Research
UNICEF Palestine Disability Situation Analysis Delivered in a Three-Week Recovery Window
For a UNICEF disability assignment in Palestine, I worked for a primary contractor to rebuild the evidence workflow, structure qualitative material into a usable database, and help complete the final draft report in a compressed delivery window. The work covered evidence extraction, coding, service-access tracking, theory-of-change alignment, synthesis, recommendations, and report drafting for a rights-based situation analysis focused on children and young people with disabilities in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.
Primary contractor
A structured qualitative evidence database, AI-assisted evidence workflow, recommendation matrix, and UNICEF-ready draft report on access to essential services for children and young people with disabilities in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.
Commercial result
Built the evidence system and completed a UNICEF-ready situation analysis draft within three weeks on a project that was already behind schedule.
Project overview
What the project was solving
A primary contractor on a UNICEF assignment in Palestine needed to recover a delayed disability situation analysis and deliver a credible final draft fast. The work had to turn scattered qualitative material into a usable evidence base and a report-ready structure within a three-week window.
For a UNICEF disability assignment in Palestine, I worked for a primary contractor to rebuild the evidence workflow, structure qualitative material into a usable database, and help complete the final draft report in a compressed delivery window. The work covered evidence extraction, coding, service-access tracking, theory-of-change alignment, synthesis, recommendations, and report drafting for a rights-based situation analysis focused on children and young people with disabilities in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.
The project ran in the last two weeks of February and the first week of March 2026. The final draft report is a UNICEF situation assessment on access to essential services for children and young people with disabilities in Gaza and the West Bank in the State of Palestine, dated 8 March 2026. The report follows a rights-based structure with chapters on methods, context, legal and policy frameworks, sector services, coordination, governance, cross-cutting issues, analysis, lessons learnt, recommendations, and annexes.
The assignment had very little time left and the raw material could not stay scattered across interviews, notes, spreadsheets, and draft sections. The team needed a fast way to retrieve evidence by geography, respondent type, service area, and theory-of-change theme while keeping a clear line from source material to findings and recommendations. The work also had to meet UNICEF expectations on methodology, ethics, safeguarding, limitations, and evidence-linked recommendations.
Scope and delivery
What needed to happen and what was built to support it
A structured qualitative evidence database, AI-assisted evidence workflow, recommendation matrix, and UNICEF-ready draft report on access to essential services for children and young people with disabilities in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.
What needed to happen
- A clear evidence structure that could turn raw qualitative material into report-ready records fast
- A way to compare lived experience, service issues, and system-level findings across Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem
- A traceable workflow linking quotes, coded issues, theory-of-change themes, and report sections
- Drafting support that could move analysis and writing at the same time instead of waiting for full manual review
- Recommendations and action points grounded in coded evidence rather than loose notes
What I built or delivered
- A structured qualitative evidence database with linked source, participant, coded evidence, service-access, quote, and theory-of-change layers
- AI-assisted organisation and retrieval support for faster review and drafting
- Evidence extraction and synthesis across interview, focus group, key informant, and desk-review material
- Drafted and shaped report sections in line with UNICEF report logic
- Recommendation support and action-planning inputs tied back to the evidence base
- A workflow that let the team draft from organised evidence rather than raw transcripts
Execution
How the work moved from raw inputs to a usable output
The assignment had very little time left and the raw material could not stay scattered across interviews, notes, spreadsheets, and draft sections. The team needed a fast way to retrieve evidence by geography, respondent type, service area, and theory-of-change theme while keeping a clear line from source material to findings and recommendations. The work also had to meet UNICEF expectations on methodology, ethics, safeguarding, limitations, and evidence-linked recommendations.
Process
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Collected and organised raw material into one working evidence base instead of separate files and notes
- 02
Broke qualitative material into coded records that could be filtered by service area, geography, respondent group, and issue type
- 03
Linked quotes and excerpts to service-access patterns and theory-of-change themes for traceable use in drafting
- 04
Built retrieval paths that reduced repeated transcript reading and manual searching
- 05
Synthesised the coded material into chapter-ready findings, comparisons, and recommendation inputs
- 06
Worked in parallel on evidence handling and report writing so the final draft could be completed inside the recovery window
Outputs
- Qualitative evidence database with 59 source records
- Structured analysis sheets for adolescents, caregivers, KIIs, service access, quotes, and theory-of-change evidence
- 494 service-access entries
- 924 coded quotes and excerpts
- 651 theory-of-change evidence entries
- UNICEF draft report dated 8 March 2026
- Recommendation matrix and action-planning material
Outcome and impact
What changed and what the work made possible
Built the evidence system and completed a UNICEF-ready situation analysis draft within three weeks on a project that was already behind schedule.
Commercial result
- Recovered a delayed project and got it back into a workable delivery rhythm
- Made evidence retrieval far faster for drafting and review
- Reduced repeated manual reading of transcripts and notes
- Gave the contractor a clearer line from source material to findings and recommendations
- Made a credible UNICEF-ready draft feasible inside a three-week turnaround
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