Consultancy Needed - Documentation Best Practices Elevate

BACKGROUND 

Save the Children is currently implementing the ELEVATE Program (Economic Livelihood Capabilities and Violence Elimination for Women) across Luwu, North Luwu, and East Luwu Regencies with financial support from the European Union. The program aims to break the cycle of gender-based vulnerability by integrating prevention and response mechanisms for Gender-Based Violence (GBV) with women's economic empowerment initiatives. Each district presents unique opportunities, challenges, and levels of progress, requiring a structured coordination mechanism to ensure effective implementation and achievement of program objectives. During Year 1 implementation, various achievements, innovations, lessons learned, and promising practices have emerged through collaboration with government institutions, community groups, women-led organizations, village-level structures, and targeted participants. These experiences constitute valuable evidence that should be systematically documented to support program accountability, organizational learning, knowledge sharing, advocacy, donor reporting, and future programming. To ensure that these achievements and lessons are captured professionally and communicated effectively, the ELEVATE Program seeks to engage consultant to support the documentation of best practices, collection of high-quality visual materials, development of human-interest stories, and editorial review of the final report. 

OBJECTIVES

Overall Objective To document and communicate key achievements, best practices, innovations, lessons learned, and participants stories from the first year of ELEVATE Program implementation and to produce a high-quality, publication-ready Year 1 Report. 

Specific Objectives:

1. Document best practices and successful approaches emerging from Year 1 implementation. 
2. Develop compelling human-interest photo stories and beneficiary profiles that demonstrate program impact. 
3. Produce a high-quality photo library representing program activities, beneficiaries, community engagement, and results. 
4. Support the preparation and quality assurance of the Year 1 Program Report.

EXPECTED OUTPUT/DELIVERABLES

At the completion of the assignment: 

• Key achievements and lessons from Year 1 ELEVATE are systematically documented. 
• Professional visual materials are available for reporting, advocacy, and communication purposes. 
• The Year 1 Report documentation meets donor standards. 
• Organizational learning from Year 1 implementation is captured and can inform Year 2 planning and implementation.

Scope of Work 

The consultant will do: 

Desk Review 

Review relevant program documents, including:

• Proposal
• Logframe
• Annual work plans 
• Monitoring data
• Progress reports
• Learning documents
• Case studies and existing communication material

Field Documentation 

Conduct field visits to selected program locations across the ELEVATE intervention areas.

Photography 

Capture professional photographs covering: 

• Program activities
• Livelihood initiatives
• Women's groups 
• Community engagement 
• Stakeholder participation 
• Human-interest portraits