MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES (MEDA) NIGERIA WAY PROJECT
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR RADIO CONTENT PRODUCER (CONSULTANT) FOR BUSINESS & MARKET INFORMATION FOR WOMEN AND YOUTH ENTREPRENEURS AND SMALL-SCALE BUSINESSES IN BAUCHI STATE
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DEADLINE: 9TH DECEMBER, 2020
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Nigeria WAY Project Summary – MEDA’s Youth Entrepreneurship and Women’s
Empowerment in Northern Nigeria project (Nigeria WAY) in Bauchi state is a five-year project that aims at assisting poor, economically active women and youth to increase their income, specifically, those who are involved in agro-processing in the rice, soybean, and groundnuts value chains. Using a private sector approach, MEDA Nigeria works with small scale businesses particularly those led by women and youth, to ensure that they are included in the market system, supporting agro processing with smart incentives. Additionally, the
project will work with communities and families to improve the environment where girls grow up and join the market economy.
OBJECTIVE:
MEDANigeria WAY requires a Consultant to be a Content Producer to provide up to date and well informed market and business information across a variety of agro-processing activities to/for small entrepreneurs (ENs.) and Small-Scale Businesses (SSBS) particularly women and youths in rice, groundnut and soybeans. To increase the demand for more women voices and information agent in these value-chains and increase their market knowledge of prices,
location, volume, and products available. The Consultant will be responsible for story boarding the content and other radio programming, developing the content and seeing it through from pre-production to post-production.
Content to be developed during the period of this contract:
1. 20 Minutes Market Information Programme and 40 minutes of interactive live business information segment (total of 60 minutes).
2. A 3-minutes infomercial on safety and health practices for women agro-processors.
3. 3 minutes Fuel efficient stoves campaign – multi radio products to advocate for eco-stoves which use less wood and altemative briquettes
TASKS:
1. 52 episodes of running 60 minutes on market and business information radio programme
2. A 3-minutes Infomercials on safety and healthy practices and 3 minutes campaign
3. Quarterly Monitoring and Evaluation exercise
HOW TO APPLY:
1. The proposals (in PDF format) should be submitted through this email address nigeriaway@ meda.org.
Closing date for submission of proposals: 9th December 2020
2. Please visit www.meda.org/nigeria-way/ for more details on specific tasks,
deliverables, Contract time frame, Qualifications and Application instructions.
