Terms of Reference
Short-Term Consultant:
Justice for the Poor Program
World Bank, Indonesia
Location:
Jakarta
Duration:
150 days
Recruitment: International
I.
INTRODUCTION
1. The World Bank’s Country Assistance Strategy for Indonesia identifies justice sector
reform as one of the most important priorities of Indonesia’s transition. In early
2002, the World Bank launched the Justice for the Poor program. Justice for the Poor
began as an exploratory program to identify openings for a bottom up approach to
legal reform, by exploring which factors enabled poor village communities to defend
their rights successfully in an environment of institutional weakness.
2. The research showed that communities prefer to resolve dispute informally, although
local institutions are ineffective in addressing power imbalances or representing the
interests of the weak, poor and marginalized. Villagers are still prepared to use the
formal system as a last resort for defending their interests in cases where village
institutions fail. Access to the formal system and achieving successful outcomes
from it depends on a range of socio-political factors. Communities require (i) internal
facilitation skills; (ii) improved access to knowledge about rights; and (iii) linkages to
resources which can help them enforce their rights, to better equip them to overcome
power imbalances and demand a satisfactory outcome from the justice system. These
factors create public demand and constituencies for justice.
3. Lessons learned from the research and operational pilots over the initial phase of
Justice for the Poor formed the basis of an operational strategy as the program moved
from exploration into experimentation. The operations are based on a similar project
design which helps develop legal awareness, provides resources for legal aid,
develops mediation and organization skills and links poor communities to a network
of assistance at higher levels. All operations are geared towards scaling up legal
empowerment approaches through national poverty programs.
4. The program also scales up work through legal and judicial reform. Justice for the
Poor attempts to marry bottom up initiatives to top down institutional reform through
major analytical and policy initiatives such as support for a National Strategy on
Access to Justice.
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5. The Justice for the Poor work program comprises three main elements:
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Operations. The program is testing different approaches to strengthening
community-based legal aid and access to justice. The purpose of the
operations is to test for scale up into national programs.
Research/Policy: The main research and policy outputs will include a
National Legal Survey and Needs Assessment and support for the National
Access to Justice Strategy. Other research will focus on measuring impacts
and outcomes of the operational programs, in order to refine implementation
and measure efficacy. This includes an Impact Evaluation of the Mediation
and Community Legal Empowerment component of SPADA. This research
will comprise detailed quantitative evaluation and the development of a rich
source of ethnographic case studies and success stories on village governance
& community representation, local legal reform possibilities, and disputeresolution mechanisms.
Partnerships. The program attempts to build partnership with reform
elements in the government; the legal community; activist NGOs, especially
at the kabupaten level; student groups and donors. Crucial to this will be the
establishment of a coherent and compact donor platform to support
development and implementation of the National Access to Justice Strategy.
The Bank has signed a harmonization MOU with Bappenas and UNDP to
support this process. A regional partnership with AusAID is also under
development.
II.
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
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A short-term consultant is needed to conduct the following tasks:
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The first responsibility (approximately 75% time) is to support coordination between
Justice for the Poor operational programs. This will include the following tasks:
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Ensuring quality control across Justice for the Poor operational programs through
strengthening coordination between programs and identifying opportunities to
support synergies;
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Documentation of operational programs. This will include developing an overall
implementation schedule for programs supported under a grant from the Dutch
Government covering procurement, budgets, field activities, monitoring and
reporting plans;
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Monitoring and supervision of operational programs;
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Ensure activities contribute to the overall J4P Strategy;
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Draft analytical pieces that identify lessons learned from J4P operational
programs and highlight synergies between operational programs. These pieces
may include briefing notes and articles for media and newsletters;
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Supporting dissemination of program findings to relevant stakeholders;
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Co-coordinating the Access to Justice Donor Coordination Group.
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8. The second task (25%) is to support the implementation of the Impact Evaluation of
MCLE. In particular, this will involve the following:
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Under the guidance of the J4P Coordinator, and working in cooperation with
PREM and SPADA, oversee implementation of the Impact Evaluation of MCLE;
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Ensure coordination between different components of the Impact Evaluation of
MCLE. In particular ensure that the qualitative and quantitative aspects are
coordinated and that the evaluation is coordinated with MCLE program
implementation;
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Supervision and monitoring of both the quantitative and qualitative tasks;
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Provide substantive contributions to analytical outputs from the impact evaluation
including contributing to the qualitative analytical reports.
9. Other tasks as may be required and agreed to by both J4P and the Consultant.
III.
OUTPUTS
10. The following outputs should be produced:
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A consolidated Implementation Plan that covers all J4P operational programs
supported under the Dutch-funded “Building Demand for Legal and Judicial
Reform Program”;
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In cooperation with other team members, monitoring and supervision reports on
operational programs;
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Lessons learned and briefing notes related to J4P operational activities under the
“Building Demand for Legal and Judicial Reform Program”;
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Substantive inputs to the semi-annual reports for WB and Dutch management;
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Smooth implementation of qualitative baseline work for the Impact Evaluation;
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Reports relating to the implementation of the MCLE Impact Evaluation. This
will include substantive contributions to qualitative analytical pieces and
drafting monitoring and supervision reports;
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Others as required.
IV. QUALIFICATIONS
11. The selected candidate should have the following qualifications:
 At least 5 years experience working on social development and/or governance
issues in a developing country context;
 At least 3 years experience managing access to justice programs;
 Experience managing and evaluating programs, including programs working with
NGOs;
 Knowledge of access to justice and development issues in Indonesia;
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 Indonesian language an advantage
 Stong analytical skills
 An ability to take the initiative and lead on specific inputs and work well in a crosscultural team environment.
VI.
MANAGEMENT
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The position is based in Jakarta. Frequent travel to field sites will be required.
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This assignment will end on 30 June 2009, but may be extended subject to good
performance and available funds.
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This Consultant will report to Matthew Zurstrassen of the Justice for the Poor
Program who reports to Scott Guggenheim.
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