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UNICEF contributes to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria with a mandate to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF’s Nigeria country programme: Aims to accelerate the realization of the rights of all c...
Job Number: 517977
Location: Abuja
Work Type : Consultancy
Purpose of Assignment
Background
UNICEF Nigeria Country office is implementing the Girls Education Project Phase 3 (GEP3), a DFID-funded multi-year project from 2012 to 2020 aimed at contributing to improved social and economic opportunity for girls in northern Nigeria and supporting 1 million additional girls to go to school. Specifically, the goal of GEP3 is to contribute to more girls in six target states in northern Nigeria (Bauchi, Kano, Katsina, Niger, Sokoto and Zamfara) accessing and completing basic education and acquiring skills for life such as literacy.
As an extension of GEP3 project, UNICEF is also implementing an Educate A Child (EAC) funded multi-year project called "More Out-of-School Children in School to reduce number of out-of-school" children in 4 states northern Nigeria (Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara). GEP3 is implemented through the Federal Ministry of Education, State Ministries of Education and other Implementing Partners (IPs) who have experience in project implementation and monitoring.
Both GEP3 and EAC projects align with the Government of Nigeria as strategic education plan. A GEP3 overall target is achieved through the following program outputs:
Value for Money (VfM) is about striking the best balance between the three E's - economy, efficiency and effectiveness. It is a way of thinking about using resources to maximise results, rather than a specific methodology. In the UK, the National Audit Office has been carrying out value for money reviews on areas of government expenditure since 1990s. The Department for International Development introduced the Value for Money agenda to UK Aid funded programmes in 2010. A DFID's approach to Value for Money is about maximising the impact of each pound spent to improve poor people's lives. This does not mean choosing the cheapest options, but improved measurement and understanding of relative costs and benefits, to achieve the desired results, including quality and sustainability, at the lowest price. Equity is added to reflect the importance of this principle in a development context.
Previously, performance in the development sector has been assessed against how much is spent rather than what funds have achieved. There has been a shift in emphasis away from utilisation of funds towards demonstrating the achievement of measurable results. Value for money builds on the Aid Effectiveness agenda which aims to eliminate duplication and implement cost-effective activities. Existing agendas within aid agencies of transparency and accountability have also advocated for clearer evidence of what money is spent on and what it has achieved.
Developing and embedding a value for money framework is a key donor requirement for DFID funded programmes. UNICEF Nigeria currently has three DFID funded programmes (GEP3, SHAWN2, WINNN) that have been monitoring and reporting VFM, and been assessed on VFM annually, since 2012. UNICEF Nigeria is committed to delivering programmes that are good value for money and have applied the approach, tools and analysis beyond just DFID funded programmes.
As well as improving UNICEF's practice of planning, budgeting, forecasting, monitoring and VFM and financial reporting, VFM analysis (e.g. unit cost analysis and cost effective/cost benefit analysis) is useful for developing other funding applications as well as managing contracts with third parties delivering activities within a programme. In the current GEP3 project, delivering value for money has become critical.
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