Historique

UNDP Global Mission Statement:

UNDP is the UN’s global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with national counterparts on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.

UNDP Afghanistan Mission Statement:

UNDP supports stabilization, state-building, governance and development priorities in Afghanistan. UNDP support, in partnership with the Government, the United Nations system, the donor community and other development stakeholders, has contributed to institutional development efforts leading to positive impact on the lives of Afghan citizens. Over the years UNDP support has spanned such milestone efforts as the adoption of the Constitution; Presidential, Parliamentary and Provincial Council elections; institutional development through capacity-building to the legislative, the judicial and executive arms of the state, and key ministries, Government agencies and commissions at the national and subnational levels. UNDP has played a key role in the management of the Law and Order Trust Fund, which supports the Government in developing and maintaining the national police force and in efforts to stabilize the internal security environment. Major demobilization, disarmament and rehabilitation and area-based livelihoods and reconstruction programmes have taken place nationwide. UNDP Programmes in Afghanistan have benefited from the very active support of donors. UNDP Afghanistan is committed to the highest standards of transparency and accountability and works in close coordination with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the UN system as a whole to maximize the impact of its development efforts on the ground.

Background:

UNDP Afghanistan’s Governance for Peace unit supports the Afghan Government in implementing its strategies for Rule of Law, developing its institutional capacity and providing services to the Afghan population. This includes supporting the implementation of the Afghanistan National Strategy for Combatting Corruption.

Following the development of a Project Initiation Plan (PIP) for Anti-Corruption “Development Plan for a Nation-Wide Anti-Corruption Project”, implemented from January 2018 to June 2019, UNDP is starting the Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Integrity Openness National (ACTION) Project.

The ACTION Project overall objectives are:

1. Increased public trust in Rule of Law in Afghanistan, improved transparency, accountability and integrity, and better restoration of the social contract between the Afghan state and its citizens, especially vulnerable groups, including women;
2. Assist in the Restoration of the Afghan Social Contract: One of the main objectives of this project to facilitate collective action against corruption, and work towards a corruption-free environment. Corruption damages the social fabric and contributes to a vicious cycle of poverty and conflict. Raising awareness among all actors that everyone is collectively responsible for systemic corruption, and that everyone needs to work together to address it, and creating options for collaborative engagement can contribute to a restoration of the social contract between citizen and state.
3. Improve Development Effectiveness: This project will also help to achieve the broader objective of tackling corruption to improve development effectiveness. Corruption within Rule of Law institutions affects reforms across the sector. Improvements to processes that improve transparency and accountability are likely to have additional positive effects, such as improved accessibility and affordability for citizens, but also less wastage of resources, and improved aid effectiveness for donors.

To achieve those, ACTION Project has the following two outputs:

1. The Anti-Corruption Justice Center has Improved Technical and Operational Capacities to Effectively Adjudicate Corruption Cases: By the end of the project period, police, prosecutors and judges co-located at the Anti-Corruption Justice Center (ACJC) will receive measurable improvements to their technical capacities and ability to investigate violations. ACJC administrative and management staff will be better able to provide core office functions, and the organization will have a dedicated and sustainable training unit to support further internal improvements. In addition, by the end of this project, critical equipment and logistics gaps will have been filled, in support of sustainable long-term ACJC operations.
2. Non-State Actors and Community Groups, including Women and Youth, are able to Promote Transparency, Accountability and Integrity in the Security and Justice Sectors: This project aims to address capacity gaps preventing communities from effectively and peacefully demanding greater transparency and accountability in the Rule of Law sector. Civil society organizations, grassroots organizations, and media will be engaged to reach citizens and positively change behaviours. The ACTION project will work in close collaboration with the M&E team of the ROLHS unit to design surveys enabling to measure the impact of CSOs engagement in communities’ awareness of the access to information law and capacity to engage with the public institutions and hold them accountable.

The ACTION project contributes directly to the targets of the broader Governance for Peace and Rule of Law and Human Security portfolio and works in close coordination with other projects in this cluster and other development actors.

The position:

Under the overall supervision of the Chief, Governance for Peace Unit, under the direct supervision of the Project Manager and in close collaboration with the Anti-Corruption Programme Manager, the consultant will work closely with the Training Coordinator and other members of the ACTION project team to assist in the delivery of written and simultaneous translation services for purposes of supporting the delivery of the project activities.

The consultant will be primarily engaged in providing translation services for the delivery of trainings to the Anti-Corruption Justice Center, including but not limited to, providing simultaneous translation to the participants of the trainings and translation of the training materials.?

Devoirs et responsabilités

Objectives of the assignment:

This assignment aims at:

1. Supporting the delivery of trainings to the Anti-Corruption Justice Center. These trainings will mostly be based in Kabul but may require to travel abroad. Trainings will mostly be focused on legal provisions and require the candidate to have mastery over legal lexicon.
2. Assisting with other project activities – in particular on the grants to civil society – through the provisions of written and simultaneous translation when requested;
3. Assisting the project in translation whenever required.

The scope of work for this assignment is as follow:

Written translation:

• Translate drafts and documents from Dari and/or Pashto into English and vice versa (English into Dari and/or Pashto);
• Translate correspondences from English into Dari and/or Pashto and vice versa;
• Translate training materials from English into Dari and/or Pashto;
• Other translation tasks as needed within the project implementation.

Simultaneous Translation:

• Provide simultaneous legal translation services for training workshops (i.e. expert witness & Expert evidence, Investigative interviewing, etc) for the prosecutors and judges of the Anti-Corruption Justice Center and other project’s stakeholders;
• Provided interpretation for international project staff and other non-Dari speakers at presentations, meetings, conferences, briefings and selected training workshops;
• Other simultaneous interpretation tasks as needed within the project implementation.

Assistance to the project team and international consultants to liaise with ACJC and other stakeholders

• Act as interpreter in meetings, conferences, trainings and other trainings as requested;
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required and necessary with the area of responsibilities.

Deliverables and Schedule of Payments:

Payment Modality:

Payments shall be done monthly based on actual days worked, upon verification of completion of specific reports and timesheets approved by the project manager.

Compétences

Corporate Competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

Functional Competencies:

Knowledge Management and Learning:

• In-depth practical knowledge of inter-disciplinary development issues;
• Seeks and applies knowledge, information, and best practices from within and outside of UNDP.
• Makes the case for innovative ideas documenting successes and building them into the design of new approaches
• Participate in the development of mechanisms, including identifying new approaches to promote individual and organizational learning and knowledge sharing formal and informal methodologies.

Building partnership:

• Identifies needs and interventions for capacity building of counterparts, clients and potential partners.
• Display initiative, sets challenging outputs for him/herself and willingly accepts new work assignment

Job knowledge/Technical Expertise:

• Understand advance aspects of primary area of specialization as well as the fundamental concepts of related disciplines
• keeps abreast of new developments in area of professional discipline an job knowledge and demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignment
• continually looking for ways to enhance logistical performance in the office

Promoting Organizational Change and Development:

• Performs as appropriate work analysis and assist in redesign to establish clear standards for implementation.

Client Orientation:

• Anticipate client needs
• Demonstrate understanding of client’s perspective
• Solicits feedback on services provision and quality

Qualifications et expériences requises

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in English literature, Law, and another relevant field.
• Special certification in translation is an asset.

Experience:

• At least six (6) years of progressive experience in written and/or simultaneous in English and Dari.
• Demonstrated experience in providing simultaneous translation is a requirement.
• Demonstrated experience in providing translation on legal-related topics is a requirement.
• Knowledge of relevant national legislation and institutional frameworks in Afghanistan is desirable.
• Experience working in multi-cultural environment is desirable.
• Proficient use of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc);

Languages:

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
• Fluency in written and spoken Dari is required.
• Fluency in written and spoken Pashto is an asset.

Institutional Arrangements:

• The consultant will work under the direct supervision of ACTION Project Manager and in close collaboration with the Anti-Corruption Project staff and Governance for Peace Programme team;

• UNDP will provide office space and internet access, logistical support, transport and security, applicable to UNDP national personnel. The consultant however is expected to bring his/her own laptop and mobile phone and meet local communication costs (UNDP will provide a local pre-paid SIM card). Costs to arrange meetings, workshops, travel costs to and DSA during field visits (if any) shall be covered by UNDP.
• The consultant will be hold to the highest level of confidentiality regarding the information he may encounter on pending cases at the ACJC.

Duration of the Work:

The total duration of the consultancy will be a maximum of six months (with maximum 132 working days) on 5 days/ 40 hours per week, starting from April 2020. Possibility of extension depending on the project’s needs.

Duty Station:

Kabul, Afghanistan. The consultant may be required to undertake travels in the region and/or abroad depending on the needs of the project.

Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments

Shortlisted candidates (ONLY) will be requested to submit a Financial Proposal. The consultant shall then submit a price proposal when requested by UNDP, in accordance with the below:

The contractor shall submit a price proposal as below:

• Professional Fees – The Consultant shall propose a daily fee which should be inclusive of his/her professional fee, local communication and transportation costs. The number of working days for which the daily fee shall be payable under the contract is six months (with maximum 132 working days).
• The total professional fee shall be converted into a lump sum contract and payments under the contract shall be made on submission and acceptance of deliverables under the contract in accordance with the abovementioned schedule of payment.

UNDP reserves the right to withhold all or a portion of payment if performance is unsatisfactory, if work/outputs are incomplete, not delivered or there is a failure to meet agreed-to deadlines.

Evaluation Method and Criteria

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology:

Cumulative analysis

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

• Responsive/compliant/acceptable, and
• Offering the lowest price/cost and having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

* Technical Criteria weight 70%

* Financial Criteria weight 30%

Technical Criteria: 70 Marks

1. Technical proposal (10 marks)

• Technical approach & methodology – This explain the understanding of the objectives of the assignment, approach to the services, methodology for carrying out the activities and obtaining the expected output, and the degree of detail of such output. The applicant should also explain the methodologies proposed to adopt and highlight the compatibility of those methodologies with the propose approach.

2. Written test (20 marks) to be eligible for the consultancy, the applicants shall attain a passing score on a written examination. During written examination the applicants shall translate technical, academic and/or legal documents from English to Dari and vice versa (from Dari to English). Competencies in Pashto may also be tested.

3. Interview (20 marks) to be eligible for the consultancy, the applicants shall attain a passing score on an interview during which their simultaneous translation skills from English to Dari and from Dari to English will be tested. Competencies in Pashto may also be tested.

4. Qualification and Experience (20 marks) {evaluation of CV for shortlistin

• General Qualification (10marks)
• Experience relevant to the assignment (10 marks)

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points (70% of the total technical points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation.

Financial Evaluation (30%):

The following formula will be used to evaluate financial proposal:

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 proposals:

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications in one single PDF document:

1. Personal CV or 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.
2. Technical Proposal (can be attached with CV or response can be provided to mandatory question on jobs site):

• Brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment;
• A methodology, on how they will approach and complete the assignment and work plan as indicated above.

All materials developed will remain the copyright of UNDP Afghanistan.? UNDP Afghanistan will be free to adapt and modify them in the future.

Annexes (click on the hyperlink to access the documents):

• Annex 1 - IC Contract Template (for information);

• Annex 2 - Financial Proposal Template using the template provided by UNDP (to be completed at later stage upon request by UNDP);
• Annex 3 – IC General Terms and Conditions (for information);
• Annex 4 – RLA Template (if consultant wishes to be recruited through an employer) - (for information).

Incomplete application will not be considered, it will be disqualified automatically.