| Overview : UNDP is looking for 02 National Consultants to Conduct a survey to review 12 - year implementation of the Law on Mutual Legal Assistance in civil matter in ensuring the rights of women and children. The objective of this assignment is to conduct a paper-based data collection and analysis, an online survey in 40 provinces and interviews and group discussions with relevant officials, practitioners and beneficiaries in 4 provinces which have reported higher number of marriage cases having foreign elements and family cases related to women and children handled at provincial courts and judgment enforcement agencies (Tay Ninh, Bac Lieu, Bac Ninh and Bac Giang) will be conducted to: - To study on the practical handling of incoming and outgoing requests in these provinces, identify inadequacies, difficulties and obstacles in this work; analyze the causes and propose appropriate solutions.
- To examine the practice of implementing of requests in marriage and family, especially cases related to women and children (time limit, quality of dossiers, application of information technology, coordination between domestic and foreign agencies
- To identify the advantages and challenges of implementing mutual legal assistance activities in practice, including to those concerning substantive and procedural issues of the existing policies and regulations, as well as those regarding financial resources, human and institutional capacity, among others.
- To identify the key recommendations for the MOJ in drafting the bill on mutual legal assistance in civil matters in coming years
The assignment will be carried out by a consultant team consisting of 02 national consultants who are recruited by UNDP in cooperation MOJ DIL The scope of work for each of the consultants will be described in the TOR. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The selection will be on a competitive basis and will comply with UNDP procurement regulations. Interested offerors are invited to submit Letter of Interest and Availability, CVs financial proposals and other documents following guidance in the Procurement Notice to: Procurement Unit UNDP Viet Nam 304 Kim Ma, Ha Noi, Viet Nam Direct: (+84 24) 38500283 Email: nguyen.ngoc.phuong@undp.org with notification by email (without attachment) to: procurement.vn@undp.org that the bidder has submitted proposal. UNDP will not be responsible for the missing of proposal if the bidder does not send notification email to above address. Deadline for submission: 23.59hrs., 22 September 2021 (Ha Noi time). We look forward to receiving your proposal by the above deadline. | 
