Consultant for a Research Paper on Social Networks and Elections in the Arab World
UNDP is the UN system’s provider of electoral assistance. UNDP provides support to partner countries to develop electoral laws, processes and institutions that strengthen inclusive participation and professional electoral administration, which in turn build real and perceived credibility. Because elections are about much more than what happens on election day, UNDP’s uses an electoral cycle approach to its work. This treats the election event as one of many elements that impact on the quality and magnitude of citizens’ participation including electoral system design, electoral law reform, voter registration methodologies, civic and voter education, building the capacity of electoral management bodies, political party behaviour and the quality of media coverage of electoral issues. Global planning is led by the Democratic Governance Group (DGG) of the Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) in close coordination with the Department of Political Affairs’ Electoral Assistance Division (EAD). In July 2009, UNDP launched the Global Programme for Electoral Cycle Support (GPECS) to contribute to the overall goal of deepening democracy and accelerating human development. In contributing to this larger and longer-term goal, GPECS focuses on the intermediate UNDP Strategic Plan Outcome of “Electoral laws, processes and institutions strengthen inclusive participation and professional electoral administration”. GPECS seeks to achieve this outcome by:
The GPECS Regional Component for Arab States focuses on three key priority areas of policy and programmatic intervention:
Under the overall supervision and guidance of the Democratic Governance Practice Leader for Arab States and the GPECS Electoral Policy Specialist, the consultant will draft a research paper that examines the influence social networks have had on elections in the Arab States region and their influence in the development of institutions shaping elections and public demands for and engagement in these institutions
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UNDP intends to hire a consultant to draft a study on the influence of Social Networks on Elections and each stage of the electoral cycle in the Arab World in view of the recent developments in the region. Scope of work: Under the overall supervision and guidance of the Democratic Governance Practice Leader for Arab States and the GPECS Electoral Policy Specialist, the consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:
The consultant is required to produce the following outputs:
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Application Submission Process: Please submit the following to demonstrate your interest and qualifications: 1. Proposal (i) Provide a brief methodology on how you will approach and conduct the work (2 pages or less) 2. Price proposal (All inclusive fee) Interested individuals are kindly requested to submit an all-inclusive consultancy fee based on your daily fee and any other costs you envisage to conduct this assignment. 3. Personal CV and/or P11 Interested individuals must submit their applications online through UNDP Online Recruitment System. Correspondence (either in hard or soft format) will not be considered until the advance stage of the selection process. Applicants are encouraged to fill and sign a P11 Form and submit it on the online application, although regular CVs are also acceptable. The P11 Form can be obtained at http://sas.undp.org/Documents/P11_Personal_history_form.doc 4. How to Submit Application To submit your application online, please follow the steps below:
Application Evaluation Process: Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the Cumulative Analysis methodology [weighted scoring method], where the award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as: a) Responsive/compliant/acceptable, and b) Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation. Technical Criteria weight; [70%] Experience working on democratic governance, electoral assistance and democratization (25 percent) |
Consultant for a Research Paper on Social Networks and Elections in the Arab World
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