Country: Thailand
Closing date: 20 Aug 2017
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Background:
“All In to end adolescent AIDS”
All In is a global adolescent –inspired platform launched by UNICEF and UNAIDS for collaboration to amplify and accelerate the work being done by governments, international organizations, civil society and the private sector to fast track results with and for adolescents. The platform is aligned to the “90/90/90” and the “Fast-Track” for adolescents, with the following targets:
All In is organized around 4 work areas of action to drive results: 1) mobilize and support adolescents themselves as agents of social change; 2) improve data collection, analysis and utilization to sharpen adolescent focus of national programmes; 3) foster innovation in reaching adolescents to reduce new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths; and 4) advocate and communicate globally and within countries for increased resources and attention to adolescents as a population that has been left behind in the progress on HIV/AIDS.
An Adolescent Assessment and Decision Makers’ (AADM) guidance document and tool was developed to support the All In adolescent platform primarily to improve data collection, analysis and utilization to sharpen adolescent focus of national programmes. The country assessment process is comprised of three overlapping phases as described below. Countries will differ in their current progress along these phases:
Phase 1:Rapid assessment of adolescent programme context at the national and sub-national levels to define who is most affected, where they are located and what interventions have the largest coverage gap and are most critical to accelerate HIV results in adolescents.
Phase 2: In-depth analysis of bottlenecks affecting coverage of priority HIV interventions in priority geographic locations identified in Phase 1.
Phase 3: Evidence-informed planning to accelerate corrective actions to address bottlenecks, data gaps and improve intervention coverage, quality and impact.
In support of All In, the regional office has already completed Phase 1 and currently supporting countries on Phase 2 through in-depth assessments and analysis of bottlenecks and barriers to increase the impact of prevention, treatment and care programmes. The consultant will support:
Asia-Pacific UN Elimination of Parent to Child Transmission (ePTCT) website
UNICEF and WHO jointly serve as Secretariat of the UN PPTCT Task Force, which was set up in 1998. The Task Force acts as a technical forum supporting national efforts to eliminate new HIV infections and syphilis in children. It aims to help scale up HIV prevention among parents, enhance access to quality care, treatment and support of children and families living with HIV. The ePTCT website is a platform that provides the latest data and resources to support the efforts of the task force.
There is a need to collate, synthesize and prepare visual representation of the data such as graphs, charts, tables and upload them on the online database in the UN PPTCT Task Force’s ePTCT website, http//: www. eptctasiapacific.org with the latest data and resources on HIV epidemiology, maternal, neonatal and child health, PPTCT and Congenital syphilis to strengthen strategic information and build the evidence base for elimination of parent to child transmission of HIV and Congenital Syphilis in the region.
Countries in the region are moving towards triple elimination (HIV, Syphilis and Viral Hepatitis). The regional office already has and will continue to support countries to put into place necessary structure and processes for seamless quality care for women, newborns, children and their families. The consultant will support the mapping and analysis of where and how the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (EMTCT) interventions are currently being provided within existing programmes and systems.
Other HIV related section tasks:
In preparation for regional conferences/meetings and country related events, there is need to collect, collate and synthesize data and prepare written, tabular and visual presentations (infographics, power points, tables/charts) for advocacy. Also, assistance is required in gathering and collating HIV related information from HIV and Health System Strengthening related literature and presenting them as important inputs/reference for further analysis and reporting.
Work Assignment:
End Product(s) (Deliverables):
Estimated Duration of Contract: 6 months, starting from 2 October 2017.
Qualifications or Specialized Knowledge/Experience Required:
Interested candidates are requested to submit CV or P-11, full contact information of minimum 2 references, availability, proposed monthly professional fee and all-inclusive travel costs to/from Bangkok in USD by 20 August 2017. Please note the air tickets under UNICEF contract shall be re-routable, refundable type (economy class and most direct route). The consultant will be responsible for own travel insurance, visa fee and terminal expenses.
FORM P11.doc
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How to apply:
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