| Overview : SCOPE OF WORK, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED ANALYTICAL WORK UNDP seeks the services of a consultant with experience in the rights of forest dependent communities.
The consultant is to undertake a targeted assessment, with support from national counterparts, to describe and quantify the risk of infringement of human rights to local populations. This is to ensure that the project’s actions under Components 1 to 3 are in compliance with Principle 1 Human Rights under UNDP's Social and Environmental Standards (SES).
The assignment will include at least one extended mission with extensive field visits on both São Tomé and Príncipe Islands. Mission dates will need to be agreed in advance with UNDP (Country Office,Regional Technical Advisor) and counterparts from the Governments of São Tomé and Príncipe. The focus will be on ensuring that the project’s actions comply with UNDP’s Social and Environmental Screening Procedure (SESP). The scope of the assessment must consider all potential sources of human rights infringements. Especially the work on environmental law enforcement under project component 1, the strengthening of protected area management under component 2, and the work on sustainable charcoal under component 3. The consultant will work closely with UNDP (Country Office, Regional Technical Advisor) and counterparts from the Government as well as with the Expert for Charcoal Value Chain Analysis and Economic Displacement Risk Assessment (see separate TORs) to produce the following outputs and related activities.
Output 1: Human Rights Risk Assessment . Undertake a targeted assessment to identify the risk-based applicability of Principle 1 Human Rights of the SES Overarching Principles . Identify and describe actions that could potentially violate human rights and also determine the risk level (high/medium/low)
. Prepare an assessment report to be used as the basis for the Human Rights Action Plan (below) Output 2: Human Rights Action Plan
. Identify the procedures and actions that need to be undertaken in order to ensure that human rights are not violated by project actions
. Prepare a Human Rights Action Plan that reflects the commitment by the Implementing Partner and UNDP to affected people and communities to respect their human rights
. Support the mandatory disclosure process for the draft human rights action plan
. Finalize the action plan based on feedback received during the disclosure period
. Train and advise PMU on the implementation of the action plan
| 
