[health-vn] UNICEF Vietnam is looking for an independent consultant to conduct Legal Review for Drowning and Poisoning Prevention

[Vern Weitzel]

Local consultant

UNICEF Vietnam is looking for an independent consultant to conduct Legal Review 
for Drowning and Poisoning Prevention (Activity 1.1 – MOLISA 2009 Annual Work Plan)

Deadline for submissions: 04 May 2009


Candidate qualifications

Advanced qualifications in laws and social research.
Recognized experience in social research (desk reviews and qualitative research)
Good understanding of legal development process in Vietnam and development 
issues, including childhood injury prevention in particular.
Good knowledge of the legal, political, economic, social and cultural context of 
Vietnam
Extensive and excellent experience in synthesis, analysis and writing.
Previous experiences in research studies on injury and/or child injury 
prevention and/or program documentation are desirable.

he detailed vacancy notice attached.

Interested candidates are requested to submit an expression of interest to 
UNICEF Viet Nam by 04 May 2009. Please include the following information: letter 
of interest; CV; and proposed fee.

Chief of Operations
UNICEF Vietnam
81 A Tran Quoc Toan, Hanoi – Vietnam



VACANCY NOTICE

UNICEF Vietnam is looking for an independent consultant to conduct Legal Review 
for Drowning and Poisoning Prevention (Activity 1.1 – MOLISA 2009 Annual Work Plan)

Objective

This assignment aims to thoroughly review all legislations related to water 
safety and poisoning prevention in order to identify key points, gaps in these 
legislations (including quality and implementation) and make concrete and 
specific recommendations for further improvements.

Scope and focus

The review will use relevant documents resulted from UNICEF support from 
2006-2008. In addition, the selected reviewer may need to search for any other 
legal documents (issued in the period from 2002 -2009) that were missed in the 
previous compilation. At the same time, the reviewer may need to use 
international standards legal documents to make appropriate recommendations for 
better improvements of the existing legislations and/or for development of new 
legislations.

The review report will focus on the following main areas:

1)	What are the legal documents and provisions/ principles related to Drowning 
and Poisoning Prevention in Vietnam?
2)	What are the legal mechanism to implement legal documents related to Drowning 
and Poisoning Prevention in Vietnam?
3)	Are there enough legal guarantees/ legal mechanism in Vietnam for the 
implementation of the legislation on Drowning and Poisoning Prevention? Any gaps?
4)	What are the key international treaties, standards and norms related to 
Drowning and Poisoning Prevention?
5)	Are Vietnam’s ones in line with the international standards and norms? What 
are the key gaps in Vietnam legislation compared to international’s ones?
6)	What will be the main recommendations to the government to improve 
(amend/develop) the domestic legislation on Drowning and Poisoning Prevention 
and to ensure it’s implementation?

It is expected that the findings/ results and the recommendations of the Review 
will be presented  in a meeting/ workshop or seminar for further discussion in 
order to support policy advocacy and development in the area of childhood injury 
prevention with specific focus of drowning and poisoning prevention. And this 
workshop has been planned as the Activity 1.2 in the 2009 AWP with MOLISA. Thus 
the scope of this review is limited at findings and recommendations only.

Expected outputs and activities

No.	Work item	Expected outputs	Timeline
1.	4	Design the tools for the review and make a detailed working schedule as 
well as design the report’s structure	Tools for the review, detailed working 
schedule and report’s structure available and approved by UNICEF	 3 days
2.		Conduct the actual review 	All the domestic and international legislations 
and legal documents related to water safety and poisoning prevention 
collected and reviewed	10 days
3.		Interview with key counterparts to make recommendations for the report such 
as Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), MOH and Ministry of 
Justice (MOJ)	Inputs from key counterparts available for report writing	5 days
4.	5	Draft the review report in Vietnamese (10 days)
	Draft report with approximate length of 40 pages is available for comments	10 days
5.	6	Get comments and feed back to finalize the report (including editing work) 
Final report  which incorporates inputs and comments from UNICEF and key 
stakeholders	5 days
6.		Produce a brief summary of the review for presentation in a later 
dissemination workshop	A summary 5 pages and a PowerPoint presentation of the 
review with focus on recommendations available	2 days
	Total of working days		 35 days

The methodology for the review

The key methodology will be the desk review which will be supplemented with 
qualitative interviews of key counterparts. The selected consultant is expected 
to collect all relevant legislations, study them, interview key informants to 
validate the desk review and make appropriate recommendations, and develop a 
comprehensive and concise report which will highlight key points of existing 
legislations related to water safety and poisoning prevention, gaps in these 
legislations and specific recommendations for improvement of existing 
legislations and/or development of new legal documents and legislations in order 
to create a stronger normative environment for prevention of child drowning and 
poisoning.

Time frame and work plan

This assignment is expected to start in middle of May 2009 and complete by the 
end of Jul 2009.

Location

The study will mainly take place in Hanoi

Candidate qualifications
−	Advanced qualifications in laws and social research.
−	Recognized experience in social research (desk reviews and qualitative research)
−	Good understanding of legal development process in Vietnam and development 
issues, including childhood injury prevention in particular.
−	Good knowledge of the legal, political, economic, social and cultural context 
of Vietnam
−	Extensive and excellent experience in synthesis, analysis and writing.
−	Previous experiences in research studies on injury and/or child injury 
prevention and/or program documentation are desirable.

Interested candidates are requested to submit an expression of interest to 
UNICEF Viet Nam by 04 May 2009. Please include the following information: letter 
of interest; CV; and proposed fee.


Chief of Operations
UNICEF Vietnam
81 A Tran Quoc Toan, Hanoi – Vietnam


Closing date for receipt of proposals 04 May 2009

Please indicate the title of the review on the top left corner of the envelope.


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