Terms of Reference for the Production of The Safe Community Linkages for Internet Child Safety (Safe CLICS) Project Documentary 34 views0 applications

1.0.BACKGROUND

1.1. Project summary
ChildFund Kenya in partnership with Childline Kenya and Life Skills Promoters is implementing a 3-year project entitled “Safe CLICS” – Safe Community Linkages for Internet Child Safety project from June 2022 to May 2025 in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kiambu, and Kilifi Counties, Kenya. The “Safe CLICS” project seeks to strengthen capacity, networks, and systems to make the internet safe for children. The project focuses on systematically strengthening Kenyan government agencies’ capacity to prevent and respond to Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (OCSEA), improving children’s self-protection skills with the support of caregivers and communities, and strengthening public awareness of OCSEA and connections to reporting and referral services. Informed by Disrupting Harm, a multifaceted research project on online child sexual exploitation and abuse conducted in 2021 in Southeast Asia and Southern and East Africa, the project emphasizes collaborative partnerships with the Government of Kenya, the private sector, communities, and development partners. Emphasizing system thinking and a systems practice approach, the project prioritizes system strengthening and change, institutional strengthening, and local capacity development for sustainable results. Specific interventions include improving child protection systems at national and sub-national levels of government, enhancing child protection environments in schools, and addressing caregiver capacity and knowledge to identify and respond to child protection vulnerabilities of children at the community level with a specific focus on child online protection.

1.2.2. Project Objectives
1. Strengthen Kenya’s national infrastructure, focusing on social care capacity, to prevent and respond to online offences against children.
2. Improve early intervention to prevent victimization of children, and victim support to assist in recovery.
3. Engage families and caregivers in preventing the sexual exploitation and abuse of children and responding to harmful or otherwise unwanted experiences online.

1.2 About the Project Implementing Partners.
The Safe CLICS project is a 3-year project funded by Safe Online, which is implemented in the Nairobi, Mombasa, Kiambu, and Kilifi Counties by three partners, which are:

1.2.1 ChildFund
ChildFund is an international child-centred development organization. We are a member of the ChildFund Alliance; a global network of 12 organizations that assists more than 35 million children in 58 countries worldwide. ChildFund works throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to connect children with the people, resources, and institutions they need to grow up healthy, educated, skilled, and safe, wherever they are. Delivered through over 250 local implementing partner organizations, our programs address the underlying conditions that prevent any child or youth from achieving their full potential. We place a special emphasis on child protection throughout our approach because violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect can reverse developmental gains in an instant. Last year, we reached 35.9 million children and family members in 24 countries.

In Kenya, ChildFund works through 11 Implementing Partners (IPs) and 2 direct units spread across 27 counties serving over 3.1 million children, families, and community members. The thematic areas that we focus on are Child Protection including Online Child Protection, Household Economic Strengthening, Early Childhood Development, Education, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Emergency Response, Health and Nutrition, Food Security, Climate Change and Resilience Building.

1.2.2 LifeSkills Promoters
LifeSkills Promoters (LISP) is an Indigenous development organization working with children and youth to promote holistic development through life skills training. LISP works with schools, religious institutions, community groups, and government departments to equip young people for life and promote the empowerment of children and youth. LISP develops life skills in education and economic empowerment and develops curricula for different groups targeting children and youth aged 10-35 years old.
The vision of the organization is to see a future where young people and their influencers are well developed, empowered, and are productive members of their society. The organization’s mission is to transform lives by equipping individuals with the necessary life and technical skills to promote behavior change, employability, and productivity.

1.2.3 Childline Kenya
Childline Kenya, established in 2004, is a prominent non-governmental organization dedicated to addressing child protection concerns in Kenya. Founded by Plan International, SOS Children’s Villages, and the Kenya Alliance for the Advancement of Children (KAACR), Childline Kenya emerged in response to pressing challenges faced by the country, including an alarming increase in child abuse cases and a fractured family system. Recognizing the urgent need for accessible and professional mental health and psychosocial support for children and families, as well as the necessity for coordinated responses to reported cases of children in need of care and protection, Childline Kenya was established with the vision of creating a supportive environment for children to voice their concerns, receive assistance, and access essential services through a nationwide coordinated referral system. At the forefront of Childline Kenya’s initiatives is its flagship program, the National Child Helpline 116 Service. This telephone-based service serves as a lifeline for children in distress, enabling them to report abuse and other concerns while receiving immediate counselling and effective referrals to child protection services. Operating in partnership with the Directorate of Children Services through a public-private partnership model, Childline Kenya not only responds to cases of violence against children but also implements proactive measures to prevent child abuse. By strengthening the child protection system, building the capacity of individuals working with children, raising awareness in communities, and analyzing helpline data to inform policy and practice, Childline Kenya is committed to ensuring that children in Kenya receive the support they need and deserve, linking them to high-quality services and fostering a safe environment for their growth and development.

1.3 Purpose of the Assignment
ChildFund is seeking the services of a film production company to team up with its technical staff to undertake the production of a documentary that captures the project impact as outlined in the Safe CLICS project objectives.

1.4 Goal of the Assignment
To produce a compelling documentary that showcases the successes, lessons learned, and overall impact of the project. The documentary will highlight transformative change, key achievements, and best practices while serving as a powerful tool for advocacy, stakeholder engagement, and potential project scaling.

1.5 Objectives

1. To produce a documentary that highlights the Safe CLICS project’s contribution to strengthening national infrastructure, with a focus on enhancing social care capacity to prevent and respond to online offences against children.
2. To highlight how the project has influenced the school community to build their capacity to prevent the victimization of children and victim support to assist in recovery and learners’ improved self-protection skills
3. To depict the connection between efforts by caregivers and community structures in identifying, preventing and reporting OCSEA.

1.6 Methodology
The documentary process will include interviews with key stakeholders, voice-over for connecting segments, and high-quality video footage.

1.7 Location
The documentary will be shot in the project implementation areas; of Nairobi, Kiambu, Mombasa, and Kilifi.

1.6.1 Scope of work

Objective 1: To produce a documentary that highlights the Safe CLICS project’s contribution to strengthening national infrastructure, with a focus on enhancing social care capacity to prevent and respond to online offenses against children.

Overarching question: Has Kenya’s online child protection infrastructure been strengthened to prevent and respond to OCSEA as a result of having access to a manual and SOPs on online child sexual exploitation and abuse?

Outcome-specific questions

Manual and SOP: Are Kenyan child protection service providers accessing and using the developed resources? Is the use of the resources translating to a safer online experience outcome for children? Change in practices/knowledge: Is there evidence of cross sector collaboration and coordination to prevent and respond to OCSEA? Is there evidence of commitment by child protection actors at the national level to prevent and respond to OCSEA? What shows?
Who to interview: DCS- CS, PS, COP department CA, KFCB, KICD, Safaricom, DCI-AHTCPU, ChildFund SMT,
CP&Advocacy, PC, PO, M&E, CSOs.

Location: Nairobi

Training for social service workforce: Are there observable changes in reporting/capacity after the
training? Are child protection social service providers preventing and responding to OCSEA? Is there an increase in reporting of OCSEA cases by the SSW?

Who to interview: Trainees – 1 sub-county in Nairobi, Kiambu, Mombasa and Kilifi

Child-friendly mechanisms for reporting: Are children aware of the reporting channels?
Who to interview: Child-friendly reporting- The National Child Helpline (Project counsellor, Project
Officer)
Location: Child-friendly reporting- Nairobi, Mombasa

Objective 2: To highlight how the project has influenced the school community to build their capacity to prevent victimization of children and victim support to assist in recovery and learners improved self-protection skills.

Outcome specific questions

Behaviour Change
– Is there more trust in systems (Schools) to influence reporting?
– How many children in total has the program reached directly and indirectly?
– What is the understanding of children on OCSEA, and the school community?
Support seeking mechanisms
– Cases reported
– Cases supported
– Cases referred
Uptake of online safety by MOE, KMTC
– Has the project added any value in incorporating online safety into the Kenyan curriculum?
Self-protection skills enhanced in learners
– Are children confident to report?
– Survivors? Linkage to the project

Who to interview: Teachers- 4 Peer educators- 4 Headteachers of the same schools’ MOE and TSC- 2
BOM-4 members LISP SMT LISP project Officer.

Location: Nairobi, Kiambu, Mombasa, Kilifi

Objective 3: To depict the connection between efforts by caregivers and community structures in identifying, preventing and reporting OCSEA.

Outcome specific questions

Case reporting progress
– An overview of the cases reported since the project began to date/nature of the cases
Engaging formal and informal structures to improve community surveillance
– What has been the impact of involving formal and informal structures?
Reflective supervision
– Have the community barazas had any impact on reporting and arresting offenders?
Victim support
– How do victims get supported?
– Victim Protection Trust Fund gaps
Who to interview: CLK SMT, CLK counsellor, CLK project officer, 2 formal structures- 1 in Nairobi and Mombasa, 4 informal groups- Bodaboda, Women church group, Women in Msa group, 2 community
dialogue sessions- 1 in Msa, Kilifi, Nairobi and Kiambu, Victim Protection Trust Fund, 1 Member of the JFA, 1 Member of the Online safety forum.

Location: Nairobi, Kiambu, Mombasa, Kilifi

1.8 Filming Specifications/instructions to follow:
• Video specs. 4k/25fps video quality is greatly preferred but 1080×1920 is minimum acceptable quality. Horizontal format, LOG capture preferred.

• Camera Requirements
Resolution
-4K UHD (3840×2160) or higher
– Minimum Full HD (1920×1080)

• Frame Rate
– 60fps (for smooth motion)
– 24fps (cinematic) / 30fps (standard)

• Camera sensor
Full frame
Raw Video – Slog

• Ensure that all staff appearing in videos wear Safe CLICS-branded shirts, coats, etc. Partner staff should wear their own branded materials.
• Proper consent forms should be obtained from all participants in the video. Indicate photo file number on consent for proper tracking. Scanned consent forms should be included with the submission.
• Non-English language interviews must be transcribed and translated in the attached interview format. Frequent time-stamping is a must to ensure accurate subtitles.
• Capturing drone footage of the areas would be a plus.

1.9. Deliverables
ChildFund will expect the following products:
• A comprehensive workplan for delivering the assignment
• Raw video footage with audio and visuals as per agreed specs with the filming team.
• Location/ project activity/ B-roll footage.
• Transcriptions, where applicable.
• Draft a 50 to 60-minute documentary film with clear video, photos and audio.
• Final 50-a 60-minute documentary film with clear video, photos and audio.

2. Terms of Payment
The contracted vendor will be paid in full (100%) upon completion of the assignment. Payment will be made within 30 days of receiving a proper invoice.

3. Management and Coordination
The project team led by the Communications focal points will provide scripts, a storyboard and an itinerary highlighting the participants to interview

4. Qualifications and experience/competencies
•Degree in film and arts/broadcast journalism/ cinema production

5. Timelines
The timelines for filming the documentary are the 21st to 25th of April, where the 21st and 22nd will be in Nairobi and the 24th and 25th in Mombasa. Editing should be done in a week and submitted by the 5th of May 2025.