Tenders Are Invited For Consultancy In Depth Analysis Of The Belarus National Survey On People With Disabilities

Tenders Are Invited For Consultancy In Depth Analysis Of The Belarus National Survey On People With Disabilities Minsk Belarus An In Depth Analysis Of The Belarus National Survey On People With Disabilities Minsk BelarusType Of Contract Individual International ConsultancyDuration June 2019 August 20191 Background And Justification As In Other Countries Of Europe And Central Asia Children With Disabilities Constitute One Of The Most Vulnerable And Social Excluded Groups Of Children In Belarus Who Face Multiple Discrimination And Their Families Stigma With BelarusS Ratification Of The Convention Of The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities Crpd In 2016 People With Disabilities Including Children In The Country Have Received Stronger Attention And Many Social And Economic Policies Of Belarus Have Been Reviewed And Amended With Aim To Fulfil Their Rights Tackle Discrimination And Eliminate Disparities However Limited Data And Evidence On The Life Of Children With Disabilities And People With Disabilities In General Has Made It Difficult To Monitor The Effectiveness Of Existing Policies And Programmes And To Understand The Need For Reforms The CountryS Political Commitment To Continue Reducing Imr Rates Drives The Efforts To Increase The Survival Rates Of Children With Extremely Low And Low Birth Weights But In Turn Contributes To Higher Risks Of Children Having Special Education Needs And Or Disabilities At The Same Time Early Identification Of Developmental Risks In Younger Children Also Contributes To The Rising Rate Of Children With Special Education Needs 176 000 Or 9 4 Of All Children As Of Beginning Of 2018 These Factors In Turn Place Higher Demand On The Health Sector To Strengthen Age Appropriate Rehabilitation Interventions And Reconsider The Typical Medical Approach By Introducing Family Centered Services Policy Makers And Specialists Across Sectors Have Faced Difficulties In Utilizing Accurate Data On Disability At The National Level Other Than Sectoral Administrative Data In Which The Definition Of Disability For Children Is Not The Same Available Data On Childhood Disability Cannot Be Used For Reporting On Basic Indicators Such As The Prevalence Of Disability Or Demographic Information Of Children With Disabilities And Their Well Being Simply Because Such Data Is Based On The Medical Model Of Disability Additionally The Available Data Does Not Exist To Assist For Planning And Budgeting That Is Child Centered But Also The Methodology Of How The Data Is Collected And Processed Suggests The Duplication Of Budgeting In Different Sectors It Is Also Important To Note That Previous National Surveys Did Not Include Questions Specifically Designed To Explore Child Functioning Thus The Available Data Cannot Represent The Situation Of Children With Disabilities And The Barriers That Hinder Their Inclusion And Participation Are Also Not Examined To Fill This Considerable Data Gap The National Statistical Committee Of Belarus Belstat And Unicef Belarus Conducted The First Ever National Household Survey On People With Disabilities The Belarus Disability Survey Bds From January 2018 To December 2018 The Bds Is One Of The First National Disability Surveys In Belarus And In The World To Fully Incorporate Both The Washington Group Wg Extended Set Of Disability Questions For Adults And The Unicef Washington Group Child Functioning Module For The Identification Of Persons With Disabilities Via A Survey The Bds Revealed That 20 Of Children With Disabilities Have Intellectual Disabilities Which Is Increasing Being In 2017 The Cause Of Primary Disability For Every Sixth Child 17 Versus In 2011 When Intellectual Disabilities Only Accounted For Every Tenth Primary Disability 10 Adolescents Are Especially Vulnerable With The Proportion Of Adolescents Aged 1517 Years With Mental Illnesses Associated With Stress Being 55 In 2017 Versus 40 In 2014 The Bds Showed That The Majority Of Children And Adolescents With Disabilities Have Access To Healthcare Transportation And Culture Services However For Every Third Respondent 32 Physical Exercise And Sports Are More Likely To Be Partially Or Completely Inaccessible The Main Barriers Are Non Adaptation Of Services To The Physical Capabilities Of Persons With Disabilities Lack Of Information About Services For People With Disabilities And High Prices And Unwillingness Of Staff To Assist Persons With Disabilities In Overcoming Barriers That Prevent Them From Receiving Services On Par With Others The Bds Dataset Is Rich In Content And Comprehensive Enough To Be Mined For Generating New Evidence On Situation Of Children With Disabilities In Belarus As Planned In The Project Between Unicef Belarus And The Ministry Of Health Prevention Of Child Disability And Social Inclusion Of Children With Disability And Special Needs Funded By The Government Of Russian Federation Unicef Belarus Is Now Commissioning A Secondary Data Analysis Of Bds Focusing On The Situation Of Children With Disabilities The Evidence Generated From This Secondary Data Analysis Is Expected To Inform Development And Reform Of Laws Specifically The Code On Education Law On Social Assistance To Persons With Disability And Their Social Integration Upcoming Governmental Programmes For 2021 2025 Policies And Programmes As Well As Monitor The CountryS Progress Toward National Goals Sustainable Development Goals Sdg And International Commitments Toward The Rights Of Children Especially Those With Disabilities As Guided By The Crc Crpd And Other International Documents Such As The Un Guidelines On Alternative Care 2 Purpose The Assignment Is To Generate New Evidence On The Situation Of Children With Disabilities Focusing On Gaps In Access To And Quality Of Services And Meaningful Participation Between Children With Disabilities And Those Without Disabilities Through An In Depth Analysis Of The Bds Dataset The Study Findings Will Be Used To A Strengthen Evidence Based Advocacy For The Rights Of Children With Disabilities B Inform Disability Laws Policy And Programming Including Unicef Belarus Country Programme 2021 2025 And C Assist Belarus In Monitoring The Implementation Of Relevant Sdg Related Outcomes The Crc And The Crpd 3 Key Tasks And Deliverables TasksDeliverablesLocationDays3 1 Design Of An Analysis And Tabulation Plan Statistical Excel Template Outlining Required Indicators Cross Tabulations Correlation And Regression Analysis From The Bds Teleconference With Unicef At The Start Of The Assignment Inception Report Including Work Plan Research Protocol Covering Study Design And Including Data Analysis Plan With Excel Template Outlining Relevant Indicators Disability Prevalence Indicators For Assessing The Well Being Of Cwd School Attendance Health Care Utilization Etc Addressing The Barriers That Cwd Face Cross Tabulations Using Factors That May Interact With Disability Proposed Data Quality Checks Detailed Annotated Outline For The Report The Inception Report Is To Be Sent For External Quality Assurance Review See Annex For Criteria Home Based 7 3 2 Statistical Analysis Of The Survey Micro Datasets To Extract Cross Tabulations And Populate The Template Working Closely With Belstat Specialists To Extract Data Tabulations And Or Direct Analysis Of Datasets In Stata Spss Or Other Statistical Software Package Data Analysis Based On Proposed Study Design With Well Documented Descriptive Statistics And Exploring Relationships Between Key Variables Multivariate Analysis To Inform Potential Interventions Facilitation Of Participatory Workshop Within 10 Days Mission To Belarus With Unicef And Other National Stakeholders Belstat To Interpret Data And Validate FindingsHome Based Within 10 Days Mission To Belarus203 3 3 3 Production Of The Report Including Interpreting The Data Creating Summary Tables And Graphs With Key Results Descriptive Analysis Write Up Of Methodology And Key Messages Drafting Report The Draft Report Is To Be Sent For External Quality Assurance Review Finalizing Report Including Addressing Feedback And Comments Received On Draft Report Stand Alone Executive Summary Policy Brief Drafted 2 Page Infographics And Power Point Presentation Presentation Of The Report And Findings At The Round Table 1 Day For National StakeholdersWithin 10 Days Mission To Belarus8 Total Days Of The Assignment 30 4 Management And ReportingThis Consultancy Is Under The Supervision Of Unicef Belarus Technical Oversight Guidance Will Also Be Provided By Belstat During The Assignment The Selected Consultant Reports Directly To The Ecd Specialist Disability Focal Point Of Unicef Belarus Within Unicef Belarus The Deliverables Will Be Additionally Reviewed By Deputy Representative And Child Rights Monitoring Specialist The Deliverables Will Also Be Reviewed And Endorsed By Specialists Of Belstat 5 TravelIf Unicef Determines That The Contractor Needs To Travel In Order To Perform His Or Her Assignment That Travel Shall Be Specified In The Contract And The ContractorS Travel Costs Shall Be Set Out In The Contract In Cases Where Travel Costs Have Not Been Set Out In The Individual Contract The Consultant And Individual Contractors Are Expected To Submit Within Ten Days Of Completion Of A Specific Travel A Voucher For Reimbursement Of Travel Expenses To The Operations Section Reimbursements Shall Only Be Processed If Travel Was Duly Authorized In The Individual Contract Or By An Authorized Manager Of The Contracting Section In Writing And Prior To The Travel Consultants And Individual Contractors Are Responsible For Assuming Cost

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