Deadline: 17-Jul-25
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has launched the call for expression of interests for the Legal Assistance and Guidance Program to seek sustainable and lasting solutions to facilitate the exercise of rights for the populations it serves, complementing and strengthening the capacities of institutions and other relevant actors.
Legal assistance and guidance services are essential for the timely identification of people in need of international protection within mixed movements, facilitating access to the international protection system, and promoting the exercise of rights by refugee status applicants and recognized refugees, as well as displaced and deported individuals.
Objective
- Objective 1: Legal Assistance and Guidance
- General Objective:
- The objective of the legal assistance and guidance project is to have partners who can Deploy strategies and actions that achieve a comprehensive approach to people in mixed movements, applicants for refugee status, refugees, deportees, returnees, and internally displaced persons. This entails having a presence or, failing that, the ability to provide care in strategic territories where this population may be located in order to provide them with information and guidance on rights, obligations, and available protection services; identify protection profiles and needs; and conduct case management to provide legal assistance and/or support. Additionally, through short-, medium-, and long-term interventions, we can identify protection gaps in order to redefine strategies and intervention methods to achieve greater and better impact.
- Main actions:
- Refugee applicants and refugees
- Deported/returned persons
- Internally displaced persons
- General Objective:
Sectors and Areas of Specialization
- Protection
- Access to asylum
- Legal assistance and access to justice
- Protection – general
Geographic Focus
- To Guatemala
- Department of Izabal
- Department of Escuintla
- Department of Quetzaltenango
- Department of Santa Rosa
- Department of Jutiapa
- Department of Alta Verapaz
- Department of Chiquimula
- Department of Huehuetenango
- Department of Peten
- Department of San Marcos
- Department of Sacatepequez
- Department of Chimaltenango
- Department of Alta Verapaz
- Department of Suchitepequez
- Department of Quiche
- Department of Baja Verapaz
Selection Criteria
- Local experience and presence
- Project management
- Cost effectiveness
- Accountability to communities and community relationsÿ
- Access/security considerations
For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.