CALL FOR PODCAST HOSTS/RADIO BROADCASTERS
Global Research Podcast on Care and Protection
Terms of Reference for French Africa
The Urgent Action Fund Africa UAF-AFRICA is inviting applications from French speaking broadcasters/podcast hosts to produce a podcast series that intends to disseminate results of a global research on care and protection. The research, supported by the Urgent Action Sister Funds, shares reflections of womn, trans and non-binary activists from more than 60 countries. We, therefore, seek to build an audio format that supports the dissemination of this publication and its reflections, to reach new audiences, including people with diverse abilities.
Launch date: 25 January 2023
Deadline for receipt of proposals: February 7, 2023
Context
The Urgent Action Fund Africa (UAF-Africa) is a feminist, pan-African, Rapid Response Fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and womn human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity. Recognising the need to move resources rapidly on a continent where opportunities and threats arise and decline quickly, UAF-Africa uses a Rapid Response Grant making mechanism to support unanticipated, time sensitive, innovative, and unique initiatives that promote womn’s interventions in peace and political participation, social and economic power building as well as natural resources governance and stewardship.
Since inception, UAF-Africa promotes collective reflection around care and protection, as a practice for communities to preserve and sustain life with support from activists at the regional level, through the Sustainable Activism Program. Since 2017, in collaboration with Urgent Action Fund Consortium of Urgent Action Funds (located in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States), UAF-Africa have managed to promote a global research on advances, changes and challenges that persist regarding care and protection in womn’s and feminist movements. 10 years after the book “What is the meaning of the revolution if we can’t dance”, launched in 2007 by the Urgent Action Fund for Womn’s Human Rights. The launch of this new publication with voices of more than 100 activists from 60 countries is proposed as a multimedia communication strategy to continue positioning these reflections, through contents accessible to multiple audiences.
Objectives
We aim to build a series of podcasts to communicate the results of the global research on care and protection in French focusing on relevant themes or chapters that would resonate with the intended target audience, with the following objectives;
1. Create content about the importance of care within feminism and activism from the global research publication.
2. Ensure that the created content is accessible to audiences without reading ability or with visual impairment.
3. Diversify the strategies of positioning and dissemination of the results of the global care research.
4. Generate nourished conversations around the results of the research.
5. To produce content that is creative and innovative in its narrative and sound proposal.
Eligibility
1. Qualified French speaking and African based radio/audio producers, giving priority to feminist, trans feminist and womn’s radio networks and collectives with two years proven experience in audio production or podcasting.
2. Two years proven experience working on issues related to care, healing, and womn’s human rights.
3. High sensitivity and closeness to topics related to care and protection addressed in the research.
How to apply
Interested individuals and organizations must send their Expression of Interest (EOI) with the subject “Podcast in French – Global Care Research and the Name of the organization” to jobs@uaf-africa.org no later than February 7, 2023 at 23:59 East African Time. Please follow the guidelines below.
Application Guidelines
1. Description of the organisation/collective or professional profile of the persons applying:
1. Name of the organisation/collective or applicant persons(s)
2. Geographical location of the organisation/collective or applicants
3. Type of organization or collective
4. Number of members, names, and positions/roles within the organisation/collective
5. Mission and objectives of the organisation/collective or applicants
6. Summary of experience of the organisation/collective or applicants
7. Institutional contact details: email, website, telephone, social networks
8. References (maximum 2)
1. Motivation and approach to the subject
1. In 300 and 600 words, answer the question: Why are you/your collective or organisation interested in participating in this call?
2. In maximum two paragraphs answer the question: What are your reflections and practices of care and protection?
2. Proposal for podcast making:
1. Proposal of chapters: including narrative proposal, approach and how they plan to approach the contents
2. Sound proposal (include music/voice references)
3. Work plan and schedule (3 months from the approval of the proposal, including script submission times, approval)
3. Budget
Breakdown of recording, production, and post-production cost.
4. Include links to previous work
VI. Selection process
** Incomplete proposals will not be considered. Please note that the EOI you submit will be fed back, adjusted, and must be approved by the UAF-AFRICA team before and during its execution.
Deadline for submission of proposals: February 7, 2023
Announcement of final selection: February 15, 2023
