Background
The Joint European Union and Council of Europe (CoE) Project “Promoting Human Rights and Minority Protection in South East Europe” (hereafter referred to as “the Project”) is focused on improving access to rights for minorities at various levels of government in South East Europe (SEE) based upon Council of Europe’s standards in this field and in particular based on the Framework Convention for the
Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML). The Beneficiaries of the Joint Project are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, Republic of Macedonia and Kosovo, hereafter referred to as “the Beneficiaries”. Particular issues of concern in the Beneficiaries, raised by the Advisory Committee (AC) on the FCNM and the Committee of Experts of the ECRML, shall be addressed in order to support Beneficiaries to honour their obligations arising from these treaties.
Eligibility
The applicant must have the following technical capacity to perform the contract:
- Proven professional experience with responsibility in the field of human rights and national minority protection, involving interethnic
relations in an international context and record of field research on the relevant topic, including quantitative and qualitative data
collection and analysis
- Competent in mastering the components of comprehensive policy development, planning, implementation and monitoring in all relevant
public bodies and agencies involved at central, regional and local levels in the field of national minority protection
- Knowledge of CoE minority rights standards, anti-discrimination policies and lequal opportunities
- Knowledge of national minority integration/exclusion and a demonstrated commitment to integration and anti-discriminatory policies and
practices in national minority protection
- Solid and demonstrated experience in carrying out such analytical and/or organisational work for national and/or international
stakeholders in the field for the SEE countries.
Deadline: 12 September 2014
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