Terms of Reference for editing of audio program
1. Background
Save the Children international (SCI) is non-governmental organization that works to create lasting, positive change in the lives of children in need. Save the Children leads the implementation of Growth through Nutrition – USAID funded flagship multi-sector nutrition project which aims to improve the nutritional status of pregnant and lactating women and children less than 2 years of age through sustainable, coordinated and evidence-based interventions in four regions (Amhara, Oromia, SNNP and Tigray) of Ethiopia. Growth through Nutrition robust learning agenda supports and guides effective national nutrition policies and practices to reduce under-nutrition.
The ECCs are intended to be held every month for ten consecutive meetings. Local NGOs are responsible for conducting supportive supervision and monthly meetings with the Community Change Agents who facilitated the ECCs. We are planning to edit the existing VF materials to make the ECC session duration no more than an hour and also more attractive.
Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) is one of the key components used by the project to improve the community’s knowledge and attitude on key adolescent, maternal and child nutrition and WASH practices. As part of its SBCC strategy, the project works through mass, interpersonal and community channels to deliver messages to the targeted community.
As a community based participatory approach, Growth through Nutrition is implementing Enhanced Community Conversation (ECC) sessions without Virtual Facilitators through the project’s local implementing partners and ECC groups in the Year II.
ECCs are conducted at community level, with peer groups of pregnant/lactating women, grandmothers and husbands/fathers, meeting separately to focus on knowledge and skills relevant to their gender or family roles. ECCs included group discussions, games, role plays and songs
designed to build knowledge, skills, attitudes and self-efficacy relevant to 1000 Day behaviors and gender roles. ECCs also regularly included the use of the multi-media SBCC materials (print, audio, songs) specially designed for low-literate audiences, and tailored to each of the three types of peer groups. ECCs is facilitated by trained Community Change Agents (CCAs), who are community members.
The project will revise the Virtual Facilitator contents, pretest them, duplicate them and scale them up during Year II. The new scale-up strategy will use cell phones, rather than the digital radios used during USAID/ENGINE, as these are less expensive and readily available in communities.
SCI – Growth through Nutrition program requires a consulting firm that would be able to revise/edit the existing Enhanced Community Conversation (ECC) virtual facilitator (VF) audio materials produced in Amharic, Oromiffa and Tigrigna languages. The existing VF materials. Therefore, Save the Children would like to invite companies who have the capacity and experience to produce audio narratives to compete for this bid.
1. Rationale
2.1 Responsibilities of the company
Ø Required to revise and narrate by voice actor the intros of all the 30 sessions.
Ø Edit 30 existing sessions of audio recorded files (10 Amharic, 10 Oromiffa and 10 Tigrigna) which has a minimum of 1 hour and maximum of 2 hours’ length in to a maximum of an hour.
Ø Required to submit first drafts of the revised/edited audio recorded “virtually facilitated” doc for internal reviews and feedbacks within one month of signing the contract.
Ø Required to refine the audio recorded “VF” with in one week based on feedbacks of the SBCC team
Ø Required to purchase mobile SD cards and record the prototype VF on the mobile SD cards for pretesting as per the following specifications:
o 3 Amharic VF mobile SD copies
o 3 Oromiffa mobile SD copies
o 3 Tigrigna mobile SD copies
Ø Revise the materials as per the pretest results submit the final materials with in one week of receiving the pretest results
Ø Required to submit the final master copies of the three languages audio-recorded “VF”, in three separate 16 GB San Disc mobile memory stick
Ø Required to purchase mobile SD cards and record the VF on the mobile SD cards as per the following specifications:
o 450 Amharic VF mobile SD copies
o 450 Oromiffa mobile SD copies
o 250 Tigrigna mobile SD copies
Ø professionals who has a skill on Adobe Audition software/audio editing software and able to speak and understand Amharic, Oromiffa and Tigrigna languages
2.2 Responsibilities of Save the Children International
Ø Provide the developed 30 sessions of VF materials for revision (10 Amharic, 10 Oromiffa and 10 Tigrigna)
Ø Provide guidance and feedback at all stages of the productions,
Ø Arrange pretest and provide feedbacks from pretests to the company,
Ø Approve deliverables and facilitate payment,
1. Minimum Requirements
Ø The production company should have a fully equipped sound studio with all necessary devices (sound recorders, full-fledged studio inputs, computers and editing software) which are necessary for the audio programs production. Site visit will be conducted for verification.
Ø The production company should have an outstanding track record and up-to-date editing/mixing capabilities
Ø Bidders should be legally registered with renewed business license and TIN, or registration certificates from proper government authorities,
Ø Bidders should have a minimum of five years of audio production experience after establishment,
Ø Excellent references from previous clients within the past 3 years
Ø The proposals should be submitted to Save the Children office with sealed documents before the dead line. Any submissions after the closing deadline will be rejected.