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For every child, the right to Education

The PROSPECTS Partnership is a global initiative, funded by the Government of the Netherlands and implemented by IFC, ILO, UNHCR, UNICEF, and the World Bank. It seeks to improve the well-being, self-reliance, and resilience of forcibly displaced populations and host communities, including children and young people, through an integrated program and multi-agency approach.

In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, UNICEF has been a core implementing partner since 2019, with country programs in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Egypt. One of the central pillars of this partnership is Learning to Earning (L2E) (Pillar 1: Learning and Skills), which focuses on strengthening learning, pathways from relevant education to skills development, employability, and sustainable livelihoods for adolescents and young people from refugee and host communities, including foundational learning.

Between 2021 and 2025, UNICEF country offices in the four countries have undertaken a range of interventions under this pillar, including:

• Expanding access to foundational and transferable skills, vocational training, and job-readiness programmes.
• Supporting national Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) reforms.
• Promoting life skills, digital skills, entrepreneurship, and green skills.
• Establishing innovative approaches such as job search clubs, career guidance, and social innovation initiatives.

Given the diversity of interventions across countries and the conclusion of Phase II (2024–2027) of PROSPECTS, UNICEF MENA Regional Office ADAP and Education Sections seek to document lessons learned, achievements, challenges, and good practices of its L2E programming in the first implementation phase (2021–2025) and synthesize findings into a regional report.

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The PROSPECTS Programme, funded by the Dutch Government, is a multi-year initiative aimed at improving the living conditions of forcibly displaced persons and their host communities. Launched in 2019, it brings together several international organizations, including the UNHCR, UNICEF, ILO, IFC, and the World Bank, to implement its goals across eight countries in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as the East and Horn of Africa.  PROSPECTS operationalizes the humanitarian-development-peace nexus by fostering collaboration among humanitarian and development actors. This approach aims to enhance coordination, efficiency, and impact in addressing the challenges faced by displaced populations and host communities.

The purpose of this consultancy is to document UNICEF’s implementation of the PROSPECTS Partnership Pillar 1: Learning to Earning in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Egypt during 2021–2025, and to produce a comprehensive regional report that captures:

Country-level results, approaches, and innovations; results of regional interventions.

Cross-country lessons learned and good practices.

Challenges, gaps, and enabling factors for sustainability.

Policy and programmatic recommendations for Phase II (2024–2027).

The scope and deliverables of the assignment include, but not limited to, the following:

The consultant will:

1. Desk Review

• Review UNICEF country office reports, monitoring data, evaluations, MEL reports, and knowledge products related to PROSPECTS Pillar 1 (L2E).
• Examine relevant regional and global PROSPECTS documentation, including donor reports.

• Conduct interviews and focus group discussions (remotely or in-person) with UNICEF staff, government counterparts, implementing partners, adolescents and young people, and other PROSPECTS agencies.
• Document country-level interventions, outputs, and outcomes.
• Document regional-level results, including advocacy and program activities, partnership with other agencies, capacity-building, policy dialogue, and knowledge sharing.
• Identify innovations, challenges, and success stories.
• Compare and contrast experiences across Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Egypt, as well as the results of regional interventions.
• Identify regional trends, patterns, and lessons learned.
• Highlight opportunities for scaling, replication, and cross-country learning.

• Prepare four country documentation briefs (max 10 pages each).
• Draft and finalize a Regional Report ( max 20pages) synthesizing findings, lessons learned, and recommendations, including an executive summary and presentation slides covering the whole report for dissemination.

• The consultant will be managed by the MENARO Education Specialist in collaboration with Adolescent Programme Specialist.