Request for Proposals: Consultant for MEL Storytelling Webinars

Background

The Equality Fund is an international feminist fund based in Canada. We are a ground-breakingcollaboration harnessing diverse actors to catalyze new momentum for women’s rights andfeminist movements. Building on the experience of the MATCH International Women’s Fund, andwith significant contributions from the Government of Canada and other donors, we provideresources to women’s rights and feminist organizations from the grassroots level to the regionaland global stage. Women’s rights organizations and feminist movements around the world areat the forefront of change—holding the line, resisting rights violations, demanding equality, anddriving solutions to get us there. The Equality Fund’s strategy is to support the priorities that theyidentify.

Scope of work

The Equality Fund is seeking to contract an individual consultant with relevant experience inusing storytelling approaches for monitoring, evaluation and learning.

Based on feedback received from Equality Fund grantee partners, there is an interest in learninghow to use storytelling effectively to narrate stories of change, both at the institutional level andto illustrate the impact of their work with the communities that they serve. The webinar would beopen to grantee partners under the Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) Caribbean project andthe Catalyze partners, who will be asked to register for one of the two webinar sessions, forEnglish-speaking participants and for Spanish-speaking participants. The webinars would behosted on Zoom, a platform that is familiar to the grantee partners.

The consultant will be asked to undertake the following tasks:

1. Design content for a 90-minute webinar for Equality Fund grantee partners to deepen their skills in using storytelling approaches to narrate their stories of change.
2. Deliver two webinars (the same content would be delivered at both webinars, with provisions made for English-speaking and Spanish-speaking participants) as outlined above.

Deliverables

1. Proposed plan for the MEL storytelling webinar: Prepare a brief document/presentation articulating the outline and content of the webinar, accompanied by a proposed timeline for the webinars.
2. Delivery of two webinars on MEL storytelling: Design and deliver a series of two webinars (1.5 hours per session) to deepen the skills of Equality Fund grantee partners to narrate their stories of change.
3. Debrief to MEL core group: Participate in a debrief session with the MEL core group to share insight from the webinars and opportunities for future, ongoing learning.

CRITERIA/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Expertise in MEL methodologies, specifically using storytelling approaches for monitoring, evaluation and learning to tell impact stories.
• Minimum of five years of relevant experience in conducting training, with a track recordof successful consultancies;
• Strong facilitation skills and flexible approach to work;
• Highly organized, analytical, adaptive and responsive to feedback and changes indirection when needed;
• Availability to undertake this consultancy during the month of May 2023.

Voluntary Disclosure:

The Equality Fund implements gender-responsive procurement practices, actively seeking tomaximize support for women’s organizations and suppliers working to advance gender equality.We believe that expanding and diversifying our pool of suppliers is a powerful tool to build amore competitive and robust supplier base. The ultimate objective of our feminist approach toprocurement is to ensure that EF is able to thoughtfully consider whether it has, or can find,suppliers who are aligned with the mission of advancing gender equality, while at the same timemeeting the need for timely delivery of high-quality goods and services at competitive prices.We believe that it is possible to seek value-alignment with our suppliers, as well as ourinvestments and programming.

We invite respondents to provide information which will allow us to assess if your organizationis mission-aligned to ours. This relates to both internal structure, practices and policies, as wellas how you operate in the world. Internal examples include policies and practices related todiversity, equity and inclusion; the proportion of the leadership team and/or staff who are women,Indigenous, LGBTIQ, visible minority and/or disabled; transparency and commitment to equalpay; and the use of flexible work arrangements. External examples include careful considerationof how your business practices (including the services you provide or the goods you produce)can and do support the rights of women, girls, and LGBTQI people and a more equitable world.Additional elements include positive role models in advertising/promotions materials, joint workwith equality-seeking women’s organizations, advocacy initiatives, and other impact-orientedinitiatives.

We encourage all respondents to share information on mission alignment to gender equality.Responses do not need to be lengthy, but we appreciate any information you choose to share.

Duration

A timeline for the duration of this consultancy is outlined below:

• Applications due: 10th April 2023
• Consultancy duration: 1st – 31st May 2023

Request for proposals

The Equality Fund is inviting consultants to prepare a short proposal for this consultancy. The proposal must include the following:

• A financial proposal in Canadian dollars, including all costs, fees, and expenses required to carry out the consultancy. The Equality Fund expects this project to take a maximum of six (6) days.
• A short description on how the consultant would approach the assignment
• A short summary of the consultant(s)’ relevant experience and CV

Kindly submit your proposal electronically to:

Kristina Mena

Senior Officer, Learning & Impact

kmena@equalityfund.ca

The deadline for receipt of proposals is Monday, April 10th, 2023.