Child Education and Welfare Centre’s Communication Material Production Opportunity

Save

the Children

Terms of Reference
 

Assignment

Title: Child

Education and Welfare Centre’s Communication Material Production

Location: 

Dadaab
    
Duration: 30 Days

1.0 Introduction: Save the

Children has been providing child protection services in Dadaab for over seven

years and has a well-established operating platform within the camps in

Dadaab. 

                                              

The

project has been partly supported by (Bureau of Population, Refugee and

Migration (BPRM) to cover implementation across four camps in the refugee

population till December 2015, when exit from Hagadera reduced this scope to 3

camps: Ifo main, Ifo 2 and Dagahaley. 

The

project’s goal has been to increasing the protective environment of children in

the refugee and host community through provision of comprehensive child

protection services to vulnerable children and their families.  

2.0 Project Background: Save

the Children with funding support from BPRM has since 2012 been implementing an

annually funded child protection project in Dadaab refugee camps (Hagadera, Ifo

Main, Ifo 2 and Dagahaley) and the host communities. 

One of

the strategies used in the project has been the setting up of Child Friendly

spaces to provide children with safe areas to play learn and interact with each

other while in the camps.

Over

the years the child friendly spaces have been reviewed to incorporate an

education component, leading to their review into Child Education and Welfare

Centres (CEWCs). 

The

CEWCs have incorporated a range of services including educational, recreational

and psychosocial support, dubbed the Desert Flower Strategy. 

Child Friendly Spaces (CFSs) are one of Save the Children’s key programmatic

interventions to protect children from physical harm and psychosocial distress

and to help them continue learning and developing both during and after an

emergency.

In

Dadaab, CFSs were established in 2007 as core Child Protection activities and

were primarily used as safe recreational spaces for boys and girls. Over the

past few years, CFS activities were expanded to include counselling, life

skills training activities and children’s clubs. 

As the

child protection programme expanded and conditions in the camps evolved, the

CFSs faced challenges in maintaining their relevance. 

The

original role and mandate of the CFS as being a rapid emergency Child

Protection intervention was no longer appropriate, and needed to evolve with

the context of long-term displacement, whilst also providing the necessary

immediate psychosocial support for new arrivals. 

A new strategy called the “Desert Flower”, which  incorporated  more

structured activities, including early childhood education and development

(ECDE) classes, accelerated learning programmes, and vocational and life skills

training for older children was initiated. 

Efforts

have been ongoing to integrate psychosocial activities with education and

literacy based initiatives referred to as Accelerated Basic Education (ABE)

initiated through UNICEF funding and Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and

Development (DFATD). 

In

addition, and important to the strategy, is entrenching a sustainability

component which has been done by establishing and supporting  community

based CEWCs to take a lead role in facilitating activities and overseeing

management of  the centres. 

The Desert Flower Strategy, being a component of the child protection project

in Dadaab contributes to the overall goal of the child protection programming

for Save the Children. 

It

directly supports the project’s commitment to strengthen the capacity and

effectiveness of community-based structures, and ensuring that children have

the skills and psychosocial support needed to foster their active

participation. 

In the period that the project has been operational, Save the Children has

continued to build upon the work achieved each year to expand access to

services for children, improve the quality of services and strengthen the

capacity of government and community stakeholders to assume the responsibility

of protecting children. 

The overall Child Protection project objective is to promote children’s healthy

growth and development through psychosocial support, enabling children’s

participation, greater inclusion of children with disabilities and targeted

programming for out of school adolescents. 

3.0 Purpose and Scope of the Consultancy
 

The

purpose of this consultancy service is to document children’s and community voices

in demonstrating the importance of community led initiatives for the wellbeing

of children. 

This

will be done through developing communication materials (documentary and

assorted IEC materials) on the Desert Flower strategy and how it is contributing

to child wellbeing.      

This will enable Save the Children to communicate to external audiences on

innovative initiatives that can be replicated in other contexts to provide

integrated services to children. 

Further

it will also be an opportunity to demonstrate the importance of community

actions on child protection and wellbeing.

The following is the key focus of assignment. 

• Develop
  
  a story line / script around the Desert Flower strategy activities to
  
  inform development of the documentary content 


• Through
  
  a community and child participatory process, collect and document messages
  
  and photo stories that will be used to design materials communicating
  
  various aspects of child protection and wellbeing interventions.


• Design
  
  various IEC materials around the messages generated in the participatory
  
  process.

4.0 Conducting the Assignment 
 

The

consultant will work closely with the project team in planning and executing

the task. 

Save

the Children expects that consultant will 

• Develop
  
  a detailed work plan for executing the various activities expected in the
  
  assignment’s scope.


• Ensure
  
  a child focused approach in collecting information required for the
  
  assignment. 


• Undertake
  
  the assignment while providing supervisory oversight to all aspects of the
  
  assignment. 


• Present
  
  drafts at Save the Children (SCI) country office in Nairobi to an audience
  
  incorporating SC country and regional office staff.


• Compile
  
  and submit the final materials incorporating the feedback forms from the
  
  SCI team.

The consultant will develop and share a proposed work plan as

part of the bid submission. 

The

proposal should incorporate a suggested layout of the final communication

materials. 

5.0 Deliverables 
 

The

Consultant shall be expected to deliver: 
 

a)

Documentary depicting the Desert Flower strategy (10-15 minutes clip and a

three minute web- version)
 

b)

Personal human interest stories that can be captured in 3 to 5 minute clips to

demonstrate impact of interventions to particular children or families 
 

c)

Capture or edit available case studies and present them in various

communication materials

• Booklets


• Posters


• Children’s
  
  photo albums

The consultant shall be expected to present the final

communication material in both soft and hard copy.

Intellectual property rights: All

documentation related to this assignment shall remain the sole and exclusive

property of Save the Children International. 

6.0 Timeline 

 
This assignment is expected to take a maximum of 30 days commencing in April

2016. 

The

final products (Deliverables) after incorporating feedback from Save the

Children will be submitted to Save the Children within the stipulated

timeline. 

The

consultant is expected to submit a work plan indicating timelines of each

activity to be discussed and agreed with the SC project team.  

7.0 Qualifications

• The
  
  lead consultant must have a Post-graduate or first degree in Communication
  
  or related field – experience in documentary production and print media
  
  with considerable experience working within the NGO advocacy context.


• Sound
  
  and proven experiences in similar assignments


• Fluency
  
  in English and Kiswahili is essential, knowledge of Somali language will
  
  be an added advantage.


• Demonstrated
  
  experience in use of child friendly and participatory methods of
  
  conducting interviews, research and evaluations. 


• Excellent
  
  analytical, organizational, facilitating, presentation and communication
  
  skills.


• Previous
  
  experience in working or delivering similar assignments in a refugee camp
  
  or emergency contexts will be an added advantage.

 
The consultant shall submit to Save the Children a technical and financial

proposal through the email address provided. 

There

will be administrative and logistic support provided by Save the Children

regarding transport costs from Nairobi to field, accommodation and meals during

the period of stay in Dadaab.

The

consultant fee payment will only be made after the assignment deliverables have

been assessed and approved by Save the Children. 

a) Logistics: contracted consultancy firm will be expected to use their own

vehicle, computer, and filming and photography equipment. ; take responsibility

for printing/photocopy services and accommodation for the consultant team

involved in the communication material production process and cover their per-diem

while in the field. 

b) Tax and insurance: Save the Children will deduct withholding tax as per the

Kenyan withholding tax policy. 

c) The consultant will be required to abide by Save the Children International

security procedures and rules in place for staff. While in the field, the

consultant will be provided with security briefings from the field security

focal person.

e) Contract: a contract agreement will be signed between the consultancy firm

and SCI immediately after completion of the selection process. Communication

material production time is effective from the date the agreement is signed. 
  
All interested Individuals/firms are requested to submit their application

following the EOI format ONLY (CLICK HERE to download) , by email to:

Kenya.jobapplications@savethechildren.org with a copy to

caleb.odhiambo@savethechildren.org by 8th April 2016 indicating the assignment

title on the subject line.