Background

There are an estimated 32 million fishers in Asia.[1] Fishing sector in Thailand, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea relies on migrant workers from Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam.  In 2017, the Thai fishing and seafood processing sectors together employed more than 600,000 workers, of whom 302,000 were registered migrant workers primarily from Myanmar and Cambodia.  Within this context labour exploitation and human trafficking – particularly affecting vulnerable migrants – are prevalent.  While efforts to address such exploitation within these sectors have developed over recent years, there still exist gaps in frameworks for ensuring the the enforcement of labour standards and proper mechanisms for the identification, referral, and (re)integration of victims of forced labour and human trafficking.   

To address these gaps UNDP will partner with ILO and IOM on an EU-funded regional programme on labour migration in the fishing sector.  As part of this partnership, UNDP – with long-established relationship with regional stakeholders – through the UN-Action for Cooperation against Trafficking project – will support further development of the transnational referral mechanism under the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking (COMMIT) Process for victims of trafficking for forced labour and vulnerable migrants, including strengthening standard operating procedures and capacity building, and in coordination with existing national coordination mechanisms, and exchange good practices and lessons learnt in the region.

[1] FAO (2018), The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture

Duties and Responsibilities

Objective:

The Counter-trafficking Coordination Consultant will support regional implementation of UNDP’s commitments support further development of the transnational referral mechanism under the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking (COMMIT) Process for victims of trafficking for forced labour and vulnerable migrants, including strengthening standard operating procedures and capacity building, and in coordination with existing national coordination mechanisms, and exchange good practices and lessons learnt in the region under the joint ILO-UNDP-IOM project. 

Scope of Work:

The Counter-trafficking Coordination Consultant is expected to provide coordination and technical support to counter-trafficking stakeholders involved in the Greater Mekong Subregion, towards developing the Transnational Referral Mechanism.  This will include; establishing a baseline on extant regional and bilateral referral mechanisms and their use, producing of an options paper outlining potential modes for the cohesion and strengthening of these processes in consultation with key stakeholders, supporting the organisation of the Inter-Ministerial Meeting of the COMMIT Process – at which the Transnational Referral Mechanism options will be reviewed, and reporting on the Inter-Ministerial Meeting.  Aside from this, the consultant will administer project Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning. 

Expected Deliverables:

Duration of the Assignment:

150 working days intermittently from 1st January 2021 to 25th December 2021. UNDP will require up to 10 working days to review deliverables and certify approval of outputs.

Duty Station

Home-based, with travel to Greater Mekong Subregion countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar- TBC), as required.

Monitoring and Progress Controll:

The Consultant will work under the day-to-day supervision of the Regional Advisor on Recovery, Livelihoods & Human Mobility.

Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments

Consultant must send a financial proposal based on Daily Fee. Consultant shall quote an all-inclusive Daily Fee for the contract period. The term “all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, communications, consumables, etc.) that could be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment are already factored into the daily fee submitted in the proposal. Payments shall be done on a deliverable basis, upon verification of completion of deliverables and approval by the supervisor.

In the event of travel as part of this TOR, UNDP shall arrange the mission travel in compliance with the UNDP Duty Travel policy. Payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and the Individual Consultant, prior to travel. In general, UNDP shall not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.

Schedule of Payments

Payment will be made monthly, based on the actual days work for the month upon certification of the assigned supervisor.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

• Innovation: Ability to make new and useful ideas work;
• Leadership: Ability to persuade others to follow;
• People Management: Ability to improve performance and satisfaction;
• Communication: Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform;
• Delivery: Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement;
• Initiative: Displays initiative, sets challenging outputs for her/himself and willingly accepts new work assignments.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• At least Master’s Degree in international relations, social sciences, development, or relevant studies. Focused studies in migration, trafficking and/ or displacement will be advantage.

Experience:

• At least 3 years’ experience working on transnational security and development issues,
• Minimum 2 years’ of which on human trafficking and related issues, particularly in the areas of victim identification, referral mechanisms.
• Experience in developing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Experience working with governments and civil society in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.  
• Demonstrated understanding or Sound knowledge of the political, economic, social and development situation in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
• Strong ability to communicate technical concepts into simple language.
• Experience in developing multi-media training materials.
• Excellent writing skills.

Language:

• Fluency in written and spoken English

EVALUATION OF CANDIDATES:

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology:

Cumulative Analysis: The candidates will be evaluated through Cumulative Analysis method. When using the weighted scoring method, the award of the contract will 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 set of weighted combine technical evaluation of desk review and interview (70%), and financial criteria (30%). Financial score shall be computed as a ratio of the proposal being evaluated and the lowest priced proposal received by UNDP for the assignment. 

**Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% marks in the Technical evaluation would be considered for Financial evaluation.

Technical  Evaluation – 70%

Financial Evaluation (30%)

Financial proposals from all technically qualified candidates will be scored out 30 marks based on the formula provided below. The maximum marks (30) will be assigned to the lowest financial proposal.

All other proposals will 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 consultant must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application system only allows to upload maximum one document:

• Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability and financial proposal using the template provided in Annex III. (Consultant must send a financial proposal based on Daily Fee. Consultant shall quote an all-inclusive Daily Fee for the contract period. The term “all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, communications, consumables, etc.) that could be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment are already factored into the daily fee submitted in the proposal.
• Personal CV and P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references.
• Portfolio or sample of works related to migration, displacement, and human trafficking.

**Failure to submit the above-mentioned documents or Incomplete proposals shall result in disqualification

**Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application system only allows to upload maximum one document.

The short listed candidates may be contacted and the successful candidate will be notified.

ANNEXES:

Annex I - TOR
Annex II - General Terms and Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Individual Contractors
Annex III - Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability and financial proposal
Annex IV - P11 Form for ICs
 

All documents can also be be downloaded from: UNDP Procurement Notice for this Job