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Needs Assessment Advisor – Arbitration Council Foundation, Cambodia

The Arbitration Council Foundation (ACF or the “Foundation”) is a registered not-for profit foundation established in 2004, with full and formal operations starting in 2006. The Foundation was established expressly to support the labour dispute resolution work of the Arbitration Council.

The Arbitration Council is a national institution for resolving labour disputes established in 2003 under a cooperative agreement between the ILO Labour Dispute Resolution Project and the Council’s tripartite stakeholders — the Government (through the Ministry of Labour), employer organisations, and unions. At present, the Arbitration Council is comprised of 30 sessional arbitrators nominated in equal proportions by each of these three stakeholder groups. The Arbitration Council is provided for under the Labour Law (1997), and is authorized to use conciliation, mediation and arbitration to resolve serious labour disputes.

One of the core activities of the ACF is to build the capacity of the arbitrators of the Arbitration Council as well as that of ACF staff through a series of training activities both locally and overseas. The ACF has received three-year funding (2006-2008) from the InterChurch Organisation for Development Co-operation (ICCO) which is specifically earmarked for capacity building for arbitrators, ACF and Secretariat staff. After almost two years of implementation under this project, the ACF is taking stock of those activities in order to revise its strategy for providing a new training/capacity building programmes in the following years.

A Needs Assessment Advisor with a a tertiary qualification in law and/or industrial relations is required to make the Capacity Building programme of the ACF more proactive and responsive to all stakeholders.

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