If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.
BACKGROUND
The Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM) spearheads UNICEF’s efforts to strengthen the management for results in all aspects of our work, particularly in programming in countries and regions. The Programme Effectiveness Team (PET) in DAPM aims to improve the capabilities of field offices to design evidence based and results-focused programmes, implement effective and efficient interventions, monitor results through periodic trend analysis and real-time basis. The main objective of this consultancy is to update and validate the current geospatial data for each country's administrative boundaries, which are commonly used in UNICEF's internal digital platforms used for planning, engaging and managing programmes. Up to date location data is pertinent for both existing digital tools/systems (in eTools and RAM) as well as successful rollout of newer features (e.g.partner reporting portal) . eTools and RAM are UNICEF internal digital platforms used for Programme implementation planning and management.
Terms of Reference / Deliverables
Over the past two years, the UNICEF Division of Data, Analytics, Planning, and Monitoring (DAPM) has introduced several new tools eTools and RAM, such as the electronic Programme Document (ePD), Partner Reporting Portal (PRP), Field Monitoring (FM), and electronic Work planning (eWP). To effectively utilize these tools, accurate geospatial information is necessary. Currently, up to date and geospatial administrative boundaries are available for only 42 countries mainly located in West Africa, while 94 other countries require updates and validation of their geospatial administrative boundary data.
This consultancy outlines the immediate updates that are required to facilitate the rollout of digital tools for planning and implementation management; focusing on 94 countries that require geospatial data updates:
Confirm the validity of current location data in E-tools with each regional/country office focal person and update the Partners Reporting Platform (PRP) with the established standard.
Update the geolocation data in E-tools and PRP with the established standard (shapefile) if changes have already been requested.
Coordinate with the country office and UN sister agencies to update E-tools and PRP where location data is not fully available.
Deliverables/Outputs: Timeline:
Support gathering, curation, correction, reprojection and management of spatial datasets/ Local geospatial data repositories created and maintained required for UNICEF country and regional offices.
15 Jun 2023 to 15 Sep 2023
Establish, populate, and maintain geospatial data, including technical workflow and procedures for geospatial data management for all UNICEF country offices/ Core geospatial data sets – administrative boundaries - available and used by both corporate systems and individual users.
15 Jun 2023 to 15 Sep 2023
Avail the cleaned-up data to complimentary tools and support the design of geospatial functionality in existing corporate IT systems (e.g, eTools and RAM)/ Create a repository for all cleanup data with standard guidelines for utilization by other tools and code in place to support corporate information systems.
15 Jun 2023 to 15 Sep 2023
Qualifications:
Education
University degree in Business Administration, International Development, Social Sciences, Engineering or similar areas.
Work experience
A minimum of 5 years work experience in GIS
Experience working with subnational administrative boundaries
Familiarity with various data sources for admin boundaries (HDX, UNSALB, GADM, ...)
Understanding of Pcodes and admin identification systems
Experience in working with ArcGIS Desktop / Pro and QGIS is essential (managing attribute tables, validating geometries, converting data in different formats, e.g., shapefile, File Geodatabase, geojson etc)
Basic Python skills (for QGIS / ArcGIS) would be useful
Understanding of coordinate systems (some shapefiles are using different CSs)
