| Location: | Chisinau, Moldova |
| Application Deadline: | 28 Feb 2018, 16:00 (GMT+2:00) |
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Application Extended deadline:
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14 Mar 2018, 16:00 (GMT+2:00)
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| Type of Contract: | N/A |
| Starting date: | 30 Mar 2018 |
| Reference to the project: | Enhancing Democracy in Moldova through Inclusive and Transparent Elections |
| Expected Duration of Assignment: | 270 working days |
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Supporting Documents: Terms of Reference  Individual Consultant Procurement Notice
Offeror's Letter confirming Interest and Availability  Personal History Form (P11)  UNDP General Conditions of Individual Contract
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Ms. Eva Bounegru.
eva.bounegru@undp.org
“Enhancing democracy in Moldova through inclusive and transparent elections” (EDMITE Project) is a project that sets the overall goal to achieve an enhanced transparency and inclusiveness of the electoral process in Moldova through a modernized IT system, improved legislation and intensified public participation, addressing the root causes of the current challenges hampering the further development of the democracy and the advancement of the electoral process in the Republic of Moldova.
The Project aims to contribute to: (1) achieving a more accurate State Register of Voters (SRV), improving the quality and accessibility data by re-engineering the Civil Status Service (CSS) systems, fully developing the State Address Register and facilitating data exchange and interoperability between different central public institutions via governmental platform for data exchange MConnect; (2) enhancing the inclusiveness of the electoral process through developing a remote voting tool and adjusting the State Automated Information System “Elections” (SAISE) to keep up with the technical and political developments; (3) legal reform in the area of elections to erase ambiguities and respond to the technical developments; and (4) enhancing political participation of citizens by setting up and implementing the voter information and civic education programmes.
Except for the CEC which is the main Beneficiary of the Project, EDMITE will continue to expand the previously partnering set-up with other central public institutions, like the Agency for Public Services (Cadaster Department, Population Registration and Documentation Department), the Electronic Government Center. These are different state actors that center the population registration process and are responsible for important data sets necessary for fair and credible Elections. Specific interventions are aimed to improve their systems and processes in order to enable them to supply the required data in a reliable quality and a required time frame, thus achieving an inclusive and transparent electoral process.
In the past years, the Electronic Government Center (EGC) made significant progress in modernizing governance using ICT, establishing a robust world-class core ICT infrastructure for electronic services, including MCloud reliable hosting facility, MConnect innovative interoperability and data exchange Platform, MSign digital signature, MPay electronic payments system, etc.
The new draft legal and regulatory framework on data exchange and interoperability, currently in the process of approval, is one of the major activities that positively marks the collaboration between UNDP and EGC. The purpose of the draft law is to implement the governmental interoperability framework of state information systems, through the establishment of a legal and normative basis for the use of an interoperability platform, which should regulate the data exchange process based on the interconnection and interoperability of the content/ information resources and the procedure for granting access to registers and databases of national importance for all public sector entities, in compliance with their legal competences and in accordance with the legal provisions. The envisaged interoperability platform proposed by the new law is MConnect. It was created and piloted three years ago as a technical solution to ensure data exchange among the information system held by the ministries, by other central administration authorities subordinated to the Government, as well as by autonomous public institutions, following the Government Decision No.404 as of 02.06.2014[1]. MConnect is under the state ownership as a component of the Shared Government Technology Platform MCloud.
With the scope to ensure work efficiency, the institutions that will use the electronic data exchange and interoperability platform, apart from granting the access to MConnect and MCloud will also need to get connected to certain electronic services, like MSign, MPass and MPay infrastructure. These integrations will allow the institutions to modernize their services, in accordance with their business processes and supply better data. The same goes for the Central Electoral Commission and many other institutions (Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Ministry of Education, Culture and Research, Agency for Public Services) that supply data to the State Register of Voters, contributing to the inclusiveness and transparency of the electoral process.
For the next two years, EDMITE Project will support the EGC in expanding the knowledge base of the operations linked to the integration of the institutions listed above to the data exchange and interoperability platform MConnect. The Project will support the EGC by establishing an “Interoperability Integration Team” and will provide necessary certifying trainings for this team and the EGC staff. Further on, the “Interoperability Integration Team” will assist the Focal Points in those ministries and government institutions relevant for the electoral process, addressed by EDMITE Project, in connecting the State IT Systems administered by these government entities to MConnect, as well as to MAccess, MSign, MLog, and where needed to MPay. This practice will be done onsite-site, in a learning by doing exercise, transferring the knowledge of the “Interoperability Integration Team” and the relevant EGC staff to the Focal Points.
[1] http://lex.justice.md/index.php?action=view&view=doc&lang=1&id=353238
The project intends to contract a National Consultant – MConnect Integrator/ Trainer (hereafter the Consultant) to be part of the Interoperability Integration Team and support EGC relevant staff in connecting a series of line ministries and other central public administration entities (as per the list indicated below) to the data exchange and interoperability platform MConnect. The Consultant will provide support to the EGC and the UNDP Project as it follows:
The Consultant will have the following responsibilities:
For detailed information, please refer to Annex 1 – Terms of Reference.
Academic Qualifications:
Experience:
Competencies:
Personal qualities:
Proven commitment to the core values of the United Nations, in particular, respecting differences of culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, language, age, HIV status, disability, and sexual orientation, or other status.
UNDP Moldova is committed to workforce diversity. Women, persons with disabilities, Roma and other ethnic or religious minorities, persons living with HIV, as well as refugees and other non-citizens legally entitled to work in the Republic of Moldova, are particularly encouraged to apply.
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:
The financial proposal will specify the daily fee, travel expenses and per diems quoted in separate line items, and payments are made to the Individual Consultant based on the number of days worked.
Travel
All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.
In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.