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Media Consultant: Media training for Community Based Organisations

Background

Ipas works globally so that women and girls have improved sexual and reproductive health and
rights through enhanced access to and use of safe abortion and contraceptive care. We believe in
a world where every woman and girl has the right and ability to determine her own sexuality and
reproductive health.

Project Objectives

Ipas South Africa has partnered with community-based organisations (CBOs) to implement a communications campaign. The CBOs are responsible for implementing the campaign alongside other activities geared towards increased awareness of, confidence in, and utilization of safe abortion services at public facilities by adolescents and young women in Limpopo and Gauteng.

The objectives of the campaign are:

  • To positively situate women and girls’ rights to contraceptive and abortion methods of their choice.
  • To raise awareness on the dangers of unsafe abortion among women and girls.
  • To target state officials in advocating for women and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Scope of Work

To complement this work, Ipas South Africa seeks to appoint a Media Consultant to conduct a workshop to equip CBO representatives with media relations skills with the aim of maximizing positive coverage on safe abortion and contraceptive services.

The consultant will facilitate a one-day workshop addressing the following topics:

  • Media outreach – Relationship building for reaching a broader audience
  • Framing of media messages on abortion and contraceptives – a rights-based approach
  • Monitoring and responding to negative media reports (e.g. anti-choice/opposition)
  • Identifying and capacitating media champions
  • Documenting and profiling success stories
  • Social Media Campaigning

Deliverables

The consultant is expected to prepare content for and facilitate a one-day workshop for 20 participants in Johannesburg, on 26 August 2019. The Consultant must submit a report of the one-day process, outlining the discussions and outputs of the workshops by 2 September 2019.

Expressions of Interest can be submitted by means of a:

  • Short summary about relevant skills, experience (CV) and portfolio of work
  • Motivational letter
  • Quotation for facilitating a workshop in Johannesburg (including preparation, facilitation and a post-workshop report)
  • References

Submissions should reach Ipas by mid-day on 22 August 2019 – directed to Tshinondiwa Ramaite on [email protected]

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Ipas is a global non-profit organization that works around the world to eliminate deaths and injuries from unsafe abortion and increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights. Ipas’s work is grounded in the belief that women everywhere must have the opportunity to determine their futures, care for their families and manage their fertility.

Ipas works to improve women's access and right to safe abortion care and reproductive health services by:

Training doctors, nurses, and midwivesin clinical and counseling skills for abortion, postabortion care and family planning;

Improving health-service delivery to make abortion safer and more accessible for women and less costly for the health system;

Researching the impact of unsafe abortion and documenting best abortion care practices and policies;

Working with advocates and policymakers around the world to support women’s reproductive rights and increase access to safe and legal abortion services;

Engaging with women and men in their communities to expand their knowledge of reproductive health and reproductive rights

Increasing access to reproductive health technologies, including manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) and medical abortion.

Beginning in 1971, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Population funded Battelle Laboratories’ work to develop nonelectric vacuum aspiration for uterine evacuation.  But in 1973, Congress passed the Helms Amendment to the US Foreign Assistance Act, prohibiting the use of any US foreign aid to support abortion services overseas. In response, a group of researchers and others affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill came together to complete development of the manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) technology that Battelle had begun. IPAS — International Pregnancy Advisory Services — was born.Along with the manufacture and distribution of MVA instruments, Ipas’s initial focus was on establishing freestanding abortion clinics in developing countries. Between 1974 and 1980, Ipas supported the opening of 13 clinics in 11 countries.Throughout the 80s and early 90s, Ipas increased its role in the international health arena, helping to increase understanding that unsafe abortion is a significant cause of maternal deaths and injuries, and therefore a public health concern. Ipas coined the term “postabortion care,” which was rapidly embraced by the reproductive health community, including USAID. We undertook important research to inform health systems and guide decisionmaking for service delivery. We began working with national and international policymakers to improve reproductive health policies at every level. And we continued to train health-care providers to deliver woman-centered abortion and postabortion care to the full extent of the law in their countries.We quickly outgrew our original name. But because we were well-known in international reproductive health circles, we didn’t want to lose it completely. Hence, we left the acronym behind and became simply “Ipas” in 1993.

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0 USD South Africa CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Ipas

Media Consultant: Media training for Community Based OrganisationsBackground

Ipas works globally so that women and girls have improved sexual and reproductive health and rights through enhanced access to and use of safe abortion and contraceptive care. We believe in a world where every woman and girl has the right and ability to determine her own sexuality and reproductive health.Project Objectives

Ipas South Africa has partnered with community-based organisations (CBOs) to implement a communications campaign. The CBOs are responsible for implementing the campaign alongside other activities geared towards increased awareness of, confidence in, and utilization of safe abortion services at public facilities by adolescents and young women in Limpopo and Gauteng.

The objectives of the campaign are:

  • To positively situate women and girls’ rights to contraceptive and abortion methods of their choice.
  • To raise awareness on the dangers of unsafe abortion among women and girls.
  • To target state officials in advocating for women and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Scope of Work

To complement this work, Ipas South Africa seeks to appoint a Media Consultant to conduct a workshop to equip CBO representatives with media relations skills with the aim of maximizing positive coverage on safe abortion and contraceptive services.

The consultant will facilitate a one-day workshop addressing the following topics:

  • Media outreach - Relationship building for reaching a broader audience
  • Framing of media messages on abortion and contraceptives – a rights-based approach
  • Monitoring and responding to negative media reports (e.g. anti-choice/opposition)
  • Identifying and capacitating media champions
  • Documenting and profiling success stories
  • Social Media Campaigning

Deliverables

The consultant is expected to prepare content for and facilitate a one-day workshop for 20 participants in Johannesburg, on 26 August 2019. The Consultant must submit a report of the one-day process, outlining the discussions and outputs of the workshops by 2 September 2019.

Expressions of Interest can be submitted by means of a:

  • Short summary about relevant skills, experience (CV) and portfolio of work
  • Motivational letter
  • Quotation for facilitating a workshop in Johannesburg (including preparation, facilitation and a post-workshop report)
  • References

Submissions should reach Ipas by mid-day on 22 August 2019 – directed to Tshinondiwa Ramaite on [email protected]

2019-08-23

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