{"id":29803,"date":"2016-08-12T09:50:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T08:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/?p=29803"},"modified":"2016-08-12T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T08:50:25","slug":"united-nations-development-programme-fresh-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/united-nations-development-programme-fresh-recruitment.html","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Development Programme Fresh Recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights, capacity development and the empowerment of women.<\/p>\n

We are recruiting to fill the following vacant positions below:<\/p>\n

Job Title: Consultancy (TOT) – Support to the Fight Against Trafficking in Persons
\nLocation:<\/strong> Abuja with Travel to States
\nAdditional Category: Governance and Peacebuilding
\nType of Contract: Individual Contract
\nPost Level: National Consultant
\nStarting Date: 01-Sep-2016 (date when the selected candidate is expected to start)
\nDuration of Initial Contract: 20 working days
\nExpected Duration of Assignment: 20 working days<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong>
\nTrafficking in persons (TIP), especially women and children, in Nigeria, is intrinsically related to a number of factors. Predominant among these are poverty, large family size, lack of educational opportunities, lack of employment and low status of children and women. Other factors facilitating trafficking in persons include ignorance on the part of families and children of the risks involved in trafficking, the high demand for cheap and submissive child labour in the informal economic sector, the desire of youth for emancipation through migration, institutional lapses such as inadequate political commitment, and limited capacities among the law enforcement officers that impede traffickers and accomplices from being effectively investigated, prosecuted and punished for their acts.<\/p>\n

Additional factors facilitating trafficking in persons in the country include porous borders, involvement of international organised crime groups or networks, limited capacity or commitment by immigration and law enforcement officers to control trafficking at the borders, and insufficient capacities to enforce existing legislation or mandate. Nigeria has demonstrated commitment to combating TIP, including by introducing improved policy and institutional measures.<\/p>\n

In 2015, significant achievement was made in legislation with the Presidential assent to the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015 on March 26, 2015, which repealed the former Act and establishes the National Agency For The Prohibition Of Traffic In Persons (NAPTIP).<\/p>\n

NAPTIP has wide-reaching and cross-cutting functions in addressing trafficking in persons, including prevention, awareness raising and sensitisation, victim\/witness support and protection, investigation, prosecution, rehabilitation, and coordination of anti-trafficking efforts. Furthermore, NAPTIP, in its efforts to combat human trafficking, benefits from collaboration with other Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in Nigeria, whose Training Academies it has used to train a number of its own officials. The joint training conducted at these academies has further improved synergies between the Agencies.<\/p>\n

Presently however, the instructors at these LEA Training Academies need to be enriched with deep knowledge of TIP and relevant skills and also there is need for a uniform curriculum on TIP to impart standardised knowledge and skills on TIP to the trainees.<\/p>\n

Based on the foregoing, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is partnering with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in implementing the project \u2018Support to the Fight against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in Nigeria \u2013 NGAZ52\u2019<\/p>\n

The overall objective of the Project is to strengthen the criminal justice response to trafficking in persons in Nigeria. The project aims to achieve this by providing comprehensive capacity building sessions to NAPTIP investigators and prosecutors and creating a pool of master trainers among the investigators and prosecutors. The project will revise the current training curriculum and customised training tools developed for the Training Academies of the Law Enforcement Agencies, as well as provide specific training to 25 key instructors of the Training Academies on TIP.<\/p>\n

The project envisages these trainings as a tool to enable better investigation and prosecution of TIP cases and actions to combat human trafficking. The project will contribute to and complement the EU funded project \u2018Promoting Better Management of Migration in Nigeria by Combating and Reducing Irregular Migration that occurs, inter alia, through TIP and SOM\u2019. NODC West Africa Research Activities Final Report, p.8. The Report is the result of the research conducted within the framework of the UNODC project FS\/RAF\/01\/R13 \u201cMeasures to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings in Benin, Nigeria and Togo\u201d, which constitutes the first phase of RAF\/R92.<\/p>\n

Duties and Responsibilities<\/strong>
\nThe consultancy is required to contribute to the overall success of the project through capacity-building for law enforcement officers, investigators and prosecutors that will result in the following outcomes:<\/p>\n