Deadline: 20-Jul-21
UN Women is seeking a legally-registered national or international Not-for-Profit organisation with a track record of developing communications campaign content and implementing community dialogues in PNG.
The Women Make the Change programme, ensuring women are perceived as legitimate and effective political leaders, a mixed media national communications campaign will be launched that showcases the depth and breadth of women’s leadership across PNG.
Building awareness of the value of women’s political participation and inclusion in decision-making amongst leaders and the public is critical to achieving transformational and sustainable change.
Women Make the Change is being implemented in 10 provinces across Papua New Guinea, including: the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, East New Britain, East Sepik, Enga, Hela, Milne Bay, Morobe, the National Capital District, New Ireland, and Southern Highlands.
Objectives
The organisation is expected to deliver on the objectives outlined in this Terms of Reference. This will include:
- Up to 30 digital stories of women in leadership and other community members supportive of women in leadership;
- Up to 5 mini-documentary films exploring the success stories of women leaders within the contexts and relationships they operate in;
- Contributions to an advocacy toolkit on women’s political representation for grassroots organisations;
- Contributing to the communications module in the training manual for women politicians;
- Creation of an online platform to host the campaign and associated content, including digital stories, mini-documentaries, women’s profiles featured in the PNG Women in Leadership series;
- Oversee the roll out of community dialogues on women’s political participation and leadership in the 10 WMC programme provinces to support local awareness-raising;
- Support to the development of the national campaign integrating the above components, making use of print, TV, radio and online media.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be in the range of $100,000 to $180,000USD.
- The duration of the partnership agreement from 9 August 2021 to December 31 2022.
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required;
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- Knowledge and experience in communications for development, co-creative media production, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting.
- The organisation must have the following functional/technical competencies:
- Experience working in different cultural settings in PNG and established relationships with relevant PNG based partners to complete the above work;
- Creative research processes harnessing local knowledge systems and community structures;
- Demonstrated understanding of working with women-led organisations and working on gender issues in PNG;
- Demonstrated experience in content creation, film production and web design;
- Creative media production guided by local value systems and facilitation of co-creative storytelling;
- Experience designing, overseeing and implementing community dialogues and national communication campaigns;
- Working in both English and Tok Pisin language and the ability to allow for local language dialogues where necessary;
- Curation of media works for exhibition and public audiences;
- Experience in media capacity building and development of advocacy toolkits in the Pacific;
- Experience in capacity building of facilitators to support community dialogues and conversations;
- Experience working with media partners and journalists in PNG;
- Data analysis of audience research and experience in building capacity in monitoring and evaluation for PNG based partners;
- Monitoring and evaluation of behaviour change campaigns and communication for development initiatives
- The organisation should have:
- An established organisational culture of accountability and commitment to delivery of results.
- Internal programmatic, administrative and financial capacity for budgets of more than $50,000 annually supported with a track record of quality and timely project results.
- Have been in operation for at least 5 years.
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2021/07/call-for-proposals-women-make-the-change