Emplois au PNUD - 91017- Consultant to study on the human rights situation

Consultant to study on the human rights situation of communities living in resettlement sites in Cambodia and Draft guidelines on evictions and resettlements.

Lieu :

Homebased, CAMBODGE

Type de contrat :

Individual Contract

Date de commencement :

27-Apr-2020

Date limite de candidature :

13-Apr-20 (Minuit New York, États-Unis)

Niveau du poste :

International Consultant

Durée du contrat initial

55 working days

Langues requises :

Anglais

Durée prévue de la mission :

27 April – 30 June 2020

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

OHCHR Cambodia Office, with support of the European Union, is supporting a study on the human rights situation of communities living in resettlement sites in Cambodia, as a follow-up to the analysis in the Eviction and Resettlement in Cambodia – Human Costs, Impacts and solutions report released in 2012. As part of its technical cooperation with the Royal Government of Government (RGC), OHCHR continues to monitor instances of evictions and resettlement in Cambodia, to identify replicable good practices and report problematic areas to the RGC and other relevant actors for corrective action, thus supporting state institutions responsible for respecting and upholding rights.

The field investigation has been conducted by Cufa, an NGO counterpart working with communities living in resettlement sites. The Cufa team was responsible for:

conducting household surveys and focus group discussions in 17 resettlement sites in Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville, Banteay Meanchey, Siem Reap, Stung Treng, Koh Kong and Kampong Speu provinces;
interviewing village, commune and district level authorities to allow for local authorities to explain their role in the process of relocation, allocating individual plots, securing provision of basic services within the area, measuring changes to families’ livelihoods and supporting vulnerable households as necessary; and
interviewing local NGOs that work in the land sector, either through directly supporting evicted families at the relocation sites, for example by providing services in education or health, or specifically women in resettlement areas, or more generally, are active in advocating for land and housing rights.

Devoirs et responsabilités

The consultant will perform of the following activities:

•To – based on the data collected by Cufa - draft a human rights analysis (following a human rights-based approach)/report on resettlement sites in Cambodia [in English], identifying cross cutting issues and trends from the findings of the household surveys, focus group discussions and interviews.

•To participate (in person or remotely) in consultations with relevant governmental and non-governmental actors on the first draft of the report and to finalize it based on comments received.

•To draft national guidelines on evictions and resettlements drawing on an analysis of best practices in the international/regional/national context to attach to the report.

•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=64680 for more detail information about term of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.

Compétences

Ability to compile and analyze statistical data from the rights based perspective
Ability to write comprehensive, analytical
Ability to communicate and make presentations on the findings of the report

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education: Master’s degree in relevant fields (law, public administration, environment, economics)

Experience: at least five years’ experience in the field of human rights, added advantage is familiarity with land rights issues in Cambodia

Language Requirement: English

UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete.

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. Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work

2. Financial proposal

3. Personal CV including experience in similar projects, list of publication written by Candidate and at least 3 references.

Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on-line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e-mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email chanpisey.ky@undp.org and cc procurement.kh@undp.org . While the Procurement Unit would endeavor to provide information expeditiously, only requests receiving at least 5 working days prior to the submission deadline will be entertained. Any delay in providing such information will not be considered as a reason for extending the submission deadline. The UNDP's response (including an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) will be posted in Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice page as provided above. Therefore, all prospective Offerors are advised to visit the page regularly to make obtain update related to this Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice.