The Government of Syria to implement restorative justice approaches focusing on diversion

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• Enhancement of Child-friendly justice system with a restorative approach
• Conduct an assessment/ desk review on the justice for children dimension in Syria with a focus on diversion and restorative approaches and prepare an inception report which includes a conceptual approach for the enhancement of diversion and restorative justice interventions in Syria. 
• Assess the gaps in capacities of social and legal duty bearers liaising with juvenile delinquents through round table discussions with juvenile judges and staff of juvenile delinquent centres. The assessment will inform the proposed approach in the inception report as well as the design of the training package for legal and administrative staff in contact with children.
• Develop a framework on restorative juvenile justice approaches, and a plan-of-action for its implementation including guidelines/ standards operating procedures (SOPs), capacity building materials, preparation for piloting the restorative justice in a scalable way and engagement of the community in restorative justice interventions. Discussion and approval from governmental counterparts all the way.
• Design and develop a training package for social workers and legal personnel, also as part of the package identify delivery methods including pool of resource persons.
• Design a package of services/model to be piloted as community-based model for diversion through restorative justice approach.
• Support the piloting of the Diversion and community-based restorative approaches and document the challenges and propose ways to overcome them.
• Conduct review and update meetings with the steering committee to finalize the final draft of the SoPs on diversion and share with ministries and partners for review and approval.

• University degree in social sciences, preferably in international law; or any other relevant field.

• Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience in protection, preferably international experience in justice for children.
• Proven knowledge on child rights, child protection and justice for children.
• Experience in in restorative justice approaches and models;
• High analytical and conceptual skills and ability; Proven research and analytical skills, facilitation and developing written material (report writing)
• Proven ability to work within the international and multicultural environment.
• Understanding of child protection issues and services.
• Experience in collaborating Government’s and/or NGOs’ social welfare staff; and experience in program design, administration, monitoring and evaluation in related fields is an asset.
• Knowledge of the Child Protection Laws, UNCRC and other relevant conventions and international regulations on child protection and justice for children.
• Good negotiation skills and flexibility.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.

•     Fluent speaking of Arabic and English, both languages are required for the consultancy

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