Location : Jakarta, Indonesia
Application Deadline : 09 March 2015
Type of Contract : Part Time Consultant (on daily basis)
Duration of Contract : 3 months (36 days maximum)
A. Project Context
The
Judicial Sector Support Program aims to contribute to the enhancement
of the rule of law in Indonesia by improving the institutional capacity
of the judiciary and the public prosecution. The program is promoted by
the Indonesian Supreme Court (Mahkamah Agung) and the Attorney General’s
Office (Kejaksaan Agung), and the Judicial Commission (Komisi
Yudisial). It builds on the existing cooperation between the respective
Indonesia and Netherlands institutions (Mahkamah Agung and Hoge Raad;
Judicial Training Institute under Mahkamah Agung, Attorney General’s
Office Training Body and Stichting Studiecentrum Rechtspleging; Komisi
Yudisial and Raad voor de Rechtspraak). The program developed based on
the policy of Mahkamah Agung as outlined in the Blueprint for Judicial
Reform 2010-2035, and on the added value of the Netherlands experience
to the proposed activities. The program management is conducted by the
Center for International Legal Cooperation in The Hague in partnership
with the Indonesian Institute for Independent Judiciary (LeIP) in
Jakarta.
B. Need Assessment of the Supreme Court’s Library
The
Supreme Court’s Library was established in 1972 in a bid to serve the
needs for Justices for literature and references. The library is a
division unit under Bureau of Law and Public Relation named Division of
Library and Information Service in charge of three Sub Division namely
Sub Division Library, Sub Division Publication and Sub Division
Information Service. It operates Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) as
means to expedite research facility. In 2013, Supreme Court library
serve no less than 200 visitor monthly, consist of internal staff,
student, researchers, and practitioners. The library offers various
collection consist of law magazines, newspaper, encyclopaedia,
dictionary, thesis, paper, regulation published regularly by Supreme
Court, such as Circular, Regulation, Jurisprudence, Journals such as
Varia Peradilan, Mimbar Hukum, etc. Up to August 2012, it has no less
than 33,134 books, 9,499 items of reference/magazine and 3,620
collection of microfiche of old State Gazettes, law magazines microfiche
and CDROMs.
The
objective of the activity is to improve capacity of the Supreme Court
of the Republic of Indonesia’s law library in providing high quality
service to the users and the management of a modern law library. In
relation with that, preliminary assessment of shall be conducted in
order to identify the need and determined agreed priorities to
immediately achieve desired results. Scope of the assessment may include
collection, infrastructure, and governance as well as human resources
needs of the court’s library. Result of the assessment shall be used as
basis to among other thing, to confirm the next activities supported
under this program, particularly on improving capacity of both
institution and human resource of the library.
All
activities under the specific tasks of consultants should be conducted
in close coordination with the Supreme Court as the leading partner of
the project component.
- To prepare assessment guidance/tools;
- To collect relevant data and information needed as part of assessment;
- To draft a written assessment and capacity building program design both for institutional and library’s staff;
- To provide inputs and recommendation as part of assessment;
C. Expected results
The concrete result of the activity is a Need Assessment Report including Capacity Building Program Design.
D. Timing
The assessment will be carried out from 1 April 2015 to 30 June 2015.
E. Qualification
The consultants must have the following qualifications:
- Degree on library from accredited education institutions;
- Minimum 5 years practical experiences as law librarians.
- Experience in preparing, organizing and drawing up need assessment of a library according to the above outline;
- Working with any judicial institution is an added value.
Interested candidates should provide cover letter, CV and offering letter for his/her consultancy fee (daily rate) and send all documents to: procurement.jssp@gmail.com not later than Monday, 9 March 2015 at 5pm. Please put “Need Assessment of Library MA” on the subject of your email. Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted
