Consultancy Services for Capacity Strengthening of JLOS Institutions (Police, Prosecution and Judiciary) in Effective Investigations, Prosecution and Adjudication of GBV and VAC Cases in Uganda

UN Women, in partnership with UNICEF and UNDP, through financial support  from the Government  of Sweden and the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls is launching this call for applicants to provide content and skills based training for police officers, prosecutors, and magistrates in gender-responsive, child-friendly, survivor-centered, and trauma-informed investigations, prosecutions, adjudication, and case management of cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Violence Against Children (VAC), including harmful practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM), child/early marriage, trafficking in persons, commercial sexual exploitation, and online sexual exploitation. This includes the knowledge, attitudes and skill necessary for effective prevention, investigation, prosecution,  adjudication, referral, data collection, analysis and reporting. A separate objective will be to develop relevant content and skills-based training for the same institutions on children in conflict with the law, which will more explicitly supported by UNICEF with its own resources. UNICEF will also provide financial resources for this joint initiative to address areas of online violence against children with financial support from the Global Fund to End Violence Against Children. The integration of the different UN-supported interventions in the justice sector is line with the approach of the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative and the UN agency shift to build one government system that can address all violations of vulnerable people’s right to protection from violence, whether male, female, adult or child, while addressing the specific vulnerabilities faced in Uganda.