National Consultant to Conduct a National Perception Study on Implementation of Community Service as a Non-Custodial Sentence in Uganda

### 📌 Résumé de l'offre National Consultant to Conduct a National Perception Study on Implementation of Community Service as a Non-Custodial Sentence in Uganda at United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in '@type': 'Place', 'address': '@type': 'PostalAddress', 'addressLocality': 'Uga', 'addressRegion': 'Uga', 'addressCountry': 'NG' , '@type': 'Place', 'address': '@type': 'PostalAddress', 'addressLocality': '', 'addressRegion': '', 'addressCountry': 'UG'. View the details for more information. **Détails clés :** - 💼 **Contrat** : CDI - 📍 **Localisation** : '@type': 'Place', 'address': '@type': 'PostalAddress', 'addressLocality': 'Uga', 'addressRegion': 'Uga', 'addressCountry': 'NG' , '@type': 'Place', 'address': '@type': 'PostalAddress', 'addressLocality': '', 'addressRegion': '', 'addressCountry': 'UG' - 🎓 **Niveau** : Selon profil - 🛠️ **Compétences** : ai, data, hr, Management, design --- Result of Service 1. Inception Report developed, detailing the methodology, data collection tools, work plan, and approach for data collection, including consideration of gender and stakeholder perspectives. 2. Data collection tools (surveys, interview guides, and focus group discussion guides) designed and administered across selected districts, with documented fieldwork and datasets compiled. 3. Fieldwork completed, and qualitative and quantitative data on perceptions and implementation of Community Service collected, analyze, and synthesized. 4. Draft Assessment Report produced, presenting preliminary findings, analysis, and emerging recommendations on Community Service in Uganda. 5. Validation workshop conducted with UNODC and selected Community Service stakeholders to review, validate, and refine findings and recommendations. 6. Final Assessment Report submitted, incorporating stakeholder feedback and providing comprehensive findings, conclusions, recommendations, annexes, and supporting datasets. 7. Policy Brief developed, summarizing key findings and actionable recommendations for policymakers and relevant stakeholders. Work Location Home-based with travel to Uganda Expected duration 1May- 15 September 2026 Duties and Responsibilities Background of the assignment: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is the Office of the UN Secretariat mandated to assist Member States in countering and preventing illicit drugs, crime, corruption, and terrorism. As part of its efforts to support Criminal Justice reform in Uganda, UNODC is collaborating with the criminal justice actors including the Ministry if Internal Affairs (MIA) – Department of Community Service to implement a Five -Year Programme on Strengthening Prevention and Criminal and Criminal Justice Programme in Uganda. The Project among others aims to reduce the overuse of imprisonment by enhancing use of community service, rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders in line with expected outcome 3 of the Programme. The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Internal Affairs adopted Community Service as an alternative sentencing mechanism. The Department derives its mandate from the Community Service Act, 2000 and Statutory Instrument No. 55 of 2001 - Community Service Regulations, 2001. Under the Act, Community Service is a non-custodial punishment by which after conviction, the court, with the consent of the offender, makes an order for the offender to serve the community rather than undergo imprisonment. Community Service aims at rehabilitating offenders within their communities, reducing recidivism and promoting social cohesion. During implementation, interventions are identified to help offenders reintegrate into their communities. The interventions aim at mitigating the criminogenic factors to avoid relapse into criminal tendencies. During implementation of the Programme, the Department is expected to adhere to national and international protocols, practices and standards on offender management. There is therefore need for a perception survey on attitudes towards implementation and use of community service. Since inception, there is limited documented evidence on public perceptions, stakeholder attitudes and beneficiaries. Understanding these perceptions is critical to strengthening implementation, enhancing acceptance, and informing policy reforms. The Ministry (Department of Community Service) with support from UNODC seeks to engage a consultant, to undertake a national perception survey on the use and implementation Purpose of the assignment The purpose of the assignment is to assess public perceptions and stakeholder views on Community Service as a sentencing option in Uganda, examine the perspectives of key actors within the criminal justice system and affected communities, identify challenges, opportunities, and best practices in its implementation, and provide evidence-based recommendations to enhance awareness, acceptance, and overall effectiveness of Community Service in Uganda. Expected tangible and measurable output(s)/del