RFP/RFQ Safety and Security Assessment and Training At IPAS

Founded in 1973, Ipas is a global nongovernmental organization dedicated to ending preventable deaths and disabilities from unsafe abortion. Through local, national and global partnerships, Ipas works to ensure that women can obtain safe, respectful and comprehensive abortion care, including counseling and contraception to prevent future unintended pregnancies. At Ipas, we believe that: Every woman has a right to safe reproductive health choices, including safe abortion care. No woman should have to risk her life, her health, her fertility, her well-being or the well-being of her family because she lacks reproductive health care. Women everywhere must have the opportunity to determine their futures, care for their families and manage their fertility. Along with caring, committed health professionals and other colleagues worldwide, Ipas tackles this neglected public health problem head on in some of the world’s poorest countries. While many international donors and governments have focused attention and resources elsewhere, we struggle against the fundamental social injustice that results in the deaths of so many women in the prime of their lives.

• Job Type Full Time
• Qualification Others
• Experience 10 years
• Location Abuja
• Job Field Security / Intelligence 

Ipas is a global non-profit organization that works worldwide to eliminate deaths and complications from unsafe abortion and increase women’s ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights. Ipas’s work is grounded in the belief that women everywhere must have the opportunity to determine their futures, care for their families and manage their fertility.

Ipas seeks to engage the services of a reputable firm to conduct safety and security assessment and provide a safety and security and first Aid training to its employees.

Approximate Date Purchase Order Issued to Successful Bidder: 10th April 2023

Scope of work

• Conduct security assessments to identify and assess threats from both internal and external sources that can impact the Nigeria program.
• Review and update existing Safety and Security Manual using the current state of affairs in the country.
• Assess existing physical security system and recommend actions to repair, upgrade and/ or expand systems/solution to mitigate risks and/or eliminate threats.
• Recommend a platform that the organization can subscribe to obtain up to date security information in the country.
• Perform a security drill exercise.
• Conduct security assessments for some hotels within medium and high risk state that Ipas operates.                                                       
• Provide safety and security training relevant to our context and operations.
• Provide First Aid training

Technical Requirements:

• Evidence of previous similar jobs conducted within the past five years.
• Evidence of  similar scope of work provided to other non-governmental organizations
• Evidence of government license/approval to provide such scope of work.
• Evidence of understanding of the security challenges in Nigeria especially within the operational sphere of non-governmental organizations.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to IPAS on drive.google.com to apply