Background
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As Africa’s most populous country
and as one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, Nigeria is not
immune to corruption challenges. Over the past decades, Nigeria has
developed an impressive array of legal frameworks and set-up numerous
institutions to combat corruption more effectively. Nevertheless,
Nigeria continues to struggle with the impact of corruption on the
day-to-day lives of its citizens. Corruption undermines the Government’s
ability to provide public services, rule of law and public security.
Corruption directly affects the well-being of the country’s population
and its ability to rise out of poverty. With support from the European
Union, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is
implementing a project on “Support to Anti-Corruption in Nigeria”
(FED/2012/306-220)(NGAX60) involving fourteen (14) beneficiary Agencies.
One
of the Agencies supported by the project is the Technical Unit on
Governance and Anti-corruption Reforms (TUGAR), which has the mandate of
being the think-tank of Nigeria’s official anti-corruption community.
TUGAR is a research, monitoring and evaluation entity. It was set up in
2006 to meet the critical need for a rigorous approach to policy making
and governance, informed by systematic empirical data collection and
analysis. TUGAR has the mandate to analyze policies, provide advice and
make country-specific diagnostics on corruption and related governance
issues.
The main objective of the assignment is to provide
technical assistance to TUGAR to conduct a scoping survey and gap
analysis of the ethics framework in Nigeria. The survey aims to improve
the content of the ethics frameworks in Nigeria and enhance the process
of their implementation. Specifically, the project aims to:
- Identify and analyze existing ethics frameworks in the Nigerian public sector, as well as enabling mechanisms;
- Identify public service wide ethical codes and sector-specific ethical codes;
- Identify
and analyze existing private sector ethics frameworks: Regulatory
Codes, Voluntary Codes and Professional Ethics Codes;
- Identify ethics codes in the informal sector;
- For
each sector, the survey should identify and analyze the existing
frameworks as well as the implementation mechanisms and structures; and
- Identify gaps, make appropriate recommendations and propose remediation plans.
The
result of the survey will be used as a basis for training the
management and personnel of Anti-Corruption Agencies on preventing and
prosecuting corruption in accordance with global good practices. The
ethics frameworks will therefore be integrated into the corruption
prevention and anti-corruption enforcement mechanisms of the nation.
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Duties and Responsibilities
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Under the direct supervision of the
Deputy Project Coordinator in consultation with TUGAR, the consultant
shall in collaboration with the lead consultant perform the following:-
- Together with the other consultants, develop methodology and workplan in line with TUGAR’s requirements, agreed by UNODC; and
- Conduct research scoping and gap analysis of the ethics framework in Nigeria by:
Carry out Preliminary Desk Review or Archival Work
Develop templates for collection, documentation and management of the data relating to the following:
- Statistics
relating to professional bodies that have Codes of Ethics and/or Codes
of Conduct or both and those that do not have them;
- Produce an annotated selection of relevant professional bodies and associated regulatory institutions in Nigeria;
- Statistics of registered and unregistered professional bodies;
- Statistics of trade unions and professional bodies;
- Archive
an annotated selection of anti-corruption organizations and
institutions in Nigeria (public sector, private sector, NGO); and
- Commence
the compilation of a data bank on the Codes of Ethics and Codes of
Conduct in existence in Nigeria plus the establishment Acts of the
regulatory bodies associated with them.
Support the Lead and other Consultants in Field Work to:
- Confirm
existing ethics frameworks (Codes of Ethics and Codes of Conduct)in the
public sector (service wide code and sector specific codes) and the
enabling institutional mechanisms;
- Document existing private sector ethics frameworks (Regulatory Codes, Voluntary Codes and Professional Ethics);
- classify
existing ethics codes and practice standards in the informal sector ,
as well as the compliance or enforcement mechanisms; and
- Generate
data and analytical reports benchmarked against the UN Convention
Against Corruption (UNCAC), the AU Convention on Preventing and
Combating Corruption (AUCPCC), the ECOWAS Protocol on Corruption, other
relevant international best practices and Nigeria’s anti-corruption
domestic laws and policies.
Further Data Gathering and Data Analysis
Develop questionnaires and other survey instruments to:
- Identify
within each Code of Professional Ethics scanned, the code of
fundamental principles; the conceptual framework for applying those
principles in certain situations; the threats and safeguards; the part
that applies to all members or only to members in practice or to members
in business;
- Indicate the sectors or sub-sectors in which there
are Codes of Professional Ethics as well as peculiar Codes of Conduct
and identify both the advisory and enforcement institutional mechanisms
to ensure compliance;
- With respect to the codes of professional
ethics, benchmark the ethical principles against both international
standards of ethical conduct and domestic standards of professional
conduct; and
- With regard to the Codes of Conduct, benchmark the
institutional mechanisms and procedures for achieving compliance against
international best practices with a view to mapping the gaps.
Based on the Field Work:
- Distill
analytical data on the extent to which the contents of the codes of
professional ethics are known, first to the members of the profession,
and then to the members of the wider public;
- Distil analytical
data with regards to the Codes of Conduct, the extent to which the role
and powers of the institutional mechanisms for compliance and
enforcement and the procedures for complaints by aggrieved members of
the public are known to operators in the sector as well as the general
public;
- Provide analytical data on the nature of ethical training given to professionals in each identified sector or sub-sector; and
- Write a final report of all activities undertaken during the consultancy with recommendations.
Payments will be made upon satisfactory completion of output and acceptance of report of each deliverable.
All
the outputs should meet the satisfaction of UNODC, as assessed by the
Project Coordinator – Support to Anti-corruption in Nigeria project in
consultation with the Head, TUGAR, according to the following
indicators:
- Adherence to the research methodology and workplan agreed with TUGAR and UNODC;
- Quality of the documents produced; and
- Timeliness of delivery.
Individual
consultants will be evaluated using the Cumulative Analysis
methodology. When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the
contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has
been evaluated and determined as:
- Responsive/compliant/acceptable,
and having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of
weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation;
- Technical Criteria weight: 70%;
- Financial Criteria weight: 30%.
Only candidates obtaining 70 percent in the technical evaluation will be required to submit a financial bid.
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Competencies
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- Ability to work under pressure;
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment;
- Good knowledge of the Nigerian anti-corruption environment;
- IT skills including word-processing, database applications, presentation software and use of internet;
- Knowledge of the Public Finance Management Systems in the Federal and State levels.
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Required Skills and Experience
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Education:
- Advanced university degree in Social Science, Mathematics or Statistics.
Experience:
- A minimum of 10 years’ experience in research, analytical and data collection skills;
- Specific experience and knowledge of the Corruption Risk Assessment methodology and process in Nigeria;
- Work experience in promoting public accountability and transparency in the public and or private sector;
- Familiarity
and experience in working with global anti-corruption frameworks such
as The African Union Convention in Preventing and Combatting Corruption,
the ECOWAS Protocol against corruption and the United Nations
Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC);
- Familiarity and experience in working with Anti-Corruption and regulatory Agencies; and
- Specific experience and knowledge about governance issues and experience working with UN agencies will be an advantage.
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UNDP is committed to achieving workforce
diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from
minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are
equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the
strictest confidence.
To apply, visit: http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=60167
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