International Consultant to Conduct DV Law Review and Training on Feminist Jurisprudence and Coaching to Core Groups on Feminist Jurisprudence Network

Consultant

Overview

Conduct DV Law review and training workshops on feminist jurisprudence

You have:

• Master's degree in law, gender, development studies, international relations, or other related disciplines
• Minimum 10 years progressively responsible relevant experience
• At least 8 years of professional experience in addressing gender, law and development
• Sound knowledge of international norms and standards on access to justice for victims of gender-based violence
• Fluency in English (Both oral and written)

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Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

The UN Women Cambodia Country Office (CCO) Strategic Note (SN) 2019-2023 focuses on three key priorities to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE). The first priority is to strengthen government capacity and accountability to integrate international norms and commitments (CEDAW, SDGs, Beijing PfA, Sendai) into national legislative and regulatory frameworks, including supporting dialogue and CSO engagement in accountability for GEWE commitments. The second area of focus is Ending Violence Against Women where CCO’s focus includes creating an enabling environment to prevent, respond to and prosecute all forms of GBV as well as ensuring that marginalised women who experience violence, including women migrant workers, access services and protections. Thirdly, CCO works to enhance gender responsiveness in climate change action and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). A focus on empowerment, women’s leadership, challenging negative gender norms, and leaving no one behind runs through the programme.

In Cambodia, an estimated 1 in 5 women report having experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime, and 4 percent of women report having experienced sexual violence by a non-partner after the age of 15. Cambodia also continues to face challenges in ensuring compliance of legal and policy frameworks, the judiciary, justice system and public administration systems with international norms and standards; and in educating citizens including women and children about their rights. A pre-condition for institutionalizing good governance is the existence of legal and policy framework compliant with Cambodia’s international human rights obligations through informed, participatory, and transparent processes. The passage of the Law on the Prevention of Domestic Violence and the Protection of Victims (DV Law) in 2005 marked an important advance in addressing violence against women in Cambodia. However, many of its provisions fall short of international standards, complicating its effectiveness in providing protection to victims and in holding perpetrators accountable.

The 3rd NAPVAW has prioritized improving women’s access to justice through training and capacity development for police and justice actors to improve implementation of the current law, and to review and update DV Law to be aligned with international standards. This is included ensuring that the law and its implementation address the needs of marginalized groups or groups with challenges accessing services, such as women migrant workers, LGBTIQ women, ethnic minorities, women with disabilities, older women, and others marginalised by occupation.

Building on UN Women’s experience, there is an emerging demand for expanding knowledge and skills in how the DV Law can be effectively used to protect the rights of survivors of gender-based violence against women. Building the understanding of service providers, including CSO development practitioners who work on eliminating violence against women (VAW), feminist/gender-responsive jurisprudence is seen as a catalyst to strengthen judicial services for survivors of VAW.

Duties and Responsibilities

UN Women Cambodia is seeking an international consultant to conduct (1) a legal review of the existing DV law applying a gender lens and reviewing alignment with international norms, standards and human rights frameworks including CEDAW and (2) to conduct training workshops on Gender-Responsive Jurisprudence focusing on the issue of violence against women and to support UN Women Cambodia programme team to establish two core groups to promote gender-responsive jurisprudence in their work on ending VAW. The consultant will work as a lead trainer/facilitator under the supervision of the Regional Deputy Director a.i, UN Women Asia and the Pacific and will work closely with the UN Women Cambodia Programme team with the following key tasks::

1. Provision of technical assistance to conduct legal review for DV law reform

• Desk review of the Law on Prevention of Violence and Protection of Victims and its accompanying Explanatory Note for compliance with CEDAW, a review of analysis and research on the implementation of the current DV Law’s such as the 2019 study Investigating the Domestic Violence Law in Cambodia and the 2016 Domestic Violence Law: the gap between legislation and practice and what can be done about it, and other resources identified in the desk review process.
• Conduct consultations on-line with key stakeholders (government and CSO) to understand usage of the law and opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of the legislative framework.
• Analysis of the DV Law to identify gaps and challenges in its alignment with CEDAW and relevant articles of the Penal Code, Civil Code and Law on Civil Administration.
• Formulate substantive recommendations for clarifications, strengthening, additions and eliminations to inform UN Women’s technical support on the DV Law review ensuring compliance with CEDAW, the laws of Cambodia and international good practice on legislation on violence against women.

2. Conduct a refresher training on feminist jurisprudence to programme staff of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and government officials from relevant institutions working on ending violence against women

• Review previous training reports and conduct a training needs assessment for a refresher training of previously trained participants. The training needs assessment should reflect lessons learned and pre and post-test result of the previous training;
• Develop a three-day refresher training with the UN Women Cambodia EVAW team on legal theory and practice grounded in the issue of gender-based violence against women and girls paying particular attention to intersectionality in the context of Cambodia.
• Conduct two three-day refresher training workshops online (date to be determined) for previously trained CSO members and government officials.
• Conduct an analysis of training outcomes and provide recommendations for follow-up to UN Women Cambodia.

3. Provision of technical assistance, mentoring and coaching to establish a core group of trained government officials and CSO staffs on how to integrate ideas of feminist jurisprudence framework into ongoing work on ending violence against women

• Develop a Concept Note in consultation with UN Women colleagues for establishing two core groups: (1) for trained government officials and (2) for trained CSO members on how to integrate ideas of feminist jurisprudence framework into their ongoing work on ending violence against women.
• Conduct consultations with trained CSO members and government officials (online) and provide strategic inputs/recommendations for input into the concept for establishing a core group with government officials and CSO members.
• Provide technical advice/inputs on how to maintain established core groups of trained government officials and trained CSO members and how to promote learning between the two core groups
• Once the two Core Groups are established provide coaching and mentoring in the first quarter of its establishment

EXPECTED DELIVERABLES

Deliverables/Outputs

Due Dates

1st Deliverable:

• Submission of inception report including clear workplan to successfully achieve expected deliverables;
• Submission of Report of DV Law Review including (a) desk review of good practice guidance on laws on violence against women, existing reports/analysis of existing DV Law, legal and policy framework and relevant documents and available data and (b) analysis of the DV Law to identify gaps, challenges, making recommendations for clarifications, areas for strengthening, additions and eliminations and ensuring recommendations are in line with CEDAW and international good practice in laws to end violence against women.

2nd Deliverable:

• Submission of training needs assessment, detailed refresher methodologies and training agenda, slide presentation, pre and post-test, and handouts developed and approved in consultation with UN Women programme team;
• Conduct of 2 three-day refresher training workshops for trained CSOs members and government officials (with one day-preparatory meeting with UN Women Cambodia programme team for each training);

• Submission of progress report, including analysis of training outcomes, recommendation for follow-up to UN Women Cambodia and technical advice on how to process and maintain the establishment of core team (CSO members and government officials);

  June 20, 2021

July 18, 2021

August 18, 2021

Final Deliverable:

• Submission of final concept note for core groups (CSO members and government officials)
• Submission of progress report, including note on coaching to core groups and strategic inputs on how to maintain the established core groups (CSOs and government officials)

December 15, 2021

Competencies

Technical Competencies:

• Good knowledge of international good practices in policy and legislative frameworks and institutional mechanisms concerning ending violence against women.
• A proven ability to liaise and coordinate with a myriad of stakeholders and partners, including government, civil society, international organizations and grassroots organizations.

Functional Competencies:

• Experience with UN programming
• Demonstrated sensitivity, discretion, tact, and courtesy in relation to gender equality and women’s rights, development principles, implementing partners, and national and international personnel of varied nationalities and backgrounds.

Corporate Competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UN Women;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism; and
• Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree in law, gender, development studies, international relations, or other related disciplines

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years progressively responsible relevant experience
• At least 8 years of professional experience in addressing gender, law and development
• Sound knowledge of international norms and standards on access to justice for victims of gender-based violence.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English (Both oral and written)

EVALUATION

Application will be evaluated based on Cumulative Analysis of the following criteria:

• Technical Qualification (100 points) weight; [70%]
• Financial/Price Proposal (100 points) weight; [30%]

A two-stage procedure is utilized in evaluating the proposals, with an evaluation of the technical proposal being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION EVALUATION CRITERIA:

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria:

Evaluation Criteria

Obtainable Score

Education

15

Experience

30

Technical competencies

30

Functional competencies

25

Total Obtainable Score

100

Only candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as a technically qualified candidate.

FINANCIAL/PRICE PROPOSAL COMPARISON:

• Only the financial/price proposal of candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be considered and evaluated.
• The total number of points allocated for the price component is 100.
• The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.

SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION

Interested candidates are requested to submit an electronic application to [email protected] no later than 4 June 2021 by 5 p.m. local time in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Late application submissions will not be considered.

APPLICATION PACKAGE:

1. Application letter explaining why the candidate is the most suitable for the work;
2. CV and Copies of Educational Qualifications;
3. Personal History Form (P11). The P11 form can be downloaded from the following: http://www2.unwomen.org/~/media/field%20office%20eseasia/docs/misc/2012/p_11_form_unwomen.doc?v=1&d=20160811T044602 or http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs
4. Financial proposal. The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, which break down by 1) daily professional fee; 2) cost of living allowance for applicable missions outside duty station; and 3) international airfare (round trip from home-based country to Phnom Penh) and other travel-related costs such as visa, if applicable.

All applications must include (as attachments) the P11 Form, CV, and the Financial Proposal.

UN Women-Cambodia requires that all international personnel, regardless of contract modality or position status, should comply with UN Cambodia Residential Security Measure (RSM) for accommodations and housing in Cambodia. A residential inspection is required and will be conducted by UNDSS, whereupon corrections may be identified to achieve compliance with UN Cambodia RSM Standards. As such, newly arriving personnel are advised not to enter into long-term housing arrangements until inspection and compliance are verified. For personnel who are already in-country, steps must be taken to achieve UN Cambodia RSM compliance.

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