HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL (HKI)
CALL FOR PROPOSAL FOR: “BOUILLON INITIATIVE IN WEST AFRICA”
RECRUITMENT OF A PR AGENCY FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF CAPACITY BUILDING SESSIONS IN COMMUNICATION
DEADLINE: 30TH AUGUST, 2020

  1. Founded in 1915, Helen Keller Intl is a non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable people around the world by preventing and treating vision loss and blindness-as well as addressing major global health problems such as malnutrition and neglected diseases that threaten sight, productivity., and well-being. Helen Keller Int headquartered in New York City, currently runs over 120 programs in 21 countries in Africa and
    Asia, as well as America.
  2. Helen Keller Int implements an integrated package of proven interventions to improve maternal and child nutrition. Helen Keller Intl supports policies and programs related to food fortification, vitamin A supplementation, infant and young child feeding, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, community management of acute malnutrition, and treatment of NTDs. Advocacy and communication for social behavior change with different actors are at the center of all Helen
    Keller Inti programs, which also undertakes the implementation of cutting-edge researches to advocate and guide policy decisions-making
  3. The regional office of Helen Keller Inti (Helen Keller Int-AFRO) has received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to facilitate informed and constructive dialogue on bouillon manufacturing, with a greater focus on generating scientific evidence to facilitate political decision-making in West Africa. As a result of this work, Helen Keller Intl will support governments in the development of technical guidelines to frame the current practice of
    Voluntary fortification of bouillon in the region.
      4. The countries targeted by the implementation of this bouillon initiative are Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Senegal. Some other initiatives at the regional will also be supported, during the implementation of the project, from 2020 to 2023.
  4. As part of the implementation of this bouillon initiative, a communication strategy has been developed to improve stakeholders’ support and implication at the national and regional level. In doing so, Helen Keller Inti-AFRO is looking for a PR agency to conduct a series of capacity building sessions in communication linked to the implementation of the project.
  5. Helen Keller Intl -AFRO is looking for a PR agency with a regional representation working in West Africa, and especially in Burkina Faso, Nigeria or Senegal, to conduct a series of capacity building sessions in communication; and to help understanding advocacy activities to be carried out with policymakers at the national and regional level.

7. The PR agency is expected
-To lead and organize communications capacity building sessions and guidance to Helen Keller Int. project teams, Country Working Groups members, Journalists, essentially, and other identified targets regarding responsible communication and knowledge management on the Bouillon initiative in WestAfrica.
-To translate the results of the various scientific research carried out within the framework of this initiative, into advocacy and communication messages for the different targets.
-To develop and adapt key communication messages to the various targets (government, private sector, consumer and professional associations) intended to address issues related to the implementation of the project.

8. The eligible PR agency must have a proven and justified experience in organizing and conducting capacity building sessions at the regional level to a large scale of stakeholders especially government entities, and health entities.

9. The eligible PR agency must imperatively have representation in some of the West African countries (including Senegal, Nigeria and / or Burkina Faso); and must be able to provide training sessions and develop advocacy messages in French and English.

10.Helen Keller Intl-AFRO regional office invites eligible and competent PR agencies to express their interest for the services described above.

11. The interested PR agency must submit
Apresentation document of the agency (including numbers of years in the business, the countries of implementation, etc.);
-A detailed list of the agency’s members+Cvs
-A presentation document containing activities conducted by the agency in relation to the above- mentioned tasks (in Word version -up to 15 pages maximum). The presentation document should detail in a very objective way: the coverage area of the activities, the number of participants, the type of training sessions, the activity budget, and other relevant elements which
will allow assessment of the submissions
-A duly signed letter of expression;
-Documentation attesting their representativeness in WestAfrica, including some of the countries mentioned above.

All manifestations of interest should be submitted by August 30th, 12:00 pm.
All the documents must be submitted by email to nigeria.recruitment@hki.org with Copy to Tsamba@hki.org.

Paper-based versions of the documents must be sent physically at Helen Keller Int. offices in Nigeria: No. 6 Harper Crescent, off Kigoma Street, Wuse Zone 7, Abuja

Only applications sent by email and physically submitted in hard copies to the address indicated will be considered complete and accepted.

After the selection process, the selected agencies will receive the ToRs and additional documents related to the call for proposals.

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