The EU IPA 2010 project on “Human Resources Development in Albania”, funded by the European Union is implemented by the International Labour Organisation, under the leadership of the Country Office for Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest, in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (MoLSAEO), Ministry of Health and other bodies.
The overall objective of the project is improving the labour market functioning and quality of human capital, while the specific objectives cover the improvement of the capacity of labour market institutions, mainly the State Labour Inspectorate (SLI) and National Employment Service (NES) as well as development of systems of VET and life-long-learning.
The project has three main components:
The control and the supervision of the project activities/outputs is realized by a Steering Committee (SC) established at the beginning of the project’s implementation. The project is carried out by project team, consisting of Coordinators of particular components and it is led by a Team Leader.
Description of Activity:
Activity 1.2 on "Adoption of legislation in the field of OSH in line with the EU Acquis" intends to provide assistance to the Albanian authorities in the harmonisation process of Albanian legislation on OSH with the EU rules in this field. In particular, support will be provided in transposing the 19 individual Directives of the Framework Directive 89/391/EEC. The transposition of Directives shall consider also the current national legislation and demands a comprehensive comparative analysis the EU and national provisions in respective area. The activity consists of three sub-activities:
A detailed description of particular steps is given in the Inception Report of the Project and Component 1 Work Plan document, both available on the request. The Tables of Concordance enable the analysis of wording of particular provisions of EU Directives with text of corresponding provisions of various national regulations and analysis of the concordance with EU Acquis. According to the structure of missing provisions, a recommendation for revision existing national regulations - or development of new regulations will be adopted. The drafted text of revised or new regulations will be verified by the Ministry of Health and prepared for further legislation process.
The work will be carried out in Working Groups appointed by the Ministry of Health, involving also participants from other Ministries and institutions. It will be assisted by the project key expert for OSH area - coordinator of the Project Component 1.
Procedure for the carrying out of the activity:
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There is a need to contract International Short Term Expert(s), to provide assistance at the transposition procedures from professional, technical and legislative point of view. It means participation on comparative analyses of Tables of Concordance and recommendations for revision of present regulations or drafting new ones, as well as drafting a text of proposed version of new Regulation, discussion in working group and verification of final text of Regulation (as characterized above).
This Terms of References are focused for the selection of an International Expert in the area of occupational medicine, safety and health at work and/or OSH legislation for the second package of individual Directives transposing under the responsibility of Ministry of Health:
Besides the Directives on indicative occupational exposure limit values will be transposed in simplified procedure:
It is intended to contract one expert in all professional areas, or more experts specialised in particular areas mentioned above.
Planned working days allocation:
The planned working days for hiring of the International Short Term Expert result from mentioned steps under all three suactivities: 1.2.1 - Elaboration of Table of Concordance - comparative analysis of particular provisions; 1.2.2 - Recommendations for revision of existing or new legislation; 1.2.3 - Technical assistance in drafting new, harmonised regulations.
Planned working days allocation in total are: 12 days for each Individual Directive:
Tasks and duties of the Local Expert
Output from the Activity:
The general output of the activity is the final Draft of new Regulation of particular topics.
Partial outputs under responsibility of the International Short Term Expert are:
Supervision of the work:
Component 1 Coordinator and Project Team Leader supervise the work and have right to express their satisfaction or reservations to the quality of provided works. In case of unsatisfactory results they have right to reduce day contracted.
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Information can be provided upon request to Mr. Ivan Majer contact email: majer@ilo.org
Hiring Procedure:
This call for contracting an international external collaborator is advertised at the web site of UNDP, as well as disseminated by other ways. Applicants are required to submit their Curriculum Vitae together with a Motivation letter and present their clear professional experiences in mentioned areas. (Note: Please make sure to merge both documents in one file as the system allows one attachment only.)
The Component Coordinator will assess the application documents submitted and CVs. If a candidate fulfils the requirements and conditions described in this Term of Reference, he/she can be contacted for an at distance interview. The Component Coordinator will select the first three candidates as his preferred choice and submit it for confirmation to the Project Team Leader as well as to the main beneficiary (Ministry of Health).
Component Coordinator completes necessary documentation of confirmed candidate and send it to the ILO Budapest DWT/CO for Contracting procedure.
The deadline for application is 20th November 2012.
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