Sectors and Areas of Specialization

• Cross Sectoral Areas
  • Engaging men and boys
  • Gender equality and women empowerment
• Education
  • Skills development for adolescents
• Protection
  • Child protection
  • Gender based violence

Key Elements

• Key elements of UNICEF's strategy include:
  • Community-Based Approach: Strengthening community-based child protection mechanisms and empowering local actors to prevent recruitment and support reintegration.
  • Gender-Responsive Programming: Addressing the specific needs and vulnerabilities of girls and boys affected by conflict, ensuring equitable access to services and opportunities.
  • Learning to Earning: Supporting young people in gaining foundational life skills, knowledge, and technical skills needed to transition from formal and non-formal education into decent work and sustainable livelihoods.
  • Back to Learning Opportunities: Supporting out-of-school CAAFAG to return to learning and acquire foundational literacy and numeracy and life skills through their participation in Catch-up Classes, Accelerated Education or remedial classes Programmes (digital, face-to-face or blended, offered in or out of school), aimed at reintegration into further education (through formal or non-formal general or technical/vocational education), or engage in meaningful job experience (internships, job placements, etc.).
  • Child and Adolescent Participation: Ensuring that young people have the platforms, support, and agency to influence the decisions that affect their lives, communities, and futures.
  • Collaboration and Coordination: Working in close partnership with government ministries, civil society organizations, UN agencies, and international donors to ensure a coordinated and comprehensive response.
  • Evidence-Based Decision-Making: Utilizing data from monitoring and reporting mechanisms to inform program design and implementation, adapting strategies as needed.
  • Focusing on Sustainability: Improving social cohesion and community resilience to ensure sustained peace and reintegration.
  • Prevention of Child Recruitment: working with the community, mainly youth on the prevention of child recruitment

Geographic Location

• Mozambique
  • Cabo Delgado Province

Eligible Activities

• Key activities:
  • Tailored Reintegration support to a CAAFAG
  • Opportunities to engage in learning targeting CAAFAG adolescents and others most vulnerable (including the use of digital solutions) to ensure foundational, life (including employability skills) that facilitates their return to (formal) education and/or earning opportunities.
  • Vocational training and apprenticeships
  • Technical support to local authorities for them to offer flexible education programmes to out-of-school CAAFAG
  • Community Child Protection Commitee (CCPC) reactivation and support to creating protection prevention strategies
  • Community dialogues with adolescents and community leaders including women
  • Group MHPSS support (focused girl’s sessions, boy’s sessions, parenting sessions)
  • Individual MHPSS support
  • Capacity building training to social workers, teachers, and justice workers
  • Case management for sexual violence
  • Data collection methodology
  • Mobile courts

Eligibility Criteria

• CSO must have:
  • Expertise and proven track record of working in the conflict settings
  • Experience or knowledge of working with CAAFAG and 6 grave violations
  • Experience in child protection, community mobilization and/or youth empowerment/participation
  • Experience in analyzing gender needs
  • Experience in organizing and delivering (non-formal) education, technical and life skills development activities as well as vocational skills and apprenticeships
  • Presence in the Province of Intervention, local experience and community relations, desirable office in zones of intervention
  • Proven track record of working with the government
  • Implementation, administrative and financial capacity in reporting and budget management
  • Confirm staff including data officer, monitoring evaluating, accountability and learning staff, finance officer
  • Experienced staff in the areas covered by the project within the CSO.

Ineligibility Criteria

• CSO submission which:
  • are not sent to UNICEF before the specified deadline
  • do not include all required documents duly completed and signed or do not comply with specifications set in this Call for Concept note do not adhere to the Concept Note template’s guidance, including maximum word limits.

For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.

https://www.unpartnerportal.org/landing/opportunities/