Location : Homebased and Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
Application Deadline : 27-Sep-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) 10-Oct-2022
Duration of Initial Contract : 40 working days with 10 days in Cambodia from 10 October 2022 to 23 February 2023
Expected Duration of Assignment : 40 working days with 10 days in Cambodia from 10 October 2022 to 23 February 2023
The
Royal Government of Cambodia has taken effective steps to promote the
living conditions of persons with disabilities, evidenced by the
ratification of the CRPD, adoption of the National Disability Strategic
Plan 2019-2023 (NDSP2), and efforts to amend the 2009 Law on the
Protection and the Promotion of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(Disability Law). Cambodia's long-term vision is to build an efficient
and financially sustainable social protection system. In 2017, the RGC
established the National Social Protection Policy Framework 2016-2025
(SPPF), which aims to expand coverage and increase coherence between
social assistance, social insurance and labour market schemes. Persons
with disabilities face greater exposure to risks and vulnerabilities
throughout the life cycle which should be addressed by social protection
systems. The recent dialogues between organisations of persons with
disabilities (OPDs) and social protection policymakers were seen as a
positive sign of growing interest to make the social protection
framework more disability-inclusive. However, it also highlighted some
challenges for persons with disabilities to access existing benefits.
This may be caused by an insufficient level of awareness of Social
Projection stakeholders/providers on disability inclusion, lack of
information for persons with disabilities on social protection benefits,
issues of physical access to social protection facilities etc. In
addition, the recent review of SPPF highlighted issues of limited
coverage and inadequacy of current disability relevant schemes. Access
to social protection is fundamental to enable persons with disabilities
to achieve effective inclusion and active participation in society on
an equal basis with others. The guidelines on the disability-inclusive
social protection are needed to enhance the perspective towards
disability in social protection systems that should move away from a
model based on the inability to work, and towards a human rights-based
model as outlined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD). In addition, it may be necessary to enhance the
knowledge of authorities at all levels on disability-inclusive social
protection to ensure persons with disabilities have equitable access to
the social protection system as a capacity assessment on knowledge of
five Provincial DACs found that there was limited knowledge on DISP that
95.7 percent of respondents agreed or totally agreed that more
opportunities are needed to increase knowledge and skills on
disability-inclusive social protection.
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Duties and Responsibilities
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The assignment aims to assist the
DAC-SG and GS-NSPC to develop the Guidelines on the Disability Inclusive
Social Protection, practical checklists and toolkits of the guidelines
to ensure the disability-specific requirements are included in the
social protection system and to provide training of trainers (ToT) to
the leaders and staff of DAC-SG, GS-NSPC, CDPO and relevant stakeholders
on disability and social protection sectors. The guidelines should at least include the contents below. Analysis of the current social protection in Cambodia Future
direction of the Social Protection in Cambodia using global and
regional frameworks for disability-inclusive social protection
(recommendation) Purpose of the guidelines Definition
of Disability Inclusion, Social Protection, Disability-Inclusive Social
Protection, Physical Accessibility, Reasonable Accommodation,
Accessible Communication Who owns the guidelines? Who uses the guidelines? Who benefits from the guidelines? Responsibility of decision makers and operators Rational for a disability inclusive social protection system Engagement of OPDs How to apply the guidelines Available resources and tools
The
checklists and toolkits should include a few practical examples of how
the social protection services can be accessible for persons with
disabilities (operators) and how persons with disabilities can directly
access the existing disability-specific or mainstream social protection
services. The assignment will be expected to: Conduct
a desk review on the existing policies and legal frameworks related to
the disability and social protection in Cambodia including the National
Disability Strategic Plan 2019-2023 (NDSP2), Law on the Protection and
the Promotion of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, National
Social Protection Policy Framework 2016-2025 (SPPF), Poor Households
Program (IDPoor), Cash Transfer Programme, Health Equity Fund, National
Social Security Fund, Disability Identification System, the Cash
Transfer Program for Poor and Vulnerable Households during COVID-19 and
look into the global and regional frameworks for disability-inclusive
social protection to substantiate the guideline development; Design
methodology and tools to perform data collection including consultation
with relevant stakeholders through a number of workshops, meetings and
focus group discussions/ face to face/ virtually (taking into account of
COVID-19 situation) or in-depth interviews with relevant government
institutions, CDPO, OPDs and relevant stakeholders related to the
disability and social protection; Collect the data from
relevant government institutions, CDPO, OPDs and relevant stakeholders
related to the disability and social protection; Analyse
the data and present the first draft of guidelines on DISP in the final
consultation workshop to the relevant government institutions, CDPO,
OPDs and relevant stakeholders for their feedbacks and recommendations; Submit
the revised guidelines on the DISP to the relevant government
institutions, CDPO, OPDs and relevant stakeholders for their final
feedbacks; Submit the final guidelines, practical checklists and toolkits of the guidelines for the endorsement; and Provide
2 full-day face-to-face training of trainers to the relevant government
institutions, CDPO, OPDs and relevant stakeholders on the final
guidelines, practical checklists and toolkits.
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Competencies
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Functional competence Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with government and development partners. Good facilitation and presentation skills. Strong
interpersonal skills, ability to work with people from different
backgrounds to deliver quality products within a short timeframe. Be flexible and responsive to changes and demands. Be client-oriented and open to feedback. Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability. Treats all people fairly without favoritism. - Excellent computer literacy
Corporate competencies: Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards. Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability. Treats all people fairly without favoritism.
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Required Skills and Experience
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Education: - At
least advanced university degree (master’s degree) in arts, public
policy, social science, development or other related field research.
Experience: At least 5
years of relevant working experience in the disability inclusion and
few years in social protection or scheme projects/ programs
(disability/social inclusion expert is preferable). Experience in developing guidelines or policies related to social protection, disability pension, social insurance schemes, etc. Strong
knowledge in national and international strategics, frameworks and
policies in relation to disability inclusion, social protection,
disability pension, social insurance schemes, public services support
schemes, disability inclusion, and human rights.
Language Requirement: - Fluent in both written and spoken English
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=95585 more
detail information about term of references, instructions to offeror,
and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through
online. UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete. Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email. Interested
Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as
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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. 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 Any
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