Individual National Consultant: Gender Responsive and Disability Inclusive Humanitarian Cash Transfer Consultant, Hanoi, Viet Nam

## Individual National Consultant: Gender Responsive and Disability Inclusive Humanitarian Cash Transfer Consultant, Hanoi, Viet Nam - Organization:UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund Individual National Consultant: Gender Responsive and Disability Inclusive Humanitarian Cash Transfer Consultant, Viet Nam Position type:Consultant Division/Equivalent:Bangkok (EAPRO), Thailand Department/Office:Hanoi, Vietnam Categories:Social Policy UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job - it is a calling. UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package. Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF. Please click the link for further information about UNICEF Viet Nam: https://www.unicef.org/vietnam/ For every child,an opportunity... How can you make a difference? Viet Nam is highly exposed to climate-related shocks, particularly typhoons, floods, landslides and droughts, which increasingly affect vulnerable households, disrupt livelihoods, and threaten children's access to essential services. While Viet Nam has made significant progress in strengthening its social protection system, existing programmes are primarily designed to address chronic vulnerabilities and have limited capacity to rapidly scale up in response to shocks. In recent years, humanitarian cash transfers (HCT) have become an important modality in UNICEF Viet Nam's humanitarian response, providing flexible and dignified assistance to disaster-affected households while generating evidence to inform longer-term shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) development. However, emergency cash assistance in Viet Nam remains relatively limited and is still largely delivered through development and humanitarian partners rather than being systematically integrated into government-led emergency response mechanisms. This highlights the need to document lessons learned and strengthen the evidence, systems and capacities required for the future institutionalization of cash-based approaches. Following Typhoon Yagi in 2024 and subsequent climate-related emergencies in 2025, UNICEF Viet Nam expanded HCT interventions in affected provinces, providing multipurpose cash assistance and cash-plus support linked to nutrition, education and WASH for vulnerable households with children. These responses demonstrated the feasibility of delivering emergency cash assistance through improved targeting, digital beneficiary management, partnerships with financial service providers, monitoring systems and feedback channels. As HCT programming continues to evolve in Viet Nam, ensuring that cash interventions are gender-responsive and disability-inclusive is essential to reach the most vulnerable groups. Women, girls, boys, men and persons with disabilities may face different barriers in accessing assistance, participating in programme processes and benefiting from cash support, and may also experience different protection, safety and accountability risks. The purpose of this assignment is to assess how gender equality and disability inclusion are integrated into humanitarian cash transfer programmes in Viet Nam and to generate evidence-based recommendations, practical guidance and learning products to strengthen future HCT deployment by UNICEF, development partners, CWG members and, where relevant, government counterparts. The assignment will also consider how HCT can be better linked with shock-responsive social protection and other social sector programmes to improve preparedness, response and recovery for vulnerable households with children. The assignment will pursue the following specific objectives: 1. Review the extent to which gender equality and disability inclusion considerations have been incorporated into the design, targeting, delivery mechanisms, communication approaches, accountability systems, monitoring, and evaluation of humanitarian cash transfer programmes. 2. Analyze gender- and disability-related factors affecting access to, participation in and benefits from humanitarian cash assistance among different population groups, including women, men, adolescent girls, adolescent boys, children with disabilities, caregivers, older persons and persons with disabilities. 3. Assess whether humanitarian cash transfer interventions have helped reduce vulnerabilities and respond to the distinct needs and priorities of women, girls, children, and persons with disabilities, while minimizing exclusion and unintended negative consequences. 4. Examine whether key implementation processes - including registration, verification, payment delivery, grievance and feedback mechanisms, and communication channels - are accessible, safe, and inclusive for persons with disabilities and diverse population groups. 5. Document good practices, lessons learned, gaps and opportunities related to gender-responsive and disability-inclusive humanitarian cash transfer programming among CWG members, including links with complementary measures that address the specific needs of women, girls and persons with disabilities. 6. Develop actionable recommendations and practical guidance to strengthen gender equality and disability inclusion in future HCT programme design, implementation, monitoring and scale-up, including preparedness, shock-responsive social protection linkages and coordination with relevant social sector programmes where appropriate. Scope of Work: The consultancy will examine the practical application of gender-responsive and disability-inclusive approaches across selected HCT programmes in Viet Nam, with attention to how programme processes have functioned in practice for women, men, girls, boys, persons with disabilities, caregivers and other vulnerable groups. The work will cover UNICEF-supported emergency cash transfers in Viet Nam and selected HCT experiences of Cash Working Group (CWG) members, including relevant regional or global examples only where they provide practical lessons for Viet Nam. It will focus on the HCT programme cycle, including needs assessment, targeting, registration, verification, payment delivery, communication and community engagement, accountability, monitoring, coordination and learning. The expected outputs will include an inception report, desk review, field mission note, analytical report, validation workshop materials, executive summary and PowerPoint presentation, with findings and recommendations tailored to UNICEF, development partners, CWG members and relevant government counterparts. The consultant will undertake the following tasks: 1. Inception and Document Review - Review relevant documentation on UNICEF- and CWG-supported HCT programmes in Viet Nam, complemented by relevant regional or global HCT experiences where CWG members operate and where these provide useful lessons for Viet Nam. Documentation may include SOPs, data collection tools, programme design documents, beneficiary selection criteria, monitoring and post-distribution monitoring reports, evaluations, after-action reviews, donor reports, lessons learned, accountability to affected populations (AAP) materials, complaints and feedback mechanism reports and other relevant materials. - Review relevant UNICEF and CWG global guidance, policies and standards on gender equality, disability inclusion, humanitarian cash transfers, protection, accountability to affected populations and safe, inclusive programming. -