Production of Testimonial Documentary on Persons with Disability – Save the Children

a) Organizational Background
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children, fighting to improve the lives of Children in 120 countries around the World. Together with children we are helping to build a better world for present and future generations by making a reality of children’s rights.

Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.

Current programming focuses on child protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods, nutrition and WASH.

In 2012, as part of a global reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programmes of Save the Children UK, Save the Children Canada and Save the Children Finland to create a single operation in Kenya.

In Feb 2014, we completed a second transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge their health and nutrition programmes with our own.

Save the Children now has an operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the country.

We employ more than 300 staff and have an operating annual budget in 2014 of approximately US$25 Million.

b) Area Background
Turkana County with a population of 1,011,235 in 2014 is one of Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL) counties situated in the northwest part of Kenya. The county’s livelihood zones are pastoralism (62%), agro-pastoralism (14%), fishing (8%), urban/peri-urban (16%).

Agro-pastoralists are found mostly along rivers Turkwel and Kerio, while formal employments/casual waged are found in towns mainly Lokichogio, Kakuma and Lodwar.

Turkana is a drought prone area that experiences frequent, successive and prolonged spells of drought and malnutrition rates in the county are among the highest in the country.

Traditional unsound beliefs have greatly impacted negatively on health seeking behavior of the people: most hold beliefs that disability is caused by evil spirits or curse from the gods.

Children and adults with disability are enclosed in their homes and thus prone to missed opportunities such as schooling and health due to social stigma against people living with disability.

Many people living with disabilities in Kenya in general and in Turkana County in particular live in poverty and have limited opportunities to access education, health, suitable housing and employment opportunities.

In addition, conflicts and insecurity has led to needless loss of lives, displacement of households, and loss of livelihoods, trauma and physical disabilities.

c) Project Background
The project to be documented is a disability mainstreaming project that started in January 2014 and that is a continuation of similar projects that have been implemented in Turkana County since May 2012 with funding from Christian Blind Mission (CBM).

This project that aimed at improving the lives of people living with disabilities in Turkana County, Kenya, by leveraging on Save the Children on going health and nutrition projects is coming to an end on February 28 2015.

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to improvements in the quality of life of people with disabilities in Turkana County while the specific objective is to ultimately increase access of people with disabilities to interventions that can improve their quality of life by:
Sub-objective 1: Prevention of physical impairments arising from avoidable and vaccine preventable childhood diseases, through facilitation of health education, nutrition and immunization programs.
Sub-objective 2: Provision of direct support and referral services to children living with disabilities.
Sub-objective 3: Developing awareness among health care providers within the project areas on the unique needs of PWDs and how to effectively address these needs.
Sub-objective 4: Increasing the capacity of the MOH and DPOs to address the needs of people with disabilities
Sub-objective 5: Increasing awareness levels on disability issues aimed at creating an inclusive society.
Sub-objective 6: DPOs are engaged in disability-specific initiatives that build their resilience and reduce vulnerability of PWDs
Sub-objective 7: Establishing and promoting child friendly environments for children living with disabilities in schools and health facilities
d) Objectives of the consultancy
To tell human interest stories from the disability project with a focus on Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), especially children, whose quality of life has dramatically improved as a result of the project
To highlight the challenges encountered by PWDs in Turkana County
To serve as a live monitoring document to complement existing M&E system of documenting case studies and human interest stories, which is based on words and numbers
To promote the approaches applied by Save the Children on the project.
e) Target Audience
Beneficiaries
Development partners including donors, NGOs and organizations working in the field of disability in general
Other partners/stakeholders such as business communities and government agencies including public service delivery and public administration agencies
Save the Children staff.
f) Scope of work

a) Tell human interest stories:

Selected human interest stories will be identified and captured, in which the following should be mentioned/answered but not limited to:
A brief background of Turkana’s expanse landscape depicting the harsh environment and the distances involved while seeking for social services.
A beneficiary account of how the project has improved the quality of their life. This will involve filming in the community/household level and can be integrated to capture work at hospital level.
An account from a health worker at Lodwar County and Referral Hospital and John Paul Home for Children with Physical Disabilities on the benefits of the project – Filming at the hospital level and health worker’s views on the social cultural and economic factors which impact on PWDs.
Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social services and Turkana Disability Network views on the benefits of the project
b) Monitoring document:

The documentary should serve as a lively monitoring documentary that:
Captures the different/difficult steps faced by PWDs
Shows the audience how the project brings positive change to PWDs
c) Promote approaches of Save the Children:

The documentary should be able to engage the audience through interesting stories and at the same time highlight the approaches applied by Save the Children on this project, making it convincing enough to be an advocacy tool to other stakeholders, either for replication or policy improvement purposes.

g) Principles
Working in close collaboration with Save the Children, CBM, Ministry of health, and Ministry of Social Services from the planning stage to ensure that messages for and from the documentary are well understood, taken and implemented properly and on the right track.
Liaise with Save the Children staff on all contents in order to ensure accuracy and endorsement.
The documentary has to be based on interviews with major stakeholders on the project implementation: beneficiaries, co-operating partners, and Save the Children.
The documentary will be produced in line with Save the Children’s organizational standards and other Save the Children operational documents
h) Deliverables
Detailed production and post-production schedule for filming process
Draft scripts, including proposed interview questions for the documentary films for comments by Save the Children.
First cut of the documentary for comments by Save the Children and its implementing partners.
Finalized draft documentary for Save the Children clearance, at most 2 working days from receipt of initial Save the Children comments.
The documentary available in English (with sub-titles for Turkana language) in broadcast quality DVD and in other appropriate formats that enables the documentary to be uploaded to Save the Children and implementing partners’ websites, YouTube, flickers, etc in two (2) working days from receipt of final Save the Children comments and clearance
Provide 20 copies of the documentary on professional labelled and packed DVD. The label design must be approved by Save the Children.
Submit all raw materials collected during the filming for any possible future production initiated by Save the Children

i) Qualifications and competencies required
The Consultant (individual(s), organization, or a TV production company) should have:
Extensive experience in producing public information video films or TV programs, relating to the social and economic matters.
Experience working with international organizations and/or international donors as well as in working with state institutions, NGOs and local authorities in Kenya
Awareness of the international development programs in Kenya with a focus on disability.
Excellent technical capacities to ensure smooth and high quality production (video production staff, owner of its own video production studio or a documentary proof of an access to a rented video studio, etc.)
Excellent planning and organizational skills
Excellent ability to meet deadlines

j) Tentative schedule and duty station
The Disability project started on 1st January, 2014 and will end by 28th February 2015.

The documentary will be produced anytime in the month of February or immediately after the end of the project. Exact number of field trip for filming should be proposed by the Consultant.

The project is implemented in Turkana Central, Turkana North, Turkana South and Loima sub-counties in Turkana County.

These will form the location sites for filming and the consultant should be prepared to stay in remote and harsh environment during the filming of the documentary.

k) Ownership
The edited documentary films as well as all footage filmed for this assignment is the sole property of Save the Children.

The selected Consultant’s name and logo shall only be acknowledged in the closing credit.

l) Guidelines for submission of proposals
Interested Consultants should submit proposals that include:
A short concept on how you go about to achieve the given multi-objectives in the context of the Disability project
Time for filming and
Financial proposals
All interested Individuals/firms are requested to express interest following the attached EOI format ONLY (CLICK HERE to download) by email to: Kenya.jobapplications@savethechildren.org with a copy to abraham.afeworki@savethechildren.org by 16th February 2015.

Please indicate ‘Disability Project Documentary Film’ on the subject line.

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