Re-advertisement: National legal consultant to provide technical support to Shock Responsive Social Protection agenda

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For each little one, safety

There may be rising curiosity globally in how current nationwide social safety techniques may be leveraged to reply to these sorts of slow-onset shocks to ship the identical stage of support in a shorter timeframe and with a lot decrease administrative prices (for instance through the use of their focusing on techniques or cost techniques relatively than establishing new ones by way of parallel humanitarian responses of brief period). There may be additionally rising curiosity in how enabling households susceptible to catastrophe to have interaction in larger preparedness; a key rising facet of that is how early warning techniques might help alert households, communities, and native authorities to those dangers, in order that help may be offered upfront of the particular onset of a shock or catastrophe.

The Authorities of Azerbaijan (GoA) has dedicated within the 5-year Nationwide Social-Financial Technique Implementation Plan to ascertain shock-responsive social safety measures (SRSP) into the nationwide social safety (SP) system by 2026 (exercise 2.2.1). UNICEF Azerbaijan workplace provides technical help to the Ministry of Labour and Social Safety of Inhabitants of Azerbaijan (MoLSPP) within the improvement these of mechanisms.

UNICEF Azerbaijan is supporting the Ministry of Labour and Social Safety of the Inhabitants (MLSP) to make sure targets set out within the Nationwide Socio-Financial Technique Implementation Plan (2022 -2026) associated to establishing shock-responsive social safety (SRSP) mechanisms, together with authorized proposals and scenario-based plans, are met in a well timed style.

UNICEF Azerbaijan has labored with stakeholders from a variety of presidency Ministries and with native authorities to determine 3 potential SRSP fashions upon which the mechanisms may be constructed, in addition to a lot of workstreams round which the work is being carried out:

• Authorized and regulatory framework
• Clear design parameters, protocols and procedures to implement SRSP interventions (Tips and Manuals)
• Versatile social safety administration info techniques
• Versatile and Scalable Supply Mechanisms (i.e., Concentrating on and Fee)
• Linkages of SRSP to Early Warning Techniques 
• Institutional Preparations & Formal Coordination Mechanisms
• Financing Technique
• Human Useful resource Necessities & Capability Constructing

The UNICEF Azerbaijan Nation Workplace is at present in the hunt for a certified authorized skilled to work intently with the UNICEF-MLSP SRSP Crew and the MLSP authorized division to draft authorized proposals to ascertain SRSP primarily based across the work described above by October 2024.

How will you make a distinction? 

Goal:

Underneath the direct supervision of the Social Coverage Specialist and worldwide consultants to:

(1) conduct a complete evaluation of the prevailing legal-regulatory framework in opposition to the deliberate SRSP mechanisms which is able to permit social safety money transfers to be paid to people and households as a part of authorities catastrophe/shock threat administration and response actions;  and

(2)  Develop a listing of laws and amendments required to advance present SRSP work (together with to scale up money help as a part of a nationwide humanitarian response) primarily based on the inputs from varied specialists engaged by UNICEF.  

Scope of Work:

In shut collaboration with the Social Coverage Specialist and different key Officers in UNICEF, in addition to with MSLP,  assessing and making proposals for the legal-regulatory framework to help the work carried out below the SRSP:

• Constructing a stable understanding of the targets and anticipated outputs of the nationwide SRSP mechanisms by conducting conferences with the SRSP crew at UNICEF and the MLSP, and reviewing the related paperwork and work plan;
• Acquiring common updates from the SRSP crew at UNICEF and the MLSP, together with paperwork and common conferences to stay up to date on the continuing SRSP work;
• Holding the UNICER-MLSP SRSP Crew and MLSP Authorized Division up to date on the progress of the work, and flagging any potential bottlenecks or challenges in a well timed method;
• Conducting an evaluation of the prevailing legal-regulatory framework for social safety, catastrophe threat administration and response, and the SRSP mechanisms across the workstreams;

o        Figuring out the related laws/laws requiring modification or potential modification;

o        Creating a listing of laws and amendments required to advance present SRSP work (together with to scale up money help as a part of a nationwide humanitarian response)

o        Creating authorized proposals in shut coordination with the MLSP authorized crew.

• Mapping and describing (in a report) the method by way of which the authorized proposals shall be submitted and ultimately adopted by the federal government;
• Figuring out checklist of stakeholders and their function in Shock Responsive Social Safety
• Partaking with the recognized stakeholders for authorized proposals, and requesting related paperwork from them for evaluation;
• Facilitate the conferences of worldwide consultants with recognized nationwide stakeholders to make sure technical readability between stakeholders as pertains to the legal-regulatory framework, and flagging potential points or bottlenecks
• To take part in commissions, working teams established in related ministries and different state our bodies (establishments), conferences of assorted ranges of native and worldwide occasions associated to SRSP
• Drafting complete authorized proposals in shut coordination with the MLSP authorized division for submission to MLSP by October 2024.

Anticipated Deliverables: 

• Inception report detailing strategy and work plan
• Overview of Laws & and preliminary evaluation report on an current legal-regulatory framework for social safety, catastrophe threat administration and response, and the SRSP mechanisms across the workstreams
• Bi-monthly (each 2 months) experiences on progress in opposition to the work plan
• Draft report together with:

• preliminary evaluation findings
• evaluation and suggestions
• checklist of related legal guidelines, by-laws, protocols, SOPs, and so on.
• abstract description of the method of submitting and adopting authorized proposals
• abstract overview of draft authorized proposals

• temporary description of labor achieved and the checklist of paperwork and/or info obtained on account of engagement with recognized stakeholders
• Checklist of conferences held inside the framework of project
• checklist of key stakeholders/companions who offered the data and/or paperwork
• Presentation to UNICEF and MLSP
• Last Report
• Draft legislative framework & authorized proposals

Duties/Milestone:	Deliverables/Outputs:	Timeline:
Desk evaluation & conferences to construct stable understanding of background, activity and anticipated outputs;	Full inception report, together with understanding of the project, strategy, and work plan actions by month.	10 working days
Conducting an evaluation of the prevailing legal-regulatory framework for social safety, catastrophe threat administration and response, and the SRSP mechanisms round and Stakeholder engagement the workstreams	İnitial evaluation report on a current legal-regulatory framework for social safety, catastrophe threat administration and response, and the SRSP mechanisms across the workstreams engagement with recognized stakeholders	50 working days
	Draft Report with evaluation, findings and and presentation
Proposal on Advancing present SRSP work and combine to present legislative framework	Draft legislative framework & authorized proposals	60 working days
	Last report and presentation to UNICEF and MLSP
Estimated Consultancy charge		120 working days

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you’ll have… 

• A grasp’s diploma in legislation.
• Not less than 5 years {of professional} work expertise in legislative drafting
• Skilled work expertise in creating laws regarding little one rights is fascinating.
• Wonderful information of the nationwide laws, the Conference on the Rights of the Little one and different worldwide devices on little one rights
• Skilled work expertise in creating laws regarding little one rights is fascinating.
• Wonderful information of the nationwide laws, the Conference on the Rights of the Little one and different worldwide devices on little one rights;
• Confirmed expertise in creating authorized proposals which have bene adopted by authorities is extremely fascinating 
• Information of Social safety and emergencies is an asset
• Fluency in verbal and written Azerbaijani is required, Fluency in verbal and written English is required

For each Little one, you exhibit… 

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Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

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