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Sexual and Gender-based violence (SGBV) is widespread in South Sudan mainly as a result of 2013 and 2016 violent conflict, and cultural practices by some communities resulting in marginalization, neglect and high levels of poverty. One in five women in South Sudan is affected by SGBV, posing a severe health and developmental challenge. Protracted years of civil wars and devastating conflict created widespread insecurity with serious implications for the delivery of quality justice and human rights to the population. Moreover, survivors of SGBV face significant challenges in accessing justice due to inadequate resources and weak capacity of the criminal justice system to carry out investigations and prosecution of SGBV cases. In response, South Sudan National Police Service and the Ministry of Gender with support from UNDP, UNPOL, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF and UN-Women established Special Protection Unit under the Police Service Act 2009, to extend professional service to the vulnerable groups, especially women and children to ensure effective investigation and management of SGBV cases and protection of juveniles. From 2015 to date, 16 SPU offices have been opened in South Sudan. The SSNPS plans to extend them to all states and divisions in South Sudan by 2024. The SSNPS also launched the national coordination centre for the SPU in 2020 which serves to provide advisory and monitory role to the states SPU, coordinate GBV crime data, analysis and interpretation of results for policy direction on prevention of GBV. There is statistical validation that the SPU’s have been partially successfully performed, especially those in the state’s capitals. The social need for the Police Unit’s interventions and its successful completion of those programmes of activity in parts of Juba provide evidence for its continued existence. Further, evidence from the common operation areas for the SSNPS and SPU points to the Unit’s functions that are closely aligned to those of the other core areas of SSNPS , therefore, the two are complementary and interdependent in the fulfilment of their missions to the South Sudanese. The SPU is however constrained by limited resources and weak of capacity to carry out investigations of cases. Moreover, frequent rotation of personnel, including trained police officers from SPUs to other departments further weakens the effectiveness of the SPU operations. Also, the Government of South Sudan has taken action to strengthen the legal protection of women and girls against all forms of gender-based violence, with attention to sexual violence. The Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 2008, the Child Act, 2008 and the Penal Code Act, 2008 contain several provisions that deal with cases of SGBV. Additionally, South Sudan has acceded to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979 (CEDAW) and developed a National Action Plan 2015-2020 on UNSCR 1325. GBV Standard Operating Procedures for the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Welfare have been drafted, and an Anti-GBV Bill is in its final drafting stages. These documents, once adopted, are intended to strengthen the functioning of SPUs to investigate SGBV cases effectively. In 2019, UNDP provided support to the Government of South Sudan to develop a GBV Training Manual, which was intended to support the capacity strengthening of the SSNPS and the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs to investigate and prosecute GBV cases and to support other relevant institutions involved in the referral pathway. Thus, to complement ongoing institutional capacity building efforts a more robust legal response incidents of GBV will be useful in the adjudication of cases in the established special GBV Court. In this regard, the SPU will tailor practical guide that span from opening of case initiation to closure of a GBV case. The project consultancy seeks to support the police in the development of standard operating procedure (SOP), strengthening capacity of police service in carrying out the investigation, prosecution of cases of sexual violence and juvenile’s protection by the judiciary of South Sudan. |
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The overall objective of the consultancy is to develop an SOP for SPUs on the operations and support investigations of SGBV cases, protection of juvenile survivors and those in conflict with the law; provide technical guidance to SSNPS personnel related to the protection of victims, witness, survivors of SGBV; investigation and collection of quality evidence to bring SGBV cases to trial and ensure adequate support to the prosecution of the SGBV. Expected outputs and deliverables: Under the supervision of the UNDP Access to Justice and Rule of Law Chief Technical Adviser and Project Manager, the consultant will accomplish the following deliverables following the stipulated timelines covering a total period of four (4) months which is 84 working days.
Scope of work In collaboration with relevant staff of UNDP and UNMISS (including UNPOL, Rule of Law, and Human Rights Division), the South Sudan National Police Service, Directorate of Social Welfare of the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare, the Women and Children’s Unit of the Ministry of Justice and the Judicial Service, the consultant will conduct the relevant consultations in-country partners prior to the development of the SOP. He/she will conduct thorough research of existing SPU operations and SGBV-related legal framework in South Sudan, and other literature resources relevant to the management of SGBV cases and Juvenile Justice, and on the primarily national and international laws and conventions. The SOP will cover various chapters, amongst others, which include,
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Corporate Competencies
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Planning & Organising
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Application Procedure: The application package containing the following (to be uploaded as one file):
Note: The above documents need to be scanned in one file and uploaded to the online application as one document. Shortlisted candidates (ONLY) will be requested to submit a Financial Proposal.
Technical proposal comprising of the following:
Offers received will be evaluated using a Combined Scoring method, where the qualifications and proposed methodology will be weighted 70%. Criteria to be used for rating the qualifications and methodology Technical evaluation criteria (total 70 points)
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70 points in the Technical Evaluation will be considered for the Financial Evaluation. Financial evaluation (total 30 points) All technically qualified proposals will be scored out 30 based on the formula provided below. The maximum points (30) will be assigned to the lowest financial proposal. All other proposals receive points according to the following formula: p y (/z) Where:
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