Consultancy for Digital Content Cleaning, Organization and Selection

## WHO ARE WE?

Bibliothèques Sans Frontieres (BSF) works to strengthen the capacity to act and the autonomy of populations through access to information, education and culture. Since its creation in 2007, BSF has deployed information dissemination strategies based on tools and content carefully selected according to the needs of the public, together with support for actors in the field.

## 1.BACKGROUND AND PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT

BSF supports access to education, information and cultural resources in low-connectivity and crisis-affected settings through offline and digital tools such as the Ideas Cube and related digital learning repositories.

In Afghanistan, BSF and its partners have developed and collected a large volume of digital educational content, including curriculum-aligned materials for primary school learners, vocational and life skills resources, and youth-oriented learning materials. Recent internal reviews have confirmed that the existing content library contains valuable, relevant and culturally appropriate resources, particularly for primary education. However, the reviews also identified several areas requiring improvement before the content can be used more effectively by teachers, learners, project teams and content managers.

BSF is therefore seeking a consultant or consultancy team to support the cleaning, structuring, organization and selection of digital content for Afghanistan, with the aim of improving usability, quality assurance, curriculum alignment and future deployment across BSF tools and projects.

## 2.OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSULTANCY

### Overall Objective

To support BSF in transforming the existing Afghanistan digital content library into a cleaner, better organized, curriculum-aligned and easier-to-use collection of resources, and to support the selection and integration of priority content into BSF internal catalogue systems.

### Specific Objectives

- Review the existing content organization and propose a simpler, more coherent structure for BSF Afghanistan digital learning content.
- Identify duplicated, poorly classified or inconsistently labelled resources, and recommend how they should be consolidated or reorganized.
- Develop a clear naming and metadata system to make content easier to search, select, review and deploy.
- Rename existing content accordingly
- Review existing content against priority curriculum and thematic gaps.
- Identify, select and prepare additional relevant content to strengthen the existing library.
- Support the integration of selected content into BSF internal catalogue, following BSF standards and workflows.
- Produce practical guidance that BSF teams can continue using for future content organization and selection.

### Priority Areas

The consultancy will focus on two linked areas:

- Organization: creating a clear content structure, naming system, metadata framework and package architecture for easier review, deployment and classroom use.
- Selection: identifying priority content to add, based on Afghan curriculum alignment, learner needs, cultural appropriateness and project priorities; and programming selected resources into BSF internal catalogue.

Priority content selection should focus approximately :

\- 75% on educational and digital literacy content for students, teachers and caregivers

\- 25% on practical and youth-oriented themes

All selected content should be in Dari or Pashto, with priority given to Pashto content where relevant and available.

## 3. EXPECTED RESULTS AND DELIVERABLES

The consultancy will result in the following deliverables:

1. **Inception note and workplan:** A short note confirming the methodology, timeline, review criteria, coordination modalities and expected outputs.
2. **Content organization proposal:** A proposed folder, package and classification structure for BSF Afghanistan digital content.
3. **Metadata and naming guidelines:** A practical guide defining required metadata fields, naming conventions and classification rules.
4. **Updated content mapping file:** A cleaned and annotated mapping file showing content status, recommended classification, duplicate issues, missing metadata and follow-up actions.
5. **Catalogue cleaning**: All content in the internal catalogue should be renamed according to the metadata guidelines and content mapping file.
6. **Priority content selection list:** A list of additional resources recommended for inclusion, linked to curriculum and thematic priorities.
7. **Catalogue integration:** Selected and validated resources programmed into BSF internal catalogue, with complete metadata as agreed with BSF.
8. **Final report and handover note:** A concise report summarizing work completed, key findings, remaining gaps and recommendations for future content management.

## 4. METHODOLOGY AND COORDINATION

The consultant will adopt a practical, participatory and iterative approach, working closely with BSF project and pedagogical teams. A kick-off meeting will be