Background
Cambodia's landmine contamination is the result of a protracted sequence of internal and regional conflicts that affected the country from the mid-1960s until the end of 1998. The nature of mine and ERW contamination in Cambodia is highly complex due to the various conflicts and a lack of records on where landmines were laid. However, generally speaking, the north-western region bordering Thailand has some of the highest global concentrations of anti-personnel mines, believed to have been planted during the Khmer Rouge era in the 1970s and the civil war that ended in 1998. In addition, air-to-ground explosive remnants of war (ERW) are also found in the eastern provinces bordering Vietnam, believed to be remnants from the Indochina war and the Vietnam war. Throughout Cambodia, almost 65,000 human casualties, including nearly 20,000 deaths, can be attributed to mines and ERW since 1979.
Humanitarian mine action in Cambodia started in 1992. To ensure proper management, effectiveness, and efficiency of the mine action sector, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) established the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) by Royal Decree in 2000. The CMAA is mandated to coordinate, monitor, and regulate demining and ERW clearance activities and assistance to mine/ERW victims. As of June 2021, Cambodia’s mine action sector had cleared and released 2,221 km2 of contaminated land, destroyed 1,103,192 anti-personnel mines, 25,603 anti-tank mines, and 2,909,764 ERW, including cluster munitions, that benefited 7,196,965 people. The CMAA estimates that Cambodia still has 2,098 km2 of contaminated land of which 806 km2 is contaminated by landmines.
Nationally implemented through the CMAA, the Clearing for Result (CfR) project has been supporting the RGC’s mine action efforts since 2006. Clearing for Results, Phase IV (CfRIV: 2020-2025), financially funded by the Royal Government of Cambodia, Australia, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, and UNDP, has been designed to support the transition of a humanitarian-driven mine action sector to one that utilizes the results of mine action to support targeted action for poverty reduction and human development in Battambang, Pailin, and Banteay Meanchey provinces.
The CfRIV project has the following three outputs:
Output 1: The prioritized mine-impacted villages in the provinces of Battambang, Banteay Meanchey, and Pailin are declared mine-free
Output 2: Humanitarian mine-action and development activities aligned to national and sub-national sectorial policies and planning strategies
Output 3: Strengthened mine action sector management and national capacities that address residual threats
In 2021, CfRIV has extended the scope of the project to increase support to victims of landmine and ERW and persons with disabilities, through improved access to modern rehabilitation services at Battambang Physical Rehabilitation Centre (BPRC), the provision of first-aid response, and mirror therapy training, capacity building of new Physical Therapists (PT) and Prosthetists and Orthotists (PO), and skill development and other livelihoods support to the victims and their family.
Additionally, the project supports the broader victim assistance activities of CMAA, including national workshops, the Technical Reference Group on Victim Assistance in Mine Action (TRG-VA), improved database management on victim assistance, and data transfer to the National Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA), support to the Quality of Life Survey (QLS) activities, and peer to peer support to victims and persons with disabilities.
With this extended project scope, the CfRIV project has identified the need to hire a short-term International Consultant to complete a baseline and needs assessment on victim assistance activities to contribute to programmatic design and measurement of development outcomes.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Project Coordination Specialist, the International Consultant (IC) will work closely with the Project team to complete a baseline and needs assessment on victim assistance activities to contribute to programmatic design and measurement of development outcomes as the followings:
Through participatory and human rights-based approaches, the International Consultant will undertake the following duties:
Complete a mapping exercise of current victim assistance activities implemented through CMAA and relevant mine/ERW victim and disability inclusion implementing partners, including the Trauma Care Foundation (TCF), Persons with Disabilities Foundation (PWDF), Battambang Physical Rehabilitation Centre (BPRC), Cambodian Disabled People’s Organisation (CDPO), and Battambang Disabled People’s Organisation (BDPO).
Undertake community consultations with rights-holders (mine/ERW victims and persons with disabilities) and service providers, applying core human rights principles of equality and non-discrimination, participation and empowerment, and transparency and accountability to identify potential, future service, and programme needs.
Complete an extensive desk review of progressive and innovative global efforts in mine/ERW victim assistance and disability inclusion sectors to explore options that could be applied to the Cambodian context as a means of enhancing relevant, effective, efficient, sustainable, and inclusive outcomes.
Review the current CfRIV victim assistance workplan and align areas of contribution between current activities and targeted outcomes (derived from activities under duties 1-3), and determine the expected effectiveness/impact after the intervention, resulting in the development of CfRIV victim assistance baselines, annual and finale project targets, and indicators, means of verification and frequency of data collection from which future measurements and predictions can be calculated.
Make recommendations for future areas of potential support which CfRIV and relevant partners could explore, or note programmatic areas requiring adaptive design, those in need of additional support during project implementation, and any means to strengthen on-going monitoring of the project to improve the project’s victim assistance intervention and monitoring of associated indicators and targets.
Prepare a comprehensive victim assistance baseline and needs assessment report detailing all findings and recommendations.
Interested offeror must read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=81215 for more detail information about term of reference, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.
Competencies
Good writing and communication skills in English;
Excellent organizational skills with attention to details;
Excellent interpersonal, networking, coordination, and planning skills, and ability to work in a team;
Ability and willingness to travel to provincial areas;
Computer literate (MS Office package).
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
At least master’s degree in conflict studies, political science, international relations, and development or other related fields.
Experience:
At least 7 years of experience in results-based management, monitoring and evaluation (including designing of tools, template, development of the theory of change, results framework, indicators, baseline, and targets, as well as conducting monitoring and evaluation of development projects).
Solid experiences and technical knowledge related to mine action or victim assistance/disability inclusion and the principles of Linking Mine Action and Development (LMAD);
Solid understanding and knowledge of RGC and Cambodia’s national mine action programme and stakeholders involving in the mine action sector and in disability inclusion;
Experience working with local communities and rural livelihood development;
Previous relevant work experience with United Nations or other multilateral/bilateral development assistance agencies and familiarity with UNDP programming and procedures.
Language Requirement:
English, with knowledge of Khmer an advantage
Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email.
Interested individual offeror must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:
1. Proposal: Letter of explaining why they are most suitable for the work
2. Financial proposal (Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP)
3. Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references
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