Emplois au PNUD - 57894- International Consultant on Monitoring of Implemen

International Consultant on Monitoring of Implementation of the UPR Recommendations and on the Reporting Within the 2nd UPR Cycle

Lieu :

Chisinau, MOLDOVA

Type de contrat :

Individual Contract

Date de commencement :

03-Aug-2015

Date limite de candidature :

20-Jul-15 (Minuit New York, États-Unis)

Niveau du poste :

International Consultant

Durée du contrat initial

August 2015 – June 2016

Langues requises :

Anglais

Durée prévue de la mission :

up to 30 working days

Le PNUD s’engage à recruter un personnel divers en termes de genre, de nationalité et de culture. Nous encourageons de même les personnes issues des minorités ethniques, des communautés autochtones ou handicapées à postuler. Toutes les candidatures seront traitées dans la plus stricte confidentialité. Le PNUD ne tolère pas l’exploitation et / ou les atteintes sexuelles, ni aucune forme de harcèlement, y compris le harcèlement sexuel, et / ou toutes formes de discrimination. Tous/tes les candidats/tes selectectionnes /ées devront ainsi se soumettre à de rigoureuses vérifications relatives aux références fournies ainsi qu’à leurs antécédents.

Historique

The Republic of Moldova has received 122 recommendations on various human rights issues as a result of the 1st circle UPR. The subject areas of the UPR recommendations include the following: antidiscrimination, children, Roma, persons with disabilities, rights of women and gender issues, domestic violence, rights of stateless persons, human trafficking, economic and social rights, religious issues, linguistic issues and language diversity, national human rights institutions, freedom of expression, assembly and association, fight against torture and ill-treatment, judicial issues, events of April 2009, civil society and UPR, Transnistrian region, and acceding to the bilateral and international instruments. As a result, the Republic of Moldova accepted most of the recommendations and several recommendations were accepted in part. A number of recommendations were incorporated into the amended National Human Rights Action Plan for 2011-2014.

The Ombudsperson Office and the Equality Council are the only two National human rights institutions (NHRIs) in the Republic of Moldova and they play an important role in advancing human rights protection sand promotion, including through their submissions to the UPR.

In May 2012, the Parliament of the RM passed the Law on Ensuring Equality, stipulating the establishment of the Council on the Prevention and Elimination of Discrimination and Ensuring Equality (Equality Council) to ensure protection against discrimination and equality of all persons who consider themselves victims of discrimination, as well as review individual complaints and deliver decisions on them. As a new institution established in 2013, the Council is in need of institutional strengthening and capacity building in human rights, equality, case management, as well as maximization of its impact on human rights and diversity. The Council has no experience in the UPR.

In April 2014, the Parliament of the RM passed a new Law on the Peoples Advocate (Ombudsperson). As a result of a number of institutional weaknesses, the Ombudsperson Office remains insufficiently known among the public-at-large, and is not sufficiently powerful to act as Moldova’s main human rights institution. Therefore it is in need of institutional capacity building and mainstreaming of human rights based approach into its work, as well as requires support towards maximization of its impact on human rights and diversity. Ombudsperson Office (former Centre for Human Rights of Moldova) has made its submission for the Moldova’s 1st UPR circle.

It is expected that the Republic of Moldova will be reviewed within the 2nd UPR cycle in the second part of 2016. In relation to this, the capacities of both NHRIs need to be strengthened to ensure their effective and strategic participation in the reporting within the 2nd UPR cycle.

The Republic of Moldova is a State-Party to the majority UN and CoE human rights treaties. The National Human Rights Action Plan for 2011-2014 contains commitments to protect and advance specific human rights taking into account recommendations of the UN treaty bodies and a number of UPR recommendations. Related priorities and commitments are established under the UN-Moldova Partnership Framework (UNPF) 2013-2017.

The overall objective of the project “Supporting National Human Rights Institutions as per International Treaty Bodies and UPR Recommendations” is to contribute to the effective protection and promotion of human rights, equality and non-discrimination in the Republic of Moldova with particular attention to women, minorities, marginalised and vulnerable groups. The project is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, co-funded and implemented by the UNDP Moldova and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in cooperation with the Ombudsperson Office and the Equality Council.

Devoirs et responsabilités

Main Objective and Scope of Work:

The main objective is to maximize the impact of the Ombudsperson Office and the Equality Council in monitoring of implementation of the UPR recommendations in the Republic of Moldova and reporting for the 2nd UPR cycle.

The scope of the work of the International Consultant will consist in providing expertise, training and coaching on monitoring the implementation of the UPR recommendations and UPR reporting for the two NHRIs in Moldova: the Ombudsperson Office and the Equality Council.

In order to achieve the objective the International Consultant shall:

Review the UPR recommendations to Moldova in light of other recommendations and commitments;
Work closely with the relevant staff of the Ombudsperson Office and the Equality Council to identify their specific needs in developing the guidelines/methodology on the monitoring of implementation of the UPR recommendations and on the UPR reporting (hereinafter Guidelines);
Draft clear, accessible and usable Guidelines, in consultation with the relevant staff of the Ombudsperson Office and the Equality Council, and other involved authorities, if necessary;
In cooperation and consultation with both NHRIs, identify the set of UPR recommendations and new human rights issues to be monitored and reported for the 2nd UPR cycle on Moldova;
Prepare, organize and lead one two-day hands-on, interactive training (based on the Guidelines) on monitoring and reporting of the implementation of the selected set of UPR recommendations and on the new human rights issues for the purposes of the NHRIs reporting for the 2nd URP cycle on Moldova;
Provide support to relevant staff of the Ombudsperson Office and the Equality Council on applying the Guidelines for the monitoring of implementation of the selected UPR recommendations and new human rights issues and drafting of the NHRIs UPR submissions;
Where necessary, hold consultation meetings with relevant governmental bodies and stakeholders;
Work closely with the National Consultant contracted for the purposes of the assignment;
Where relevant, work closely with other Consultants contracted within the project;
Develop and provide activity reports and other narrative progress reports as specified in the deliverables for the assignment;
Undertake other related tasks for the purposes of the assignment.

Deliverables:

Guidelines/methodology on the monitoring of implementation of the UPR recommendations and on the UPR reporting drafted feedback from HNRIs collected and incorporated. Final Guidelines presented to the UNDP and NHRIs (max 10 pages), (deadline: 01 October 2015, up to 10 working days);
Set of UPR recommendations and new human rights issues for monitoring and reporting for the 2nd UPR cycle on Moldova identified, and 2-day training on the NHRIs reporting for the 2nd UPR cycle organised, (deadline: 15 November 2015,up to 9 days);
Provide support to the NHRIs for the purposes of NHRIs reporting for the 2nd UPR cycle on Moldova,(deadline: 01 March 2016, up to 10 days);
Final report on consultancy undertaken submitted to UNDP, (deadline: 15 March 2016,up to 1 day).

Detailed Information:

For detailed information, please access the following link: www.undp.md/current-jobs.

Compétences

Core Competencies:

Proven commitment to the core values of the United Nations, in particular, respecting differences of culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, language, age, HIV status, disability, and sexual orientation, or other status;
Responsibility;
Punctuality;
Attention to details.

Functional Competencies:

Demonstrable experience and knowledge of UPR related matters;
Demonstrable experience and knowledge of drafting UPR related reports is a strong asset;
Demonstrable experience and knowledge of human rights issues in the CEE and CIS region;
Working experience or academic knowledge of National Human Rights Institutions is an asset;
Effective communication, strong analytical and reports drafting skills.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Academic Qualifications:

Master’s Degree or equivalent (5-year university education) in Law, Human Rights, Political Sciences, Public Administration or other relevant field.

Experience:

At least 10 years of proven professional experience in human rights monitoring and reporting in CEE and CIS region.

Languages:

Fluent knowledge of English for the purposes of the assignment;
knowledge of Romanian and/or Russian is a strong asset.

Application procedure:

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information in English to demonstrate their qualifications:

Cover letter:

Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work, including a list of assignments and/or analytical documents, reports, methodologies, presentations, capacity building activities, or other task related documents the applicant has elaborated or contributed to;
Providing a brief methodology (max. 3 pages) on how they will approach and conduct the work.

Financial Proposal:

Financial proposal as a lump sum in US Dollars, preferably split per each deliverable (which includes the fee, and all travel costs for missions to Moldova). For detailed information on travel requirements, please, refer to Annex 1 – Terms of Reference.

Candidate Information:

Personal information as a dully filled in Personal History Form/P11, including records of past experience in similar projects/assignments and concrete outputs obtained, including names and contact details of 3 reference persons.

Evaluation of applicants:

Initially, individual consultants will be short-listed based on the following minimum qualification criteria:

Master’s Degree or equivalent (5-year university education) in Law, Human Rights, Political Sciences, Public Administration or other relevant field;
At least 10 years of proven professional experience in human rights monitoring and reporting in CEE and CIS region;

The short-listed individual consultants will be further evaluated based on the following methodology:

A two-stage procedure will be used in evaluating the candidates:

Technical evaluation (max 300 points) – 60%;
Financial evaluation (max 200 points) – 40%.
Technical evaluation will be based on a thorough desk review of applications.

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% score of the technical evaluation (at least 210 points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation.

The award of the contract shall be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

Responsive/compliant/acceptable, and
Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

Technical evaluation criteria:

Master’s Degree or equivalent (5-year university education) in Law, Human Rights, Political Sciences, Public Administration or other relevant field, (Master – 20 pts., PhD – 30 pts.), maximum points obtainable – 30 points;.
At least 10 years of proven professional experience in human rights monitoring and reporting in CEE and CIS region, (10 years – 30 pts., 10-15 years - up to 40 pts., more than 15 years - up to 50 pts.), maximum points obtainable – 50 points;
Fluent knowledge of English for the purposes of the assignment, knowledge of Romanian and/or Russian is a strong asset, (English - 20, Russian, Romanian – 5 pts each), maximum points obtainable – 30 points;
Interview, (Experience and knowledge of UPR related matters – up to 60 pts; experience and knowledge of drafting UPR related reports – up to 40 pts; experience and knowledge of human rights issues in the CEE and CIS region - up to 35 pts; working experience or academic knowledge of National Human Rights Institutions – up to 30 pts; effective communication, strong analytical and reports drafting skills – up to 25 pts), maximum points obtainable – 190 points.

Winning candidate:

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

Note:

For complete information about this vacancy, including detailed tasks and responsibilities, full and detailed description of the evaluation procedure which will be applied, as well as the UNDP General Conditions of Individual Contract, please refer to the Terms of Reference, the Individual Consultant Procurement Notice published at the UNDP Moldova website, Jobs Section: http://www.undp.md/jobs/current_jobs/.