Funding available for CSOs & Labour Legal Aid Service Providers in Myanmar
Deadline: 17-Oct-21
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking applications from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) & Legal Aid Service Providers to enhance workers’ ability to access legal and paralegal services, including legal awareness raising on labour rights and employment matters.
Objectives
The specific objectives of this call for grant applications are for CSOs and legal aid service providers to:
Raise legal awareness of workers, focusing on migrants, vulnerable groups and their families in Yangon, Mandalay, Rakhine, and Ayeyarwady.
Train paralegals, CSOs, and lawyers on labour laws and related legal areas in Yangon, Mandalay, Rakhine, and Ayeyarwady
Provide legal assistance to current or former workers, focusing on migrants, vulnerable groups and their families in Yangon, Mandalay, Rakhine, and Ayeyarwady
Funding Information
The budget for any grant application submitted by an applicant organisation should fall within the range of MMK 132,240,000 to maximum MMK 247,950,000 (equivalent USD 80,000 ~ USD 150,000).
The amount requested in the proposal should align with the organization’s administrative and financial management capacities.
In principle, project duration will be 12 months depending on actual start date; shorter periods may be considered for lower value proposals.
Activities
This Call for Grant Applications is organised according to the following activities:
Objective: Provide legal awareness raising activities to workers, focusing on vulnerable groups and their families in Yangon, Mandalay, Rakhine, and Ayeyarwady
Activity: Deliver community level awareness-raising sessions on employment related legal areas and matters (including human trafficking, violence against women, and immigration) to workers and their families.
Activity: Sensitize employers about labour rights and how frequent labour law related compliance pitfalls can be prevented and mitigated.
Objective: Train paralegals, CSOs, and lawyers on labour laws and related legal areas in Yangon, Mandalay, Rakhine, and Ayeyarwady
Activity: Conduct labour rights specialization training for paralegals, CSOs, and lawyers in Yangon, Mandalay, Rakhine, and Ayeyarwady.
Activity: Support paralegals, CSOs, and other involved bodies to develop legal skills and strategies for negotiation and conciliation phases of labour disputes
Activity: Monitor and report labour rights and employment related issues and patterns through liaising with trained partners and recipients of legal awareness and legal assistance activities.
Objective: Provide legal assistance to workers, focusing on vulnerable groups and their families in Yangon, Mandalay, Rakhine, and Ayeyarwady
Activity: Establish and operate hotline and online legal consultation service to provide legal aid services to current and former workers on employment and related matters.
Activity: Provide direct legal advisory services (out of court) to current and former workers and individuals/groups supporting workers in employment and other matters (including at negotiation and conciliation stages of labour disputes).
Activity: Provide legal representation for current and former workers and groups in need of legal assistance in court proceedings in employment and other matters at all stages and levels.
Outputs
The main outputs are as follows:
Legal awareness raising:
Conduct legal awareness sessions for workers on applicable labour rights, provisions, and procedures, including contract terms, wage, probation, overtime, leave, termination, social security, occupational safety and health, collective bargaining, forced labour, child labour, and dispute resolution. In addition, awareness of human trafficking, violence against women, and immigration.
Participate and support education efforts organized by UNDP as needed
Training
Conduct labour rights specialization training for paralegals, CSOs, and lawyers in Yangon, Mandalay, Rakhine, and Ayeyarwady.
Support paralegals, CSOs, and other involved bodies to develop legal skills and strategies for negotiation and conciliation phases of labour disputes
Monitor and report labour rights related issues and patterns through liaising with trained partners and recipients of legal awareness and legal assistance activities.
Provision of legal assistance:
Provide legal advisory services (out of court) to workers and individuals/groups supporting workers prior to and during negotiation and conciliation stages of labour disputes.
Provide in-person, direct legal services to former or current workers in court in criminal and civil cases.
Publicize the availability of direct legal aid services, hotline and online consultations for workers at relevant and suitable CSO, community, and workplace offices in Yangon, Mandalay, Ayeyarwady and Rakhine (in Burmese, Rakhine and possibly other minority languages).
Eligible Beneficiaries
Eligible beneficiaries of assistance to be provided:
Eligible beneficiaries will be current or former workers of industrial and production sectors and their families, with a focus on the poor and most vulnerable individuals and groups in any township and location in Yangon, Mandalay, Rakhine, and Ayeyarwady. In addition, advice or representation should be prioritized if large numbers of workers may be affected by the outcome of a specific labour or other dispute. The applicant organisation should clarify how it will identify these beneficiaries and what criteria it will use.
A minimum of 50% of these people will be women and girls, preferably more.
Special consideration should be shown for reaching people from ethnic minority groups, people with disabilities, and any particular group that in the opinion of the applicant organisation is disadvantaged and/or marginalized with respect to labour rights or employment related legal issues.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible organisations are Myanmar legal aid service providers focused on labour rights issues, including: contract terms, wage payment, probation, overtime, leave, termination, social security, occupational safety and health, collective bargaining, forced labour, child labour, dispute resolution, and workplace discrimination; and, provision of legal aid services in Yangon, Mandalay, Rakhine, and Ayeyarwady targeting beneficiaries as specified in this ToR.
Holding the necessary permission to provide the services as outlined in these ToR in the proposed locations (evidenced by previous or current registration, ongoing application for registration, or endorsement from the relevant authorities).
Must be a Myanmar organisation with operations already established in the proposed locations.
A track record of at least three years in provision of legal aid services in Myanmar, preferably targeting disadvantaged and/or underserved populations.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=83440