Pilot Youth-Family Reflective Dialogue, Parent Circles and Storytelling under the Culture of Care Initiative

BACKGROUND

UNICEF Jamaica is supporting the development of a broader Culture of Care social and behaviour change approach to promote positive parenting and contribute to the reduction and elimination of corporal punishment in all settings. The approach places particular emphasis on the home and community and uses facilitated reflective dialogue as a key mechanism for helping caregivers and other community actors explore their own experiences, reduce defensiveness, build confidence and commit to realistic changes in practice.

Within this wider framework, UNICEF intends to pilot a time-bound youth and family engagement model in two communities. The pilot will combine two four-session Parent Circle series with a separately facilitated, consent-based intergenerational dialogue and a modest package of public-facing media content. The purpose is to test feasibility and participant experience, strengthen the youth and future-parent dimension of the Culture of Care approach, and generate reusable advocacy content and implementation learning for possible future expansion.

The contracted institution will provide community and youth engagement, group facilitation, process documentation, ethical media participation procedures, production, community screenings, dissemination and reporting. The institution will work under UNICEF oversight and in close coordination with the SBC Consultant and other partners.

SCOPE OF WORK

Under the overall guidance of UNICEF Jamaica, the institutional contractor will design and implement the operational, youth-engagement, documentation and media components of the pilot. Details of expected tasks and deliverables are included in the attached TOR.

SUBMISSION

To apply, submit the Technical Proposal and Financial Proposal separately in PDF Format only via email to: [contact details removed]

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