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International Expert / Trainer on Women’s Rights with a Special Focus on VAWG and DV for Georgian Prosecutors

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

Tbilisi, GEORGIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

25-Sep-2014

Application Deadline :

18-Sep-14 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

18 working days

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

18 working days in the period of 25 September, 2014 – December 5, 2014

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

Millions of women and girls worldwide suffer some form of gender-based violence, be it domestic violence, rape, female genital mutilation/cutting, dowry-related killing, trafficking, sexual violence in conflict-related situations, or other manifestations of abuse. In fact, for women and girls 16-44 years old, gender based violence is a major cause of death and disability (About UNiTE: Fact Sheet, p. 1 http://endviolence.un.org/pdf/factsheets/about_unite.pdf;). Up to 70 per cent of women experience violence in their lifetime (Violence Against Women: The Situation; http://endviolence.un.org/pdf/factsheets/unite_the_situation.pdf).

Violence against women persists in every country in the world as a pervasive violation of human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality. Such violence is unacceptable, whether perpetrated by the State and its agents or by family members or strangers, in the public or private sphere, in peacetime or in times of conflict. The UN Secretary-General has stated that as long as violence against women continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development, and peace (“In-depth study on all forms of violence against women”, Report of the UN Secretary-General, 6 July 2006, p. 9;).

States have an obligation to protect women from violence, to hold perpetrators accountable and to provide justice and remedies to victims. Eliminating violence against women remains one of the most serious challenges of our time. The knowledge base and tools to prevent and eliminate violence against women developed over the past decade must be utilized more systematically and effectively to eliminate all forms of violence against women. This requires clear political will, outspoken, visible and unwavering commitment at the highest levels of leadership of the State and the resolve, advocacy and practical action of individuals and communities (ibid;).

In order to support the Government of Georgia to meet its obligations undertaken on the international, regional and local levels inter alia in terms of eliminating violence against women and in particular domestic violence, with the generous support by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the UN Joint Programme to Enhance Gender Equality in Georgia (hereinafter UNJP) has been launched in March 2012. The UNJP is implemented by UNDP, UN Women, and UNFPA.

The overall goal of the programme is to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment through strengthening capacities in the government, civil society organizations, and on the grassroots level.

The overall goal will be achieved by realization of the following three thematic outcomes:

Enhanced women’s political and economic empowerment (UNDP lead component);
Creation of an enabling environment to eliminate violence against women, especially domestic violence (DV) (UN Women lead component); and
Creation of enabling environment to realize Sexual and Reproductive Rights of population (UNFPA lead component).

UN Women leads work under the second outcome of the UNJP being responsible for the creation of an enabling environment to eliminate violence against women, especially domestic violence in Georgia. In order to achieve this outcome, UN Women will address existing challenges in the response to the incidents of DV and provision of relevant services to the victims/survivors of DV as well as the gaps in the implementation of the DV related legislation.

UN Women inter alia works to develop capacities of the key policy and service delivery institutions to promote and protect women's human rights to life free from violence, especially from DV, including law enforcement, the bar and the judiciary. Capacity development work targeting different service-providers in the field of domestic violence should result in increases in the quality of, and demand on these services and consequently a higher level of trust in these institutions among the victims/survivors of violence.

To ensure equal access to justice for women, it is of utmost importance for the prosecutors of Georgia, as one of the key actors of the justice system, to have the requisite skills and capacities to address the challenges faced by women in the society. Therefore, and especially in light of the criminalization of domestic violence in 2012, prosecutors must have a sound understanding of the international as well as domestic legal instruments ensuring gender equality, protection of women’s rights and existing legal protection mechanisms for the victims/survivors of domestic violence.

Prosecution of the perpetrators of domestic violence is one of the most efficient mechanisms for ending impunity and deterrence for recidivism as well as general prevention of domestic violence crimes. Therefore, it is essential that prosecutors have the requisite capacity to ensure protection of the DV victims/survivors, prevent their re-victimization and prosecute perpetrators.

To this end, UN Women in the frameworks of the UNJP plans to cooperate with the Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia (CPOG) in addressing the issues of violence against women and girls and with a special focus on domestic violence. For this purpose, the UNJP is seeking to recruit an International Expert / Trainer on Women’s Rights with a Special Focus on VAWG and DV for Georgian Prosecutors (hereinafter the “Expert”) to develop a training programme on gender equality and women’s rights with a special focus VAWG and DV issues for practicing prosecutors and conduct a training of trainers for senior prosecutors in Tbilisi, Georgia.

The Expert will have the following objectives/tasks:

To develop a training programme on gender equality and women’s rights with a special focus VAWG and DV issues for practicing prosecutors;
Conduct a training of trainers for senior prosecutors in Tbilisi, Georgia based on the developed training programme;
Conduct one pilot training together with trained senior prosecutors as per the developed manual for practicing prosecutors.

Duties and Responsibilities

Design a two-day training programme on gender equality and women’s rights with a special focus VAWG and DV issues for practicing prosecutors in cooperation with a Georgian Expert / Prosecutor to be identified by UN Women and Office of the Chief Prosecutor;
Develop relevant training materials and case studies in cooperation with the Georgian Expert / Prosecutor that would speak to the Georgian context as a part of the training programme;
Based on the developed training programme together with the Georgian Expert / Prosecutor conduct a training of trainers for senior prosecutors in Tbilisi (about 15 participants), Georgia;
Together with selected few trained trainers and Georgian Expert / Prosecutor conduct a pilot training for practicing prosecutors (about 20 participants);
Based on the feedback from the training of trainers and pilot training finalize the training programme .

Deliverables:

A two-day training programme on gender equality and women’s rights with a special focus VAWG and DV issues for practicing prosecutors in cooperation with a Georgian Expert / Prosecutor developed by October 20, 2014 (5 working days – home based with on-line cooperation with the Georgian Expert / Prosecutor);
Training materials and case studies in cooperation with the Georgian Expert / Prosecutor developed by October 20, 2014 (3 working days – home based with on-line cooperation with the Georgian Expert / Prosecutor);
Based on the developed two-day training programme together with the Georgian Expert / Prosecutor a training of trainers for senior prosecutors (about 15 participants) in Tbilisi, Georgia conducted by November 15, 2014 (3 working days in Tbilisi);
Based on the developed two-day training programme together with the Georgian Expert / Prosecutor and selected few trained trainers a pilot training for practicing prosecutors (about 20 participants) in Tbilisi, Georgia conducted by November 15, 2014 (3 working days in Tbilisi);
Based on the feedback from the training of trainers, the training programme finalized by November 28, 2014 and submitted to UN Women (4 working days - home based with on-line cooperation with the Georgian Expert/ Prosecutor).

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

Past experience of work in an international organization;
Excellent writing, presentation/public speaking skills;
IT literacy.

Core Competencies:

Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

University degree (Masters) in Law.

Experience:

At least five years of professional experience as a prosecutor or judge;
Proved experience of developing training programmes and delivering training to lawyers, prosecutors or judges;
Proved experience of delivering trainings on women’s rights issues, gender-based violence and domestic violence issues;
Past experience of work in an international environment.

Language:

Proficiency in English.

Evaluation procedure:

The candidates will be evaluated in three stages: according to minimum qualification criteria; technical and financial evaluation. The candidates must possess minimum qualification criteria to be eligible for further technical evaluation.

Technical evaluation criteria (including minimum qualifications):

University degree (Masters) in Law (max 30 points);
At least five years of professional experience as a prosecutor or judge (max 100 points);
Proved experience of developing training programmes and delivering training to lawyers, prosecutors or judges (max 100 points)'
Proved experience of delivering trainings on women’s rights issues, gender-based violence and domestic violence issues (max 90 points);
Proficiency in English (max 30 points).

Maximum total technical score amounts to 350 points. Only candidates who have passed over the minimum qualification criteria and have accumulated at least 245 points out of maximum 350 under technical evaluation will qualify for the next stage i.e. evaluation of their financial proposals.

Evaluation of submitted financial offers will be done based on the following formula: S = Fmin / F * 150

S – score received on financial evaluation;

Fmin – the lowest financial offer out of all the submitted offers qualified over the technical evaluation round;

F – financial offer under consideration.

The winning candidate will be the candidate, who has accumulated the highest aggregated score (technical scoring + financial scoring).

Management arrangements:

The contractor will report to and work under direct supervision of UNJP / UN Women Programme Component Manager and under the overall guidance of the UN Women National Programme Officer.

Financial arrangements:

Payment will be disbursed upon submission and approval of deliverables and certification by UNJP / UN Women Programme Component Manager that the services have been satisfactorily performed as specified below:

Deliverable 1, 2, (8 working days) – 45%;
Deliverables 3,4 and 5 (10 working days) – 55%.

Application submission package:

CV;
Dully filled Personal History Form PHF11 that can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment
Financial Proposal - lump sum proposal/offer* in Georgian Lari (including breakdown of this lump sum amount indicating all necessary costs to complete this mission: total remuneration, travel expenses (per diems, tickets, lodging and terminal expenses, if applicable)

*The applicants are required to submit an aggregated financial offer (“aggregated financial offer” is the total sum of all financial claims of the candidate for accomplishment of all tasks spelled out in this ToR).