Consultancy Service for REAAP Gender Poster Production

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In Ethiopia, CRS has a long and rich history of providing emergency relief and development assistance to the people of Ethiopia since 1958. At present, CRS/Ethiopia implements multiple projects through different partner organizations. CRS/Ethiopia has a highly diverse portfolio ranging from very large food-supported emergency response to cutting edge development programs. The current CRS/Ethiopia budget stands at around $100 million with funding from the U.S. Government, UN agencies, private foundations, individual donors, and CRS private funds.

CRS strictly adheres to its Policy on Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults among its staff, consultants, volunteers, and affiliates. CRS is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer: women, minorities and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

CRS/Ethiopia is implementing Resilience Enhanced through Adaptation, Action- learning, and Partnership (REAAP) Activity to develop a contextualized and thematic community resilience framework which models resilience pathways and dimensions, and guides assessment of direct, root causes of vulnerabilities, immediate and secondary effects, as well as factors that enable households and communities to adapt to the effects of climate variability. This guides identification of issues that should be addressed in resilience programming and informs program strategies that build on existing capacities and resources. The framework will include community-driven, contextually prioritized resilience dimensions and will operationalize variables to measure these dimensions. This will provide criteria for identifying and disseminating technical information and innovative ideas to improve community resilience.

REAAP will strengthen linkages and learning through a focus on Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) and by strengthening strategic horizontal connections to consortium partners and other initiatives and, vertical connections to governmental structures. The CMDRR process enhances community learning and action by highlighting the link and inter-dependencies among livelihoods, food security, nutrition, and natural resource management and by creating Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) committees who then create community DRR action plans.
REAAP is under implementation to have sustainably increased resilience and reduced long term vulnerability to current and future climate change and climate-related shocks and stresses among the communities of East and West Hararghe Zones. With this overall purpose CRS and its consortium members aspire to work to achieve the following three intermediate results (IRs) described below:
IR 1: Communities have improved access to technical information and analytical tools for decision making.

IR 2: Communities identify and implement actions that increase resilience to climate variability, long-term climate change and climate-related shocks.

IR 3: Systems for planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation around DRR and climate change adaptation are established and strengthened through working with government and other stakeholders.

Gender is one of the most important determinants of sustainable development programming. The fundamental objectives of any development program cannot be achieved without taking into account the role of gender and how gender relations impact the success of project interventions and how the project might impact gender relations. Hazards and climatic changes have different impacts on women and men as they experience, perceive and are exposed to different levels of risks and vulnerabilities, with women, in general, disproportionately experiencing the most harm.
Underlying causes of women’s vulnerability often lies in unequal power relations within societies while men’s vulnerability is often conditioned by cultural roles that restrict them from acquiring the skills and knowledge needed for building resilient households and communities. REAAP works with households and communities where women have fewer rights and opportunities than their male counterparts.

1.1 Justification
REAAP recognizes that greater access to and control of resources and income; and participation and empowerment of women in the development process is essential, not only to improve the situation of women, families and other vulnerable groups, but also to benefit society as a whole.

Recognizing that empowerment of women is a key ingredient for building climate resilience and positive social transformation; REAAP is committed to address gender inequality at the household and community levels in order to improve the long-term resilience of vulnerable populations to shocks, conflict situations and natural disasters. With this understanding, CRS/Ethiopia-REAAP has undertaken a gender analysis to be used as a base to promote equal opportunities for women and men through its three-year implementation period. REAAP has a gender strategy and gender action plan. Part of the action plan is stakeholder training, community conversations and awareness-raising. The posters will assist in achieving these activities. Hence, REAAP is looking for an experienced artist who can draw/produce posters on key gender issues that are identified during the gender analysis.
Scope of Work

The objective of this assignment is to draw/produce nine (9) gender-related posters in Hararghe context, to be used for awareness-raising and community conversation.
General activities are to have initial discussion with CRS/ET REAAP team to get feedback on the nature of the posters; draw/sketch the posters; share the draft posters to CRS/ET REAAP team; and get ongoing feedback to have refined posters.

Key Specific Activities to be undertaken by the Artist:
Poster production: produce 9 gender-related posters on the following thematic areas
Poster 1: Poster showing theme of harmful traditional practices (female genital mutilation, early marriage, negative attitudes towards women).
Poster 2: Poster showing the role of women in leadership and decision-making at the household (e.g. family income from the sale of farm output, etc.)
Poster 3: Poster showing the role of women in leadership and decision-making at the community level (e.g. leading community meeting, etc.)
Poster 4: Poster showing male engagement in household task of cleaning/sweeping and washing.
Poster 5: Poster showing male engagement in household task of fetching water and fuel wood.
Poster 6: Poster showing male engagement in child feeding and child care.
Poster 7: Poster showing women burden with household tasks such as cleaning, cooking, caring for children, fetching water, collecting fuel wood, income generating activities, farm activities, etc.
Poster 8: Poster showing linkage of adult education with improved Saving and Internal Lending Communities groups.
Poster 9: Poster showing different community representatives sitting under a big tree (men and women, elderly, religious persons, teachers, nurses, soldiers, farmers, children, person with disabilities) roles in addressing issues of domestic violence, harmful traditional practices, limited women leadership participation, and gender-based division of labor.

• Context specific posters: since the posters are needed for awareness-raising and to facilitate community conversation, all the contents of the posters (way of people clothing, housing, environment, etc.) have to reflect the East and West Hararghe context and reflect to their way of life.
• Integrate on-going feedback and input from REAAP team: until the poster reach to the desired stage it needs to be worked and re-worked addressing/incorporating REAAP team comment.
 

Communication with CRS:
The Consultant will communicate with and report to REAAP Gender Officer during the assignment.
Level of Effort: will be fixed for the period of May, for a total of maximum 15 billable days.
Suggested Time Frame

#	Activity	Time
	Discussion with REAAP team to get ideas on the poster production	1 hour
	First draft posters production	8 days
	Share the draft poster for REAAP team and collect feedback	2 day
	Incorporate REAAP team comment and finalize the posters	4 days
4	Submit the final camera ready (ready for printing/publishing) poster to REAAP team	1 day

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Proposal details and submission
Applicant Artists are required to submit their CV, educational certificate, financial proposal together with sample of similar works as well as reference from other organization/s for similar work done before close of business Friday May 06, 2016 with information about the title of this SOW mentioned above to the following address to ET_Job_Applications@global.crs.org . Hard could also be submitted to the following address, CRS- Ethiopia, P.O. Box – 6592, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia or in person at CRS/Ethiopia head office around Enqulal Fabrica.
CRS will review and will contact shortlisted consultants for reference check and communicate the winner as well as unsuccessful short listed bidders after analysis.
CRS strictly adheres to its Policy on Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults among its staff, consultants, volunteers, and affiliates.
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