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The
Secretariat of the Legal Services Facility (LSF) is inviting tenders
from firms based in East Africa with extensive experience in the
evaluation of basket funds, grant making, grant management and capacity
building of CSOs. Tendersontime, a leading business information provider
is the first agency to report this notification.
The LSF is a basket fund, presently funded by Danida and through DFID by UKAID, aiming to increase access to justice for
all, in particular for women. It channels funding to organizations,
which are providing legal aid and paralegal services which through these
services assist individuals to claim their rights and redress
grievances. The LSF works closely with the Government at all levels,
development partners, legal aid providers, including paralegals, and
other stakeholders.
The LSF promotes and protects human
rights for all, particularly for poor women and other vulnerable groups.
It enhances the quality of legal aid and paralegal services with a
focus toward legal empowerment and presently funds activities in all
districts of the country. We strive towards the Government assuming
responsibility for recognizing and regulating legal aid provision,
including paralegals, which will be formalized through legislation and
institutionalized. Furthermore the LSF promotes and supports innovative
approaches to legal aid. Capacity building of legal aid providers is
another contribution the fund makes. Lastly, the Facility contributes to
enhanced awareness about the role and importance of legal aid and
paralegal services amongs public and private legal sector stakeholders.
Being operational since 2012 the LSF
granted an amount of Tshs 18 billion to 51 grantees and 71 grants. LSF
grantees ensure the availability of quality legal aid services, legal
education and activities toward legal empowerment in the communities
they serve. Paralegal units of on average 25 paralegals each are set up
in 158 districts bringing the number of paralegals funded by the LSF to
around 4,000. For more information about the LSF a reference is made to
the website www.lsftz.org.
The overall objective of the evaluation
is to assess whether and to what extent the LSF contributed to
increasing access to justice for all, in particular for women, through
promoting and protecting fundamental human rights of individuals and how
this translates into recommendations for the second phase (2016-2020)
of the program.
The specific objectives of the evaluation are to assess whether: Legal aid and paralegal services have been enhanced in quality and quantity, covering all districts of
the country improving access to justice for the poor and vulnerable, in
particular women; Government assumed responsibility for legal aid
provision, incl. paralegals, formalised through legislation and
institutionalised; Innovative approaches to legal services provision
have been supported; Advocacy and legal skills of legal aid and
paralegal service providers have been improved; Enhanced awareness has
been created about the role and importance of legal aid and paralegal
services amongst public and private legal sector stakeholders.
The deadline for submission of the tender is Monday 22 February at 16.00 hrs.
Refrence: LSF/18/Eval12-15-T
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