| Introduction :
Enhancing Access to Justice through Institutional Reform Project-II (A2J Project) is currently being implemented under the overall leadership of Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs (MoLJPA), in collaboration with Office of Chief Minister and Council of Ministers (OCMCM) of four Provinces and in a close partnership with UNDP Nepal. The Project aims at supporting the legal aid providers and authorities to effectively manage and provide legal aid services to people, in particular women, and other marginalized groups, in a sustainable and quality manner to increase Access to Justice, strengthening the justice sector institutions to provide effective legal/judicial remedies as well as protection of human rights in line with national and international standards and empowering people, in particular women, Dalit, PWD, LGBTQI+, poor and other marginalized groups to claim their rights and participate in judicial governance/civic life.
In order for the project to inform the planning, advocacy for law/policy reform to both at federal and provincial level, the Project requires to conduct a comprehensive assessment on the access to justice situation of women and marginalized group grounded on the realities of the specific province. The study will make the assessment of the overall situation into account from demand centric approach and also assesses the overall capacity and response in regard to the province and local bodies in empowering women and marginalized communities and also taking the role of formal and informal justice system including the role of police into account.
Since the Project is also being implemented in the provinces in partnership with provincial government and provincial database is necessary to inform plan in analyzing the access to justice situation from women and marginalized people’s perspective that shall be a baseline indicator for intervening in policy/law reform to remove hurdles and simplify the processes.
The primary objective of the assessment is to establish perceptive baseline and its indicator to assess the situation of women and marginalized communities from access to justice point of view. The assessment will offer a realistic picture of access to justice situation of the provinces with validated process and methodologies. This will also provide challenges, gaps and inconsistencies in accessing justice at institutional as well as individual level.
Since the Project is also being implemented in the provinces in partnership with provincial government and provincial database is necessary to inform plan in analyzing the access to justice situation and the study will be source of database for national and international reporting and province evidence for implementing activities particularly for women, Dalit, PWD, LGBTIQ+, poor and other marginalized groups to claim their rights and participate in judicial governance/civic life. The scope of the study includes: • To bring the factual perception of women and marginalized communities from access to justice point of view in forth front. • Identify the way forward (practical and immediate as well as long term means and measures) and suggest the role of government, province and local level, CSOs and other stakeholders. Please indicate whether you intend to submit a bid by creating a draft response without submitting directly in the system. This will enable the system to send notifications in case of amendments of the tender requirements. Should you require further clarifications, kindly communicate using the messaging functionality in the system. Offers must be submitted directly in the system following this link: http://supplier.quantum.partneragencies.org using the profile you may have in the portal. In case you have never registered before, you can register a profile using the registration link shared via the procurement notice and following the instructions in guides available in UNDP website: https://www.undp.org/procurement/business/resources-for-bidders. Do not create a new profile if you already have one. Use the forgotten password feature in case you do not remember the password or the username from previous registration. Search for the specific tender using search filters and subscribe to the tender in order to get notifications in case of amendments of the tender document. If you need support with the online system, you can contact the contact details of this tender as indicated in the solicitation document. UNDP OFFICE NEPAL PROCUREMENT UNIT | 
