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Introduction

Country: ESWATINI

 

Description of the Assignment: 

The Consultant will be responsible for:

• Identifying and collecting relevant policies, legal and research documents for literature review
• Identifying key stakeholders who can provide necessary information and can 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.
• Conducting stakeholders’ interviews
• 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 in the health, justice, gender, youth and other related sectors.
• Supporting the development of a Legal Reform Plan/engagement scan, including by identifying the key institutions that are relevant to law and policy reform and outline the processes by which they engage in such reform. (e.g. outline the process for how a bill becomes a law or the process of a court case)
• Outlining the processes which create opportunities for advocacy (e.g. a court hearing, a call for comments on legislation, a meeting of parliamentarians)
• Discussing what form(s) civil society engagement with the process can take (e.g. formal submissions to Parliament on legislation, filing legal papers in court, setting up a meeting with key decision makers to discuss a policy up for review)
• Outlining any other information civil society may need to engage in the process.

 

Period of assignment/services: 40 consultancy days distributed over 4 months

 

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Amendment

Negotiation is open to other suppliers

Documents :

Negotiation Document(s) (Before Accessing other negotiations Document(s), please click on this link)