Re-advertisement Multimedia Production and Documentation Communications Consultancy

**1.About the Danish Refugee Council (DRC)**

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international humanitarian organisation founded in Denmark in 1956. DRC has been operational in the Horn of Africa since 1997, delivering life-saving assistance, protection, and long-term resilience programmes for refugees, internally displaced persons, migrants, and host communities. DRC operates across Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Djibouti, and the Democratic Republic of Congo in East Africa and the Great Lakes (EAGL) region. DRC applies a rights-based, conflict-sensitive, and resilience-oriented approach, working closely with governments, communities, and local partners to address displacement, climate shocks, conflict, and the fragility of livelihoods.

**2. Purpose of the Consultancy**

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) leads the BORESHA-NABAD Project, a three-year initiative co-funded by the EU and DANIDA, and part of the EU’s broader Peaceful and Resilient Borderlands initiative in the Horn of Africa. The project adopts a cross-border, systems-focused approach to strengthen conflict prevention and mitigation, disaster risk reduction, and resilience-building in the border regions of Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia.

At its core, BORESHA-NABAD applies a facilitative, inclusive market systems development approach to unlock bottlenecks across critical value chains, including climate-smart agriculture, livestock and animal health services, financial inclusion, and water systems. The programme deliberately addresses the structural barriers affecting women and youth-led enterprises, expands access to income opportunities, and promotes their active participation in cross-border trade and local governance structures.

To support these objectives, DRC seeks a highly skilled Competent local Communications and Multimedia Firm with strong technical expertise in video production, photography, scripting, and digital content development. The role requires a highly creative, technically skilled firm capable of bringing stories to life and translating complex development work into powerful visual narratives, while operating effectively in dynamic and often challenging field environments. The ideal firm is expected to combine strategic communication expertise with hands-on multimedia production experience in dynamic, often challenging environments.

This hands-on, field-focused role will ensure the delivery of high-quality, donor-compliant communication and visibility outputs aligned with EU and DRC standards. The consultant will work under the guidance of the Consortium Communications Coordinator to implement approved workplans and ensure consistent, timely, and impactful messaging across all platforms.

**3. Scope of Work and Key Responsibilities**

The firm shall provide end-to-end multimedia production, documentation, and strategic content packaging services for BORESHA-NABAD across Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia. The assignment is intended to generate high-quality, donor-facing communication assets that communicate programme scale, results, systems change, and community resilience.

The consultancy firm shall:

- Develop the overall multimedia production methodology, including storyboards, scripts, interview guides, shot lists, mood boards, filming schedules, and content packaging plans.
- Demonstrate a clear workflow for pre-production approvals, including storyboard, script, interview guide, shot list, and mood board validation prior to field deployment.
- Plan and execute field documentation missions across programme locations in Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia, capturing high-quality video, photography, drone footage, interviews, and contextual visuals.
- Be responsible for obtaining all required filming permissions, drone clearances, community entry approvals, and local authority coordination necessary for field documentation activities.
- Produce all required multimedia outputs, including flagship programme videos, thematic and outcome videos, long-form documentary content, social media video assets, animations, and photographic documentation.
- Translate complex programme interventions into clear and compelling visual narratives that demonstrate outcomes, systems change, market linkages, resilience building, and community-led transformation.
- Develop donor-ready content packages integrating voice-over, subtitles, motion graphics, maps, infographics, programme data, and Theory of Change visualisations.
- Produce high-quality knowledge and visibility products, including project booklets, photobooks, impact photography collections, and other communication materials required under this assignment.
- Ensure all multimedia products comply with DRC, EU, and DANIDA visibility requirements, including branding, accessibility, consent, safeguarding, and subtitle standards.
- Provide English subtitles for all spoken content, including Somali, Kiswahili, and English interviews and testimonies.
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