TERMS OF REFERENCE
Interpretation service for webinars, meetings, interviews for the Alliance for Malaria Prevention
1. Overall objective
The objective is to ensure high-quality interpretation services (French, English and possibly Portuguese) for webinars, meetings and interviews organized by the Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP).
2. Background
The past fifteen years have seen tremendous gains in reducing the burden of malaria and progressing towards elimination. Between 2000 and 2015, global malaria incidence fell by 37 percent and mortality rates by 60 percent. Over 6.2 million deaths were averted, primarily among children less than five years of age. Since 1998, the RBM Partnership to End Malaria has been central to the global fight against malaria. It has been essential to mobilizing unprecedented resources and supporting scale up of innovative interventions to put the world on a path of eliminating malaria.
The Alliance for Malaria Prevention is a workstream within the RBM Partnership to End Malaria. AMP is a partnership of more than 40 organizations, including government, private sector, faith-based and humanitarian organizations. AMP is housed and chaired by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
AMP provides distance and in-country support to national malaria programmes and partners for mass ITN distribution campaigns as well as operational guidance on all aspects of ITN distribution. AMP works to coordinate the financial and technical resources of its members to support countries conducting mass and continuous distribution of millions of ITNs and works to resolve bottlenecks arising during planning and implementation of ITN campaigns. Its low-cost, action-orientated operational structure includes a Core Group of key partners overseeing AMP strategies, seven working groups, and dozens of partners that volunteer their time and expertise. AMP partners have developed core technical competencies – planning/operations, logistics, monitoring and evaluation, social and behaviour change – to support ITN scale-up efforts.
ITN campaigns are most countries’ primary method of vector control and mode of malaria prevention. Ensuring that ITN campaigns are planned and implemented in a cost-effective and efficient manner is a priority for financial, technical and implementing partners. Additionally, national malaria programmes are looking for optimal means for ensuring sustained ITN access and use through different distribution channels to maintain progress against targets for ITNs. National malaria programmes and partners distributing ITNs look to AMP for planning and implementation support, which is provided through operational guidance documents accessed through the AMP website in addition to through technical assistance.
Along with developing field-focused tools and operational guidance, AMP has established a globally recognized network of Technical Assistance (TA) providers for planning and conducting ITN campaigns, covering strategy, training and capacity building, logistics, communication, and monitoring and evaluation. AMP is recognized as an essential global partnership platform and expert resource for developing, promoting, and conducting mass ITN campaigns and sharing best practices within the global malaria community and beyond.
In 2020, AMP was awarded a grant by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to improve operational efficiency for ITN campaigns. As part of its work on the campaign efficiency project, AMP is committed to ensuring wide dissemination or work products, new approaches and methodologies and to showcasing the work of national malaria programmes and implementing partners adopting more efficient strategies for their campaigns.
AMP works across regions – Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific – and participants expected at webinars and meetings organized will require a minimum of French/English interpretation services to ensure comprehension of the information being presented. On a case-by-case basis, Portuguese or Spanish interpretation may be required.
AMP plans to organize approximately 20 webinars or training sessions over the coming 12 months targeted to different audiences. Webinars and training sessions are expected to last two to four hours each.
3. Terms of reference
To provide interpretation services (French, English and, as needed, Portuguese and Spanish) for presentations or interventions during webinars, working sessions and interviews
To provide interpretation services (French, English and, as needed, Portuguese) for online training sessions
4. Alignment to the IFRC’s objectives and strategy
The Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP)’s mandate aligns to the Federation’s Strategy 2030 as it supports the achievement of strategic aims:
1) Save lives, protect livelihoods and strengthen recovery from disasters and crises
2) Enable healthy and safe living.
5. Project objectives
Objective #1: To generate new evidence and best practices that will inform more efficient and effective ITN distributions, primarily but not exclusively through campaigns.
Desired outcomes: Increased availability and accessibility of evidence-based approaches and guidance for optimizing ITN distribution through ITN mass distribution and continuous distribution activities.
6. Timeline
The initial contract will be issued upon selection of the service provider (estimated date of award of contract: August 9th 2021) and will run until December, 31st, 2022.
7. Support to be provided
Overall supervision and support will be provided by the AMP Coordinator and the Manager – Malaria Programmes.
Notes
IFRC standard contractual terms will apply.
How to apply:
Please submit your technical and financial proposal to health.department@ifrc.org. Email subject: "Service provider - Interpretation for webinars, meetings, interviews for the Alliance for Malaria Prevention"
The proposal must include the individual person or company profile. Prices must be quoted in CHF (Swiss franc).
Please provide the details of three Client references relating to interpretation service provided, to include a contact name, organisation name and e-mail address for each reference.
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