The Council of Europe Project "Phase II: Support to the Implementation of European Human Rights Standards in Ukraine" ("Project") announces the selection of suppliers to provide consulting services at the request of the Council of Europe for the implementation of the Project.
The Council of Europe under the Action Plan for Ukraine “Resilience, Recovery and Reconstruction” 2023-2026 is implementing the Project “Phase II: Support to the Implementation of the European Human Rights Standards in Ukraine”. The Project’s general aim is to support the Ukrainian authorities in implementation of the European human rights standards on the national level with a specific focus made on the following areas:
- Strengthening the Ombudsperson’s Office institutional capacity to protect human rights, respond to the needs and challenges related to the reporting of the gross human rights violations and human rights monitoring of the war-affected people;
- Alignment of the national policy, legislative framework and practice related to combatting ill-treatment with the international and European standards;
- Harmonisation of the data protection policy, legal framework and practice with the European standards, primarily with the Council of Europe Convention 108+ and GDPR;
- Support in creation of the specialised training programmes and courses in the area of national and international human rights mechanisms, raising awareness among the national authorities, legal professionals, and public on human rights standards, including through the enhanced external communication of the Ombudsperson’s Office.
In this context, the Council of Europe is recruiting local consultants for provision of intellectual consultancy services within the framework of the abovementioned themes.
The deadline for submitting tender proposals for participation in the selection is 26 April, 2025.
Tenders must be submitted by e-mail only (with attachments) to [email protected] with the e-mail subject: Tender FC/9264/2025/02_Expert’s/legal person name written in English. Tenders submitted to other e-mail addresses will be rejected.
All questions regarding the tender must be submitted at least 5 (five) days before the deadline for submission of proposals and must be addressed exclusively to [email protected] with the following subject: Tender FC/9264/2025/02 _ Expert’s/legal person name written in English.
