Consultant / Consultancy Firm to Develop a Comprehensive Project Progress Newsletter/Booklet

NETWORK OF ETHIOPIAN WOMEN’S ASSOCIATONS (NEWA)

CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EoI) FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES

To develop a comprehensive newsletter/booklet to inform and promote the progress, resulted registered Project “Empowering Women-Led Associations and Community Structures to Enhance Grassroots and Upstream Movements to End Child Marriage,

• Position Title: Consultant / Consultancy Firm to Develop a Comprehensive Project Progress Newsletter/Booklet
• Posting Date: June 16, 2026
• Closing Date: June 26, 2026 (10 days from posting)
• Employment Type: Short-term Contract / Consultancy

• Project Title: Empowering Women-Led Associations and Community Structures to Enhance Grassroots and Upstream Movements to End Child Marriage, FGM, and Violence Against Children (Joint Initiative of NEWA and UNICEF Ethiopia)

• Location: Addis Ababa (with desk-reviews/coordination for Debar-Amhara, Fentale-Oromia, and Jijiga Babile-Somali regional field implementations)

1. Background about NEWA

The Network of Ethiopian Women's Associations (NEWA) is a non-partisan, non-governmental, national umbrella network established in 2003. Bringing together over 53 member organizations and associations across Ethiopia, NEWA serves as a national platform to coordinate, advocate, and strengthen the collective voice of women and girls. NEWA's strategic pillars focus on policy advocacy, legal reforms, institutional capacity building, and the socio-economic and political empowerment of women. Evidence-based advocacy, research, and high-impact communication are core tools used by NEWA to push forward its agenda for gender equality and a society free from discrimination.

2. Context and Purpose of the Assignment

In partnership with UNICEF Ethiopia, NEWA is implementing a targeted intervention project: “Empowering Women-Led Associations and Community Structures to Enhance Grassroots and Upstream Movements to End Child Marriage, FGM, and Violence Against Children.” As the project advances, there is a critical need to capture field-level milestones, document transformative human-interest stories, and systematically gather lessons learned. This assignment is designed to recruit a highly qualified individual consultant or firm to draft, design, edit, and produce a premium-quality, dual-language (Amharic and English) project newsletter/booklet.

The publication will heavily spotlight the vital field operations of NEWA's local implementing partners:

• Amhara Women’s Association (AWA): Grassroots work on child protection and ending harmful practices in Debark Wereda (Amhara Region).
• Tarkanfi Sustainable Development (TSD): Community mobilization and resilience building in Fentale Wereda (Oromia Region).
• Women Development and Resilience Organization (WDRO): Interventions supporting vulnerable women and children in Babile Wereda (Somali Region).

3. Objectives of the Assignment

To document, design, and produce a visually compelling, advocacy-driven newsletter/booklet in English and Amharic that showcases project progress, human-interest success stories, and grassroot lessons learned across the three target project areas (Weredas).

• Specific Objectives:
  1. To document and write high-quality, ethically sound human-interest case studies directly from field implementations.
  2. To design a standardized, visually engaging, and easily scannable layout template utilizing data visualizations and professional layout methodologies.
  3. To copyedit and content-polish all materials ensuring strict compliance with NEWA/UNICEF branding rules, ethical reporting, and child protection guidelines.
  4. To deliver publication-ready dual formats: high-resolution print files and interactive, web-optimized digital formats for media dissemination.

Annex: Consultant / Consultancy Firm to Develop a Comprehensive Project Progress Newsletter/Booklet