Arabic Translation – Consultant

Background

The Violence Prevention and Response Unit (VPRU) is one of IRC’s five Technical Units alongside Health, Education, Economy Recovery and Development and Governance.

The VPRU brings together the disciplines of Child Protection, Women’s Protection and Empowerment, and Protection & Rule of Law. We seek to reduce people’s vulnerability to violence and support them to recover from the consequences of violence through programs tailored to individual needs and contexts, as well as strategies addressing systemic gaps which contribute to the perpetuation and exacerbation of violence in crisis and conflict environments. Our prevention work focuses on programs that shift power dynamics, promote human rights, and empower people affected by violence and inequality to transform their future. Our response work focuses on ensuring lifesaving and survivor-centered services for people affected by violence and inequality in all their diversity. We work with the people most at risk and seek to address the needs of populations of all ages and backgrounds through a context-relevant, client-centered, intersectional approach. We also know from evidence and experience that in most contexts women and children are disproportionally impacted by unequal power, and therefore those at greatest risk of violence. For this reason, we are committed to specialized approaches for these populations.

Under its Protection and Rule of Law Program within the VPRU, the IRC is implementing a SIDA funded project on Strengthening Capacity to Deliver Access to Justice Programmes for Crisis Affected Populations that will deliver improved protection to crisis affected people through strengthening legal protection programming and ensuring that tools are available for A2J programming in humanitarian response to be grounded in high quality needs analysis. Under the project, the IRC has developed a Justice Systems Analysis Toolkit to strengthen capacity of frontline protection actors to understand justice systems; and a Paralegal Model Toolkit and Training Manual support adaptation of the paralegal approach to humanitarian crises in English.

The consultant will support translation of the toolkits into Spanish.

Scope of Work:

The Consultant will:

1. Translation of the Justice Systems Analysis Toolkit: Translate the justice systems analysis toolkit into Arabic. The Justice Systems Analysis Toolkit consists of 25 documents with approximately 550 pages in total.

2. Translation of the Paralegal Model Toolkit and Training Manual: Translate the Paralegal model toolkit and training manual into Arabic. The Paralegal Model Toolkit and Training Manual consists of 75 documents with approximately 800 pages in total.

Under this contract, the consultant will deliver the following:

1. The Justice Systems Analysis toolkit translated into Arabic.

2. The Paralegal Model Toolkit and Training Manual translated into Arabic.

Qualifications

Consultant qualifications and experience

Fluent in spoken and written Arabic.
Track record in accurate translation of documents into Arabic.
Provision of Translation services in humanitarian or protection contexts is a plus.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Expression of Interest

Interested consultants are encouraged to submit technical and financial proposals (including proposed daily consultant rate) not later than Thursday 30th January 2025.