Individual consultancy - National Consultant (Trafficking in Persons).LBN-CO-IC-186-20

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Background

UNODC is the guardian of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and its supplementing Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (TIP Protocol). UNODC is mandated to provide support to Member States to strengthen their capacity to prevent and address trafficking in persons, to protect trafficking victims and to uphold their rights. UNODC also assists States in identifying gaps in their response and increasing the coordination of the relevant stakeholders to investigate and prosecute trafficking in persons cases, while ensuring due support and assistance is provided to victims. UNODC is implementing a project on "Addressing increased protection and assistance needs of refugees and displaced persons vulnerable to trafficking in persons in Lebanon and Jordan" as part of its Global Programme against Trafficking in Persons (GLOT59). The project is implemented in Jordan and Lebanon, in partnership with UNODC’s Regional Office for Middle East and North Africa (ROMENA). It seeks to support relevant authorities and victim service providers at the national and local level in Jordan and Lebanon to identify victims and strengthen coordination in order to enhance the criminal justice response to cases of trafficking in persons. Under this project, in partnership with Caritas and in coordination with the Ministry of Justice and the Internal Security Forces, UNODC will organize four training workshops in Lebanon, in the Bekaa Valey and the North of Lebanon bringing together relevant actors, such as law enforcement agencies, humanitarian actors and service providers at refugee ”settlements” and communities with the highest concentrations of refugees. The goal of these workshops will be to facilitate the use of mechanisms and procedures to refer victims of trafficking to support and care and ensure that professionals offering humanitarian relief are “linked” to law enforcement officers and other officials of the criminal justice response. UNODC has produced some training materials for the workshops, but the implementation of the project had to be put on hold in March 2020 because of the measures taken to contain the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions of travel. Implementation was further delayed as a result of the impact of the blast in the Port of Beirut in August 2020. The main purpose of this assignment is to resume and complete the preparation and delivery of the four training workshops, as well as to work on the content and agenda already developed by UNODC to finalize the materials that will be used for the training workshops. In addition to that, based on the information collected during these workshops, the consultant will review and propose amendments, as required, to the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the referral and protection of survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, prepared by Caritas, and to the SOPs for the identification and referral of trafficking victims, prepared by IOM, so as to ensure that they cover identification and referral of trafficking victims among refugee populations at the local level, and integrate up-to-date information on the situation and trends of Trafficking in persons in the country.

Duties and Responsibilities

The incumbent is expected to achieve smooth implementation of the tasks assigned and in particular the following deliverables: A) Four training workshops on identification and referral of victims of trafficking among refugee populations for stakeholders in the Bekaa valley and the North of Lebanon successfully conducted, and workshop reports produced. B) Review the SOPs on the treatment of Sexual and Gender-based Violence Survivors prepared by Caritas, and to the SOPs for the identification and referral of trafficking victims, prepared by IOM The consultant will perform the following main tasks: A) Workshops Preparation Liaise with Lebanon counterparts and other relevant agencies (IOM, UNHCR etc) and agree on the modalities of delivery of the multidisciplinary workshops and the participants; participate in a 1-day online preparatory / briefing session with the UNODC Project team and/or experts designated by UNODC to be acquainted with the work already accomplished and materials developed in view of the delivery of the multidisciplinary workshops (1 working day); complete and finalize the training materials to be used for the delivery of the activities in Lebanon (4 working days) B) Workshop Delivery Deliver as lead trainer in coordination with other resource persons four (4) three (3)--day workshops on identification and referral of victims of human trafficking for relevant actors interacting with populations of refugees in Lebanon, two for practitioners/professionals from the District of Akkar and one for practitioners/professionals from the Bekaa Valley (15 working days) C) Updating of SOPs and situation analysis On the basis of the information collected when performing the previous task, review and propose amendments as required to the SOPs on the treatment of Sexual and Gender-based Violence Survivors and referral and protection of victims of trafficking (5 working days). In addition, a situation analysis will be developed in the lights of the current trends related to SoM and TIP. For additional information, please refer to ANNEX I – Terms of Reference

Competencies

Funtional competencies:

• Language skills: Excellent written and oral English and Arabic languages.

Corporate Competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Advocates and promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UN;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
• Knowledge of the UN preferable.

Required Skills and Experience

Academic Qualifications:

• A first level university degree in law, social science, political science, human rights, international relations, or criminology.
• Master’s degree in law, social science, political science, human rights, international relations, or criminology.

Years of experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the field of social science, human rights and/or rule of law;
• Experience working on issues related to trafficking in persons;
• Previous experience in organizing trainings, including supporting the development of training material on combatting trafficking in persons or other serious crimes.

How to apply: The consultancy is open for all national consultants who meet the selection criteria and propose a competitive fee. Interested consultants are requested to apply only through this UNDP jobs portal. Submissions through any other media will not be considered. The application must include all of the following documents: 1. P11, 2. Annex 3 (Offerors Letter) and 3. Financial proposal All files shall be submitted in one single document and uploaded as word or PDF file to the UNDP job site. It has been observed that bidders don’t submit all requested documents and thus reducing their chance to be selected for a contract with UNDP. before you submit your offer please revise that the application is complete and comprises all documents. Incomplete applications will not be considered.