Assignment Description

CZOP (Children as a Zone of Peace National Campaign) started in 2001 and made a loose coalition in 2003. This national campaign is a coalition of organizations working in the field of child rights (Children and schools as zones of peace) including CSOs, INGOs. The National Human Rights Commission and UNICEF Nepal are observer members. It has emerged as a movement that advocates for the protection and promotion of children’s basic rights during and after armedconflicts. The CZOP campaign conceptualized and promoted the idea of children as a zone of peace as a general political agenda among political parties under the child rights and child protection. The campaign is mainly to refrain children from engaging and associating in party-led political movement both armed and unarmed, and to have responsive interventions of support and relief from civil society to the victims/surviving children affected by conflict during the armed conflict period. By the continued lobbying of CZOP and CSOs, major political parties included children are zones of peace and Child protection issues in their election manifestos. Policy and program advocacy is major area of CZOP for Child Protection, especially protection and development.

As previous election, CZOP carried out election campaign initiatives to protect and promote children's rights in the Local election and also in the federal and provincial election 2079. Among the various election campaign-related activities, the manifesto analysis of the election to the House of Representatives, 2082, is one of the major and important activities for making it as reference and record to assess how the political parties are sensitive towards the protection and promotion of child rights. CZOP submitted the appeal and recommendation letters to major political parties physically and all others registered party in election commission through email regarding the rights and issues of children to be incorporated in their election manifestos. In this background, it is important to collect and analyze the published manifestos of major political parties to understand the sensitivity of political parties for protecting and promoting child rights and CZOP requests for an application from an individual consultant for reviewing the manifestos from child rights perspective and prepare a report.

Overall Objective

To collect and analyze the published manifestos of major political parties and develop a comprehensive analytical report from child rights perspective.

Deliverables of the Assignment

Develop a comprehensive report by analyzing the published manifestos of major political parties from child rights perspective.

Specific Task

1. Collecting the manifestoes of major political parties participating in this election.
2. Develop a draft report by analyzing the collected manifestoes of major political parties from child rights perspective and share to CZOP for feedback.
3. Finalization of the report, incorporating all the feedback, and submit to CZOPSpecific

Qualifications

• Academic background in Social Sciences/Political Science/Law/Child Rights, or related field.
• Sound experience in research, policy analysis, or advocacy on child rights and governance.
• Proven experience in child rights monitoring in elections or political processes.
• Strong understanding of the Convention on the Rights of Children and the national child protection policies of Nepal.
• Experience in qualitative analysis and report writing.
• Good command of English and Nepali.

Timeline and Budget

If you are interested to perform above mentioned tasks, please fill in the table (that includes timeline and budget) and submit it to the CZOP-Nepal at [email protected] along with your updated CV and other related documents by February 10, 2026