Research Consultant (Intergenerational Governance), OSE, UNICEF Innocenti, 13.5 months, Florence, Italy (Remote) #593501

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The purpose of this consultancy is to support UNICEF Innocenti’s comparative research on formal youth governance mechanisms in national and multilateral arenas, contributing to the learning, documentation, and synthesis agenda connected to the Leading Minds Fellowship on Climate Education.

The Research Consultant will provide analytical, research, coordination, and synthesis support across the study’s components, including comparative analysis, pathway tracing, and thematic research examining how children’s, adolescents’, and young people’s priorities are articulated, mediated, and taken up within public decision-making systems. This will include attention to youth-led climate education initiatives emerging through the Leading Minds Fellowship as a practical entry point for understanding how youth participation, evidence generation, and intergenerational governance operate in relation to a concrete policy and systems-change agenda.

Building on the initial phase of global mapping and typology development, the consultancy will contribute to a deeper analytical phase focused on understanding how participation translates into meaningful influence, and under what conditions youth inputs are taken up, reshaped, or excluded from decision-making processes. The work will examine the design, resourcing, and functioning of youth participation mechanisms alongside the institutional response pathways that determine whether and how youth priorities acquire weight in policy, budgeting, and governance outcomes.

The consultancy will contribute to strengthening UNICEF’s evidence base on meaningful child and youth participation and intergenerational governance, with particular emphasis on young people aged 10–24, Global South contexts,...