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The UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND has issued a Tender notice for the procurement of a Individual National Consultant - Technical Support to the Office in the Turkmenistan. This Tender notice was published on 22 Jun 2019 and is scheduled to close on 30 Jun 2019, with an estimated Tender value of Refer Document. Interested bidders can access detailed Tender information, eligibility criteria, and complete bidding documents by referencing TOT Ref No. 33940274, while the tender notice number is and Registering on the platform.
Procurement Summary
Country: Turkmenistan
Summary: Individual National Consultant - Technical Support to the Office
Deadline: 30 Jun 2019
Posting Date: 22 Jun 2019
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 33940274
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Financier: United Nations Secretariat
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Tender Value: Refer Document
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Tenders are invited for Turkmenistan: Individual National Consultant - Technical Support to the Office of the Ombudsman in its Role for Promotion and Protection of Child Rights.
Background
For the past 27 years, UNICEF has been a strategic and trusted partner of Turkmenistan, working closely to support child rights and promote equity. Complementing national development priorities, such as the Social and Economic Development Programme and other national policies, UNICEF continues to provide technical assistance to improve legislation and policies; capacity building of institutions and public agencies; and support for families to better care for their children. Within the Turkmenistan-UNICEF Country Programme for the period 2016-2020, UNICEF supports the Government of Turkmenistan to accelerate the universal realization of child rights by aligning legal frameworks, policies and practices for children with international standards. Turkmenistan is a signatory to major treaties, conventions and declarations relating to facilitation of the rights of the children, including the Convention of the Rights of the Child, UNCRPD & CEDAW.
The total population is estimated at 5, 565 million people[1] (50.2 percent being women), with 30 per cent reported to be under 14[2]. The country has a high fertility rate compared with its neighbors, in part due to birth incentives from the Government. The total fertility rate among women of reproductive age is 3.2[3]. Turkmenistan conducted its first population and housing census in 17 years in 2012. Data on women and children are mostly available through the results of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys that were conducted in Turkmenistan in 2006 and 2015-16. Both were made publicly available on the MICS global web site[4]. In terms of data collection, the State Statistics Committee is in the process of implementing a new round of Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS). MICS will provide an opportunity to provide data for about 25 SDG indicators, most importantly, at the disaggregated level. This in turn will serve as a major milestone in measuring the achievements of Turkmenistan toward SDGs.
To further the child rights agenda, UNICEF worked with partners to put in place the first baseline assessment in 2018 for 55 child-related SDG indicators, accounting for 29% of all indicators. It was the first attempt to look into actual availability, recentness and disaggregation of data to serve as baselines for SDG indicators, focusing primarily on child-related indicators.
The Government of Turkmenistan adopted the National Plan of Action (NPAC) for Realization of the Rights of the Children in 2018. The Plan is founded on the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international agreements on behalf of children, to which Turkmenistan is a party. The NPAC provides a holistic framework for integrating all policies and plans developed by the Government of Turkmenistan and civil society to promote the well-being of children. The NPAC provides a mechanism that enhances coordination, collaboration and mainstreaming of children-s rights across state policy, through the development and implementation of inter-sectoral programmes that guarantee the rights and welfare of children as well as its independent monitoring.
UNICEF started collaboration with the newly established Office of the Ombudsman (OO). In the first year of its collaboration, UNICEF in partnership with the OO conducted a round of workshops and monitoring visits to all velayats of Turkmenistan, covering functions of the newly established OO and child rights and wellbeing.
The National Human Rights Institutions are one of the pillars of the sustainable societies and ensure independent monitoring of the situation providing continuum of feedback into the policy. Being new, the OO still lacks capacity and is under-resourced while it recognizes that the issues of children require specific attention, expertise and support.
Purpose of the assignment
Given the above context, the overall purpose of the assignment is to provide support to the Office of the Ombudsman in strengthening its status, functional mechanisms, practices and capacity for independent monitoring of child-s rights in line with international standards, including youth engagement, handling of child-related complaints and development of alternative CRC reporting.
Specific Tasks
Specifically, the consultancy will:
Institutional capacity building of OO:
Contribute to the development 5-year strategic vision document for the Office of the Ombudsman to ensure that the Office operates in compliance with the Paris Principles adopted by the General Assembly in 1993.
Contribute to strengthening OOs collaboration with central and local level national authorities, as well as the existing national human rights institutions, to promote children-s rights.
Further expand cooperation with civil society organisations and corporate sector including in the regions.
Enhance OO capacity for processing and analysing complaints related to child rights.
Advancing independent monitoring capacity of OO including for public and closed institutions for children.
Other duties, as required in consultation with Child Rights Monitoring Specialist.
Evidence generation and dissemination:
Lead the engagement of young people in the participatory process of development, review and agreement on the format and content of the second annual report of the OO.
Lead processes of collecting, analysing and compiling data and information for annual report of OO, including on processed complaints.
If agreed, support development of an alternative report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Support in capacity building for alternative report preparation.
Advocacy for protection of child rights:
Support to OO in harmonizing national legislation, regulations and practices with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, its Optional Protocols and other international human rights instruments.
Regular informational support to OO advocacy and technical discussion: international standards, briefs, situational analysis.
Contributing to the preparation of statements and presentations on child rights promotion and protection with reference to international standards.
Support strengthening of the Ombudsman-s cooperation with media in the area of child rights protection including regular media monitoring on violations of child rights and initiation of NCCR-s response to the media identified facts of child rights violations.
The consultant will support the workshops organized centrally and in the velayats, promote information on CRC concluding observations, child rights monitoring and will help guide the discussion with the workshop participants. Special attention will be paid to the General Measures of the CRC Implementation [5] and the Child Rights Governance with focus on marginalized and disadvantaged children, including Child Rights Monitoring, ways to strengthen National Systems and building Awareness and Capacity. Protection of Child Rights in Emergencies and building resilience in children and systems to withstand multiple shocks and stresses will be also given prominence.
The impact of the consultancy will be increased awareness of child rights, CRC concluding observations amongst government ministries/institutions, members of the Mejlis, the Institute of State, Law and Democracy and national NGOs.
Reporting requirements
The initial contract is until 31 December 2019 and will be extended subject to satisfactory performance and funds availability. The distribution of tasks and corresponding deliverables are suggested below, which will be refined and revised with the selected consultant and in close consultation with the Ombudsman. The consultant will report directly to the Ombudsman on a day to day basis. He/she will also be expected to prepare monthly reports on activities carried out to UNICEF Turkmenistan Country Office. In addition, quarterly joint review of task undertaken against outputs will be carried out to assess the progress.
Tasks:
Deliverables/Outputs:
Date
Institutional capacity building of OO.
Agreed recommendations, key strategic areas, activities, targets, indicators and partners for 5-year strategic development vision document of the OO.
Work plans with line ministries, national human rights institutions and civil society organisations.
Support to capacity building workshop provided (identification of training needs, experts, agenda, participants, follow-up).
Draft workplan with UNICEF for 2020.
By 31 October 2019
TBD
By 31 November 2019
By end November
Evidence generation and dissemination.
Agreed format and content of annual report of the OO.
Support with development of UNCRC alternative report
Compiled evidence, analysis, administrative data, statistics on children and other information for annual report. Draft report submitted to OO.
Compiled evidence, analysis, administrative data, statistics and other information for the alternative report. Draft report submitted to OO.
By end of August 2019
TBD
Quarterly
December 2019
Advocacy for protection of child rights:
Statements and presentations on child rights promotion and protection with reference to international standards.
Media monitoring briefs with recommendations for OO-s response to the media identified facts of child rights violations.
Monthly
Monthly
All the reports and documents will be developed in Turkmen and translated to English/Russian, as needed.
Payment schedule
Payments will be made monthly as a lump sum. All deliverables must be delivered on time and to the satisfaction of Ombudsman and the UNICEF Turkmenistan.
Fees will be rendered upon written approval by the UNICEF Supervisor, and contingent upon the quality of deliverables.
Work arrangements
The consultant is expected to provide monthly activity report to UNICEF CO and coordinate activities with Child Rights Monitoring Specialist of the UNICEF Turkmenistan CO. For day to day activities, guidance will be provided by the Ombudsman.
UNICEF will regularly communicate with the selected candidate and provide formats for reports, feedback and guidance on performance and all other necessary support so as to achieve objectives of the exercise, as well as remain aware of any upcoming issues related to expert-s performance and quality of work.
The consultant is expected to undertake a minimum of 2 travel missions to each velayat (approximately 10 trips). Travel costs will be reimbursed as incurred. The selected consultant will be based at the premises of the OO.
General Terms and Conditions
UNICEF-s general terms and conditions will apply to the contract awarded to the vendor. Please note that, in the evaluation of the technical merits of each proposal, UNICEF will take into consideration any proposed amendments to the UNICEF General Terms and Conditions. Proposed amendments to the UNICEF general terms and conditions may negatively affect the evaluation of the technical merits of the proposal.
UNICEF retains the right to patent and intellectual rights, as well as copyright and other similar intellectual property rights for any discoveries, inventions, products or works arising specifically from the implementation of the project in cooperation with UNICEF. The right to reproduce or use materials shall be transferred with a written approval of UNICEF based on the consideration of each separate case. Consultants should always refer to UNICEF Turkmenistan support in developing the materials when publishing the results of the research conducted while in Turkmenistan in academic journals, books and websites.
In the event of unsatisfactory performance, UNICEF reserves the right to terminate the Agreement. In case of partially satisfactory performance, such as serious delays causing the negative impact on meeting the programme objectives, low quality or insufficient depth and/or scope of the assignment completion, UNICEF is entitled to decrease the payment by the range from 30% to 50% of the contract value as decided jointly by the Contract Supervisor and Operations Manager.
Qualifications and Skills Required
The consultant should meet the following requirements:
An advanced university degree in social sciences (Public Policy, International Development/Law) or related discipline;
At least 5 years of proven experience and knowledge in human rights, education and social and child protection, and with international frameworks for the realisation of children-s rights;
Demonstrated experience of developing tools and guidance, capacity building and mentoring of professional staff;
Excellent analytical, writing, communication and facilitation skills;
Fluency and strong writing skills in English. Knowledge of English, Turkmen and Russian is required.
The Application
The application should include:
A cover letter, including:
Assessment of suitability vis-à-vis the requirements of this ToR;
A summary of experience in similar assignments;
Links to/attachments of examples of similar work;
A proposed monthly fee in USD
Comments and suggestions on the ToR and proposed workplan and deliverables;
CV (including qualifications and experience);
References.
[1] Estimation for 2015 by the United Nations Population Division, |World Population Prospects 2017.
[2] State Statistics Committee of Turkmenistan, 2016 Statistical Annual Report.
[3] The State Committee of Statistics of Turkmenistan and UNICEF. 2016. 2015-2016 Turkmenistan Multiple
Indicator Cluster Survey, Final Report. Ashgabat, Turkmenistan: The State Committee of Statistics of
Turkmenistan and UNICEF.
[4] mics.unicef.org
[5] The General Measures of Implementation are contained an Annex A
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
How to apply:
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=523170
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