Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD)
INVITATION FOR SHORT-TERM PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Interpretation of speech to Ethiopian Sign Language and include Caption in English on a documentary film Made on good practices of ChildFund Ethiopia Partners about the Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Three Targets Areas in Addis Ababa
TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR) Introduction The Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD) is an Ethiopian Resident Charity, established in 2005 and re-registered in 2009 under the Charities and Societies Proclamation No. 621/2009. ECDD works collaboratively with other organizations to promote and facilitate “inclusive development” in Ethiopia – the inclusion of persons with disabilities in mainstream government and NGO development projects and programs.
ECDD is currently engaged in a project entitled “Capacity-building for Child Fund Ethiopia and its local partners to improve the quality of their services.” Under this partnership, ECDD has been assisting ChildFund and its partners in building their capacities on how they are able to facilitate the inclusion of children with disabilities in different development programs and services which are being implemented.
ECDD has produced a documentary film on good practises from three selected ChildFund partners in Addis Ababa. The documentary film is 15 minutes long. ECDD now seeks Interpreter to interpret the speech in the documentary film to Ethiopian Sign Language and include caption in English. The winning individual or firm is expected to produce 100 copies of the DVD.
Objectives The sign language interpreting, the caption and copy duplication of DVD will:
Interpret clearly all the message (speech) that are included in the documentary film to Ethiopian Sign Language to help forward the message to persons with hearing impairment.
Include the caption in English to help Inglish speakers view it without barrier.
Make the DVD available for larger audience for educational purposes
Expected Outputs
All the speech in the documentary film should be interpreted in Ethiopian Sign Language.
Include Caption based on the documentary film in English
Copy the final output in 100 DVD copies
Job Requirement
Eligibility: Required Capacity and Skills Promotion and advertisement firms as well as individuals having the following competencies/skills and capacities are eligible to apply for this short-term professional service.
Profound knowledge on disability issues.
Strong background and a minimum of 3 years experience in interpreting and producing captions in English.
Provision of a CV of a certified sign language interpreter in the team is mandatory.
Registered under the set legal provisions or under any other valid legal cover.
Commitment to meet the deadlines, with enough resources and human power to make necessary logistical arrangements.
Provide a sample previous work of similar product (sign language and Inglish captioned) desirable
Provide a sample previous work of similar product (sign language and Inglish captioned) desirable
Terms of Payment:
30% upon signing of the contract
70% upon satisfactory completion and delivery and acceptance by ECDD of the interpreted speech and including captions of the documentary film.
Submission of Proposals Interested and qualified organizations or individuals may send their proposals, along with following information:
Profile, giving background and experience of the organization or a detailed CV of an individual professional- especially in preparing Ethiopian Sign Language Interpretation and including captions in English
Technical Proposal consisting of:
Proposed detail plan to prepare the interpreted sign language and including caption in English,
human resources available for the contract, including team composition and task assignment;
Time period needed for completion of the contract
Financial proposal: Indicate the airtime, placement and price with detailed budget of payment for sign language interpreters, caption producer etc
Copy of renewed Registration Certificate, License or Work Permit
Other relevant supporting documents
Potential firms or individuals are requested to submit technical and financial proposals with all the necessary documents in person to ECDD office within 5 working days from the date of this announcement. Deadline to submit a document is 29 July 2014 at 4:30pm.