Background information
DanChurchAid’s (DCA) vision is to strengthen the world’s poorest people in their struggle for a life in dignity. DCA is one of the largest and oldest humanitarian organizations in Denmark, working both with long-term development projects and humanitarian action since 1922. DCA has four thematic priorities: Active Citizenship, Food Security and Livelihood, Humanitarian Action and Safer Communities. DCA's international programmes contribute to the fulfilment of several SDGs, including SDG 2, 5, 8, 13, 16 and 17.
DCA Kenya in consortium with commercial partners Ingemann (a Danish company), Momentum Trust (non-profit) and Juhudi Kilimo (a micro-finance entity) have secured a 3.5-year (July 2020 – December 2023) project funding from the Danida Market Development Partnerships funding modality 2020. The project aims to increase agricultural production and access to financing for smallholder farmers in Nakuru, Nyandarua, Siaya and Busia Counties Kenya facing climate change effects by introducing innovative, digital, climate resilience platforms for agricultural advisory services and credit risk assessment. The development objective is to increase employment opportunities and financial inclusion for 4,000 smallholder farmers (thus contributing to SDG target 8.4 and 8.5). The commercial objective is to catalyse local market development through commercialization of digital AgriTech platforms, which improve agricultural productivity and access to micro credit services for local producers and business enterprises (contributing to SDG targets 8.2 and 8.10).
As part of the AgriTech project inception phase, the consortium partners wish to undertake a videography and still photos communication undertaking covering the project beneficiaries in Nakuru, Nyandarua, Busia and Siaya counties, Kenya.
Contract purpose and Expected results
Overall objective:
The objective for this consultancy is to produce communications content (video and still photos) to document the key issues which the project seeks to address improving agricultural productivity through innovative, digital climate resilience platforms for agricultural advisory services and credit risk assessment. See Annex 1 for detailed project information.
This task will be carried out by filming and delivering raw footage to our inhouse editing team. In addition, documenting the project with still photographs should be delivered in both edited and nonedited format.
This will be carried out using the following number of days: 7 days including travel to and within one or more of Busia, Siaya, Nyandarua and Nakuru counties.
The communication content should reflect the following thematic angles in line with the project and partnership model:
To document and demonstrate the negative impacts of climate change for smallholder farmers in the selected counties
To showcase the consortium and the key purposes and ambitions of the partnership
To highlight each partner’s core expertise and contribution to the partnership
To demonstrate the value chain model of the partnership
To reveal expected impacts of the partnership
The consultant(s) is expected to start the assignment by familiarising themselves with the partnership and project framework through participation in meetings with DCA Kenya and DCA HQ media staff. The consultant(s) is expected to produce most media material from the field through interviews with farmers, local stakeholders, partners as well as a variety of strong and descriptive b-roll material to cover each case/subject and their role in the project.
NB: Editing will be carried out by DCA HQ, thus the consultant(s) are expected to deliver their assignment in raw material via digital transfer methods (not USB) such as; WeTransfer, DropBox, OneDrive, or other.
Overall purpose:
The purpose of this consultancy is to visually document the baseline status of the specific project context and the proposed solution for impact through the partnership consortium. In addition, this assignment will generate important documentation to which future documentation tasks can be compared and illustrate the impact created through the partnership.
The documented material should be transferred digitally to DCA HQ for editing and finalisation. The end-product will be fully owned by DCA and the consortium partners, and will be available on online streaming services, such as YouTube, as well as showcased at several high-level events, conferences, donor events etc. In addition, the end-product will be used to position the partnership as a good practice pilot on function as a communication tool for all consortium partners to be used broadly and will need to be first showcased at a high-level Climate Investment Summit in Copenhagen on 3-4 November 2020.
RESULTS TO BE ACHIEVED BY THE CONTRACTOR(S)
Specifically, at the end of this assignment the consultant is expected to deliver a minimum of the following outputs:
Through the documented material, the consultant(s) should ensure that the following parameters is accommodated:
Clear understanding of climate change impacts on the selected smallholder farmers
Clear understanding of partnership objectives
Clear understanding of abilities of the innovative digital platform
Clear understanding of DCA’s role as lead partner as well as each partner’s core competency
Scope of the Services
The documented material should accommodate the following requirements (to be specified in script upon selection of consultant):
Visual storytelling building bricks: e.g. farmers working in the field (close-ups, totals, action shots), farmlands, chia crops, export vegetables etc.
Interviews with smallholder farmers (target group)
Interviews with local stakeholders incl. county government stakeholders
Interviews with partners and local stakeholders
Still shots of farmers, crop farming, and trading activities (for SoMe channels and website)
Logisitics and Facilities
Logistics: The location of the task will be in one or more of Busia, Siaya, Nakuru and Nyandaura counties.
Facilities: DCA will provide the following facilities: accommodation, transport and meals during the assignment.
Reporting
The consultants will generate media content, still shots and videography as mentioned above.
A one page report detailing the content provided will accompany the media content.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
The consultant(s) must possess
Excellent skills in videography and photography
Excellent interview skills and experience
Excellent inter-personal skills
at least 3 years’ experience in development projects’ media documentation. Experience with donor communication is an advantage.
This vacancy is archived.