Consultant

1. BACKGROUND:

The “Stateless Access to Justice” project in a 11 months project implemented by Justice without Frontiers in partnership with OHCHR and funded by the European Union.

In Lebanon, systems of protection, security, and justice are weak; therefore, vulnerability to abuse, harassment, lack of registration, early marriage, and trafficking of persons is increased. There are many reasons behind these violent acts such as proving power within the family and community, humiliation, and physical and emotional damage. Children, women, and girls remain the main subjects to physical, sexual and psychological assaults.

One of the concerns that face children, women in Lebanon is the lack of registration of marriage and birth.

There is no specific definition for unregistered individuals as it is known worldwide as being stateless. “Unregistered” individuals create the majority of stateless persons in Lebanon. They have no legal existence before the law or the authorities. This category of individuals is deprived of their basic and fundamental rights such as education, protection from exploitation, social security, employment or health care. In addition to all of these fundamental rights, unregistered individuals are also deprived of their political rights, including the right to participate in voting, running for office, and participate in public life. In other words, an unregistered person lives and dies without an identity and nothing to prove of their existence.

Unregistered individuals in Lebanon can be either of Lebanese descendant or refugees of many nationalities such as Syrian or Iraqi. Approximately, more than 80,000 individuals (Lebanese) in Lebanon are not registered in both host and refugee communities. However, it is not known how many have been born among the approximately 500,000 unreg­istered Syrians in the country. Women, girls, and children are the most affected when it comes to lack of registration. They face abuse, violence, are not allowed to exercise their rights, and have limitations to their lives, including no access to education, health, and others.

2. PURPOSE OF CONSULTANCY:
The consultancy aims at mobilizing the community leaders about stateless access to justice problematic and needed action to be taken by them.

Mobilize the key stakeholders and advocate for new process and amendments.

Community leaders will advocate to ensure stateless access to justice.

New process/memo will be issued by key stakeholders to ensure the registration of marriage and birth certificate.

3. KEY TASKS:

Conduct meetings and FGDs with stakeholders and community leaders to raise the main problems and difficulties that beneficiaries are facing when registering marriage or newborns, and raise challenges that beneficiaries faced at the court especially the cost of the DNA among community leaders, in order to come up with a list of recommendations and suggestions in which will be included in a policy paper to be issued later during activities, advocacy meetings…

4. EXPECTED RESULTS:

JWF will mobilize the community leaders to support the program and to advocate to the rights of stateless to get ID and registered officially at the personal status

5. TIMELINE:
JWF expects the fulfillment of the mentioned tasks within a period of 15 days starting from the day the contract is signed.

6. BUDGET:

The budget for this task depends on the experience of the applicant
Payment will be done in two installments: 25% upon contract signature and 75% upon approval of the final report and requirements by JWF.

7. CONSULTANT PROFILE
The ideal consultant will have 5 years of relevant experience. The consultant should have the following skills and competencies:

Good understanding of the status of stateless and none registered people in Lebanon.
Experience of integrating the stateless and none registered access to justice dynamics within media.
Ability to communicate fluently in English and Arabic (preferably) and write reports in English.
Excellent verbal/written communication skills and strong report writing skills in English.
Ability to work with a diverse team and under pressure to produce agreed deliverables in a timely manner.
The consultant must be collaborative, willing to share thoughts, ideas, and make constructive criticism.

 
8. EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI):
JWF invites the submission of an EOI from an individual with the experience and skills described above. The EOI must include:
a) A cover letter of no more than 2 page introducing the consultant and how the skills and competencies described above are met, with concrete examples.
b) An outline of no more than 5 pages of the proposed process and key considerations.
c)  A CV outlining all the experience obtained and relevant for the project.
Please submit the EOI and requested documents (as mentioned above) by the end of October 2018, addressed to: assistant@jwf.org.lb  quoting “Stateless Access to Justice - Consultant” in the subject line.

Only qualified applicants will be contacted.