As the lead agency on human rights and law within the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), UNDP supports countries to create an enabling human rights environment, promote gender equality, and address HIV-related stigma and discrimination. To promote and advocate for human rights based approaches, UNDP supports initiatives to promote access to justice, legislative review and reform, and enforcement of protective laws and anti-stigma initiatives. Within the UNAIDS Division of Labour, UNDP is the convenor of the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Working group on “Punitive laws and human rights” and the co-convenor of the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Working Group on “key populations.” UNDP also participates in the UNAIDS Reference Group on Human Rights, and the Global Fund Reference Group on Human Rights.
In 2010, UNDP served as the secretariat to a high-level Global Commission on HIV and the Law to interrogate the relationship between legal responses, human rights and HIV. The Commission completed its work in July 2012, with the release of its final report ‘HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights & Health’. Commission follow-up activities, led by UNDP as the secretariat of the Global Commission, in collaboration with UN and civil society partners at global, regional and country level have taken place in at least 84 countries. These activities include normative policy/tools development work and technical and policy/advisory support for legislative reviews, national dialogues and action planning for law reform, judicial and parliamentary sensitization, and access to justice programming.
Consequently, UNDP’s HIV, Health & Development Group is recruiting a human rights consultant to support UNDP’s work on HIV, Human Rights and the Law in general, including supporting the work of the Global Commission on HIV and the law. The objective of this consultancy is to provide research, analytical, and writing support to the Governance and Human Rights Cluster across this broad and emerging work. This consultancy will focus on supporting the work of enabling legal environments in response to HIV.
Please send your applications to hhd@undp.org specifying in the subject line the consultancy number and title you are applying to.
Please provide the following document in separate files:
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Please include an updated P11 or CV;
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Please provide an all-inclusive daily rate or rate mentioned in the Offeror’s letter to UNDP. To download the Offeror Letter and email to hhd@undp.org specifying the post number and title you are applying to; and
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Please also provide a recent and relevant writing sample where you have been the lead author.
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