TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR) FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOCUMENTARY MATERIALS TO CLOSE OUT THE WOMEN ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT PROJECT BY WE EFFECT

We Effect is inviting consultancy services, companies, or individuals to submit tenders to develop documentary materials showcasing the impact and outcomes of the Women’s Economic Empowerment Project. We Effect is a global development organization founded in 1958 by the Swedish cooperative movement. Operating in over 20 countries across Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa, the organization focuses on poverty reduction and sustainable development through a human rights-based approach. It partners with member-based organizations, including farmer groups, housing cooperatives, and savings associations, to empower communities, especially women, by ensuring equal access to resources and opportunities. In Zambia, We Effect collaborates with local organizations to support smallholder farmers, promote gender equality, enhance climate resilience, and strengthen housing and financial inclusion. The Women’s Economic Empowerment Project, implemented in selected districts of the Southern, Eastern, and Western provinces, aims to advance women’s participation in agricultural value chains, affirming their contributions and promoting equality. To ensure timely and quality delivery across the project's geographical scope, We Effect intends to engage a qualified consultant to cover four provinces of operation 1. Southern Province (Choma, Kalomo and Zimba districts), 2. Eastern Province (Chadiza, Chipata and Lundazi districts) 3. Western Province (Kaoma district) and 4. Central Province (Mumbwa district). The project objectives are to: 1. To increase women’s agency and decision-making power at household and community level to address barriers to women’s economic empowerment. 2. Address institutional barriers that limit women’s economic advancement in agricultural value and market chains. 3. Strengthen women’s voice and collective power at community level to increase access to, control of and ownership of productive (e.g. physical assets, land) and financial assets among women through women-led cooperatives, land tenure and financial inclusion. 4. Increased resilience to environmental and climate change by women, men and youth (male, female). The core strategy is to strengthen cooperatives of women and men living in poverty through membership-based democracy, long-term economic thinking, social responsibility and transparency. On this call, we are seeking the services of a qualified consultant to produce the following: · One (1) 5–7-minute documentary · Ten (10) short 3-5minute short videos extracted from the main documentary for social media posting · 6 high-resolution photos of each respondent in both landscape and portrait highlighting the impact, lessons, and key outcomes of our project. · 300 -400 success stories in text (Explaining the introduction, project intervention as well as impact of the project) for each theme identified. The videos must explicitly highlight the project successes, challenges, and community stories from the: Mumbwa, Chadiza, Chipata, Lundazi, Kaoma, Choma, Kalomo, and Zimba Districts. The District Women Development Associations will support the consultant with respondents and locations. The final documentary will serve as a closing highlight of the project, while the short videos will be shared on social media to increase outreach. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Objectives of the Assignment Guided by the We Effect Communications and Advocacy Officer, the consultants will apply their skills and knowledge to: · Document the achievements and impact of the project through a 5–7-minute documentary (highlighting women’s participation at different nodes of the value chain). · Create ten (10) short 3–5-minute district-based videos extracted from the main documentary interviews to be used on social media. · Highlight the voices of beneficiaries and stakeholders explicitly with clear subtitles where the respondents use their local language. · Add interviews with We Effect staff leading the project or the Country Manager, and relevant government officers where necessary. · Produce success stories in text (Explaining the introduction, project intervention as well as impact of the project) for each themes identified. · Showcase best practices, challenges, and lessons learned. · Ensure ethical journalism standards, including obtaining consent before data collection using, We Effect’s consent form. · Produce a high-quality documentary film using interviews, videos and photographs that were generated during the various meetings, with Voiceover commentaries in English. · Conform to the format of broadcast and filming proposed will have to conform to the standards: 16/9, 25 pictures/sec, full HD, AVI, MPEG 2, MPEG 4 or MOOV for the diffusion and for the shooting: full HD, or 4k and with the ability to convert the same video to verbatim (audio spot). · Ensure all final raw and edited material is uploaded to Media Flow, including consent forms and ta