BACKGROUND
Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD) is an Ethiopian Development Organization established in 2005 and reregistered at Agency for Civil Society Organizations as Ethiopian Development Civil Society Organization with Certificate № 0321 under the Proclamation № 1113/2019. ECDD is working with other organizations to promote and facilitate the inclusion of persons with disabilities and disability issues in mainstream service delivery and development programs envisioning an Inclusive Ethiopia where persons with disabilities exercise the same rights and have access to the same services and opportunities enjoyed by other citizens.
ECDD is currently implementing a project entitled “Disability Rights for an Increased Voice and Empowerment (DRIVE)” funded by the European Union and Light for the World International under the Civil Society Fund III Programme with the overall objective of improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities through the promotion of disability rights and inclusion. In the frame of the project, ECDD is implementing “MINCH IVR telephone platform designed to easily access and sharing of disability-related information among persons with disabilities, their families, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and other responsible stakeholders. Users access the platform by giving a call to the toll-free number 6768 without requiring internet or smart phone. The platform is free to the user and helps in bridging information and knowledge gap facing persons with and without disabilities and other responsible stakeholders. Under this ECDD has planned to aware users of how to use MINCH telephone platform and stimulate responsible stakeholders on how to collaborate on MINCH through television.
To this end ECDD is looking for media companies to produce and transmit a television program to aware persons with disabilities and other responsible stakeholders about the proper usage of MINCH Interactive Voice Response telephone platform, to discuss the challenges of ECDD in handling the needs of users coming on the platform and to request multiple stakeholders working on disability to collaborate with ECDD.
Objectives
Airing of television program will:
· Aware persons with disabilities, families, and responsible stakeholders on proper usage of MINCH IVR telephone platform.
· Help to depict the level of engagement of users on MINCH telephone platform and the challenges faced.
· Stimulate multiple stakeholders, service providers, and partners to constantly collaborate on MINCH Interactive Telephone Platform and with ECDD.
Target groups
- Persons with disabilities, their families and friends,
- Government, non-government, and organizations working on disability and mainstreaming disability issues in their service delivery.
Expected Outputs
· 1 TV program, not more than 15 minutes long.
Eligibility: Required Capacity and Skills
Media companies as well as individual media professionals having the following competencies/skills and capacities are eligible to apply for this short-term TV program.
· Profound knowledge of disability issues.
· Have Worked on making the production and advertising MINCH Platform more advantageous.
· Track record in airing media campaigns for the disability and development sector.
· Strong experience in making Tv /radio productions and programs
· Willing to consider corporate social responsibility in expressing the price for this service.
· Have a valid license and VAT certificate.
· Commitment to meet the deadlines, with enough resources and human power to make necessary logistical arrangements.
Selection Criteria
The Technical and Financial Proposals will account for 70% and 30% respectively of the selection criteria, broken down as follows:
Criteria | Score |
Budget | 30% |
Technical proposal: | |
Experience related to the task | 20% |
Worked on persons with disability issues and advertising MINCH 6768 IVR platform | 35% |
Technical proposal | 15% |
Total | 100% |
Terms of Payment:
· 50 % upon signing of the contract.
· A final 50 % payment will be made upon the satisfactory completion, approval, and transmission of the television program.