The purpose of the consultancy assignment is to provide technical inputs and coordination support to the sections and BCO management under the supervision of Chief of WASH section for implementation of the strategies and priority actions on urban and climate change during December 2022 to August 2023 in line with the BCO country programme 2022-2026 and the strategic priority (SP)-3 on urban, environment and climate change under UNSDCF.

Urban: consultant will be responsible to coordinate actions in sub-groups (lead by focal point from lead section for each priority action) within the urban task team for collaborative actions towards achieving milestones and priority results set for urban. The urban sub-groups which will be coordinated by the consultant are: i) urban primary health care sub-group lead by health and participated by nutrition, WASH, C4D; ii) birth registration through health systems lead by Child Protection and participated by Health, C4D) iii) child protection sensitive education solutions lead by education and participated by Child Protection, C4D, gender iv) urban sanitation lead by WASH participated by C4D v) Child well-being survey lead by SPEAR participated by programme sections.

Climate Change: The consultant will also be responsible to coordinate actions with climate change task team for i) follow-up actions with relevant agencies and networks in relation to National Adaptation Plan ; ii) coordination for the integration of climate change in teaching-learning materials taking advantage of UNICEF’s involvement in roll-out of new curriculum (lead by Education) iii) identification of one or two more entry points to have collaborative climate change related priority actions through working with sections / climate change task team and PMT.

Representing UNICEF: The same consultant will represent UNICEF Bangladesh with relevant ministries, government and non-government agencies, national platforms / networks (such as, Strategic Priority (SP)-3 group on urban and climate under UNSDCF, Local Consultative Groups), UNICEF focal points and platforms at regional and global level etc.