Job Responsibilities

• Perform desk review, within the preparatory phase, of the existing documents pertaining to the social and child protection in Montenegro – Strategy on the Development of Social and Child Protection System 2024-2028, Deinstitutionalization Strategy 2024-2028, Roadmap of Social and Child Protection Reform and Social Assistance 2021, Multiple Overlapping Deprivations Analysis (MODA) 2021, microsimulations on UCA effects, etc.
• Perform desk review of relevant international standards and best practices, reports, analyses, data relevant to poverty, adversity, material deprivation, social exclusion and effects of (universal and/or quasi-universal) child allowance on child poverty reduction.
• Provide assistance to the Statistical Office of Montenegro (MONSTAT) in outlining the framework for calculating and reporting quality indicators from Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), with particular emphasis on the child statistics derived from this Survey, focusing on poverty, adversity, social and material deprivation, while ensuring data quality, compliance with the GSBPM (Generic Statistical Business Process Model), and adherence to SIMS (Statistical Information Management Standards). The key quality indicators to be calculated include accuracy, timeliness, coherence, comparability, accessibility.
• In the scope of the assistance to MONSTAT, use the calculation methods with the view of providing detailed formulas and methodologies for each indicator that will follow Eurostat guidelines and the best practices in statistical quality assessment, and prepare a code/script to perform data processing and quality indicator calculations.
• Based on the conducted qualitative analysis of the child statistics on poverty and multiple overlapping deprivations and interviews with the relevant authorities (the line Ministry and CSWs), prepare an Analysis on the Universal Child Allowance Benefits for Children in Montenegro, with the Recommendations on the improvement of the adequacy of the current scheme.
• Prepare the presentation of the Analysis on the Universal Child Allowance Benefits for Children in Montenegro for the internal UNICEF CO Montenegro workshop, including Q&A session.
• Prepare the presentation of the Analysis on the Universal Child Allowance Benefits for Children in Montenegro for the Thematic session on UCA, planned to be organized with the Parliament of Montenegro, with the presence of the representatives of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Family Care and Demography, Centers for Social Welfare and relevant civil sector organizations.