Request for Quotation “To Conduct a Study on the Law School Based Legal Services Clinics”
 GOI - UNDP
 Location: New Delhi
 Last Date: August 9, 2010
 Email: bids.india@undp.org (Reference: DevNetJobsIndia.org)

REQUEST FOR QUOTATION “TO CONDUCT A STUDY ON THE LAW SCHOOL BASED LEGAL SERVICES CLINICS”

The Government of India and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) invite proposals from individuals and organizations including Non-Governmental Organizations and academic/training/research/survey institutions for conducting a study on the Law school/college based legal service clinics in India.

The study will cover a representative sample of the law schools based in the 7 Project States (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh). Law schools from other parts of the country, which demonstrate good practices in relation to legal services clinics, will also be covered. The study must assess the state of the legal services clinics across law schools and colleges in India1, including whether they exist, the kind of activities they undertake, the frequency of such activities, the quality of the services rendered, the percentage of the student population that participates in these activities and the frequency of interaction with the community outside the college, specially the marginalized community. Based on the primary research as well as the desk review of the existing reports and national and international experience, the study will suggest cost-effective ways and mechanisms to set up legal services clinics in laws schools and/or strengthen the existing ones. It will recommend activities that these clinics can take up and propose mechanisms to develop linkages between the work of the Legal Services Authorities and that of the legal services clinics. It will also put forth suggestions to motivate the students to get involved in the activities of the legal service clinics and make effective use of their skills.

Selection Criteria
- Proven experience in conducting research studies
- Experience in the area of access to justice/law
- Qualifications of the individual/proposed team
- Proposed Methodology
- Quality of the proposal submitted and alignment of the proposal with the RFP, project objectives and deliverables
- Feasibility

Project Duration - 4 to 6 months maximum

Proposal Format
The proposal will be submitted in 2 parts: technical and financial

I. Technical proposal
- Introduction of the individual/organization indicating past experience in the subject area
- Proposed location of the study
- Detailed description of the methodology to be adopted while conducting the study
- Methodology to be adopted for disseminating the research and the ways in which the individual/organization will engage with selected law schools and policy makers
- Time schedule with milestones / performance targets
- Qualifications of individual/team (team leader, team members)
- Names and a brief description of at least 3 research studies conducted in the recent past
- Names and contact details (including the name of the person-in-charge and telephone numbers) of 2 funding agencies that have supported the work of the individual/organization in the last 3 years.

II. Financial proposal will be submitted separately in a sealed envelope. Detailed budget must be provided along with breakups.

Please Click Here for detailed Terms of Reference for the study.