Location : | Homebased & Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA |
Application Deadline : | 04-Jul-22 (Midnight New York, USA) |
Type of Contract : | Individual Contract |
Post Level : | International Consultant |
Languages Required : | English |
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) | 01-Aug-2022 |
Duration of Initial Contract : | 30 working days (from 1 August to 31 October 2022) |
Expected Duration of Assignment : | 30 working days (from 1 August to 31 October 2022) |
Cambodia's landmine contamination is the result of a protracted sequence of internal and regional conflicts that affected the country from the mid-1960s until the end of 1998. Anti-personnel mine contamination in the north-western regions bordering Thailand are amongst the highest concentrations in the world. Other areas of the country, mainly in the east, have been impacted primarily by the presence of explosive remnants of war (ERW), including cluster munitions.
Humanitarian mine action in Cambodia started in 1992. To ensure proper management, effectiveness, and efficiency of the mine action sector, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) established the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) by Royal Decree in 2000. The CMAA is mandated to coordinate, monitor, and regulate demining and ERW clearance activities and assistance to mine/ERW victims.
As of April 2022, Cambodia’s mine action sector had collectively cleared and released 2,379 km2 of contaminated land, destroyed 1,136,494 anti-personnel mines, 26,014 anti-tank mines, and 2,997,328 items of ERW, including cluster munitions. However, the deadly legacy of unexploded ordnance and other ERW contamination has restricted livelihood activities, hindered development, and caused almost 65,000 human casualties, including nearly 20,000 deaths and over 9,000 amputations since 1979.
The CMAA estimates that Cambodia still has 1,991 km2 of contaminated land, of which 736 km2 is contaminated by landmines. The Cambodian mine action sector efforts are currently guided by the National Mine Action Strategy (NMAS) 2018-2025 and its respective three-year implementation plans (current 2021-2023). The NMAS is envisioned towards achieving a known-mine free Cambodia by 2025, while the RGC has also adopted a localised Sustainable Development Goal 18 (CSDG 18: End the negative impact of Mine/ERW and promote victim assistance) in pursuit of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Nationally implemented through the CMAA, the Clearing for Results (CfR) project has been supporting the RGCs mine action efforts since 2006. Clearing for Results, Phase IV (CfRIV: 2020-2025), financially funded by the RGC, Australia, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, and UNDP, has been designed to support the transition of a humanitarian-driven mine action sector to one that utilizes the results of mine action to support targeted action for poverty reduction and human development. The project aims to support mine/ERW clearance and land release, create pathways for accelerated development in villages that have been declared mine-free, and strengthen the national regulation and coordination capacity in the demining sector for sustainable residual threat management.
CfRIV contributes to the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2019–2023 Outcome 2: By 2023, women and men in Cambodia, in particular those marginalized and vulnerable, benefit from expanded opportunities for decent work and technological innovations; and participate in a growing, more productive and competitive economy, that is also fairer and environmentally sustainable; and the UNDP Country Programme Document (CPD) Output 1.3: Left-behind and mine-affected communities have access to mine-free land for better livelihoods.
The CfRIV project has the following three outputs:
Output 1: The prioritized mine-impacted villages are declared mine-free
Output 2: Affected and vulnerable populations provided with expanded opportunities for decent livelihoods, inclusion, and wellbeing in accordance with national development priorities
Output 3: Strengthened mine action sector management and national capacities that address residual threats
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The MTR will be conducted in such a way to ensure that the key principles of UNDP Evaluation are fully respected. The review shall be independent, impartial, transparent, ethical, and credible.
This MTR will mainly focus to assess the relevance, effectiveness, results, efficiency, impact, sustainability, gender and other cross cutting issues namely human right and disability, and partnerships of the project. The following are guiding questions within the framework of the MTR criterions (to be reviewed/elaborated in the evaluation inception report):
H. Cross cutting issues - Gender, human rights, and disability: assessment of the project’s contribution of and visibility to strengthening gender equality and social inclusion across institutional, operational, and beneficiary levels.
Interested offeror must read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=92487 for more detail information about term of reference, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online
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Required Skills and Experience |
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Education:
Minimum of an advanced university degree i.e. Master’s Degree in the field of Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Intervention, Impact Evaluation for International Development; Social Science, International Relations, Development Studies or related field demonstrably relevant to the position.
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Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email. Interested individual offeror must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications: 1. Proposal: Letter of explaining why they are most suitable for the work 2. Financial proposal (Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP) 3. Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on-line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e-mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.
Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email chanpisey.ky@undp.org and cc procurement.kh@undp.org . While the Procurement Unit would endeavor to provide information expeditiously, only requests receiving at least 5 working days prior to the submission deadline will be entertained. Any delay in providing such information will not be considered as a reason for extending the submission deadline. The UNDP's response (including an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) will be posted in Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice page as provided above. Therefore, all prospective Offerors are advised to visit the page regularly to make obtain update related to this Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice |
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