UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP) has floated a tender for Establish Psychosocial Support Services for KPs targeting prisoners and young Key population. The project location is Zambia and the tender is closing on 18 Oct 2019. The tender notice number is 60008, while the TOT Ref Number is 37016204. Bidders can have further information about the Tender and can request the complete Tender document by Registering on the site.

Expired Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Zambia

Summary : Establish Psychosocial Support Services for KPs targeting prisoners and young Key population

Deadline : 18 Oct 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 37016204

Document Ref. No. : 60008

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)
P.O. Box 31966 Alick Nhata Road Lusaka, Zambia Phone: +260 211 250 800/254586
Zambia

Tender Details

Establish Psychosocial Support Services for KPs targeting prisoners and young Key population

Incarceration impacts negatively on inmates` psychosocial wellbeing. Upon arrest and subsequent Incarceration, most inmates lose contact with their families, friends and community in general, face discrimination and stigma. Some must deal with the shame of the acts that led them into these facilities without appropriate and safe opportunities to express and get support. The social and physical environment around correctional facilities ranging from overcrowding, poor nutrition, humiliating treating from officers as well as among themselves affect the ability of inmates to seek other services such as treatment for those on lifelong medication, special dietary requirements to mention but a few. Such social and physical environmentalconditions compound their low self-worthiness, feelings of being insecure, increase aggressive behaviours, heightened stress and interpersonal sensitivity among others. In turn, these impede opportunities for in-facility reformation process for which Correctional facilities were set-up. In its transformative process, Zambia Correctional Service needs support to movefrom a focus on retribution, incapacitation and deterrence, to having a enough focus on rehabilitation; one that is responsive to the holistic needs of inmates. In a related manner, other key populations such as men having sex with men face almost similar challenges. To begin with Zambian law criminalizes consensual same-sex sexual activity deemed `acts against the order of nature1", attracting 14 years to life imprisonment. This has led those involved to withdraw and hide their identities for fear of victimization, discrimination and ultimately arrests. The country being a Christian Nation with conservative belief systems that at most are intolerant to `none conforming` sexual orientation and gender identities also heightens theanxiety levels among persons involved in same sex sexual relationships. This results in rampant incidents of societal discrimination against lesbians, ga...

Documents

 Tender Notice