Disability Inclusion Consultancy

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s Strategic Plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards rUNFPA has embraced Disability People with disabilities remain a vastly excluded and vulnerable group in humanitarian crises, and women and girls with disabilities face intersecting forms of discrimination and barriers to accessing services. This is particularly important in the context of Afghanistan, where as many as 83% of women and girls live with disabilities, with 44% experiencing moderate, and 15% severe disability – both figures higher for women than for men. These individuals face a number of environmental, communication, institutional, and attitudinal barriers that prevent them from fully accessing a range of life saving interventions. Inclusion is a priority to embed in all features of the humanitarian response in Afghanistan. UNFPA will continue to undertake significant efforts to improve the capacity of front-line female staff of UNFPA service delivery points by providing them disability inclusion training. The package will aim at increasing knowledge of disability according to the human rights based approach and sector standards, sensitizing the frontline staff working in UNFPA supported delivery points to the needs of people with disabilities in the context of their work, barriers to access services for people with disabilities, and the administration of Washington Group Questions. UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030.

In country, the Consultant will support Country Office’s disability inclusion efforts through: 

• – Finalizing the Disability Inclusion Action Plan, including its budget
• – Assessing capacities of the Implementing Partners and a sample of Service Delivery Points in the area of disability inclusion
• – Finalizing disability related indicators
• – Development of of the Disability Focal Point Terms of Reference
• – Acting as a Disability Focal Point for the Country Office.

Remotely, the consultant will develop an e-learning package module that is based on a training package that covers the following: 

• – Key terms related to disability using the human rights-based approach.
• – An overview of the situation of people with disabilities in Afghanistan and common barriers people with disabilities face in the country, with focus on women and girls with disabilities.
• – Disability inclusion measures in Reproductive Health and Mental Health Psychosocial Support programming. These can include reasonable accommodations, principles of working with people with disabilities (e.g. informed consent), and inclusive communication with beneficiaries.
• – Critical steps to identify persons with disabilities accessing UNFPA’s life-saving interventions.

You would be responsible for:

• He/she will report to the Program Coordinator. The consultant will have to achieve the following two objectives through the listed activities:
• 1. The first objective of the consultancy is to operationalize the Disability Inclusion Strategy (1 month between January 15 – February 15 ideally).

Scope of work: 

• – Finalizing Disability Inclusion Action Plan, including the budget
• – Assessing capacities of the Implementing Partners and a sample of their Service Delivery Points in the area of disability inclusion (piloting the disability inclusion assessment tool)
• – Finalizing disability related indicators with the M&E Unit
• – Supporting the recruitment of the Disability Focal Point by developing their Terms of Reference
• – Acting as a Disability Focal Point for the Country Office.

The second objective of the consultancy is to develop an e-learning package on disability inclusion for front line workers (4 months, February 15 – June 15 ideally).

Scope of Work: 

To develop the e-learning course, the consultant is expected to achieve the following: 

• – Developing the e-learning content based on the training package content, that is accessible and interactive, catering to various learning styles (February 15 – March 20 ideally).
• – Designing Disability Inclusion Training e-learning modules according to agreed content – audio and video recording and editing, graphic design and editing in English (March 20 – May 2), Dari and Pashto (translations by UNFPA April 1 – May 2 ideally).
• – Testing Disability Inclusion Training e-learning modules (April 15 – May 16 ideally). – Launch of the Learning Management System (LMS) which allows for users’ progress tracking – learners’ data input (March 20 – May 2 ideally).
• – Piloting the e-learning course with e.g. 20-30 users for each of the three languages English, Dari, and Pashto (UNFPA and partners).
• Following the training completion by these testers, the e-learning course will be evaluated with: competency (knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) pre- post-test, evaluation questionnaire, and if needed, FGDs with learners to identify gaps and challenges to learning (April 20 – May 20 ideally).
• – Revising the content to incorporate learners’ suggestions and feedback and ensure adequate knowledge and skills acquisition and retention among learners (May 10 – June 1 ideally). – Translation of the revisions into Dari and Pashto (by UNFPA May 10 – June 1 ideally).
• – Launching the finalized e-learning course (June 1 – June 15 ideally).
• The consultant is expected to initiate an annual subscription of Articulate 360 Teams (license to use the platform, authoring tools, collaboration tools, unlimited storage) and allow 4,000 learners to complete the training in a year.

Qualifications and Experience: 

Education:

An advanced degree with a specialization in areas such as social work, psychology, public health, law/human rights, international relations, or a related field.

Knowledge and Experience:

• At least 5 years of increasingly responsible professional relevant experience
• Knowledge and experience in mental health/psychosocial support (MHPSS) and disability inclusion programming.
• Excellent understanding of human rights and the survivor-centered approach.
• Excellent level of proficiency in English (spoken and written).
• Outstanding writing skills, with the ability to conceptualize, synthesize, and compose in a style that appeals to a variety of audiences.
• Computer skills (able to use MS Windows, Zoom, office applications, etc.); Graphic design skills are an added advantage.
• Experience working under minimum supervision and tight deadlines

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