Background

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Cambodia Country Office is the oldest field presence of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). It has been through several transformations and traces its origins back to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).

OHCHR celebrated the 20th year anniversary of its country presence in Cambodia in 2013. The Country Office, which was established  by Resolution 1993/6 of the then Commission on Human Rights, in accordance with the Paris Peace Accords, gave the then ‘United Nations Centre for Human Rights’ a mandate for monitoring, protection and public reporting, as well as  technical assistance and advisory services. The Human Rights Centre, including its Cambodia office, was formally merged with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in 1998.
The purpose of the assignment is to document the success and achievements of 20 years of work in the form of a number of deliverables. The final products will be used for promotional activities, as reference material and for fund raising activities.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work:

  • Drafting Success Stories on OHCHR’s successful achievements in different thematic areas and/or intervention;
  • Producing fact sheets reflecting OHCHR’s activities and achievements;
  • Producing materials for online reference archive;
  • Producing Video statements with key individuals – edited highlights, each lasting about maximum two to three minutes in total;
  • Collecting key documents (reports, relevant legislation, etc.) arranged in easily searchable format;
  • Organizing summaries and bibliographies on each theme;
  • Drafting an illustrated and laid-out written report on 20 years of OHCHR’s work in Cambodia.

 Expected Outputs and Deliverables:

  • The style of the deliverables should be engaging and accessible to a general audience, rather than academic in tone. Although the aim is to promote OHCHR and its work, the deliverables should be couched in a humble and respectful tone to enable their use in varied contexts;
  • The primary language will be English. OHCHR Cambodia will take responsibility for their translation into Khmer.

 Planning materials:

  • Schedule of work;
  • Preliminary contacts/interviewees list;
  • Preliminary bibliography;
  • Interview questionnaire

 Research phase:

  • Identify the key achievements of OHCHR in Cambodia since 1993; e.g. systemic changes, introduction of international human rights norms into national law or practice, demonstrable increase in the level of “rights consciousness”, ratification and implementation of international conventions on human rights, etc.;
  • Identify linkages and synergies between the above;
  • Chart the evolution of OHCHR’s work in Cambodia.

After the planning and research phases, the deliverables should:

  • Output 1- (Approximately 10 days) By January 2015: 8 illustrated and laid-out one page factsheets, summarizing each of the key themes, for everyday usage;
  • Output 2- (Approximately 6 days) By January 2015: 5 Success Stories focusing on success and achievements on the thematic areas.

Output 3- By March 2015: Materials for online reference archive:

  • 5 video / audio interviews with key individuals – edited highlights, each lasting about maximum two to three minutes in total. These Video statements are the statements of the stakeholders regarding their work with OHCHR supporting the Success Story statements;
  • Collected key documents (reports, relevant legislation, etc.) arranged in easily searchable format;
  • Summaries and bibliographies on each theme;
  •  Output 4- (Approximately 22 days) By March 2015: An illustrated and laid-out written report on 20 years of OHCHR’s work in Cambodia in Doc, PDF and Publisher format with an option to print copies for distribution. The report would total between 10-20,000 words in English;
  • Foreword by the High Commissioner;
  • Introduction by current Country Representative;
  • Chapters on different aspects of OHCHR’s work and achievements in Cambodia;
  • ‘Box outs’ and ‘blow quotes’ for added interest;
  • Glossary and bibliography.

Institutional Arrangement:

  • The consultant will be supervised by the Communications Specialist. All draft deliverables should be submitted to the supervisor for approval. The Communications Specialist will finalize the final outputs of the deliverables after the final clearance from the Representative or OHCHR HQ as required;
  • All logistics supports will be provided by OHCHR;
  • Travel in the province/s (if required) will be arranged by OHCHR and consultant will receive UN DSA rate as applicable.

Duration of Work

The assignment will take place from (tentatively) November2014 to March 2015. The consultant will submit draft outputs 1 and 2 by January 2015 and Outputs 3 and 4 by March 2015, as indicated in section 4. During this period, the Consultant needs to be based in the Duty Station.

Duty Station

Home-based and OHCHR, Phnom Penh, Cambodia with possible field travel to Battambang province.

Competencies

Functonal Competencies:

  • Very strong analytical, research, writing and communications skills;
  • Familiarity over relevant technologies for the production of film, print and web-based products;
  • Knowledge of recent Cambodian history or working experience in Cambodia in the field of human rights would be a strong asset.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

  • Bachelors or Masters in Human Rights, Law, Communications Studies, International Development or other relevant discipline.

Experience:

  • Minimum 5 years (with Masters) or 7 years (with Bachelors) of professional experience in human Rights AND communications; and /or journalism and familiarly in using multi-media technologies (film, print and web-based);
  • Experience of working with the UN is an asset.

Language:

  • Fluency in English. Knowledge of Khmer would be an advantage.

Important note:

Interested offeror is strongly advised to read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=19622 for more detail about term of references, instructions to offeror, and documents to be included when submitting offer.

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