Home-based: Child Protection Consultant (36 working days between Feb 2024 and Mar 2025) – Europ[...]

Overview

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. For every child, protection.

Purpose of Activity/Assignment

To develop a white paper on statutory family support services as part of an effective gate-keeping system in Europe and Central Asia Region.

Background

The Convention of the Rights of the Child, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children all recognise that the ideal setting for a child to grow up is within a family environment that provides a nurturing and loving atmosphere. After decades of evidence-based advocacy and policy dialogue, man...