The social policy programming includes public finance for children, child poverty, and social protection for children. UNICEF South Africa has worked and continues to work with suitable civil society partners to advance the realisation of children's and adults' socio-economic rights through the budget process and the annual budgets. In 2023, one of the initiatives that were jointly identified with civil society partners is the development of children's capacity (15 - 17year olds) to participate in the national and provincial budget processes. This will require UNICEF South Africa to host a training workshop with children around various public budgets through the support of a qualified Consultant to support that process by working with UNICEF South Africa and a core group of civil society organisations specializing in child rights. This is an output of public finance for children in the AWP, which also contributes to the child rights advocacy work which seeks to provide strengthened platforms and space for children and champions of children's rights to actively participate in the national budget and budget policy framework.
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Under the supervision of the Social Policy Manager, the consultant will prepare for and conduct a workshop for children between ages of 15 and 17, aiming to increase their participation in open budgets at both national and provincial levels, and engaging them on budget issues, to ensure that their ideas on resource-allocation decisions can be heard directly in shaping budget preparation and execution decisions that affect them.
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Specific tasks/activities and issues to be addressed under this assignment:
a) Support UNICEF South Africa and its social partners in preparing child participants for the budget workshop in September 2023.
This requires a presentation to the UNICEF country team and its CSO partners about the methods to be used, the kind of advanced preparation that must be done to ensure a fruitful workshop, the measures put into place to safeguard the well-being and safety of participating children between the ages of 15-17 years old, and a timeline of key milestones.
b) Finalise the scope and the objectives of the workshop with UNICEF South Africa and its social partners.
The Consultant is required to produce an inception report detailing the areas of the public budget that will be engaged, how this will be done, and whether provincial and national budgets will be used. Indication must also be provided on how the training will map onto a set of definable child-relevant outputs and outcomes that UNICEF South Africa and its social partners can track and report on.
c) Prepare child-friendly training materials to be used in the budget training workshop in September 2023.
The Consultant is required to submit these materials at least one month before the actual workshop training programme so that they can be subjected to external scrutiny by UNICEF South Africa and its social partners. This is a fundamental part of the work as it is not only relevant for the planned workshops, but for subsequent provincial workshops planned for in 2024 and beyond.
d) Facilitation of a workshop over two days.
The consultant is required to facilitate a 2-day workshop with children and mentors in person. This is part of the fundamental work aiming to build the knowledge and capacity of young people around various socio-economic rights in the Constitution and what they mean across the country, as well as capacitate and empower them on how to use processes within government and Parliament to effectively contribute their ideas on the budget policy framework. It will further provide the foundation for the mentors to provide support to the young people.
e) Post-workshop debriefing and discussion with UNICEF South Africa and social partners.
The Consultant will present key observations in terms of challenges and opportunities that were encountered and how a follow-up workshop should have these challenges addressed and opportunities reinforced. The meeting will be used
- The Consultant will report to UNICEF, however, expected to make presentations to the core group made up of UNICEF and CSO partners on UNICEF's instruction. The consultant will further train children during a 2-day workshop with mentors in person.
The outputs and deliverables that are to be produced which will contribute to the objectives stated in the AWP are as follows:
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