TERMS OF REFERENCE:

Hiring an Individual/Consultant Firm to produce shortfilms on Child Bride to Bookworm Project

1. About Plan International Bangladesh:

Plan International began working in Bangladesh in 1994. Across all our work, we encourage children and young people to be leaders in their communities and drive progress on the issues that matter to them. We also integrate gender equality and inclusion across all our areas of work.

Plan International country strategy 2020-30 stated the vision to empower girls and young women, to be heard, to live without fear of violence and to achieve their rights. The strategic priorities imply children and youth leadership, girls make decision and young women control over resources. These priorities will chip in achieving SDG goal of Gender Equality and Girls Rights through empowering children and youth leadership as agent of change maker in gender norms, also promoting them decision making about their lives by 2030.

2. About Child Bride to Bookworm (CBB-CC) Project:

Child Bride to bookworm project aim to reduce school dropout and early marriage from urban slum,s Girls and boys towards increasing the completion rate at lower secondary school. project is envisioning to reduce school dropout of 22 lower secondary school through since 1st January,2020. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is one of the world's fastest-growing cities with half a million new residents every year. 60 per cent of the city's population lives in slums, where extreme poverty, disease, violence, pollution and floods are part of everyday life. Despite the fact that the vast majority of children start school, only one-third of all children in the slums go all the way from Class 1 to 10 and complete their schooling. Bangladesh has the highest incidence of child marriages in Asia. Here 52 per cent of Girls are married off before reaching the age of 18. Along with child labour is also an important reason why many boys and Girls do not complete their schooling. ln the slums, there are three times as many children who work compared with the national average. Slum children are a group which is difficult to reach. But since almost all children in Bangladesh start school, it makes the school a strategic platform from which to create a positive impact on disadvantaged children's lives. Despite the natural interface between teachers, pupils and parents, schools in Bangladesh are unfortunately poorly equipped to cope. under Bangladeshi law, all schools must have a school Management Committee, a Parent Teacher Association - PTA, and a Student Council for primary school and Student Cabinet in secondary school. Child Bride to Bookworm project works to create a community around the school, support school environment to ensure quality education and the inclusion and retention of vulnerable groups. The strategy of Christmas Calendar project is based on the experience of Plan international in Bangladesh and their local partner SUROVI to improve conditions for the most vulnerable children in relation to education, active citizenship and influence in local decision-making structures. The aim of this project is to address the root causes of children from the slums dropping out of school, by a combination of four intervention strategies will lead to increase the number of girls and boys from urban slums who completes quality education.

Interventions are as bellow:

1. Improved Scholl Governance: Strengthened participation and collaboration of school Management committees (SMCs), teachers and relevant stakeholders in school governance

2. School Based Initiative: SMCs, Teachers at targeted schools, parents, and youth leaders are actively supporting initiatives to increase school completion

3. Access existing learning opportunity at school: School authorities and donors are actively supporting young people living in the urban slums of Dhaka, especially girls, to access existing learning opportunities and return safely to schools

4. Covid 19 Emergency response: To support the children of the most marginalized families to continue learning during the Covid-19 school closure and enable them to return to school once they reopen.

To ensure sustainability the project will help to strengthen parents' prioritization of education, the capacity of schools to retain pupils and parents' access to opportunities for financial support for schooling. The project's social sustainability is ensured via a fundamental change in parents' and schools' prioritization of both girls' and boys' schooling, which breaks with the pattern whereby parents who did not go to school do not prioritise the schooling of their children, who in turn do not prioritise their own children's schooling.

Period location and target: The proposed project is targeted to work in the South city corporation of Dhaka city. The project will support 22 selective secondary schools in Dhaka. project will focus on schools, community and children in particular.

The project's focal point and primary target group is children aged 10-15 living in the slum areas in Dhaka. Children who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out directly participate in the project's activities. 10000-15000 children from slum areas at the 22 participating schools benefit directly from the project intervention. Potentially all children from slum areas in Dhaka enjoy the schools' improved efforts to tackle the root causes of children not completing their schooling.

3. Main objectives of the assignment:

The hired/responsible individual/vendor/agency will assess the submitted stories for final selection, will facilitate a training for the winning students, guide and produce final 10 short films based on the selected winning stories. The hired/responsible individual/vendor/agency will develop the final products and share with Plan International Bangladesh to reach mass audience with the goal and objective of CBB-CC project holding up the organisational profile of Plan International Bangladesh and ensure its work and visibility.

Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be downloaded from this link.

Submission proposals:

The technical and financial proposals should be submitted electronically to the email address: Planbd.consultant.hiring@plan-international.org with the title 'Proposals for Short Film Production on on Child Bride to Bookworm (CBB-CC) Project' as subject.

The proposals should be submitted in PDF format. Proposal submitted to any other email account except this or in any other form disqualified. Submissions after the deadline will be treated as disqualified.

''Any direct or indirect pressure/persuasion/harassment to any Plan staff shall disqualify shortlisted vendors''

Proposal submitted to any other email account except this and in hard copy will be treated as disqualified. Submissions after the deadline on 31 January, 2023 before at 3:00 pm.

Two different folders i.e. technical and financial should be submitted into one zip folder with a covering letter addressing to Md. Enamul Haque, Supply & Procurement Specialist, Plan International Bangladesh.