also act as a
bottleneck to effective use of information to make informed management decisions to guide UNICEF
programmes.
Myanmar is continuing to face protracted emergencies in Kachin, northern Shan, and Rakhine States, placing
over 536,000 people, including 230,000 children, in need of humanitarian support. The civil conflict in Kachin
and northern Shan has displaced more than 99,000 persons since 2011, and inter-communal violence has
displaced nearly 140,000 people in Rakhine since 2012. An additional 297,000 persons have been cut off from
essential services as a result of the conflicts. In Rakhine, the conflict has deteriorated chronic underdevelopment, with global acute malnutrition rates (GAM) over 20 per cent in some areas, health services relying
on mobile clinics, and low education access for all students, including only 8 per cent of adolescents in camps
attending basic non-formal education opportunities. In Kachin and northern Shan, stunting is a major concern,
as is access to adequate water supply, sanitation and hand-washing (WASH) facilities. Children continue to face
serious protection risks, including recruitment and use by armed forces and armed groups, mine risks, genderbased violence and risky migration practices.
In this context UNICEF is delivering humanitarian assistance and needs to develop an improved monitoring tool,
the HPM dashboard
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1. Objectives of the consultancy: Supports the UNICEF country Office to strengthen UNICEF humanitarian
results based monitoring and reporting. Strengthen linkages with development monitoring and reporting.
2. Geographic Area: Myanmar (post based in Yangon)
3. Duration (including potential extension): 3 month with possible extension if required
4. Supervisor: Michael Flachaire (Emergency Specialist)
5. Type of Supervision/support required from UNICEF: Direct with supported by the emergency committee
6. Description of assignment:
Tasks
End Product/deliverables
Duration/
Deadline
1.1 Review of existing UNICEF humanitarian
1.1 Identification of what works and any areas
results monitoring and reporting approaches
to be strengthened
and tools as well as development results
monitoring tools/system
1.2 Identification of solutions and possible 1.2 Identified, adapted and final UNICEF
tool from global UNICEF humanitarian Myanmar tools for HPM.
monitoring approaches and tools
Discuss with existing UNICEF active PCA End of
weeks
partners the possibility to include pre-defined
indicators (HRP/ HAC) in anticipation to the
below process
1.3 Workplan for Country office roll-out for 1.3 Work plan (2 months) including training /
strengthening humanitarian results based familiarization component for UNICEF staff
monitoring
and implementing partners (x15); and
capacity building of CO focal point
2.1 Revised UNICEF humanitarian assistance 2.1 UNICEF humanitarian implementing
implementation agreements
partner agreements include monitoring
framework and appropriate reporting
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template
weeks
2.2 Strengthened reporting Information 2.3 Agreed processes for reporting from subflows
national to national levels
2.4 Internal Dashboard for humanitarian
results reporting is fully implemented and
100% operational
3.1 Capacity Development of UNICEF 3.1 Ongoing capacity development of CO HPM
Monitoring and Evaluation staff ( around 50) focal points to enable full handover by the end End of
of contract supported by proper training weeks
courses and a guidance manual.
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2.3 Agree reporting template design
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7. Selection process (EOI to be attached to TOR)
Interested candidates are required to complete the Expression of Interest Form circulated with the call for
proposals, answering the technical questions included.
The consultant will be identified by UNICEF based on a competitive selection process, taking into account the
candidate’s experience, the quality of the answers produced, and of the lump-sum requested.
If deemed opportune, UNICEF will require a telephone interview with shortlisted candidates.
8. Qualification and specialized knowledge/experience required for the assignment:
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University degree in relevant subject and experience with UNICEF HPM is recommended
A minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience with either the UN and/or NGO
Experience of coordination/monitoring within Humanitarian response
Good written and spoken English
9. Other conditions:
The consultant will work from Yangon Office and no travel in the field is expected. The consultant is requested
to have his own equipment such as personal laptop to complete the assignment.
Life and health insurance
UNICEF does not provide or arrange life or health insurance coverage for consultants and individual contractors,
and consultants and individual contractors are not eligible to participate in the life or health insurance schemes
available to United Nations staff members. Consultants and individual contractors are fully responsible for
arranging, at their own expense, such life, health and other forms of insurance covering the period of their
services as they consider appropriate. The responsibility of UNICEF is limited solely to the payment of
compensation for service-incurred death, injury or illness as per the provisions detailed below.
Insurance for service-incurred death, injury or illness
Consultants and individual contractors who are authorized to travel at UNICEF expense or who are required
under their contract to perform services in a UNICEF or United Nations office shall be provided with insurance
coverage, through a UNICEF-retained third party insurance provider, covering death, injury and illness
attributable to the performance of official UNICEF duties. Compensation in the event of service-incurred death,
injury or illness shall be equivalent to amounts stipulated in the agreement between UNICEF and the insurance
provider.
Payment
Frist tranche: After Work plan for Country office roll-out for strengthening humanitarian results based
monitoring is completed
Second Tranche: After Dashboard for humanitarian results reporting is fully implemented and 100% operational
Last tranche: After Capacity Development of UNICEF Monitoring and Evaluation staff is completed
Confidentiality:
The documents produced during the period of this consultancy will be treated as strictly confidential, and the
rights of distribution and/ or publication will reside solely with UNICEF.
The contract signed with the consultant will include the other general terms defined by UNICEF.
10. Nature of Penalty Clause to be stipulated in the contract:
UNICEF Myanmar reserves the right not to pay the Contractor or withhold part of the payable amount if one or
more requirements established for this assignment is not met or deadline set for the accomplishment of the
tasks is missed.
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