National Consultant to Support the Finalisation of the Uganda Police Force Anti-Corruption Strategy (2026-2031)

The consultant will support the Uganda Police Force (UPF) in developing and finalising its successor Anti-Corruption Strategy (2026-2031). This includes reviewing previous strategy evaluations, facilitating consultations, and developing a comprehensive strategy with implementation and monitoring frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Review the end-term evaluation report of the UPF Anti-Corruption Strategy (2017-2022), findings from the UPF internal review and regional consultations, and relevant policies, legislation, strategies and national anti-corruption frameworks.
• Facilitate and provide technical guidance to the UPF Technical Working Group in consolidating key achievements, challenges, lessons learned, emerging corruption risks and priority areas for strengthening anti-corruption systems and mechanisms.
• Support the development of the UPF Anti-Corruption Strategy (2026-2031), including clear strategic priorities, objectives, interventions, targets and implementation arrangements, while integrating gender, human rights, integrity, accountability and good governance considerations.
• Develop a costed implementation framework and monitoring and evaluation framework for the successor strategy, including appropriate actions, responsibilities, timelines, indicators, targets and resource requirements.
• Prepare the draft UPF Anti-Corruption Strategy (2026-2031) and support its validation with UPF, UNODC and relevant stakeholders, incorporating feedback received.
• Submit the final UPF Anti-Corruption Strategy (2026-2031), including the costed implementation and monitoring and evaluation frameworks.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Law, Public Policy, Development Studies, Criminology, Social Sciences, or a related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in similar fields, combined with at least two (2) additional years of relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of two (2) years of professional work experience in anti-corruption, governance, law enforcement, criminal justice, rule of law, or a related field is required.
• Demonstrated experience in developing or reviewing institutional strategies, policies, or action plans, particularly in anti-corruption, integrity, accountability, governance, or law enforcement, is required.
• Experience in strategic planning, including the development of implementation and monitoring and evaluation frameworks, is desirable.
• Familiarity with Uganda’s anti-corruption, governance and law enforcement landscape is highly desirable.
• Experience in mainstreaming gender and human rights perspectives into institutional strategies, policies, or programmes is desirable.
• Fluency in oral and written English is required.
• Knowledge of another official United Nations language is an advantage.

Skills

• Anti-Corruption Strategy Development
• Governance Policy Development
• Law Enforcement Strategy
• Criminal Justice Expertise
• Rule of Law
• Institutional Strategy Review
• Policy Development
• Strategic Planning
• Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks
• Implementation Frameworks
• Gender Mainstreaming
• Human Rights Integration
• Consultative Meeting Facilitation
• Uganda Governance Knowledge
• English Language Proficiency

Languages

English