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Public Finance Management and Social Policy for better outcomes for children in countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States
Start Date:
December 2009
End Date:
November 2010
Country:
Multi-country
Client:
UNICEF
Funder:
UNICEF
Project Information
The UNICEF Regional Office (Geneva) has identified five focus areas for work with the Armenia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Tajikistan, Turkey and Ukraine Country Offices:
- monitoring of the financial crisis and implications for child well being;
- social protection initiatives with a particular child poverty focus, including family based systems modelling;
- policy-based budgeting and resource allocation with regard to social sectors for better child outcomes;
- cost/benefit analysis and costing of minimum packages of services for children initiatives in budget monitoring; and,
- civil society engagement for upholding child rights.
Within these focus areas, the consultancy aims to address the particular challenges related to supporting Country Offices through: common strategy development for each focus area, technical support, quality assurance, and monitoring of activities; distilling and synthesising emerging lessons and experience from the region; and, providing feedback and advice to the Regional Office to continue to refine the 'critical mass' regional strategy.
The objectives are to develop a set of country-specific strategic frameworks that will help Country Offices in implementing programme interventions in each critical mass focus area, through their partnerships with governments, development partners and civil society. This work will also contribute to the development of knowledge on these areas of interest to UNICEF globally. OPM will provide tailored and on-demand support for the Country Offices through the sharing of best practices, provide support and quality assurance of country-level interventions, and facilitate critical mass workshops and meetings to help Country Offices and the Regional Office benefit from the exchange of good practices and lessons learnt.
The objectives are to develop a set of country-specific strategic frameworks that will help Country Offices in implementing programme interventions in each critical mass focus area, through their partnerships with governments, development partners and civil society. This work will also contribute to the development of knowledge on these areas of interest to UNICEF globally. OPM will provide tailored and on-demand support for the Country Offices through the sharing of best practices, provide support and quality assurance of country-level interventions, and facilitate critical mass workshops and meetings to help Country Offices and the Regional Office benefit from the exchange of good practices and lessons learnt.