United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Experience: 5 to 10 Years
Apply By: 02-10-2022
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential..
The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes and operations. UNICEF accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Such efforts have made it possible to reduce the prevalence of child stunting by one-third worldwide, and the number of children with stunted growth and development by 70 million, demonstrating that progress for maternal and child nutrition at scale is possible and is happening, across countries and regions.
However, despite this unprecedented progress, the burden of malnutrition remains unsolved, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where one in three children is not growing well because of malnutrition – undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and/or overweight – and two in three children are not fed the minimum diverse diet they need to grow healthy, increasing affecting children in poorer households.
Guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UNICEF Nutrition Strategy 2020-2030 sets forth UNICEF’s vision: a world where all children, adolescents and women realize their right to nutrition. UNICEF’s nutrition programmes aim to prevent child malnutrition in all its forms across the life cycle, and to ensure the early detection and treatment of children suffering from life-threatening malnutrition when prevention efforts fall short.
UNICEF’s Nutrition Strategy calls for a systems approach to improving nutrition outcomes through the implementation of nutrition-specific interventions across five systems: food, health, water and sanitation, education, and social protection. These systems have the greatest potential to deliver on the Strategy’s goal to protect and promote nutritious diets, essential nutrition services, and positive nutrition practices that support optimal nutrition for all children, everywhere.
Faced with a growing food and nutrition crisis globally that is resulting in millions of additional children suffering from severe wasting, food insecurity and food poverty, UNICEF has launched No Time to Waste Acceleration Plan 2022-2023 to scale services for the early prevention, detection and treatment of child wasting in the countries worst affected by the global crisis.
The implementation of this plan will require the expansion of UNICEF’s network of partnerships, and the translation of increasing financial support into results at country, regional and global level. To effectively implement UNICEF’s No Time to Waste Acceleration Plan 2022-2023, the Programme Officer will support the Senior Advisor, Emergency Nutrition in the development, implementation, monitoring and reporting on progress against strategic partnerships with bilateral donors and foundations.
How can you make a difference?
Key responsiblities:
Support partnership development
Support partnership implementation
Support communication and knowledge management
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