Roster-Consultant for Capacity Development in Law Enforcement and Judiciary for Parliamentarians

INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION  

 

 

ITU is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technologies, with the mission to connect the world. To achieve this, ITU manages the radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbits at the international level, works to improve communication infrastructure in the developing world, and establishes global standards that foster seamless interconnection of a vast range of communication systems. 

 

Roster-Consultant for Capacity Development in Law Enforcement and Judiciary for Parliamentarians 

 

 Vacancy notice no: 1648 
Sector: BDT
Department: DDR
Country of contract: Remote
Duty station: Home Based

 

 Position number: [[positionNumber]] 
Grade: [[PositionGrade]] 
Type of contract: Roster
Duration of contract: 20 days (10 days work at home, 5 days mission on the ground, and 5 days for final report drafting)
Recruitment open to: External
Application deadline (Midnight Geneva Time): 31 December 2024

 

ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT

 

The Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) is responsible for the organization and coordination of the work of the Telecommunication Development Sector of the Union. BDT deals mainly with development policies, strategies, programming, projects, as well as technical cooperation activities to enable and foster universal access to affordable, high-quality and secure telecommunications/ICTs and Foster equitable and inclusive use of telecommunications/ICTs to empower people and societies for sustainable development. To effectively and efficiently serve the needs of Member States, BDT is organized into four functional areas:

 

• Operations Coordination Department (Office of the Deputy to the Director)
• Projects, Partnerships & Digital Skills Department (PPS) 
• Digital Networks & Environment Department (DNE) 
• Digital Knowledge Society Department (DKS)

 

The Office of the Deputy to the Director and Operations Coordination Department are responsible for ensuring operation readiness and providing support for the functioning of the regional offices and headquarters in Geneva, especially the implementation of projects and programmes. Functional areas, such as meetings, fellowship and IT support reports to this Department. The unit for special attention in all aspects related to LDCs, LLDCs and SIDs is the responsibility of this Department. The Deputy to the Director is responsible for assisting and advising the Director in the direction and management of the Bureau including on all questions related to personnel, financial and operational planning process. The Department is responsible for leading the operational planning and implementation support, within the framework of the Action Plan. The Department is also responsible for coordinating conferences and events, editorial works and documentation control, monitoring the implementation of decisions emanating from ITU and BDT governing bodies, including TDAG, Council, Conferences and Assemblies of the other Sectors on matters of relevance to BDT. The Department is responsible for coordination of the Bureau's cooperation with other Sectors and General Secretariat. 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

 

ITU has been working with ECOWAS parliament on the Inter-Parliamentarian Forum on ICT (FITIC) organization. The FITIC relies on the Africa Union 2020-2030 digital transformation strategy adopted by Africa Heads of States Summit held in Addis Ababa from 9 to 10 February 2020. The key pillars of that strategy were among others the data governance framework, the digital agriculture development strategy, the master plan for digital identification and the implementation strategy, the digital health development strategy; and the Lomé declaration on cybersecurity, the prevention of cybercrime and the digital single market. The FITIC aims to create awareness and sensitization among West African parliamentarians on ICT related issues and to ease adoption of law-bills pertaining to the ICT sector to create a real enabling environment for ICT development. 
Several stakeholders have joined effort for the FITIC, namely ECOWAS parliament, the Ministry of Post and Digital Economy of Niger, UNECA, WAEMU (West African Economic and Monetary Union), BCEAO (West African Central Bank), BOAD (West African Development Bank), OIF (Francophonie), ARCEP (regulator of Niger), ANSI (National Digital Society Agency of Niger), HAPDP (National Authority for Personal Data and Privacy Protection of Niger), Telecom operators, many other financial institutions, and ITU that was designated as key technical partner.
The purpose of this Special Service Agreement (SSA) is to establish a roster of consultants, to develop training materials, delivering training to a targeted audie