Summary
Date Posted: 8th January 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time , Currency: Tsh

JOB DETAILS:
Job Number: 519760 | Vacancy Link
Locations: Africa: Tanzania,Uni.Re
Work Type : Consultancy
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.
1. Context and Justification
As part of efforts to strengthen public finance for children, UNICEF and the Ministry of Finance and Planning (MoFP) in both Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar have produced concise Budget Briefs (BBs) for key social sectors since 2016.
In 2018, the second generation of BBs were published with a broader analysis of links between sectoral development policies and public expenditure on social sectors, namely education, health, WASH and HIV/AIDS areas for Mainland and health and education for Zanzibar.
Given the complexity of public finance issues, UNICEF and MoFP are planning to update the existing BBs on a regular basis to better inform the budget process, allocation decisions for social sectors and to improve budget performance. Furthermore, UNICEF and MoFP will develop new BBs for additional sectors that are important for children. In this process, UNICEF and MoFP aim to build the analysis on the recent work, ensuring comparability of data and methodological approach, in addition to filling critical gaps.
Timing the release of Budget Briefs in relation to the budget cycle provides opportunities. For example, publishing Budget Briefs by end September every year will allow for analysing actual spending for the previous fiscal year and analysing the planned budget for the current fiscal year. In addition, it can inform the development of the planning and budgeting guidelines for the upcoming FY. The planning and budgeting guidelines are usually released in October or November. Finally, Budget Briefs released in September can be used to influence the budget discussions in Parliament which usually take place between April and June.
However, the proposed schedule for producing Budget Briefs depends on the timing of release of key fiscal reports and the availability of fiscal data.
This new generation of BBs will be complemented by regional budget analysis with an emphasis on sub-national budgets and expenditure for key social sectors (health, education, and WASH) for which sufficiently robust sub-national financial data are available. An increasing focus on sub-national level spending is relevant as it will highlight public financial management (PFM) challenges that are key to the delivery of services for children.
2. Purpose and key objectives
Overall the assignment for this year will focus on three major objectives:
• Updating the existing 7 BBs based on the budget performance report for FY 2017/18 and the budget projections for FYs 2018/19 and 2019/20 (Mainland: Health, Education, WASH, and HIV/AIDS; Zanzibar: National level as well as Health and Education).
• Developing new BBs for Child Protection (for Mainland) and WASH (for Zanzibar).
• Developing a sub-national Budget Brief for one selected region.

The BBs will be shared with government representatives, MPs, development partners, academia, civil society among others, with the intent of sparking broad public interest and debate around the State Budget and how resources are distributed and spent in social sectors. The proposed briefs on key social sectors that impact children's and women's well-being in both Mainland and Zanzibar have the following three key goals:
• Analyse and monitor budget allocations to sectors that are important for children in the specified fiscal year;
• Assess the efficiency, effectiveness, equity and adequacy of past spending to the extent possible;
• Inform advocacy, budget allocation decisions, and measures to improve budget execution performance, through key messages for policy and financing changes.
• Two consultants, an international and a local expert, will be hired for this assignment. This TOR is developed for a local consultant who will work in close collaboration with the international consultant to produce the deliverables under the overall assignment.

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