United Nations Development Programme Tender

Tenders are invited for Researcher on Business and Human Rights, Sustaining Peace, and International Trade and Investment (International Consultant) SCOPE OF WORK The research project aims at creating a knowledge product with practical examples of how home States and (multinational) business enterprises can promote business respect for human rights and sustain peace in Asia and the Pacific through international trade and investment. Although the UNGPs provide a useful framework to frame these issues, further research is required to identify what practical implementation of the UNGPs entails in such contexts. To understand the scope and structure of the research, prospective applicants should take note of the following. First, while the UNGPs mention the term ‘conflict’, there is no uniform definition of what constitutes conflict. Therefore, the research shall be guided by the UN definition of sustaining peace, and Sustainable Development Goal 16. UN General Assembly Resolution A/Res/70/262 and UN Security Council Resolution S/RES/2282 define ‘sustaining peace’ as follows: sustaining peace […] should be broadly understood as a goal and process to build a common vision of a society, ensuring that the needs of all segments of the population are taken into account, which encompasses activities aimed at preventing the outbreak, escalation, continuation and recurrence of conflict, addressing root causes, assisting parties to conflict to end hostilities, ensuring national reconciliation, and moving towards recovery, reconstruction and development , which is a shared task and responsibility that needs to be fulfilled by the Government and all other national stakeholders, and should flow through all three pillars of the United Nations engagement [read: peace and security, human rights, and development] at all stages of conflict [read: pre-conflict, in-conflict, and post-conflict], and in all its dimensions, and needs sustained international attention and assistance . Note that these resolutions also emphasize the importance of a comprehensive approach to sustaining peace, particularly through the prevention of conflict and addressing its root causes, strengthening the rule of law at the international and national levels, and promoting sustained and sustainable economic growth, poverty eradication, social development, sustainable development, national reconciliation and unity, including through inclusive dialogue and mediation, access to justice and transitional justice, accountability, good governance, democracy, accountable institutions, gender equality and respect for, and protection of, human rights and fundamental freedoms . UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP),