Country: Serbia
Closing date: 29 Jun 2018
Purpose of Activity/Assignment
The Republic of Serbia has made significant progress with respect to defining a child protection framework to prevent violence against children (VAC) since 2000. Despite clear progress made at the policy level and implementation of new policies into practice, there is still evident lack in efficient response to violence, related to insufficient understanding of the “violence phenomena” - in terms of what causes violence and what are the most effective mechanisms to prevent and combat various forms of violence. One of the barriers for more effective response to violence is certainly lack of data on violence, including violence against children, since Serbia still hasn’t developed an integrated and comprehensive data management on victims of violence. The institutions dealing with violence apply different parameters which makes it even harder to analyze available information. Lack in comparability of data on violence provided by different sectors reflects in only basic evidence and guidance for each sector. Hence there are no integrated strategies nor comprehensive interventions when it comes to violence prevention or implementation of protection measures for victims of violence.
The social welfare system in Serbia is therefore in need for a more comprehensive and robust data collection system that would allow greater understanding on the magnitude of the problem in Serbia and be used to generate knowledge on the nature of violence and its consequences. Data collection is essential to inform prevention, identification, reporting, referral, investigation, treatment, judicial involvement and follow up of cases and prevention of re-victimization.
At this moment, the Republic Institute for Social Protection (RISP) as the lead national administrator of the data within social welfare system, is preparing the ground for improving the data collection system in order to be able to measure the incidence of violence, monitor trends and provide a baseline for assessing the needs of services. In addition, the data would help set priorities and allocate the available resources for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of violence as well as feed into evaluating the effectiveness of violence prevention practices and interventions.
The scope of this contract is to provide technical support in upgrading the social welfare data collection system on violence. The contract shall be realized in close coordination with the RISP and will lean to the previously developed framework for the monitoring of the cases of violence.
The purpose of the assignment is to design and develop a functional prototype of the database on violence and therefore support the capacity building of the RISP for sustainable and efficient monitoring of violence which is aligned with national legislation and international standards. Monitoring framework with indicators was previously defined by the RISP as the base ground to feed into the database development (including indicators to monitor professional procedures of social welfare centers and indicators of referring to the service within or outside of the system of social protection).
Work Assignment Overview
The Consultant is responsible for providing technical support through close cooperation with the RISP and under the supervision of UNICEF. RISP will ensure adequate human resources (core team of professionals and consultants) who will directly facilitate all related tasks and regularly closely cooperate with the contractor. RISP team will provide all necessary information to the contractor during the realization of the task. Coordination and cooperation will be conducted through established communication lines.
Under the guidance and the supervision of the RISP focal point with close cooperation with UNICEF ICT unit, the Consultant will perform the following tasks.
Task 1:
Conduct initial consultations with RISP and collect views and needs of RISP in order to obtain and define common set of indicators on violence required by the social welfare system (up to 10 days)
Deliverable 1: Data requirements document - draft algorithm developed with defined set of data (fields/columns) and the procedures (the description of the data used or generated, the details how the data is to be used or generated, any additional requirements for the new database system)
Time frame: 1 month (15 July – 15 August 2018)
Task 2:
Design of the violence database/system specification in collaboration with RISP (up to 25 days)
Deliverable 2: A detailed specification of a logical schema; design documents and a detailed description of how a system should be constructed
Time frame: Month and a half (15 August – 30 September 2018)
Task 3:
Develop software application (up to 20 days)
Deliverable 3: Software application developed
Time frame: 1 month (1 – 31 October 2018)
Task 4:
Monitoring and assessment of piloting of software application and providing technical assistance in finalization of the functional prototype (up to 20 days)
Deliverable 4: Acceptance report; Instructions for end users on site content management and maintenance;Final revised e-application functional prototype; Documentation (the database schema, user manuals and the source code of the complete software solution – both database and CMS module) on the software application content management, administration and maintenance submitted and accepted; Presentation and demonstration on usage of database delivered
Time frame: Month and a half (1 November – 15 December 2018)
Additional requirements
During contract duration, consultant should provide own hosting service for the database testing and development. Once stable and definitive version of the database is created – it will be transferred to RISP web hosting services by contractor in close coordination with ICT Unit.
Warranty period of 12 (twelve) months (starting from the “go-live” date) during which maintenance and database design fine-tuning and regular operation will be available at no additional cost. In the same period the selected consultant will provide and install free of charge all mandatory software updates and security patches of the technology developed and used.
Technology and software used for development of database must be fully based on open-source code and should be aligned with the overall ICT strategy of UNICEF.
Minimum qualifications required
Important note:
The application must include a financial proposal containing the Daily rate in RSD (all costs to be included e.g. health insurance, pension, usage of mobile phone).
Incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities to apply.
How to apply:
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=513782