ThaiNGO

Project Description

The Local Capacity Initiative (LCI) under the US President Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) intends to enable civil society organizations to support and strengthen the capacity of community based organizations (CBO) to advocate for improved quality, accountability, and performance of national HIV and AIDS programs in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam with a goal to enhance HIV responses through civil society engagement in policy advocacy processes. 

Raks Thai Foundation in partnership with the Foundation for AIDS Rights (FAR), SWING Foundation, Lao Positive Health Association (LaoPHA) and the Vietnam Network of People Living with HIV (VNP+) as an LCI Consortium, under the support of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is implementing this initiative to strengthen advocacy capacity among civil society organizations and to advocate for improved access to quality HIV services for key affected populations (KAPs),access to services RRTTR (Reach, Recruit, Test, Treat and Retain) including community-led HIV services and provision of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

LCI Consortium is a coalition of civil society organizations to advocate for improved HIV response as collaborative effort with other partners and networks to ensure ending HIV and sustainability in Thailand, Lao PDR and Vietnam. The program aims to foster leadership and strengthen capacity of civil society organizations to effectively advcocate for improved HIV resposne with their respective governments. The LCI will emphasize on building capacity on leadership skills of CSO leaders to be able to mobilize and engage participation of others in the process of policy analysis, policy advoacy communication, policy monitoring and evaluation through aprticiatory process and networking.

Objective of Assignment

* Working with the LCI COP, KP and technical advisor in the process of strengthening project management support to the LCI program

Scope of Work

1. To assist the COP in facilitating the regional platform as part of key activities in year 1 in September 2016
2. Working with the COP, KP and other related persons to prepare a briefing paper highlighting the year one results and linking these results to the year 2 strategies that are being developed and as based per discussions in the CSO consultation workshop, the business plan workshop and the Regional Platform.

Expected Outputs and Deliverables

1. Completed facilitation of the LCI regional platform report
2. Highlight results and next steps paper

Institutional Arrangements: Report to the COP

Duration of Assignment: the period of September 2016 in the total of 10 working days

Duty Station and expected places of travel: Bangkok, Thailand

Language: Excellent in Thai and English, the final written reports will be made in English

Expertise:

Related academic background, direct experience in project management,

Desirable experience in working with projects supported by international donors such as USAID, EU, GIZ, DANIDA

Required documents

• Detailed CV and letter of reference.
• Letter of introduction to assure that the consultant has the qualifications and time available to complete the TA

Criteria for selection

• Round 1: Technical skills based on the materials submitted by the candidate include the Letter of Introduction;
• Round 2: Interview of short-listed candidates based on initial screening (Round 1)

Cost proposal

No cost proposal is needed at the time of submitting the Letter of introduction and related materials. This will be discussed at the time of interview only for those that pass the first round of screening

Payment terms

Upon satisfactory receipt of delivery 30, 30, 40%

Application and Deadline

Application deadline September 15^th, 2016

To apply, please submit a cover letter detailing relevant experience and proposed daily rate in THB, and a recent CV to rtfhrbkk@raksthai.org and cc.to sunee@raksthai.org. prasong@raksthai.org Only short listed candidates will be contacted