National Expert in Traffic Police Capacity Building

Polish Center for International AID (PCPM) is seeking a National Expert in Traffic Police Capacity Building

Location of the Assignment: Akkar, Dreib Area (3 Unions of Municipalities – UoMs).

MASAR for Local Governments is a programme funded by the EU MADAD trust fund and implemented in Lebanon and Iraq. The overall aim of the programme is to strengthen the long-term resilience of targeted subnational governments and their host, refugee and IDP populations to deal with displacement.

MASAR has three objectives:

• To improve the capacities of subnational governments to engage in holistic, area-based planning and consider different scenarios that respond to the needs of host, refugee and IDP populations.
• To improve service delivery to generate greater social stability outcomes based on the needs of host, refugee and IDP populations.
• To empower subnational governments and service providers to facilitate local economic development and to have better access to municipal investment that benefit the extension of safe public services and create economic opportunities for host, refugee and IDP populations.

In Akkar, Lebanon, MASAR supports three Unions of Municipalities: Dreib el Gharby, Dreib el Awsat, and Akkar El Chemali.

Background specific to the assignment:

A study in road safety (Road Safety Audit in Dreib) was carried out under MASAR in the last quarter of December 2020. The study proposes feasible improvements related to management, engineering, education, emergency response and enforcement. Among others, the study recommends that:

• tasks and organizational structure of local police with respect to traffic law enforcement should be clarified in dialogue with other first responders and local governments, and in accordance to the law;
• capacities of local police should be developed with respect to awareness of mandate, traffic surveillance, and reporting of road incidents.

The Expert will address these challenges in his/her assignment. The Expert will also align his/her assignment with similar consultancies under MASAR, including road safety countermeasures design and installation, strategic planning, disaster risk management and GIS.