Kamran Bagirov

Overall management of the office and maintaining the daily work process and administering the workflow; developing the annual work-plans and programme budget planning; writing project proposals and raising funds; managing and coordinating the implementation of the annual programme activities and extra-budgetary projects; supervising the project staff, including setting the annual objectives and tasks, guiding and controlling the tasks accomplishments, and evaluating the staff performance; monitoring and evaluating of the project performance of the implementing partner-organizations and experts’ groups; planning, budgeting, reporting on and coordinating of the overall project implementation process with donors-organizations;

Developing thematic reports and situation analysis on matters related to human rights, rule of law and political developments in the country; providing legal briefings and policy advise to the OHCHR South Caucasus Desk Office; establishing contacts and co-operation with the government counterparts, CSOs and international organizations; representing the OHCHR presence in the country; mainstreaming the human rights across the work of the UNCT, and promoting and providing assistance in applying the human rights-based approach in programming the UNCT work and the UNDAF (UNAPF), as well as advising and briefing he UNCT on the progress status of the UN Treat Bodies’ periodic review and observations on the country;

Managing the implementation of the projects promoting and protecting human rights in the country through supporting legal reforms and building capacity and raising awareness of the national counterparts - both governmental and civil society representatives on the international human rights standards and the use of the UN human rights mechanisms; organizing and delivering training and consultations for civil society and legal community members with a focus on research methodologies, advocacy and report writing to the UN Treaty Bodies, as well as on the role and engagement of the civil society with the international human rights advocacy by use of the UN Human Rights machinery;

Organizing and delivering specialized seminars and workshops on the international human rights standards in the administration of justice on administrative and procedural issues for legal professionals and pro-bono lawyers; managing and coordinating of preparation and publication of the national human rights educational resources on UN human rights system and mechanisms, including adaptation of various legal toolkits on human rights monitoring and reporting;
Successful fund-raising activities resulted in mobilization of over 1.5 million EUR of extra-budgetary contribution for programme activities needs, which helped to enhance the capacity of national actors in promoting and effectively protection human rights, as well as to establish a pro-bono legal clinic addressing legal services available to members of vulnerable groups.

Successfully managed capacity-building projects that enhanced the knowledge of members of the civil society organizations and lawyers’ community members in the international human rights standards and UN human rights system; and contributed in mobilization of civil society members and promoted their participation in the activities of the UN human rights mechanisms.

Successfully contributed in establishing the legal resource centre that delivers free legal assistance services to the population at large and specifically to persons belonging to vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities, low-income population and victims of gender-based violence by facilitating their access to justice through available national and international mechanisms to protect their rights and freedoms.

Duties and responsibilities:
Preparing background papers and reports on political, human rights and rule of law situation in the country; providing briefings and analysis on legislative and national policy developments and judicial reforms; participating in the parliamentary working groups on various legislative reforms and its harmonization in line with the international standards.

Developing project proposals and coordinating the implementation of OSCE rule of law programme supporting legal, judicial and penitentiary reforms, including trial (criminal and administrative justice) and detention monitoring, rule of law centres at the regional level and capacity building activities for legal professionals and civil society organizations; including monitoring and evaluation of the project performance of the project staff and implementing partner-organizations; planning, reporting on and coordinating of the overall project implementation with donors-organizations.

Contributing to the penitentiary reforms in the country through monitoring the conditions of prisons and detention facilities, as well as participating in the Working Group, comprised of the parliamentarians and civil society organizations, and developing a number of legislative drafts governing the status of the detainees and prisoners and recommendations to the Government regarding the improvement of the detention conditions in line with the international human rights standards.

Contributing to the International election observation missions of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights/ODIHR through providing election observation and reporting thereon; contributing to civil society development initiatives and civil education as a trainer on international human rights standards and rule of law principles; representing the OSCE Human Rights and Rule of Law unit at the conferences, meetings, roundtables and other events;

Providing mediation in conflict resolution, as well as advising on diversity, equality and inclusion policy as a staff representative and legal officer.

Achievements:
Successfully developed and managed trial and detention monitoring programs, including direct monitoring of courts and detention facilities countrywide, preparing in a team of national and international experts trial monitoring reports and set of recommendations on fair trial principles for the Government and Parliament, as well as organizing public roundtables and discussions with the judiciary and other national actors to address shortcomings in the administration of justice; successful contributed in preparation of new legislation regulating the status and ensuring the rights of the detainees in line with the international standards.

Election Program:
Assisting in developing the unified Election Code Draft through legal analysis and codification of existing election-related laws; preparing sets of recommendations and comments for the Government, in light of international standards; assisting in management and implementation of technical assistance projects for the election commissions in the country.

Local Governance Program:
Assisting in professional development of the local self-government bodies through building their capacity and consultations; Preparation of the comparative analyze of power divisions between local state authorities and local self-governance bodies, assisting in preparing Azerbaijani Municipal Assessment Report, assisting the working commission of the Parliament in drafting laws on municipal issues (draft Law On Delegation of Certain State Powers to the Municipality, draft Law on Administrative Control over the Municipal Activity, etc.), assisting in preparing and conduct of trainings for municipal councils;

Civic Education and Rule of Law Program:
Preparing and conduct of trainings on human rights issues, constitutional basis and mechanism for human rights protection; building capacity of the project trainers team (training of trainers) on the national legislation regulating civil society activities and funding, as well as on international human rights standards.

Achievements:
Successful contributed in drafting and codifying the Election Code, as well as set of recommendations on the international election standards and best practice for the Government and Parliament; successful contributed in a team of the national and international experts in preparing a number of legislative drafts that were accepted by the Parliamentarian Commission and incorporated into the national legislation on self-government; successful contributed in preparing methodological and educational resources for the municipal councils on fund-raising, local community management and others.

Duties: Legal assistance on corporate issues, including acquisition and merging; legal set up of business; privatization of state assets, facilities and enterprises; investment protection consultations; preparing legal analysis on doing business and investment climate in the country; representing clients in the state agencies and bank institutions.

Representing clients before the state agencies and bank institutions, such as the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Taxes, the State Committee for Securities and the State Patent Committee;

Legal assistance on employment Issues (collective agreements, liability and indemnification issues, and intellectual property (registering and maintaining clients’ trademarks with the State Patent Committee), and energy and telecommunication (licensing and import/export deals of energy and telecommunication products);

Achievements: Successfully provided legal services and advisory assistance to corporate clients;