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Under the guidance and supervision of the respective the UN Focal Point for Disability Inclusion, Disability Inclusion Project Team, the Consultant will conduct a baseline assessment of readiness of UN Agencies in Montenegro in engaging and recruiting persons with disabilities. The baseline assessment shall include the following components: 

• Mapping of policies and practices on recruitment of persons with disabilities across UN Agencies, covering the whole end-to-end recruitment process, including job-requirements and descriptions, accessibility of vacancy announcement and disseminations, short-listing of candidates, interviews, tests, medical check-up, on-boarding process, and retention, satisfaction and advancement programs. Any good practices should be highlighted.
• Type of work and reasonable accommodations available across the employee lifecycle, including mechanisms in responding to reasonable accommodation requests and recommendations on setting up a system wide tracking system
• HR training provided to staff/ non-staff on disability related topics
• How agencies have reassigned or ensured opportunities for staff who have acquired an impairment in course of their work with the UN
• Assess the quality of engagement and outreach with OPDs, identify gaps, and suggest ways to improve collaboration and consultation with OPDs
• Number of staff with disabilities (current and in the past), including their functions and type of disabilities
• Providing a set of recommendations to improve the HR services, practices, and processes to create an inclusive environment for persons with disabilities and personnel with dependents with disabilities that can be progressively realised by the HR Working Group, OMT and UNCT, including priority, medium and long-term actions. 

Note:  many of the policies, programs and systems might be centralized (e.g. organization-wide policies on workplace injuries, reasonable accommodation, etc.) and apply to, but go beyond the country office context. The consultant needs to look at how centralized policies, programs and systems are practically operationalized at country level.

It is expected that in this process, the consultant will: 

• If possible, engage with organisations of persons with disabilities in the assessment to better understand current best practices and expectations in terms of improving UN HR policies and practices in Montenegro
• Engage with UN Personnel with disabilities and personnel with dependents with disabilities to better understand their experiences while working for the UN. 
• Utilise existing agency-specific HR reviews when possible and contextualise recommendations to country level. 
• Ensure confidentiality of staff and addressing fears that staff may have in disclosing information

The output of this exercise is a baseline report of the current situation of the HR services, practices, and processes to create an inclusive environment for persons with disabilities and personnel with dependents with disabilities for persons with disabilities among UN Agencies in Montenegro, including actionable plan for improvements. The report is expected to have examples of best practices that could be replicated by UN agencies.

Consultant is expected to work in close consultation with the UN Operations Management Team, Human Resources Working Group, Disability Inclusion Project Team and the UN Focal Point for Disability Inclusion 

The consultant is expected to have an in-depth discussion with UN HR Working Group, and HR officials of individual UN Agencies. Discussions with staff with disabilities or staff with dependents with disabilities could be arranged through individual UN Agencies. 

A kick-off meeting will be arranged at the beginning of the project, validation/ dissemination workshop should be conducted to finalize the report at the end of the project.

Service provider is still required to submit a detailed methodology building on and further detailing beyond the existing scope of work, as specified above.

Deliverables and Timeline 

The payment of the services (outputs) provided on the following schedule will be made with the following arrangement:

The payment will be made to the consultant at each payment schedule, upon approval of the satisfactory submission of results.  All dates are indicative. The consultancy should start as soon as possible. The selected service provider will be working closely with the UN HR Working Group consisting of UN colleagues in charge of HR services, the UN Focal Point for Disability Inclusion, Disability Inclusion Project Team.