Overview
Support strengthening the capacity of national actors on victims and witness protection and develop a multi-year strategic plan.
Key Responsibilities
- Produce an inception report documenting key findings from initial consultations.
- Develop a proposed work plan setting out the consultant's approach, methodology, and timeline.
- Conduct a comprehensive desk review of all relevant laws, SOPs, policy instruments, and guidelines governing witness, victim, and whistleblower protection in Liberia.
- Perform a structured gap analysis identifying weaknesses and inconsistencies in the existing framework.
- Provide prioritised and actionable recommendations for strengthening legal instruments, policies, and procedures.
- Participate in a briefing to the Legislature on actionable recommendations.
- Conduct a threat and risk assessment report identifying risks faced by victims, witnesses, and whistleblowers.
- Develop a practical mitigation measures framework setting out concrete steps to address identified vulnerabilities.
- Produce a classified version of the report and an unclassified summary.
- Develop a methodology enabling the WPA to update and maintain the assessment on an ongoing basis.
- Map existing coordination mechanisms, information-sharing practices, referral pathways, and protection measures across national institutions and security sector agencies.
- Conduct a gap and deficiency analysis of coordination and referral arrangements.
- Provide actionable recommendations for strengthening inter-agency coordination, formalising referral pathways, and improving post-trial support arrangements.
- Assess the WPA's current capacity against existing and future caseload demands.
- Conduct a competency and resource gap analysis covering staffing, expertise, training, operations, and non-staff resources.
- Provide prioritised recommendations for addressing identified gaps.
- Conduct a formal site assessment report covering relevant facilities.
- Determine the suitability of each facility and provide recommendations for modifications.
- Conduct a training needs analysis.
- Develop full training materials including session plans, facilitator guides, and participant resources.
- Produce a post-training report documenting attendance, outcomes, feedback, and recommendations.
- Develop a detailed operational training plan.
- Develop a compliance benchmarking framework mapping the training plan against international standards.
- Create an implementation guide for the training plan.
- Produce a comprehensive final report consolidating all findings, assessments, and recommendations.
- Prepare an executive summary for senior leadership and external partners.
- Provide any additional analysis or recommendations considered necessary for effective implementation of protection and support arrangements.
Required Experience
- A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience on witness protection in a law enforcement agency and/or criminal justice institution.
- Conducting risk and threat assessments, designing and implementing witness protection measures is required.
- Demonstrated ability to develop multi-year institutional strategic plans, including implementation plans with monitoring and evaluation frameworks, for justice or security sector institutions is required.
- Experience establishing and managing an international victim and witness protection programme and/or a national witness protection programme, is desirable.
- Experience developing protocols and standard operating procedures on witness protection and incorporating mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) dimensions into capacity-building programmes for law enforcement, justice sector, or human rights institutions is desirable.
- Experience working in conflict or post conflict settings and Africa is desirable.
