NORCAP, operated by the Norwegian Refugee Council, solves challenges in the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding sectors to better protect vulnerable people’s lives and rights. We build partnerships, promote more effective ways of working and provide skilled experts to develop capacity.
We work with and through our partners to address challenges via three core activities:
Our Democracy, Human Rights and Peacebuilding Programme (NORDEM), strengthens the capacity of international organizations and national stakeholders to promote and protect democracy and credible elections, human rights, rule of law and peace.
NORDEM is now recruiting a Human Rights Experts to work in support of UNDP’s regional human rights work, including strengthening National Human Rights Institutions(NHRIs) through the Tripartite Partnership (TPP) to support NHRIs.
UNDP is supporting the strengthening of national human rights systems throughout Africa through: supporting national human rights institutions (NHRIs) as part of the Tri-Partite Partnership with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI); supporting engagement with the human rights mechanisms including the Universal Periodic Review process and the treaty bodies; integrating human rights and SDG follow up; supporting a human rights-based approach to development cooperation including UNDP programming approaches; and, promoting the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and other accountability mechanisms to further promote and protect human rights.
Expected Outputs and deliverables:
Support to the regional human rights portfolio in Africa including country support and project design
Project implementation to support the TPP including close coordination with TPP partners focused on NHRI support in countries
Resource mobilization related to human rights and the support to NHRIs
Advocacy and partner engagement related to human rights.
Experience and qualifications:
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