United Nations Children's Fund
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Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
A comprehensive approach to justice for children shall start within the juvenile justice system reform to improve the current punitive justice with a restorative approach; therefore, and among the key deliverables to achieve this, the consultancy includes an assessment/desk review of the Syrian legal framework to identify key entry points to enhance restorative and diversion as well as the design and development of a training curricula for in-service justice practitioners.
Purpose Of The Assignment:
- The overall aim is to support the Government’s decision makers to strengthen restorative justice and diversion in the country in line with international standards on child friendly legal procedures.
- Objective: 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.
- An inception report with detailed approach and action plan for the assignment
- Framework for the restorative Justice system and action plan for piloting and scaling up.
- Finalised SoPs and guidelines for implementation of diversion programme
- Report on the capacity needs of duty bearers and NGOs staff who are co-managing the centres.
- Finalized a training package building for legal and administrative staff and identify delivery methods including pool of resource persons.
Academic qualifications:
- 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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