CONSULTANCY WITH ACJPS- REPORT TRANSLATION AND DESIGNING CONSULTANT

(10 October 2023)

The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) is a non-profit, non- governmental organization working to monitor and promote respect for human rights and legal reform in Sudan. ACJPS is dedicated to creating a Sudan committed to all human rights, the rule of law and peace, in which the rights and freedoms of the individual are honored and where all persons and groups are granted their rights to non-discrimination, equality and justice.

In October 2023, ACJPS received funding from DT Global to implement a project entitled “Increasing the availability and visibility of evidence-based information of human rights violations in Darfur, Sudan since 15 April 2023”. The project was developed to increase the availability and visibility of evidence-based information of human rights violations in Darfur from 15 April 2023. Under the project, ACJPS will regularly publish reliable and timely information and analysis on human rights cases and trends in Sudan and Darfur in particular for domestic, regional and international audiences, drawing on evidence from the monitoring and legal programmes, and including recommendations for putting an end to the war, working on the reform of laws and practices in line with regional and international human rights norms. By doing so, the national, international and regional policy and decision makers would have improved access to reliable information and contextual analysis on the human rights situation in Sudan.

At least three human rights reports will be published during the project period. Therefore, we would like to use an advanced reports designing skill so as to attract the attention of the public awareness about human rights violations. We believe this will increase the number of our audiences.  In this regard, we are seeking services of a consultant/firm to translate and design ACJPS human rights reports.

Description of assignment/task

1. Translate the human rights reports from Arabic to English or vice versa.
2. Design the layout of the human rights reports report ensuring visual and aesthetics design for data visualizations, infographics, photos, tables, graphs, and figures and clear and legible layout of the narrative report, including table of content, quotes, notes, and textboxes.

Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights:

The consultant may not use, reproduce or otherwise disseminate or authorize others to use, reproduce or disseminate such works without prior consent from the ACJPS.

Confidentiality

The consultant is responsible to maintain confidentiality of ACJPS’ documents that is shared with her/him during the assignment and must not take reference of those documents and information in any other task. The consultant must also ensure the confidentiality of beneficiaries at all times.

Timing and deliverables

The assignment is expected to take 10 weeks starting from 23rd October to 31st December 2023. This period includes the contracting, consultations/meeting with project team, designing and submission of reports. It also includes weekends.

The consultant is expected to deliver the following:

• Inception report detailing the Consultants’ understanding of the terms of reference.

• Draft copies of the translated and designed reports for review.

• Final soft copies of translated and designed human rights reports, ready for publication.
• Consultancy fees

Competitive

Reporting

The consultant will work closely with and report to the Director Monitoring and Documentation or Legal Program Director depending upon the nature of the report to be designed. However, Human Resource and Senior Program Officer will provide the oversight to the Retainer’s work.

Qualifications:

• The service provider should have minimum of 5 years’ professional experience in translating and designing documents.
• A degree in literature and graphic design is highly preferable;
• The successful consultant will have to demonstrate clear understanding of the assignment clearly indicating a proposed methodology, work plan, sample copies of similar assignments undertaken.
• Proposal Evaluation Criteria

Submission of proposals

Interested consultants should submit:

• A proposal and a letter of availability and an explanation of how their professional experience matches the skills and qualifications listed. The proposal should demonstrate sound knowledge, technical skills and capability as required by the nature of the work and understanding of the requisite tasks set forth in the terms of reference;
• Eligible firms should submit their organisation profile, and CVs of Consultant;
• At least two positive references/recommendations from past employers must be submitted.

All proposals must be submitted to recruitment@acjps.org with subject line “Report Translation and Designing Consultant” by 13 October 2023.