Institutional Contractor to Strengthen the Emergency Response Service for Victims... Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Albania

Summary : Institutional Contractor to Strengthen the Emergency Response Service for Victims and Those at Immediate Risk of Trafficking

Deadline : 06 Mar 2020

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 41048876

Document Ref. No. : LRPS-2020-9156433

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN`S FUND
Rr. Skenderbej Godina e Agjencive te OKB-se Kati 3 Tirana Telephone +355 44548400
Albania
Email :egorenca@unicef.org
URL :https://www.unicef.org/

Tender Details

Request for proposals are invited for Institutional contractor to strengthen the emergency response service for victims and those at immediate risk of trafficking.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR SERVICES FORM

This FORM must be completed, signed and returned to UNICEF.

Proposal must be made in accordance with the instructions contained in this Request for Proposal for Services (RFPS). H

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT

Any Contract resulting from this RFPS shall contain UNICEF General Terms and Conditions for `dIdo9 and Corporate Contracts and any other Specific Terms and Conditions detailed in this RFPS.

INFORMATION

Any request for information regarding this RFPS must be forwarded by email to the person who prepared this document, with specific reference to the RFPS number.

The Undersigned, having read the Terms and Conditions of RFPS No. LRPS-2020-9156433 set out in the attached document, hereby offers to execute the services specified in this document.



TERMS OF REFERENCE

Institutional contractor to strengthen the emergency response service for victims and those at immediate risk of trafficking.

UNICEF IN ALBANIA

UNICEF is the agency of the United Nations (UN) mandated to advocate for the protection of children`s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. In Albania, UNICEF works with the Government and other partners to promote good governance for children, as well as inclusive and protective policies.

UNICEF operates within the framework of the #Delivering as One UN# Programme of Cooperation for Sustainable Development between the Government of Albania (GoA) and United Nations (2017-2021) and the Country Programme Document (CPD) for Albania (2017-2021). As stipulated in the CPD, UNICEF prioritizes its efforts to support:
Strengthened governance for equity and social inclusion (in health, education and social protection); Protection and access to justice for children; and Overall programme effectiveness.

Guided by the #Delivering as One UN# framework UNICEF contributes to achieve the below results specific to children (boys and girls) and their families.

UNICEF Output Result 1.1: By 2021, health care policymakers and service providers are equipped with knowledge, guidance, tools and mechanisms to effectively scale up and implement the new MNCH normative framework, focused on the most marginalized

UNICEF Output Result 1.2: By 2021, education sector policymakers and practitioners at central and local levels are equipped with knowledge, guidance, tools and mechanisms to effectively implement and scale up the reformed, Early Learning and Development Standards-based and equity-sensitive, early learning education framework UNICEF Output Result 1.3: By 2021, social protection policymakers and practitioners are equipped with knowledge, guidance, tools and mechanisms to effectively implement the reformed social protection policy (combining cash assistance with decentralized care services)



UNICEF Output Result 2.1: By 2021, social and child protection practitioners have increased capacity to assist families in situations of particular vulnerability/at risk of separation to provide care for their children, preventing institutionalization
UNICEF Output Result 2.2: By 2021, child protection practitioners are empowered with legal and normative frameworks, operational standards and tools to effectively prevent and address situations of child abuse, violence, neglect and exploitation
UNICEF Output Result 2.3: By 2021, justice sector policymakers, practitioners and independent human rights institutions have the capacity to fully align the Justice for Children normative framework to international standards and to effectively protect the rights of children in conflict and in contact with the law.
UNICEF Output Result 3.1: Guidance, tools and resources to effectively and efficiently design and manage the programme of cooperation are available to UNICEF and its partners.
UNICEF Output Result 3.2: Guidance, tools and resources to effectively generate, analyse, and utilize statistical and qualitative information for Child Rights Monitoring system are available in the country.
UNICEF Output Result 3.3: Guidance, tools and resources for effective communication on child rights issues with stakeholders are available to UNICEF and its partners.
UNICEF Output Result 3.4: Strategies to address cross-cutting issues related to child rights are developed and applied throughout the programme of cooperation.
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT


Whereas it is difficult to determine the overall-number of victims of human trafficking, a crime which is more than often committed in the shadows and whose perpetrators privilege discretion, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (#UNODC#) reports a steady increase in the number of victims detected per year, where a growing number is made up of children, who account for an estimated 30% of all trafficking victims. Not only is human trafficking largely underreported, but also counts on relatively low numbers of convictions, which have only recently started to grow. Human trafficking, that-is-to-say the internal or international Recruitment, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation# (e g. for sexual exploitation, forced labor, servitude or the removal of organs), represents a complex crime with multiple ramifications and is therefore particularly difficult to comprehend, approach or measure. At the same token at its different stages and throughout the trafficking cycle, human trafficking implies the violation of numerous human and children#s rights, such as the right to life, liberty and security, but especially the right of the child to be protected against any form of abuse, neglect, exploitation and discrimination. Human trafficking denies children the access to fundamental rights and exposes them to multiple forms of violence.
Insofar as women and girls account for an alarming majority of victims of trafficking, especially for the purpose of sexual exploitation (the most common purpose), but also for forced labour, human trafficking may often be considered as one of the worst forms of gender-based violence, where the bodies of young women and girls are commercialized by sometimes vast rings of traffickers and internally or internationally sold to the most bidding. Harmful social norms proning early and forced marriage, limited access to education or livelihood opportunities for women and girls, respectively their objectivization play a major role in the dynamics of human trafficking as it is also the case for Albania.


Unfortunately, Albania is a country of source, transit and destination for human trafficking. Children, women and men are trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation and forced labour. The number of child victims detected in Albania is comparatively high and exceeds the average 30% of the overall victims of human trafficking in the country. Albanian women and children are prey to trafficking for sexual exploitation outside, but also within the country, especially during tourist season, with traffickers using false promises such as marriage or employment offers to force victims into sexual exploitation. Economic inequalities and poverty combined with a general lack of professional opportunities, conservative gender norms and the hope for a better life render Albanian women and children indeed particularly vulnerable to human trafficking. In this context, the reintegration, economic empowerment and social inclusion of former victims of trafficking, respectively the prevention of the recruitment of potential, future victims of such crime, play a crucial role in finding long-term solutions to tackle human trafficking. UNICEF#s Country Office in Albania (#CO#) is committed to tackling human trafficking of Albanian children and women (young girls in particular) and in order to do so efficiently, the CO has to address and take into account issues such as: gender-based violence, especially domestic, intimate partner and sexual violence, steadily changing recruitment methods used by traffickers (e.g. via social networks or within close family), a political volatility linked to the transition from communist rule to market economy which has led to an important increase in emigration, a dire socio-economic context offering only limited opportunities to the local population and finally an important gap between a strong legislative framework and the faltering implementation thereof.
Within the framework of the present project (the #Project#), UNICEFtfs Albanian CO was awarded the lead on a 15-months multi-partner initiative funded by the United Kingdom, acting through the intermediary of the United Kingdom#s Embassy to Albania, whose purpose is to reduce human trafficking in and from Albania. To this end, the Project will tackle human trafficking by incorporating the following four approaches:

i. Develop and implement evidence-informed, strategic communication in order to achieve a positive change in behaviors and social norms;

ii. Ensure that the justice system is victim-oriented and counts on effective law enforcement and prosecution mechanisms;

iii. Introduce and implement sustainable and rights-based models for reintegration of the victims of human trafficking and the at-risk population;

iv. Develop and implement community-driven solutions with access to social services to reduce vulnerabilities of the most-at-risk members of population.

Each one of the components of the Project will involve work in close coordination with a different

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