Consultancy service for
Content selection for thematic kit ‘Gender-based violence’
in Middle East
Context
Since 2007, Bibliothèques Sans Frontières has been working to bring knowledge and information to those who are most in need. Libraries are simultaneously excellent places for personal growth and collective development. However, they are too often absent where they could have the most impact.
Because lack of access to information is an important driver of inequality in today’s world, BSF works in 25 languages, in 50 countries across the globe, and have curated more than 35,000 sources of knowledge and information.
To access this information, BSF created the Ideas Box: a mobile “pop up” multimedia center and learning hub that provides educational and cultural resources to communities in need, including refugees and displaced persons in camps around the globe, and underserved communities.
Despite all these projects, girls and women are underrepresented in the Ideas Box audience, with only 29% of visitors. And when they come to the Ideas Box, they are often locked into stereotypical uses: accompanying their children, consulting information books alone, or asking about services their family can access. They rarely participate in the training workshops organized in the Ideas Box, and too often because social, psychological and symbolic barriers prevent them from doing so.
The challenge is immense when it comes to ensuring that girls and women have the same opportunities for development and autonomy as boys and men. Yet, we see on a daily basis how women and girls are the most exposed in crisis situations and in the face of exclusion. It is in this context that we are launching, alongside the Chanel Foundation, Ideas Box for Women, an initiative within the Ideas Box program that will aim to develop and structure a set of activities and services dedicated to empowering and strengthening girls and women within the program.
An initial diagnostic conducted on a sample of 30 projects identified the priority themes for girls and women in the Ideas Box programs currently deployed. These themes are :
Making the Ideas Box a Space for Girls and Women
Women’s, Maternal and Child Health
Financial autonomy and entrepreneurship
Leadership and Influence Strategy
Gender-based violence
- A kit includes:
A selection of digital content (i.e. 10 to 20 digital contents), targeting a given pedagogical objective, for a given audience, in a given language,
A recommendation of physical content related to the theme,
An online training for facilitators with the associated content,
The structure of the in-person training for the facilitators for the appropriation of the kit to get used and to raise their awareness,
A number of activity sheets allowing facilitators to propose dedicated activities on the targeted theme, within the Ideas Box.
Target of the mission
This consultancy mission consists first of all in taking into account the diagnosis in connection with the BSF field teams. This part of the mission will be carried out by videoconference. This step will allow us to specify the target audiences and certain questions in order to better define the needs in terms of content and even mediation with the project’s stakeholders.
Once the diagnosis of the project has been refined and validated, the second part of the mission will be the research and selection of digital content (videos, audios, pdf, etc…) and physical content (books, board games, etc…). These contents will have to be in ARABIC and will be selected for the project targeting a given pedagogical objective, for a given audience..
The new digital contents will have to be indexed in the BSF catalog following a template and guidance that BSF will provide.
Deliverables
The deliverables expected at the end of the consultancy are:
A diagnosis of the project in the field allowing the creation of a documentary strategy
A selection of digital contents integrated in the BSF catalog and creation of new content packages in BSF catalog if necessary to best meet the project objectives
A selection of physical content and the provider where we can buy it
The creation of a guide for getting started with the contents
Methodology
The Consultant will be coordinated by the Content manager and the Coordinator and Educational Engineer in charge of the creation of the thematic kits. The Consultant will also collaborate with the Training and Mediation Manager of Bibliothèques Sans Frontières and the Consultant in charge of the localization of the thematic kits.
The mission will begin end of August 2021 and will end no later than end of September 2021 and will be conducted remotely.
A scoping meeting is planned at the beginning of the mission as well as a training time on the internal BSF tools that the consultant will have to use.
Follow-up meetings will be held during the consultancy in order to validate different deliverables as they are made. The dates and number of these meetings will be defined together at the beginning of the mission.
A feedback meeting will be held at the end of the mission to jointly validate the deliverables.
Financial proposal
A remuneration of maximum 1000 euros (VAT included) is foreseen for the realization of the mission. The Consultant will be paid at the end of the mission upon delivery and validation of all deliverables.
Contact
To apply for this consultancy, please send an email to [email protected] with the subject : “IDB4W – Consultancy service for Content selection for thematic kit ‘Gender-based violence’ in Middle East.
The application should be received before the 08/17/2021 and should contain a technical note describing the proposed methodology, a financial proposal and the resume of the consultant who will work on the mission.
All applications that are not completed won’t be treated.
The choice of the consultant will be based on 80% on the quality of the methodology and 20% on the financial proposal.
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