| Overview : Country: Nepal Description of the assignment: After the promulgation of the new constitution in Nepal, strengthening social cohesion is a prerequisite in smoothly managing the transition to federal system, broader implementation of new constitution and enhancing democratic participation of marginalized communities. Conflict, unrest and social tensions of the past many years have created fissures that have the risk of being overplayed during the time of transition to federalism and implementation of the new constitution. Bringing back to inter-and intra-community cohesion, strengthening it further, rebuilding trust between the citizenry and state are key steps required for the next few years. Programs to support the communities to engage with each other culturally and socially, and for the state representatives such as the police and district development officials to collaborate through community-based activities are going to strengthen the social cohesion and community harmony and security. Given above, this new effort comes together in a new project Social Cohesion and Democratic Participation (SCDP). The project’s main partner is the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction. SCDP’s work is divided into two distinct pillars; one focused on Risk Identification and the other on Risk Mitigation. The Risk Identification pillar consists of an Early Warning initiative with Near-term and Medium/Long-term components. The Risk Mitigation pillar encompasses three distinct initiatives that, taken together, form a comprehensive approach to addressing localized tensions and keep the social fabric intact. Both pillars would be shaped by a cross-cutting Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) and Conflict Sensitivity approaches that ensure that processes are socially inclusive and equipped to navigate the socio-political complexities of local environments. SCDP has been using external facilitators as per the need for training and capacity building activities and facilitate SCDP’s events in the project’s programme areas. The project wishes to continue such services through the facility of Long Term Agreement with an external facilitator through public call. The LTA will be used to issue Individual Contract for the external facilitator as a resource person to work on workshops, trainings and meeting facilitations. The LTA holder will work in close coordination with the project’s Technical Specialist and under the guidance of the Team Leader, Democratic Transition Unit (DTU). Number of consultant required: 1 Project name: Social Cohesion and Democratic Participation Project/UNDP Period of assignment/services (if applicable): Duty Station: Kathmandu with field visits in programme areas Proposal should be submitted at the following address: Procurement Unit, UNDP (Ref.: UNDP/PN/35/2017: Technical Specialist, UN House, Pulchowk, PO Box 107, Kathmandu, Nepal or by email to procurement.np@undp.org not later than 1730 hours (Nepal Standard Time) 28 August 2017. | 
