Closing date: Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Job no: 494550
Work type: Consultancy
Location: Lesotho
Categories: Social and Economic Policy, Consultancy
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Background
To establish a comprehensive and integrated Social Protection System, and to improve coordination between existing social protection interventions, the Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho has decided to institutionalize a National Information System for Social Assistance (NISSA). The development of a national registry in Lesotho will create a single database in which information on all potential households and individuals eligible for social protection interventions is securely stored. The information can be used to (pro-poor) target beneficiaries of several social safety nets, to support the management and linkages of social protection programmes, and to conduct research on beneficiaries' needs or other social aspects. This NISSA improves time and cost efficiency, as well as ease the implementation of existing and future programming of social expenditure.
Currently, NISSA is administered and managed by a selected unit in the Ministry of Social Development (MOSD). In partnership with World Vision Lesotho (WVL) a door-to-door census-based survey approach is applied to collect information from households in an interview-style. Based on village and household lists confirmed by the local government and village chiefs, up to 250 enumerators are hired to conduct interviews covering all households in the selected areas. For the data collection, Mobile Research Technology (MTR) is used, which automatically uploads all collected information into the NISSA server.
Up to now, NISSA data collection has been aligned to the expansion of the Child Grants Programme (CGP). During the pilot phase 2008 to 2011 up to 40,000 households, in 21 community councils in 5 of 10 districts, have been registered into NISSA. Since 2012, information of additional 65,000 households, in 28 councils in all 10 districts, has been entered into NISSA. Currently, NISSA contains socio-economic information of 100,000 households, with more than 560,000 household members, including approx. 260,000 children, in 49 community councils in all districts of Lesotho.
