Assessment of National Legal & Regulatory
Framework for HIV and AIDS –

Job
description

TITLE OF
CONSULTANCY:
Assessment of National Legal & Regulatory Framework for HIV and AIDS

COUNTRY: BOTSWANA

DESCRIPTION
OF ASSIGNMENT: INDIVIDUAL
CONSULTANT FOR ASSESSMENT OF NATIONAL LEGAL & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR HIV
AND AIDS

DURATION: 35 working days spread over 3
months

Requirements

Botswana has the
third highest HIV prevalence in the world. In Botswana it is estimated that
390,000 of the 2.1 million population are infected with HIV. The HIV prevalence
has increased to 18.5% (BAIS IV: 2013) from 17.6% (BAIS III: 2008). There are
multiple key drivers of HIV in Botswana, which needs to be addressed in order
to reach the epidemic control. To that end, Botswana has embarked on the goal
of 90: 90: 90 by year 2020 and 95: 95: 95 by the 2030. That is: 90% of all people living with
HIV will know their status; 90% of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will
receive sustained ART; 90% of all people receiving ART will have viral
suppression (undetectable viral load). HIV treatment has been found
to intensely improve the health and prolong the life of the people living with
HIV and AIDS. With the development of better-tolerated HIV treatments, research
is showing that starting treatment early, before the virus has a chance to
cause damage to the immune system, is important for achieving the best health
outcomes.

Botswana’s legal
environment – that is, its laws and policies and how they are implemented and
enforced – plays a critical role in the national response to HIV. Botswana has
a number of laws and policies that protect the rights of all people from
discrimination and promote access to health care and other services. Most recently,
in 2013 a number of laws and policies were developed to improve the rights of
the general population to obtain health care without discrimination. However,
gaps and challenges have been identified within Botswana’s current legal and
policy framework where discriminatory and punitive laws, policies and practices
create barriers to access to prevention, treatment, care and support for all
people, including vulnerable and key populations. Furthermore, the Global
Commission on HIV and the Law’s report, Risks, Rights & Health 2012 found
evidence of how protective legal environments improve the lives of people
living with HIV and reduce vulnerability to infection. Across the globe, it
also found evidence of how stigma, discrimination, punitive laws, brutal policing
and ineffective access to justice continue to fuel the HIV epidemic. It is in
this spirit that the Ministry

of Health in
collaboration with UNDP as the Principal recipient of Global Fund Global intent
to undertake a Legal Environmental Assessment of the Botswana laws with regards
to HIV, health, human rights and the law. The proposed Legal Environment
Assessment aims to review and map the current legal, regulatory and policy
framework in Botswana and analyse the extent to which it supports or hinders national
and local response to end new HIV infections and AIDS. The broader aim of the
Legal Environment Assessment is to identify recommendations for developing a
strengthened legal and regulatory framework for effective responses to HIV and
AIDS. To that end UNDP is looking for AN
INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT (NOT A TEAM of CONSULTANTS) with
background in legal, human rights and/or HIV and public health expertise to
undertake this assignment.

Detailed
Terms of Reference
and instructions to bidders should be obtained from:
http://procurement-notices.undp.org/

Closing
date and application instructions

Submission
Requirements:
Proposals should be clearly labelled, “INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT FOR ASSESSMENT
OF NATIONAL LEGAL & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR HIV AND AIDS”

And be submitted to:

The Resident
Representative
United Nations
Development Programme
P.O. Box 54
Gaborone, Botswana

Or by email to procurement.bw@undp.org

Submission
Date: Proposals
should be submitted to the address above no later than the 02nd September 2016 at
12:00pm (Botswana Time)

Request for
Clarification:
Any request for clarification must be sent in writing, or by standard
electronic communication to enquiries.bw@undp.org UNDP Botswana will
respond in writing or by standard electronic mail and will send written copies
of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the
source of the inquiry to all prospective candidates.

NOTE: Consultancy firms/companies
interested in applying for this assignment are free to do so provided they
submit a CV
of only one qualified consultant and present its bid in a
manner that would allow for evaluation of the bid in accordance with the
evaluation criteria specified in the detailed solicitation documents. That is,
the experience required is that of the individual whose CV would
have been submitted by the company rather than that of the company. In this regard, the company
by submitting a CV is bidding as an individual bidder rather than a
company/firm. Further, if the submitted bid wins, the ensuing contract will be
between the UNDP and the company/firm, not the individual.