Consultant: Analysis of the Multiple Privacy of Children Tender, Togo - 25506275

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Country : Togo

Summary : Consultant: Analysis of the Multiple Privacy of Children

Deadline : 17 Aug 2018

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 25506275

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Financier : United Nations Secretariat

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Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND
No 1124, Rue de Tchamba Tokoin Novissi Lome, Tel: +228-22.23.15.00 Fax: 22.21.89.49
Togo
Email :lome@unicef.org
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Tenders are invited for Consultant: Analysis of the Multiple Privacy of Children in Togo by Model N Moda.

UNICEF works in some of the world's toughest places, to reach the world's most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.And we never give up.

Context and justification of the consultation:

Togo is a country with a low level of human development. Its DH Human Development Index is 0.487 and it is ranked 166th out of 188 countries and its multidimensional poverty index is 0.242 according to the "UNDP 2016 Human Development Report." GDP growth averaged 5.4% between 2013 and 2016. [1] Growth has been based on the resumption of international cooperation, but also on economic and financial reforms.

However, despite the good performance of the Togolese economy in recent years, levels of monetary poverty have declined slightly, as shown by the results of the QUIBB surveys. The income poverty affected about 58.7% of the population in 2011, it continues to affect more than half of the Togolese population in 2015 and is 55.1% [2], a slight decrease of 3 points in four years . The relative decline in the proportion of poor individuals did not offset the strong population growth. Also, the number of poor individuals, calculated from INSEED's population estimates and poverty rates, increased by about 4% in Togo between 2011 and 2015, or about 138, 000 additional poor people.

An analysis of poverty by environment shows that poverty is more pronounced in rural areas than in other settings. In 2015, the incidence of poverty is 68.7% in rural areas, while it is 37.9% in other urban areas (excluding Lomé) and 34.8% in Lomé. These figures illustrate the gap that exists between rural areas, where the economy continues to be dominated by subsistence farming that is unproductive and vulnerable to climatic hazards, and coastal urban areas that benefit from better integration into the economy. regional, driven by trade and the export of raw materials.

The analysis of poverty figures by age group shows that the incidence of poverty is much higher among children than among adults. In fact, in 2015, 60.4% of children under 18 live below the poverty line, compared to 64% in 2011. Even though there is a decrease compared to 2011, it should be noted that the incidence of poverty among the children are still above the overall poverty rate of 55.1%.

The poverty figures presented above, however, do not allow us to have an exhaustive view of child poverty, as the latter goes beyond the monetary / consumption aspects raised by the QUIBB, to also touch on the human rights and deprivations that children may suffer.

In order to overcome this gap and sketch a global vision of poverty and vulnerability of children in Togo, an analysis of the multidimensional poverty of children was conducted in 2016, using the Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (MODA) approach [ 1]. It is a child-centered approach to human rights and deprivation, which takes into account the child's life cycle in the analysis of deprivations, which is not only concerned with deprivation individually by the children, but especially to their overlap or cumulation by the same individuals.

This study shows that 84.2% of children aged 0 to 17 years suffer from at least one deprivation in the different areas of their well-being namely nutrition, health, water, sanitation, housing, protection, information, education. Children living in rural areas are the most affected because, while 39% of children living in the city suffer no deprivation, this rate is only 4.6% among children living in rural areas. 29.1% of children living in rural areas are deprived in 02 dimensions while 28.9% are in 03 dimensions. There is a higher deprivation rate for children in the Savanes and Plateaux regions.

UNICEF and the Government wish to update the analysis of the multiple deprivations faced by children in Togo, based on the latest available data on the situation of children including the MICS6 survey and using the N MODA approach.

The activity will (i) generate evidence on multidimensional child poverty in Togo using the Multiple Deprivation Overlap (MODA) analysis for children aged 0-17 years (ii) strengthen the capacity of Government institutions of the Togolese Republic, particularly INSEED, to undertake such studies to increase evidence-based decision-making; (iii) to contribute to the development of evidence-based public policies for children.

General and specific objectives of the project:

The overall objective of the activity is to improve the knowledge of national partners and development actors on the extent of deprivations that affect children and their families and the trends of multidimensional poverty of children and women during recent years, focusing on differences between them, regional disparities and other relevant variations.

Specific objectives

The analysis should take into account Togo's current context and identify temporal and regional variations. It will answer the following main research question: In which areas of their well-being [1] do children suffer from multiple deprivations in Togo? More specifically, it will be:

· Identify deprived children and their characteristics through deprivation domain analysis and multiple deprivation analysis;

· Develop the poverty profile of vulnerable groups and measure the incidence and severity of poverty that affects them;

· Present trends in the evolution of the socio-economic situation of children in Togo in recent years

· Determine the determinants of the main deprivations of children; under which conditions children are more or less deprived in Togo.

Strengthen the research and analytical capacity of INSEED and other Togolese actors and UNICEF in the analysis of multidimensional poverty of children using the MODA approach.

Main tasks to be completed ( estimated time required to complete the tasks Attach other documents, if necessary, to describe the assignments )

· Strengthen the capacity of Togolese government officials and UNICEF in analyzing child poverty using the MODA approach. This task includes:

· The facilitation of a training workshop for the national part including the senior staff of the identified ministries and the technical team that will be set up within INSEED to contribute to the study, the methodology, the tools, analysis and interpretation of data. This training workshop will be divided into two phases:

· Technical training of the participants to enable them to understand the MODA methodology and equip them with tools allowing them to autonomously perform other MODA (02 days)

· Collective training in file analysis, table generation and data interpretation with INSEED executives (04 days)

· Produce a national analytical report (provisional and final version)

· Facilitate the deliverable presentation meetings and present the results and conclusions of the final report of the study to the national results sharing workshop with stakeholders

The consultant should provide a detailed methodology with the following elements very clearly. Analysis of the multiple deprivations of childrenBuilding on previous methodologies of analyzing multidimensional deprivation, the Multiple Deprivation of Children (MODA) analysis is developed by UNICEF to provide a comprehensive view of multi-dimensional poverty and deprivation in children. The MODA methodology takes the child as a unit of analysis and focuses on the well-being of children by recognizing different needs at different stages of their lives. In addition, the analysis includes child deprivations that overlap. This information will be useful for effectively targeting children who experience the greatest number of deprivations. MODA adopts a holistic definition of child well-being, focusing on access to various goods and services that are critical to their survival and development. With monetary / consumption-based approaches, it provides a more complete picture of children's well-being. It recognizes that the experience of child deprivation is multidimensional and interrelated, and that such multiple and overlapping deprivations are more likely to occur, and with more negative effects, in more disadvantaged groups. socioeconomic. The approach and that such multiple and overlapping deprivations are more likely to occur, and with more negative effects, in more socio-economically disadvantaged groups. The approach and that such multiple and overlapping deprivations are more likely to occur, and with more negative effects, in more socio-economically disadvantaged groups. The approach"Whole-child" is at the heart of MODA, emphasizing that the well-being of children can not be compartmentalized into sectors (health, nutrition and education) and that the multiple aspects of children's lives should be placed simultaneously at the center deprivation analysis. '' from Neubourg et al (2012)

MODA has four main characteristics that distinguish it from most other poverty analysis methodologies. 1. MODA focuses on the child as the unit of analysis rather than the household. Children experience deprivation and poverty differently from adults, especially with respect to development needs, which can have lasting effects if they are not satisfied

2. MODA recognizes that children's needs are not homogenous throughout their childhood. For this reason, MODA takes a life-cycle approach that analyzes distinct age groups to reflect the different needs of early childhood, childhood and adolescence.

3. MODA improves knowledge of compartmentalized or sectoral approaches (eg, nutrition, health and education) with overlapping deprivation analysis. This analysis identifies the multiple facets of child poverty that are

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