| Overview : BACKGROUND / PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has corporate responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. BPPS’s staff provides technical advice to Country Offices; advocates UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government and civil society dialogue initiatives, South-South and Triangular co-operation initiatives and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. BPPS works closely with UNDP’s Crisis Response Unit (CRU) to support emergency and crisis response. BPPS assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. BPPS supports UNDP and partners to provide high quality, technical support to UNDP Country offices for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programme support activities. ... SCOPE OF THE WORK a. LEAs in Two Countries: The assessment will include the following: - Identifying and collecting relevant policies, legal and research documents for literature review
- Identifying key stakeholders to be consulted
- Reviewing all available documents on international, regional and national human rights obligations, particularly those relevant to HIV and AIDS
- Reviewing all relevant national laws and policies, including laws that impact on vulnerable and key populations as well as recent and ongoing law reform initiatives and proposals
- Reviewing all relevant national public health – related policies and recent and ongoing law reform initiatives and proposals in relation to their impact on vulnerable and most at risk populations
- Reviewing access to justice including institutional frameworks for access to justice and law enforcement in relation to health services with particular attention to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and care.
- Assessing the current legal, regulatory and policy environment in terms of the extent to which it is conducive to HIV and AIDS national response
- Identifying protective laws, regulations, policies and programmes, which support human rights and access to health services within the context of HIV and AIDS
- Identifying punitive laws and prohibitive policies which pose barriers to human rights and access to health services within the context of HIV and AIDS
- Identifying gaps and weaknesses in the current legal, regulatory and policy frameworks for HIV prevention, AIDS treatment and care and impact mitigation.
- Compiling recommendations for public health –related legal and policy environment, law review and reform, strengthening access to justice as well as ensuring enforcement of rights, and creation of an effective response to HIV and AIDS
Duties and Responsibilities: As per ToR in LEA Guidance, and based on experience of conducting LEAs in 10 African countries, in addition to National Consultants based in each country, the LEA requires an experienced regional consultant to provide guidance, training and support the LEA process. Under the overall supervision of the UNDP PMT, the Regional Consultant will provide technical support to the National Consultants to: - Conduct 2 LEAs as per the guidance
- Develop an inception report
- Complete a desk review assessment of the legal environment;
- Carry out interviews with key stakeholders and
- Draft the report and present it to the national SC; and
- Finalize the report.
b. African Key Population Experts’ Meeting: The assignment will include the consultant developing background materials, concept and agenda for the meetings which are held over 3 days for 50 people. The consultant will facilitate the meetings, prepare draft report and finalize the report, along with the co-facilitator. Duties and Responsibilities: Under the overall supervision of the UNDP PMT, the Expert Consultant will: c. Develop background materials, concept and agenda d. Facilitate the meetings e. Prepare draft report f. Finalize the report QUALIFICATIONS OF THE CONSULTANT a. Academic Qualifications: - Advanced University degree in Law or any of the Social Sciences
b. Years of experience: - Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience is required
c. Functional Competencies: - Expert knowledge of human rights, health and the law
- Experience of conducting assessments
- Experience of providing technical assistance to colleagues at national level
- Ability to research and write at a high level
d. Core Competencies: - Ability to produce high quality outputs in a timely manner while understanding and anticipating the evolving client needs.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently, produce high quality outputs.
- Sound judgment, strategic thinking and the ability to manage competing priorities.
e. Language and other skills: - Excellent written and spoken English.
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, ERP etc)
f. Compliance of the UN Core Values: - Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards
- Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
- Treats all people fairly without favouritism;
- Fulfils all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTION: - Strictly follow the instructions indicated in the IC Proposal Submission Form uploaded hereto.
- Group of Individuals and/or Firms are not eligible for this consultancy assignment (open only for individual consultant).
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED: The following proposals must be prepared as per the IC Proposal Submission Instructions. The Proposals shall be submitted before application deadline February 15, 2015 via UNDP Ethiopia Secured mail address: procurement.et@undp.org - Technical Proposal in pdf under file name: RSC-IC-2015-001 – TP - [insert your name]
- Financial Proposal in pdf under file name:: RSC-IC-2015-001 – FP - [insert your name]
Please note that these proposals shall be submitted to the designated secured email into two files but in one email unless both Files are Greater than 9MB file size IMPORTANT NOTE: - Failing to submit anyone of the documents stated above will automatically disqualify the candidate from further technical evaluation;
- Those prospect consultants who fail to submit both Technical and Financial proposals as per the IC Proposal Submission Form and to the designated secured email will not be further considered for evaluation.
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