National Consultancy: Child Friendly Legal Aid Consultant (28 Working Days) - Refugee Response Office (RRO) in Poland

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For every child, the right to justice

Purpose of Activity/Assignment

Child friendly legal support is one of the pillars of access to justice for children. In 2018 UNICEF developed Guidelines on Child-Friendly Legal Aid, setting out 12 guidelines on how to provide child-friendly legal services and legal aid in practice. Continuing its support in this area, UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) has developed a pioneering Training Package on Child-Friendly Legal Services. UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland was established in March 2022, to support families and children displaced by the war in Ukraine and to ensure refugee children have access to essential services, including quality care, health and education. In accordance with the core commitments for children, strengthening child protection systems has been an important part of UNICEFs response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis. UNICEF RRO in Poland has taken measures to address gaps and strengthen the capacity of the national child protection system to respond to the needs of refugee and host community children and to ensure the child rights are in force. One of the important pil