Duties & Responsibilities/Scope of work/Deliverables required (in detail):
Project : The ICRC study on customary international humanitarian law (IHL) Customary IHL - IHL Databases - ICRC, published in 2005 and accessible in a regularly updated online database since 2010, is used by a wide range of actors involved in or otherwise concerned with relevant situations. These include not only actors at the international level (such as the international tribunals, UN special rapporteurs or international commissions of enquiry), but also, and increasingly so, national actors, such as domestic courts dealing with IHL, legal and policy advisors of States’ armed forces, National Red Cross/Crescent Societies, and researchers and IHL professionals around the world.
The database has thus become an important reference tool for relevant actors and on relevant subjects. The ICRC delegation in Pakistan conducts research each year to update the database. This year the IHL department is looking for an IHL expert (or team) to conduct research on the laws, policies and official statements coming from Pakistan, to update the online database.

Scope of work:

• Review the data from previous years i.e., 2016 – 2022. Identify omissions, corrections and provide updates.
• Compile data pertaining to Customary IHL in Pakistan from 2023 – present.

Confidentiality: All information shared and discussed during the course of this consultancy will be treated with the utmost confidentiality and used solely for the purpose of this project.