Child Protection Specialist (Case management and GBV)

Myanmar is second largest country in terms of land area after Indonesia in the South East Asia Region. It has population of over 54 million living across seven States and Seven Regions plus Union Territory, where all central government departments are located. On 1 February 2021, following the Myanmar Military took over a state of emergency was declared. Following the takeover, the security situation in the country worsened, leading to a “Level 2” emergency designation and in keeping with the relevant protocols triggering the activation of cluster system to respond to the worsening humanitarian situation. Increased security measures due to the deteriorating security situation, has led to many-fold increase in internally displaced persons (IDP) to more than 1,703,900 from 328,000 before February 2021. The country has since experienced a protracted humanitarian situation characterised by sub-optimal access to health services, increasing malnutrition due to deteriorating food security situation and worsening protection risks including risks to mine and other explosive remnants of war injuries. Apart from this, education services access has deteriorated, and the COVID-19 pandemic induced restrictions led to an almost continuous nationwide school closure from March 2020. The closures left over 12 million school aged children in Myanmar with limited access to materials for their learning and overall well-being, including education, mental health and psycho-social support and Covid-19 prevention materials. Following the military takeover in February 2021 the humanitarian crisis further worsened, and other dynamics such as an increasingly difficult economic situation continue, high inflation leading to reduced purchasing power of the local currency and access to markets. Generally, this disproportionately affected children and other vulnerable persons’ access to health, nutritious foods, protection, and education services. In this context, the humanitarian wide support needs to be strengthened and this includes information management functions to monitor the situation, evaluate response progress as per the humanitarian response plans targets and activities, promote advocacy and evidence-based program response.