Communications Consultant: Research summaries, messaging, and documentaries for IGNITE Research Summit.

Company Background

Tanager, an ACDI/VOCA affiliate, is an international nonprofit that brings people together at the table, on the ground, and across supply chains to co-create economic and social opportunities that change lives. Working closely with our partners, we align interests to expand market access and unlock the full potential of shared market opportunities that result in reliable supply chains, stable incomes, healthy families, and resilient communities. Established in 1993, we work with the ACDI/VOCA family of companies to make agriculture work better for people. We offer a focused and diligent team of locally based experts and international advisors who work with our partners to reach common goals.

In the past four years, IGNITE has engaged in various research activities with different clients (partner organizations) which will be disseminated during the research summit

Purpose

The overall goal of disseminating IGNITE research outputs is to ensure wide reaching impact, uptake, and use of project/research deliverables.

Dissemination plan anticipates that research outputs generated by the learning partners and by Tanager including lean data, mixed study reports, case studies, and other materials about the models developed by clients (with the support of IGNITE experts) are identified, documented, extensively disseminated, and promoted within the industry. Some proposed dissemination platforms include client led workshops, sharing in the learning portal, posting to libraries and publishers, reaching some domain researchers and similar related communities that can benefit from the research outputs.

Based on the above information the IGNITE dissemination activities will focus on building a user community (of practitioners) for research outputs around the following three priority areas:

• Determining how the studies strengthen the IGNITE model (Gender and Nutrition) over time by making incremental improvements to the technical assistance that IGNITE provides to its clients.
• Generating messages/themes/highlights of client specific reports to generate insights at the organizational level on how agricultural institutions can/have mainstream(ed) gender and nutrition-sensitive approaches.
• Identify key insights at the household-level generated on gender and nutrition-sensitive agriculture activities that will enable clients, as well as actors in the agricultural development community more broadly, to improve their programming.

Assignment Summary

Tanager is seeking a firm or individual consultant to summaries different study findings that will be documented and packaged in summarized versions of “key highlights and recommendations”. The consultant will oversee preparing a one-page snapshot or maximum four-page brochure is highly recommended.

In addition to this the firm or individual consultant task will be task to;

• Prepare a plan for dissemination during the Research Summit to be reviewed and approved by Tanager. The -plan will include details of the Research Summit’s activities, clear key performance indicators / metrics indicative of outreach and finally key deliverables.
• Demonstrate understanding of IGNITE’s and the Research Summit’s objectives, by defining communications objectives and scheduling at least 1–2-hour virtual/physical consultation meetings or interviews with IGNITE staff
• Develop and execute a communications timeline (to be approved by IGNITE)
• Coordinate documentation of all research dissemination products (including designing posters, brochures, and key messages) to be used pre, during, and post-summit
• Coordinate in consultation with IGNITE staff key branding considerations for all deliverables including communications protocols guided by the IGNITE award (as well as donor approved communications). The consultant is responsible for correct branding of all research related printouts to be used during the summit
• Provide key resources (labor, materials, etc.) to support the execution of the dissemination plan and the tasks spelt out in the terms of reference/SoW
• Organizing for translation of all summary reports and other research outputs into French
• Supervising the rapporteurs during the event, checking the quality of notes taken on each day, advising the note takers how to handle breakout discussions, and using the notes to develop the summit report.
• Completion of a final report summarizing the event’s engagement (to include pre, during, and post content), outreach, and key lessons learned for IGNITE to consider in the future

Deliverables

TANAGER anticipates issuing a Firm Fixed Price to an Offeror based on the deliverables below.

Dissemination Plan

Summarized Reports

• Lean data studies: 16 power point slides of about 30 – 60 slides
• Mixed method in-depth studies: 4 Word documents of 40 -70 pages
• Gender analysis studies: 12 Word documents of 25 – 40 pages
• Formative assessment: 3 Word documents of about 40 pages

Summarized Monitoring and Evaluation Reports

Formatted and designed summarized reports

Formatted reports printed and ready to use during the event

Conference Notes

Post-Conference Final report