About the job

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, every right

UNICEF has been operating in Zimbabwe since 1982. We are a team of passionate professionals committed to the protection and fulfillment of children’s rights.

Supporting the Government’s vision of a prosperous and empowered upper-middle-income society, the 2022 to 2026 UNICEF Zimbabwe country programme is aimed at contributing to sustainable socioeconomic development that provides all children, including adolescents, with opportunities to fulfil their potential, lead a healthy life, access quality learning and protection and meaningfully participate in society.

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How can you make a difference?

UNICEF Zimbabwe is seeking to engage a qualified and committed Individual Consultant for Strengthening WASH Sector Systems in Zimbabwe. The purpose of the consultancy is to support UNICEF to provide technical assistance to the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ), primarily the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development (MoLAFWRD) in strengthening Government-led systems to enable affordable, equitable and sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene services, towards achieving the national set targets in the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS 1) and its Vision 2030.

BACKGROUND

Using The Systematic Strengthening Approach, And In Collaboration With Sector Partners Under The Leadership Of MoLAFWRD, UNICEF Has Provided Support In The Following Analytical And Evidence Generation Tasks Including Policy And Strategic Framework Development

The Government of Zimbabwe has made significant efforts to improve sustainable WASH services by addressing the issues that have negatively impacted effective and sustainable WASH Service delivery. However, the sector still registers an overall decline in coverage levels of WASH services. UNICEF over the years have been providing technical assistance to the Governmnet of Zimbabwe in systematically identifying the Sector bottlenecks and drawing a consensus in addressing the gaps to enable progressing the Sector towards achieveing the nationally set WASH targets and commiting to international obligations (SDG.6).

• Joint Sector Reviews since 2019
• WASH Bottleneck Analysis in 2019
• Adopting the Africa Sanitation Policy Guidelines, used in developing the National Sanitation and Hygiene
• Development of WASH Finance Strategy
• Development of WASH Service Standards
• Development of the Presidential WASH Compact
• Supported review of national sector coordination mechanisms and launching and co-chairing the WASH Sector Working Group

It is against this background that UNICEF will provide continued support to ensure the tasks are brought to finalization (assent by relevant bodies) and key outcome advocacy and awareness messages are developed and communicated to appropriate levels towards contributing to achievement of results for children in Zimbabwe

Assignments

The Government of Zimbabwe is considerably increasing the systems strengthening activities in 2023 and this is expected to continue into 2024. As such, UNICEF is likely to require additional similar technical expertise in 2024. As the deliverables become clear and funding available in 2024, it is foreseen that additional tasks will be added and this contract extended.

• Policy Advocacy: provide high quality technical inputs and drafting of policies, strategies and plans and draft advocacy materials to communicate to and gain support from high level decision-makers
• Provide final edits and readying the National Sanitation and Hygiene Policy for Cabinet approval and launch, and policy brief for advocacy at High levels
• Support the finalisation and launch of the Presidential WASH Compact (briefs, etc)
• Monitoring: Provide technical support to strengthen sector-wide monitoring of WASH Services
• Provide technical support to the Information and Knowledge Management Task Force to develop a roadmap to revitalize the Rural WASH Information Management System (RWIMS).
• Financing: Provide tecthnical support to the development of and advocacy for effective sector financing
• Develop the WASH Financing Strategy Implementation Plan and Policy Brief to advocate for the Plan to be politically and financially prioritized by the Government
• Coordination: provide preparatory support to enable an effective WASH Sector Working Group, including to draft preparatory and follow up documentation
• Support the Government to develop preparatory materials (policy brief, summary of progress since 2022, etc), prepare the agenda, facilitate the 2023 National Joint Sector Review (JSR) and write up the JSR report, as well as to provide guidance for Provincial JSRs
• Support effective functioning of the WASH Sector Working Group by supporting SWG meeting preparation and reports, providing technical guidance for the WASH Sector Workplan

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