Sunday, September 19, 2010

United Nations Development Programme Kenya Short Term Assignment to Undertake Documenting of the Access to Rights Programme

Background:

Documenting the Access to Rights Programme is an important process to showcase the programmatic achievements and lessons learnt that the programme has contributed to during its five years of implementation.

The expected deliverables; a lesson learnt booklet and a DVD is to be produced and presented in a “user friendly” fashion to UNDP and its stakeholder.

The booklet and DVD is to be published in English. It will, when finalized be used as an outreach and advocacy tool

The Access to Rights programme seeks to address key areas of legal and human rights education, access to justice and enhancement of human rights network through paralegal networks; policy and legal reform; communities engagement in management of devolved funds and to address inequalities in accessing and benefiting from state resources.

It also target socio-economic empowerment with a strong focus on marginalized groups including women, and persons with disabilities.

Since its start many initiatives and activities have been undertaken in the area of strengthening Access to Rights in Kenya. The project has been ongoing since 2005 and there are many successful initiatives that have been undertaken by the implementing organizations. These experiences are important to capture and share with other actors in the sector. Therefore a documentation process of systematization of the lessons learnt is considered very valuable.

Scope of the documentation process:

The main objective of documenting this program is to capture the lessons learnt during the implementation of activities under the programme by implementing organizations. In particular, the specific objective of documenting the programme is to:
  • Systematize the lessons learnt (challenges, successes and best practices) from the Access to Rights Programme and its individual seven projects so that they can be used for the development of future initiatives in the area of Access to Rights
Deliverables:

The key product expected from this documentation process is a

1) user friendly booklet on lessons learnt and good practice and

2) Two interactive DVD documenting each organization and its projects successes and challenges:

Duration of Assignment

The duration of the assignment wil be for a period of 32 Work days.

Application Procedure

For the full Terms of Reference (T0R) and requirements please visit UNDP Kenya’s Website:
http://www.ke.undp.org/notices

Interested and qualified persons should apply on the UNDP Kenya e-Recruitment portal located at http://www.ke.undp.org on or before Friday, 24 September 2010. Select vacancies” under “operations” and click on erecruit.echo-systems..net Applications received via other means wil not be accepted...

Additional Considerations

Application received after the deadline will not be considered.

Acknowledgements will be sent only to applicants who strictly meet the requirements of the Post.

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