Background

Over the last decade, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Newly-Merged Districts (NMDs’) have experienced security challenges and large-scale population displacements. Since 2014, a combination of military operations and political reform process culminated in the merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas into neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The merger, one of the most significant political reforms in Pakistan’s 70-year history, is an unprecedented extension of constitutional rights and governance structures to 5 million of the poorest people in Pakistan.

The reform process includes the introduction of constitutional rights, elected local governments, the rule of law institutions, and empowered legislature, fundamentally changing the relationship between the citizen and the state.

There is a real and genuine risk of a backlash and the formation of countermobilization against the state and the integration process. While the government designed the reform process to stabilise and develop the region, the integration agenda includes reforms which may have the potential to introduce a new conflict or exacerbate existing tensions between the state and FATA residents in the near to medium term. The reform process, including tribal decade strategy and accelerated implementation plan, include extraction of minerals, land settlement and the formal justice systems. While these may be essential aspects for economic, legal and cultural integration, researchers have associated similar initiatives with conflict. There may be a possibility that these reforms could inadvertently contribute to instability in the region.

UNDP with support from DFID is recruiting a lead researcher to research stability implications of the introduction of the formal justice system in the merged areas. A field researcher based in Pakistan and contracted through a third-party will support the lead researcher.

Duties and Responsibilities

- Recommendations for the international community

Duties and Responsibilities

The lead researcher shall by the primary author of the report with the field researcher as well as providing overall guidance, quality assurance, and critical analysis. This will be done off-site through the exchange of documents and daily communication with the project team and the field researcher.

1. Deliverables, Scope, Schedule of Payments

    

Competencies

Building Strategic Partnerships

• Makes effective use of UNDP’s resources and comparative advantage to strengthen partnerships
• Creates networks and promotes initiatives with partner organizations

Innovation and New Approaches

• Creates an environment that fosters innovation and innovative thinking.
• Conceptualizes more effective approaches to program development and implementation

Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing

• Participating in the development of policies and innovative approaches and promoting their application throughout the organization
• Promotes UNDP as a learning/knowledge sharing organization.

Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise

• Possesses expert knowledge of advanced concepts in primary discipline, a broad knowledge of related disciplines, as well as an in-depth knowledge of relevant organizational policies and procedures, with expertise in reforms contexts
• Keeps abreast of new developments in area of professional discipline and job knowledge and seeks to develop him/herself personally
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments

Client Orientation

• Anticipates constraints in the delivery of services and identifies solutions
• Proactively identifies, develops and discusses solutions for clients

Core Competencies

• Promoting ethics and integrity, creating organizational precedents
• Staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation
• Promoting effective teams 
• Very good communication skills. Ability to express clearly and concisely in both written and oral forms
• Transparent decision making; calculated risk-taking
• Ability to be flexible and react to changing circumstances, e.g. security situation

Required Skills and Experience

Only consultants obtaining a minimum of 70% on the Technical evaluation will be considered for the Financial Evaluation.

Submission Instructions:

Please submit your Technical and Financial proposals to the following address: not later than 11th December 2019 at 1230 hours Pakistan standard time. Or 02:30 AM EST.

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