Background
In 2010 steps were taken to create an independent national human rights institution. In May 2010 the Kurdistan Regional Parliament passed a law (Law no. 4/2010) formally establishing an Independent Board of Human Rights in the Kurdistan Region (IBHR) replacing the former KRG Ministry of Human Rights and taking over all of its staff and property. The law specifies that:- The Board will be answerable to the Kurdistan Parliament, will be headquartered in Erbil, and will have the right to open branches in the other governorates;
- The overall purpose of the Board is to enhance respect for and protection of human rights in accordance with international human rights law and standards, and to raise awareness about human rights;
- The head or president (sarok) of the Board will be selected by the Council of Ministers of the Kurdistan Region, subject to approval by the Kurdistan Regional Parliament.
Article 4 of the law lists a range of responsibilities for the Board, including:
- Advising concerned ministries and departments about human rights;
- Advancing a culture of respect for human rights;
- Ensuring that the laws of the Kurdistan Region comply with international human rights principles;
- Evaluating state compliance with human rights law;
- Preparing reports and convening seminars and meetings on human rights;
- Monitoring and reporting on the human rights situation in prisons, detention centres, shelters and other such centres;
- Receiving, investigating and acting on complaints about human rights violations;
- Co-operating with non-governmental and civil society organisations which are engaged with human rights issues;
- Co-operating with international human rights organisations and other institutions to represent the Kurdistan Region in international conferences and meetings on human rights;
- Preparing an annual report on the human rights situation in the Kurdistan Region.
- Raising awareness on Human Rights through the improvement of educational structures;
- Promoting the role of women in public life;
- Reducing Domestic Violence and enhancing protection for female victims of violence;
- Enhancing participation of Youth and Children;
- Advancing legislation to abolish the death penalty.
Duties and Responsibilities
Scope of Work:- Reviewing of the current Action Plan for 2014;
- Reviewing the organizational structure of the Board ; and propose a comprehensive and inclusive structure in line with the Board mandate;
- Develop Terms of References for departments, offices within the Board and identify the human resources capacity needed;
- Assess the capacity needed for the IBHR and outline relevant training programme targeting the core technical and administrative staff;
- Asses the development of outreach and communication strategy for the IBHR;
- Assist the IBHR in identifying priority and thematic areas for work;
- Development of strategic action plans for the coming two years a long with timeframe and budget;
- Establish and create case management capacity within the IBHR that includes, enhancing the capacity of the staff to receive cases, investigate violations, documentation of the case and report writing.
The consultant will work under the overall guidance of and report to the Programme Manager.
The consultant will be conducting overall assessment of the capacity of the IBHR and assist UNDP to define relevant and adequate areas for support in the coming two years. The consultant will review the existing data conduct and conduct meetings and interviews with all relevant stakeholders.
The consultant will be responsible for delivering a comprehensive needs assessment report that includes:
- And overall review of the organizational structure of the IBHR. Proposed sounds structure at center and provincial levels;
- Identify capacity needed to reinforce the proposed structure in addition to development of Terms of References for departments and offices;
- Development of priority and focused areas for work;
- Development of strategic action plan that includes outreach and communication strategy and establish capacity to implement the proposed action plan;
- Train the technical and core staff on investigation, case management, and report writing.
Deliverables and outputs:
The Consultant will be responsible for producing the below deliverables. These deliverables are changeable subject to UNDP’s approval, in case unexpected incidents take place in the project, such as delay of the project or change of project scope, due to reasons uncontrollable by the Consultant.
- Comprehensive assessment report reviewing and proposing organisational structure;
- Clear and well defined thematic and priorities;
- Strategic action plan, outreach and communication strategy;
- Training of 75 technical and core staff of the IBHR on investigation, report writing, case management;
- Development of strategies for public outreach.
Competencies
Core Competencies:- Ethics and Values;
- Organizational Awareness;
- Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring;
- Working in Teams;
- Communicating Information and Ideas;
- Self-management and Emotional Intelligence;
- Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements;
- Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning;
- Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making.
Job Knowledge and Technical Expertise:
- Ability to produce well written reports demonstrating analytical ability and communication skills;
- Ability to work with the organization commissioning the evaluation and with other evaluation; stakeholders to ensure that a high quality product is delivered on a timely basis;
- Knowledge of issues concerning local governance;
- Facilitation skills and ability to manage diversity of views in different cultural context.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:- PHD or Master in Law, International Relations, Social Sciences, or related fields.
- 15 years of Experience in writing analytical research reports/ project reports/consultancy reports;
- Previous work experience with National Human Rights Commissions is required;
- Experience in working in post-conflict or transitional countries required; and experience in the region an asset;
- Experience working with the UN, a UN agency or an international organization is an asset;
- Competent in usage of MS Office programmes (MS Word, Excel, Power Point);
- Experience in developing and implementing communications strategies for parliaments and other government institutions;
- Knowledge of UNDP results-based management.
- Fluency in English language is required.
- Knowledge of Arabic language and/or Kurdish Language will be an asset.
(Which will include the following):
- Signed Template Confirmation of Interest and Submission of Financial Proposal. (Please use Annex 1);
- A letter explaining why he/she considers himself/herself the most suitable candidate for the work;
- Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references. Please Use the attached (P11 Form Only) CV Form – Annex 2 attached. UNDP-Iraq reserves the right to disqualify any of CVs who are not compliant with the requested form;
- A language assessment will be conducted [if needed] for the purpose of verifying influence in English, Arabic, Kurdish;
- A brief Methodology on how the candidate will approach and conduct the work.
- (The expert is asked in his/her offer submission in the methodologies section to bring the description of the above mentioned points in Scope of Work and Expected Outputs).
The financial proposal will specify a total lump sum amount and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables. Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR. A breakdown of this lump sum amount is to be provided by the IC candidate. Total Fees: Please use Annex 3 – Financial proposal form.
All necessary information including: Complete Terms of Reference, The Selection Criteria, and Annexes are found on the following link under Procurement Notice Number IC-018/14:
http://www.iq.undp.org/content/iraq/en/home/operations/procurement.html
Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address no later than COB 19th of May 2014: IC1.undp.iq@undp.org
Important Notes:
- Applicants should download the application documents (presented in compressed file) from the previously mentioned link for UNDP Iraq – Procurement notice web site, complete and sign them, and send the scanned copies to the email account above by or before the deadline of this post;
- Applications with no financial offer or missing P11 form or the required documents for the technical evaluation will not be considered for evaluation;
- Applications without Annex 3 for submitting a financial offer instead of other format will not be considered due to the need of Annex 3 for the ease of comparison of the received offers. All the necessary information for this post (TOR, Deliverables, Target dates, etc. are presented in the procurement notice documents) therefore, applicant must download it to apply for this post;
- Do not send only CV to the Email account mentioned above without Annex 1, 2, 3, 4, Cover Letter and Methodology (If Requested) as it will considered as incomplete application;
- The documents are available in PDF (the Procurement Notice, Annex 3, 4 and 5) and Word 2010 (Annex 1 and 2) format; this is the only format available and it will not be provided in other formats;
- Applicants need to use Adobe reader, Word 2010, zipping software (WinRAR) to be able to use and view the documents for this procurement notice;
- Each email should be less than 8 MB; emails over this size will not be received to the above mentioned account.
Key Performance Indicators during implementation of Services:
Overall, the Consultant’s performance will be evaluated based on the following key criteria:
- Draft the proposed organizational structure;
- Amended action plan for 2014;
- Training materials and manuals on Investigation, case management and report writing;
- Draft strategic action plan for IBHR for 2 years;
- Guidance notes on public outreach strategy;
- Weekly progress report.