South Sudan: International Consultant for State of Adolescents and Youth Report for UNFPA South Sudan

This is a qualitative study into state of adolescents and youth in South Sudan. It will use qualitative methods, including but not limited to:

• Document reviews – review secondary data sources on issues of adolescents and youth. This will involve review of global, continental and regional commitments as well as national and state level documents in specific areas for youth development. These may include: South Sudan Development Plan, South Sudan vision 2040, Draft Youth Development Plan & Strategy, and other sectoral policies, plans and reports, administrative data/statistics. The review will also cover any studies and research conducted on adolescents and youth in South Sudan.
• Consultative Meeting with Groups of Youth – Consultative meeting will be held with groups of youth in Greater Upper Nile; the Equatoria and Bar-el-Ghazal; and in Juba for cosmopolitan groups. These consultative meetings will validate some of the findings as well as generate aspirations, dreams and priorities for your people.
• Key Informant interviews - Conduct key informant interviews with policy and decision makers in relevant youth sectors, religious and traditional/cultural leaders and youth leaders themselves.
• Validation workshop - this will be done with mixture of youth, policy and decision makers, services providers, etc.

Applicants are kindly requested to send their application to ssco.vacancies@unfpa.org by COB 16 July 2018. Applications received after this date will not be taken into consideration. All applications should be cleared marked with Subject Line “**State of Adolescents and Youth Report for UNFPA** South Sudan (International Post)”.

Applicants will be short-listed on the basis of their qualifications and work experience. Only the short-listed candidates will be invited for interviews.

IMPORTANT: There is NO application processing or other fee at any stage of UNFPA application processes.