Background
The Democracy and Governance Cluster of UNDP Bangladesh is providing technical and financial assistance to the Government to find innovative solutions to its development challenges and to build capacity of national level institutions to implement policy reforms. The Bangladesh National Human Rights Commission Capacity Development Project (BNHRC-CDP), UNDP is supporting the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to establish the required infrastructure and functional capacity to play NHRC’s role effectively. One of the four key areas of support is to assist the NHRC in Human Rights Awareness.According to the National Human Rights Commission Act 2009 one of the key functions of the NHRC is ‘To provide training to relevant stakeholders like Journalist, Police, Lawyers and Judges regarding protection of human rights’. The Government of Bangladesh has entered into a five years agreement in 2010 with UNDP, creating the Bangladesh National Human Rights Commission-Capacity Development project (BNHRC-CDP) which aims at building the capacity of the NHRC in monitoring and investigating human rights violations, raising awareness about human rights and advocating for the reform of national laws and policies to better protect people’s rights. The Outcome 3 of the Project Document indicates that NHRC has developed capacity to efficiently and effectively undertake human rights education and training and develop a human rights based culture in Bangladesh. Thus, the project will be supporting the NHRC to develop a sustainable capacity to plan, conduct and review specialized human rights training programmes for lawyers and Judges.
Key objectives of the assignment are:
- To raise awareness on human rights among lawyers, prosecutors, judges and legal aid NGO’s;
- Draft a Human Rights Training Manual for the NHRC which will assist the institution to train judges, lawyers and prosecutors;
- Capacity development of NHRC through the TOT on conducting human rights training for lawyers, prosecutors and judges.
Duties and Responsibilities
Deliverables and Timetable:
Training and Management
- Prepare comprehensive Work Plan including milestones and detailed activities;
- Draft a Human Rights Training Manual for the NHRC which will assist the institution training judges, lawyers and prosecutors;
- Prepare handouts/workshop materials, outline of the chapters, and training agenda;
- Prepare Power Point Presentation for the Sessions.
- One ToT for NHRC staff (2 days);
- Two human rights trainings for judges (2 daysx2);
- Two human rights trainings for lawyers (2 daysx2);
- Two human rights trainings for public prosecutor and attorney general office (2 daysx2);
- One human rights training for relevant NGO representative who are providing legal aid (2 days)
Training Methodology:
International standard, participatory and interactive approaches will be used to ensure sustainable learning. Case studies, simulations, role-play and debates will be used as learning methodology
- Prepare training participants list and signed attendance sheet;
- Filled up evaluation forms by the participants provided by the BNHRC-CDP and should be submitted to the BNHRC-CD;
- Prepare and submit a report of the training reflecting on: -the degree to which objectives was achieved, particularly in participants’ understanding of human rights concepts.
Impact of Results
- NHRC is better capacitated to conduct human rights training for lawyers, judges and NGO’s;
- Awareness and understanding on human rights standards will be increased among lawyers, prosecutors, judges and NGOs. Human rights standards will be reflected in their work. An improved attitude and behavior towards justice seekers will be observed;
- Cooperation will be strengthened between Bar, Judiciary and NHRC.
Duration of the assignment and duty station and expected places of travel
- The duration of the assignment will be of maximum 30 working days (2 months). The drafting of the manual can be done home-based (10 days.;
- Duty Station: Dhaka.
Progress controls and payment
The Consultant will work under the guidance and supervision of the Project Manager, BNHRC-CDP and support the implementation of the agreed project activities. The Consultant will be paid in four installments. Certification from the Project Manager after receiving all deliverables will be required to clear the payment.
Payment Milestone:
- First installment (20%) upon submission of detailed work plan, agenda of the training workshops and outline of the modules;
- Second installment (30%) after completion of 4 training workshops;
- Third installment (30%) after completion of 4 training workshops;
- Final payment (20%) after completion of and acceptance of the Final Report.
Competencies
Core Competencies:
- Focuses on result for the client;
- Creative and result-oriented;
- Demonstration of leadership;
- Ability to perform work of confidential nature and handle a large volume of work;
- Ability to work under pressure in a challenging and complex environment;
- Demonstrates openness to change;
- Responds positively to feedback and differing points of view;
- Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
- Proven communication skills to work with multi-cultural team;
- Independent and flexible;
- Excellent communication skills;
- Proven leadership skills for diverse multi-cultural teams;
- Sound knowledge of relevant information resources;
- Excellent organizational skills.
Corporate Competencies:
- Demonstrates commitment to UNDP’s mission, vision and values;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
- Familiar with and shares the vision of human development as laid out in the flagship HDR series.
Functional Competencies
- Encourages Knowledge Sharing and Learning;
- Disseminates specialized knowledge and experience;
- Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more Practice Areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills;
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and extensive computer literacy.
Development and Operational Effectiveness
- Able to perform a variety of standard specialized and non-specialized tasks and work processes that are fully documented, researched, recorded and reported;
- Able to review a variety of data, identify and adjust discrepancies, identify and resolve operational problems
- Able to perform work of confidential nature and handle a large volume of work;
- Has good knowledge of financial rules and regulations;
- Able to provide input to business processes re-engineering, implementation of new system.
Leadership and Self-Management
- Focuses on result for the client;
- Has demonstrable leadership skill;
- Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
- Remains calm, in control and good humoured even under pressure;
- Demonstrates openness to change;
- Responds positively to feedback and differing points of view.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Minimum Master Degree in Law, Human Rights, International Relations or any other relevant Social Science discipline;
- PhD would be preferred.
Experience:
- At least 5 years experience in training law enforcement officers on human rights. Experience on training lawyers and Judges on human rights would be preferred;
- Previous proven experience in developing human rights training manual. An experience in developing training manual for lawyers and Judges would be preferred;
- Previous proven experience with UN agencies/donor agencies/international or national organizations. An experience as human rights trainer will be an asset.
Language:
- Fluent in English.
Evaluation of the Candidate:
The candidates will be evaluated through Cumulative Analysis method. When using the weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should 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.
**Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% ( 49 out 70 Marks) in technical evaluation will be considered eligible for financial evaluation.
Technical Evaluation Criteria (Total 70 marks):
- Demonstrated knowledge on human rights and UN human rights mechanisms/instruments/principles applicable to law enforcement officers in the exercise of their functions- 25 Marks;
- Working experience with human rights institutions-15 Marks;
- Demonstrated experience in conducting, facilitating and managing trainings on human rights for lawyers and Judges. - 30 Marks.
Financial Evaluation (Total 30 marks):
All technically qualified proposals will be scored out 30 based on the formula provided below. The maximum points (30) will be assigned to the lowest financial proposal. All other proposals receive points according to the following formula:
p = y (μ/z)
Where:
p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated.
y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal.
μ = price of the lowest priced proposal.
z = price of the proposal being evaluated.
Documents to be included when submitting the proposal:
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:
- Detailed concept note including goal, objective, methodologies and work plan;
- CV.