Overview
Consultant to develop a comprehensive child protection sector analysis and mainstreaming review for Lebanon. The role supports evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning for children's evolving needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop an inception note outlining methodology, data sources, analytical framework, report structure, stakeholder engagement plan, and workplan.
- Analyze the overall child protection situation, including key risks, vulnerabilities, and contextual drivers, with differentiated impacts by age, gender, disability, nationality, and displacement status.
- Integrate findings from secondary data sources.
- Organize 3 FGDs with children and caregivers and submit a report on outcomes.
- Analyze the extent to which child protection has been mainstreamed across other sectors, identifying good practices, gaps, and challenges.
- Provide practical recommendations to strengthen child protection and mainstreaming.
- Submit a completed first draft report covering situation analysis, FGD outcomes, trends, gaps, response analysis, lessons learned, and unmet needs.
- Include short case studies and success stories from CPWG partners.
- Review sector progress against planned annual targets and indicators, analyzing coverage, reach, and quality of interventions.
- Analyze data extracted from the KOBO platform on the alternative care programme.
- Include an annex on the analysis of data related to the alternative care program in 2025.
- Facilitate the validation process and integrate consolidated feedback.
- Submit the final, edited, and publication-ready Child Protection Analysis Report.
- Submit a Preliminary analysis report of emerging child protection risks and current emergency child protection response.
- Provide input to flash updates, protection snap shots and Sitreps.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in child protection, research, or humanitarian analysis.
- Demonstrate experience in conducting sectoral or thematic analysis reports, evaluations, or situation analyses in humanitarian or development contexts.
- Experience in data analysis and triangulation, including quantitative and qualitative data sources.
- Strong research and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and coordination skills, including engagement with multiple partners.
- Strong coordination and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and validate findings through consultations.
- High level of professionalism, confidentiality, and adherence to ethical research standards.
- Ability to work independently under tight deadlines.
- Familiarity with humanitarian coordination mechanisms and CPWG structures (asset).
- Experience working with UN agencies, NGOs, or government counterparts (asset).
- Familiarity with the Lebanon Response Plan (LRP) or Protection/Child Protection sector coordination architecture (asset).
- Knowledge of CPIMS+, Protection Monitoring systems, or real-time monitoring mechanisms (asset).
Qualifications
• Advanced university degree (master’s or higher) in social sciences, child protection, international development, humanitarian studies, or a related field.
