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Introduction

Country: Vientiane Capital with some travel to Bolikhamxay or Vientiane Province, Laos. 

 

Description of the Assignment: 

Background

Guided by the global UNDP Strategic Plan (2022 – 2025) and UNDP Country Programme Document (CPD) for Lao PDR (2022 – 2026), UNDP in Lao PDR works closely with the line Ministries, mass organizations, civil society, development partners, and the private sector at both national and international levels in pursuit of the national socio-economic development priorities defined in Lao PDR’s five-year National Socio-Economic Development Plan (NSEDP) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The UNDP’s work is strongly focused on the provision of policy advice and technical support to the Government of Lao PDR in the design and implementation of national legislation and strategies across four broad Priority Pillars – (1) inclusive growth and reduced inequalities, (2) UXO clearance and risk education, (3) natural resources, climate change and disaster risk reduction, as well as (4) effective, responsive, and accountable governance.  

UNDP has a long history working in Lao PDR. UNDP’s comparative advantage has been its ability to work closely with a very broad range of government and local-level institutions at all levels. The new UNDP country programme is aligned with the 9th NSEDP and is anchored in UNDP’s long-term partnership with the Government of more than three decades. The new programme builds on the achievements of the previous CPD that saw the incorporation of the SDGs into the national planning architecture. It will aim to support Lao PDR recovery from the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and continue its transition from LDC status, with a particular emphasis on supporting inclusive growth and reducing inequality. 

UNDP Lao PDR, UXO Unit: 

Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is, per capita, the most heavily bombed country in the world. More than forty years after the end of the 1964-1973 Indochina Conflict, Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) remains a major humanitarian and socioeconomic challenge to the country, causing deaths and injuries, limiting access to potentially productive land, and adding substantial costs to processes of development. The Government of Lao PDR has been active in the clearance process since shortly after the conflict. Lao PDR has advocated for the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) and hosted the first Meeting of States Parties in 2010. It also embraced the UXO issue as a key development matter by locally establishing the Sustainable Development Goal 18 (SDG18), “Lives Safe from UXO”. 

The National Strategic Plan for the UXO Sector in the Lao PDR 2021 - 2030, “The Safe Path Forward III” (SPFIII), which was endorsed by the Government of Lao PDR in July 2022, details the objectives of the Government and its development partners over the forthcoming period where the aim is to reduce the humanitarian and socio-economic threats posed by UXO. The plan's focus is ensuring strong integration with development mechanisms, particularly at a provincial level, and actions are focused on community-level priorities for facilitation of development.

UNDP support to the UXO sector in Lao PDR has focused in two axes, notably: 1) support to strengthening the capacity and technical competency of the National Regulatory Authority, to be able to oversee and steer the sector in pursuance of national strategic goals and obtaining Lao PDR’s unique UXO Action Sustainable Development Goal, SDG 18: Lives Safe from UXO. 2) To provide capacity support for survey and clearance, through support to UXO Lao and the Humanitarian teams of the Lao People’s Army (Unit 58), thus hastening progress towards clearance in impacted communities.  

Objectives

Video and Photography design for the UNDP UXO programme: Under the supervision of the Head of the UXO Unit, the consultant will be responsible for creating a high-quality five -minutes documentary video and a photo essay. These will depict the accomplishments of the Humanitarian Demining Teams of the Lao People’s Army (Unit 58) in UXO survey, clearance, and risk education in Bolikhamxay or Vientiane province, and the National Regulatory Authority (NRA)’s coordination and leadership role in the sector.     

Scope of Works

The successful applicant will be expected to be responsible for the following:

• Produce a high-quality five-minute documentary video (English and Lao) showcasing accomplishments and raising awareness of Lao national, Unit 58’s, capacity to manage residual contamination in Lao PDR.  
• Create a teaser for the documentary video to be used for Social Media use (English and Lao).
• Produce a high-quality photo essay (800-1,000 words)  revealing the daily lives of UXO-affected communities and highlighting the importance of long-term residual capacity for UXO clearance in English language.

Task 1: Produce a quality five-minute documentary video

• The consultant shall produce a quality five-minute documentary video that highlights the accomplishments of Unit 58 (Lao national humanitarian army) and NRA (National Regulatory Authority) relatable for international and national audience.
• The video must be developed in Lao language for Lao audiences, but another version should include English subtitles so that the video can be shared with the international development partners of the UXO sector.
• Videography must be submitted with a 30 second teaser for Social Media use (English and Lao).
• Videography must be high-quality and suitable for broadcasting and publishing on the web.
• Videography must be designed as an asset, which UNDP could repurpose and redistribute in the future.

Task 2: Provide one photo essay revealing the daily lives of UXO-affected communities

• The consultant shall produce one high-quality photo essay in English language to form a visual storytelling about the daily lives of UXO affected communities in Bolikhamxay or Vientiane province.  
• One photo essay in English language.  
• Provide 100 high-quality photos.  
• Photographs must be provided in high quality and suitable for printing, processing, broadcasting, and publishing on the web.
• Photography must be designed as an asset, which the UNDP could repurpose and redistribute in the future.

Copyrights

• Image acquisition includes reproduction rights for non-exclusive world rights in perpetuity.
• Before the Consultant moves any photo on the wire or uploads it to an online Image database as a photo essay or extended photo caption story, he/she should contact UNDP to obtain consent.
• UNDP can provide the image(s) and video(s) to other UN organizations or the media at no cost, as is the practice.

Period of assignment/services: 30 working days. 

 

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