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Tenders are invited for Multimedia Production and Documentation Communications Consultancy Closing Date: 23 Jun 2026 Type: Consultancy 1.About the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international humanitarian organisation founded in Denmark in 1956. DRC has been operational in the Horn of Africa since 1997, delivering life-saving assistance, protection, and long-term resilience programmes for refugees, internally displaced persons, migrants, and host communities. DRC operates across Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Djibouti, and the Democratic Republic of Congo in East Africa and the Great Lakes (EAGL) region. DRC applies a rights-based, conflict-sensitive, and resilience-oriented approach, working closely with governments, communities, and local partners to address displacement, climate shocks, conflict, and the fragility of livelihoods. 2. Purpose of the Consultancy The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) leads the BORESHA-NABAD Project, a three-year initiative co-funded by the EU and DANIDA, and part of the EUs broader Peaceful and Resilient Borderlands initiative in the Horn of Africa. The project adopts a cross-border, systems-focused approach to strengthen conflict prevention and mitigation, disaster risk reduction, and resilience-building in the border regions of Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia. At its core, BORESHA-NABAD applies a facilitative, inclusive market systems development approach to unlock bottlenecks across critical value chains, including climate-smart agriculture, livestock and animal health services, financial inclusion, and water systems. The programme deliberately addresses the structural barriers affecting women and youth-led enterprises, expands access to income opportunities, and promotes their active participation in cross-border trade and local governance structures. To support these objectives, DRC seeks a highly skilled Competent local Communications and Multimedia Firm with strong technical expertise in video production, photography, scripting, and digital content development. The role requires a highly creative, technically skilled firm capable of bringing stories to life and translating complex development work into powerful visual narratives, while operating effectively in dynamic and often challenging field environments. The ideal firm is expected to combine strategic communication expertise with hands-on multimedia production experience in dynamic, often challenging environments. This hands-on, field-focused role will ensure the delivery of high-quality, donor-compliant communication and visibility outputs aligned with EU and DRC standards. The consultant will work under the guidance of the Consortium Communications Coordinator to implement approved workplans and ensure consistent, timely, and impactful messaging across all platforms. 3. Scope of Work and Key Responsibilities The firm shall provide end-to-end multimedia production, documentation, and strategic content packaging services for BORESHA-NABAD across Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia. The assignment is intended to generate high-quality, donor-facing communication assets that communicate programme scale, results, systems change, and community resilience. The consultancy firm shall: Develop the overall multimedia production methodology, including storyboards, scripts, interview guides, shot lists, mood boards, filming schedules, and content packaging plans. Demonstrate a clear workflow for pre-production approvals, including storyboard, script, interview guide, shot list, and mood board validation prior to field deployment. Plan and execute field documentation missions across programme locations in Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia, capturing high-quality video, photography, drone footage, interviews, and contextual visuals. Be responsible for obtaining all required filming permissions, drone clearances, community entry approvals, and local authority coordination necessary for field documentation activities. Produce all required multimedia outputs, including flagship programme videos, thematic and outcome videos, long-form documentary content, social media video assets, animations, and photographic documentation. Translate complex programme interventions into clear and compelling visual narratives that demonstrate outcomes, systems change, market linkages, resilience building, and community-led transformation. Develop donor-ready content packages integrating voice-over, subtitles, motion graphics, maps, infographics, programme data, and Theory of Change visualisations. Produce high-quality knowledge and visibility products, including project booklets, photobooks, impact photography collections, and other communication materials required under this assignment. Ensure all multimedia products comply with DRC, EU, and DANIDA visibility requirements, including branding, accessibility, consent, safeguarding, and subtitle standards. Provide English subtitles for all spoken content, including Somali, Kiswahili, and English interviews and testimonies. Manage and undertake all post-production processes, including editing, colour grading, sound design, animation, graphic design, rendering, and preparation of final delivery formats. Organise and submit all raw and final assets in a structured digital archive, including metadata, captions, transcripts, photographs, video files, project files, and supporting documentation. Incorporate feedback through up to two review rounds per deliverable and deliver final approved outputs within the agreed timelines. 4. Deliverables Phase Expected Deliverables Indicative Description Tasks Milestones Inception Work Plan Submission of Storyboard/ mood board. Risk & Access Plan Onboarding Develop methodology & production plan Storyboard + moodboard Draft scripts (all outputs) Risk + logistics planning, including risk assessment, travel route planning, equipment movement plan, drone clearance approach, contingency arrangements, and access strategy for all field locations Methodology approved Scripts + storyboard approved Field readiness cleared Mobilisation and Field Travel to the first shoot site Field coordination & access confirmation Team positioned for filming Phase I: Strategic Multimedia Production Field Filming (All Locations) Filming & Field Visit across Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia (Mandera County, Dollo Ado, Dollow, Beled-Hawa) (drone + ground footage). All raw footage + photography assets Filming completed across 3 countries Sorting and rough cuts expected during this phase Midpoint Consolidation Midpoint review of footage, gaps & adjust plan for extra shooting where necessary Footage backup & review/ Identify content gaps Adjust story direction if needed A. Integrated Outcome and Value Chain Videos 4 videos, 5 minutes each, 4K UHD Draft + final Produce four integrated outcome/value-chain videos covering: 1. DRR: Anticipatory actions, peace dividend infrastructure, contingency planning, community action plans and household/livestock impact. 2. Peacebuilding, Social Cohesion and Authority Linkages: dialogue, reconciliation, behaviour change, women/youth participation, authority engagement and cross-border cooperation. 3. Income Generation and Market-Linked Livelihoods for Women and Youth: TVET, VSLAs, access to finance, enterprise growth (Agrovets, water vendors, etc ) 4. Climate-Smart Production and Resilient Value Chains: CSA, IGAs( fodder, honey, livestock, onions, lemons, melon, solar irrigation systems, certified seeds, gabions and market linkages. Each video should include community voices, institutional perspectives, field visuals, drone footage, subtitles, motion graphics and donor-compliant branding where relevant. 4 draft videos submitted 4 final videos delivered in 4K and web-optimised formats Content should be subtitled in English for all speakers, including Somali, English and Kiswahili Speakers. B. Flagship About BORESHA-NABAD Overview Video (1 video, 5 mins, 4K) Draft + final Integrate motion graphics, theory of change visuals, BORESHA-Models and infographics. Professional voice-over + multilingual subtitles. Deliver broadcast, web, donor-optimised versions. Script approved 1 rough cut submitted 1 final master + 3 formats delivered C. Long-Form BORESHA-NABAD Documentary 1 documentary (1015 minutes, 4K UHD) Communicates overall impact, scale and contribution to resilience. Produce one high-level documentary that communicates BORESHA-NABADs overall impact, scale and contribution to resilience across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. The documentary should align with the programme Theory of Change and bring together evidence of change across DRR, peacebuilding, women and youth livelihoods, climate-smart agriculture, value-chain strengthening, water systems and cross-border facilitation. It should combine multi-country field footage, community voices, institutional perspectives, b-roll, drone visuals, maps, motion graphics, key results, professional voice-over and multilingual subtitles. The final product should be suitable for donor engagement, strategic visibility, learning events and external communication. Longform script approved Documentary subtitled in English for all speakers, including Somali, English and Kiswahili Speakers. Rough-cut submitted Final 1015-minute documentary delivered in 4K, web and donor-ready formats. D. Short Social Media Video Series (12 clips (4 from each thematic area), 12 mins each) Produce short clips from the main field documentation and video package. Focus on key interventions such as water systems, shallow wells, gabions, CSA yields, livestock, VSLAs, women/youth livelihoods, peacebuilding and DRR. Capture additional targeted shots where required. Optimise for LinkedIn, Facebook and X in subti Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4215457/re-advertisement-multimedia-production-and-documentation-communications-consultancy
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