Qual emprego Type 1 or more characters for results. Onde Type 1 or more characters for results. Job no: 550987Position type: ConsultancyLocation: Brazil Division/Equivalent: Latin America and Caribbean Regional OffCategories: Social PolicyBrazil has over the last decades advanced on numerous fronts on the human rights agenda, including on the specific rights of children and adolescents. According to Article 227 of the 1988 Federal Constitution, in line with the Federal Constitution, Brazil developed a robust inter-federative social protection system that seeks to overcome social exclusion, inequality and poverty and contribute to the guarantee of rights. The system is intersectoral in its design and includes a wide range of programmes, including the renowned national cash transfer programme Auxílio Brasil (Former Bolsa Família), benefiting mainly vulnerable families with children. All these programmes are part of Brazil’s national Unified Social Assistance System (Sistema Único de Assistência Social – SUAS) and implemented within the scope of a decentralized management model through cooperation among the three levels of the Brazilian administration (Federal, State and Municipal) and with shared responsibilities. Following a participatory and decentralized model of operations, SUAS structures the organization, management, financing and coordination of social assistance services in Brazil, with the overall objective to guarantee social protection of individuals in situations of vulnerability or at social risk.

The many services that SUAS offers are organized and provided according to different levels of complexity through the operationalization of two essential public facilities at municipal level, namely the Social Assistance Reference Centre (CRAS) and the Specialized Social Assistance Reference Centre (CREAS). While CRAS is the main gateway to SUAS, responsible for the organization and delivery of social protection services for vulnerable families or communities at risk, CREAS offers specialized and continued services to families and individuals at risk or who have had their rights violated (this includes physical, psychological, sexual violence, human trafficking, and legal socio-educational open rehabilitation regime). Apart from the services organized by CRAS and CREAS, and building on the intersectoral build-up of SUAS, both entities also serve as important entry points to other essential services and sectors, including health, education and the judiciary, all of which are part of the Brazilian Child Protection System (Sistema de Garantia de Direitos da Criança e do Adolescente).The important advances that Brazil has witnessed over the last decades, in promoting and protecting the rights of children, adolescents and their families, have gained interest worldwide, especially among countries in the global south that seek to follow suit on such advancements. In line with these developments, Brazil has been expanding its technical Trilateral/South-South Cooperation agenda, so as to share technical knowhow and successfully implemented policies and programmes experiences with other countries.In the interest of tapping into the wealth of development experience, knowledge, skills and resources available in the country, UNICEF has joined efforts with the Government of Brazil, through a partnership with the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), to foster Trilateral South-South Cooperation (TSSC) partnerships with other developing countries. This strategy is based on the premise that a more equitable world for children, adolescents and women is achievable by overcoming capacity gaps through sharing of relevant experiences and policy-related innovations. Although this cooperation has been implemented over the years, in several thematic areas, social protection has been the most prominent, as illustrated in an external evaluation of the Brazil-UNICEF TSSC programme, conducted in 2019. Out of 16 country experiences included in the evaluation, nine were implemented within the realm of social protection.

As part of its conclusions and recommendations, the evaluation of the Brazil-UNICEF TSSC Programme highlighted the importance of evidence generation. Findings stressed that by increasing the pool of evidence on Brazilian policies and programmes, including through the documentation of subnational practices, the TSSC programme can benefit external dissemination across-countries while also promoting exchanges of good practices and lessons learned within Brazil (Lesson Learned Five). One of the evaluation report recommendations was that the TSSC programme should "Enhance the knowledge management component of the Programme" (Recommendation Five). In doing so, the TSSC Programme may have as one of its priorities the development of an evidence generation agenda, based on the mapping and the documentation of good practices, in order to better address its SSC initiatives, focusing on enhancing the Programme´s response capacity. The identification and documentation of the Brazilian good practices, especially at subnational level, may be considered as a reference not only for other countries, but also within Brazil considering the size of the Country, while also, promoting dialogues and exchanges of experience nationally. Thus contributing with advances in the design and implementation of public policies that address the needs of children, adolescents and of their families nationally and internationally.

As part of its mandate, UNICEF supports governments in strengthening their policies and actions, based on evidence and with technical cooperation, so that public institutions at different levels may be able to achieve their goals, especially those referring to advance children and adolescents rights. UNICEF has a long track record of generating knowledge and evidence, including in Brazil, where it works since 1950. This entails a series of strategies that address child rights at national and sub-national levels. One of the main strategies at subnational level is the UNICEF Seal initiative, which is implemented in Brazilian municipalities across the Northeastern region of the country and throughout the Amazon, with cycles of four year periods, focusing on children’s rights such as early childhood development, education, water and sanitation in schools, youth employment, mental health (especially among adolescents), prevention and response to violence and social protection. Likewise, UNICEF Brazil works in large urban centers through the recently launched initiative Agenda Cidade UNICEF, which focuses on addressing and responding to violence among children and adolescents through an intersectoral and multidimensional approach. Apart from these programme strategies, UNICEF Brazil works with the Brazilian Government and other partners to respond to emergencies and humanitarian crises, which includes the migrant flows in the north of Brazil as well as the Covid-19 pandemic.

Given UNICEF’s presence at both national and subnational levels in Brazil and its technical knowhow in the area of child rights, as well as its expertise and focus on data and evidence generation, there is an underlying understanding that UNICEF is well positioned to take a lead in mapping out and documenting good practices at the three levels of Brazil’s Federal system, in different contexts, and that the sharing of such evidence and knowledge internationally and within Brazil can contribute in important ways to advance with the child-rights agenda globally and within the country.To take action, as part of its TSSC strategy, UNICEF is together with ABC developing an evidence generation agenda, that seeks to generate knowledge of Brazil’s good practices, looking at public policies, legal frameworks and programmes at federal (national) level as well as those at the subnational levels. This work is led by the UNICEF Social Policy section in Brasilia and is implemented in close coordination and cooperation with the larger UNICEF team and partners at national and subnational levels.

PurposeTo advance on the above-mentioned evidence generation agenda UNICEF Brazil is seeking to hire a national consultant to lead the process of mapping and documenting Brazilian good practices at federal and subnational levels.The consultancy will draw on the intersectoral nature of Brazil’s social protection system, with the perspective that this system – that can be shared through TSSC projects – is essential not only to guarantee social assistance for Brazilian and migrant and refugees children, adolescents and their families, but also to ensure that other essential human rights of these populations are secured, including the right to education, health and protection. Therefore, the successful candidate needs to be specialized in public policies and have proven expertise within the field of social protection.

The selected national consultant will be working closely with the UNICEF team as well as with four additional consultants, specialized in social protection and hired to identify and map out key experiences within the fields of social protection and child rights at the subnational level. Each of the four consultants will be accountable for one of the following four regions of the country: the Northeast, the Amazon region, the South-East, and Roraima. These regions were defined jointly between the Government and UNICEF as the Country Programme priorities in Brazil, which in turn draw on the understanding that public policies and programmes need to be tailored according to given contexts.

Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Chief of Social Policy, Monitoring & Evaluation and South-South Cooperation, the selected consultant will contribute to UNICEF’s work by:Perform a participatory process of defining the guiding criteria for what a good practice consists of. This work will entail the organization and coordination of a set of interviews and meetings with UNICEF Heads of Progr