National Advisor on Advocacy Strategies Tender, Guinea Bissau - 29801349

Procurement Summary

Country : Guinea Bissau

Summary : National Advisor on Advocacy Strategies

Deadline : 27 Jan 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 29801349

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : NCB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
BUREAU DU PNUD RUA RUI DJASSI - CP 179, BISSAU TEL: (+245) 32013 62
Guinea Bissau
Email :registry.gw@undp.org
URL :http://www.gw.undp.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for National Advisor on Advocacy Strategies.

Background

In January 2018, the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) approved a project to boost the average sector for peace and stability in Guinea-Bissau.

This project aims to make a timely, strategic and integrated intervention in the media sector to ensure that professionals and institutions are better prepared and equipped to make sectoral advances, promote the accountability of public figures and defend against counterattacks and dynamics of instrumentalization that destabilize and erode the central role that journalism plays in democratic systems.

Among others, the project supports the review of the legal framework of the media sector and aims to support sector associations to participate in this discussion and to design a lobbying and advocacy strategy to advocate for a better financing model for the sector in Guinea-Bissau and working conditions for journalists.

In this sense, we intend to hire a Communication and Advocacy specialist to help representatives of the media sector design a strategy to sensitize policy-makers, legislators, Media and private sector managers to contribute to the approval of a financing model for the media. media sector that guarantees the independence of journalism and better working conditions for journalists.




Duties and Responsibilities

Under the guidance of the UNIOGBIS Public Information Unit, the GMP, in coordination with the Project Steering Committee, and the legal adviser the Consultant will:

· Teaching the media industry and its trade union leaders the best trading techniques

· Consult the relevant actors and documentation on possible financing models for the media sector and respective legislative measures to be adopted;

· Advise the representatives, the journalists' associations and the newly formed Media Consortium on the best strategy to adopt;

· Design a lobbying and advocacy strategy together with representatives, journalists' associations and the newly formed Media Consortium.




Competencies

· Have principles-based trading skills;

· Thorough knowledge of the media panorama of Guinea Bissau;

· Knowledge of the laws, rules and regulations of the Guinean media;

· Knowledge of the legislative process in Guinea-Bissau, including the preparation of the state budget.




Required Skills and Experience

Qualification:

· Masters in Journalism, Political Science, Communication, Law, Media Law, Ethics and Deontology, Sociology, or other relevant area. (the years of experience in conjunction with Degree may be considered instead of the Master's Degree)

Experience:

· Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in the area of ??communication and / or social action;

Language Requirements:

· Fluency in Portuguese and Creole

Interested individual consultants should submit the following documents / information to demonstrate their qualifications:

Proposal:

· Explain why they are best suited for the job;

· Provide a brief methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work (if applicable);

· Financial proposal;

· CV personnel including previous experience in similar projects and at least 3 references contracts per overall price.

The financial proposal must specify a fixed total amount and payment terms around specific and measurable results (qualitative and quantitative) (ie whether payments fall in installments or after completion of the entire contract). The payments are based on the exit, that is, on the delivery of the services specified in the TOR. In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial offers, the financial proposal shall include a breakdown of that lump sum (including travel, daily and estimated number of working days).

Cumulative analysis

When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

· Responsive / compliant / acceptable, and

· Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

Technical Criteria weight - 70%

Financial Criteria weight - 30%

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70 point would be considered for the Financial Evaluation

Evaluation criteria:

· Criteria A: Education background -10 pts

· Criteria B: Experience as defined in the ToRs - 15 pts

· Criteria C: Competences as defined in the ToRs - 10 pts

· Criteria D: Understating of the ToRs -15 pts

· Criteria E: Methodology and overall approach -30 pts

· Criteria F: Overall quality of the proposal (Comprehensiveness, structure, language and clarity) - 20 pts

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

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