Looking for Professional Documentary Film Maker and Writer

EQSI’s Project, Economic, Quality, and Sustainability Improvement from Community Centered Cocoa Fermentation Stations, Diversified Agro-Forestry and Agribusiness Systems and Social Development is a collaboration project between MCA-I, Kalla Foundation and Lembaga Ekonomi Masyarakat Sejahtera (LEMS).

 

Yayasan Kalla for EQSI Project is in need of two experienced film makers to make documentary films of the project activities and capturing testimonies for the project, and one experienced writer to produce the project reports, knowledge products such as Final Report, Project Profile, Case Stories, project magazine, leaflet, booklet and their kinds.

 

The interested people, please apply to EQSI Procurement Dept attn.: heryantodi@gmail.com with cc to yatiesaloh@gmail.com.  Please include your salary or consultancy rate in your Curriculum Vitae.  Letter of interest and most current CV to be sent by 31 August closing of office hour the latest.  Below you may find the ToR of the consultancy required.

 

Terms of Reference

Knowledge Production and Media Campaign for EQSI Project

 

1. Background:

 

EQSI, Economic, Quality and Sustainability Improvement from Community Centered Cocoa Fermentation Stations, Diversified Agro-Forestry and Agribusiness Systems and Social Development is a collaboration project between MCA-Indonesia, Kalla Foundation and Lembaga Ekonomi Masyarakat Sejahtera (LEMS).

 

The project aims at a future of sustainable Cocoa farming, with agroforestry based on economic development and poverty reduction for villages/sub-districts that are substantially dependent on Cocoa production. The scope is for reforesting degraded lands, improving agriculture, promoting agroforestry and intercropping agribusiness on Cocoa farms, improving hydrologic conditions, and providing community centered fermentation centers to raise quality and value of Cocoa produced.

 

The project addresses technical and economic requirements, provides for environmental and spatial land use issues, provides learning, and considers potential risks and social and gender impacts and opportunities, will be implemented over 2.25 years, across three districts in 20 priority villages in Southeast Sulawesi Province of Indonesia

 

Our Sustainable Agriculture Project, set in selected Cocoa-growing landscapes of Sulawesi Island, aligns to and supports MCA-I’s Compact between USA and Indonesia. Green Prosperity (GP) the largest project of the Compact, seeks to address critical economic growth constraints while supporting the government of Indonesia’s commitment to a more sustainable, less carbon-intensive future.  Assistance given will be enduring cooperation focused on sustainable economic, agroforestry and agribusiness and social development, especially for communal efficiency and technical strengthening of post-harvest practices - particularly for Cocoa fermentation methods.

 

2. Objective/Purpose of Activity:

·         Develop Knowledge sharing and Media Campaign of EQSI project which was implemented in partnership between Yayasan Kalla and MCA-Indonesia.

·         Media campaign for the project initiatives, lesson learn and best practices to get wider public awareness, sharing lesson learns and best practices from the project to relevant government agencies at district, sub national and national level, other donors and the public at large.

 

3. Scheduled of works or activities:

 

The works are scheduled to be conducted from August 2017 to February 2018

 

Resource Person & Qualification of Resource Person

·         Senior journalist, active or retired that used to write well,  have good access to media, familiar and have the special interest in writing human interest.

·         Qualified film maker with a good history of the portfolio for producing human interest documentary films.

 

4. Output of the Project

·         Documentary Film of EQSI project which is developed as visual testimonies

·         Narrative Product in the form of the final report, booklet, Magazine with project stories content and case stories of the project intervention showing best practices, lesson learn and beneficiaries testimonies.

·         Media coverage for the project profile, lesson learn and best practices.

·         Distribution of knowledge to the targetted audiences

·         Reports and admin support documentation

 

5. Schedule of Activities

 

No	Activities	Timelines	Product Output
1	Film Production	Aug-Sep 2017	Documentary Film of EQSI project
2	Writing and Production of Final  Reports, Project Profile Case Stories & Magazines	Aug – Dec 2017	Final Report Case Stories Proj Magazine Proj Profile
3	Media Coverage for EQSI’s Event, “Penanaman Perdana” Reforestry Air Seeding	Sep 2017	Press Release Media Coverage
4	Medica Coverage for EQSI’s Events including close out	Oct, Dec, Jan And Mar 17	Press Release Media Coverage
4	Production and distribution Of project knowledge	Sept, Nov & Dec 2017 Jan 2018	Documentary Films of the Project. Magazine with proj content Project Profile Case Stories Final Reports

 

6. Closing

This terms of reference will be the basis of all activities pertaining to knowledge production, sharing, and media coverage of EQSI project during the closing period from August 2017 to January 2018