Request for Quotation (RFQ) for RFQ-ROAS-001-2017-Animation services

UN Women is the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In 2012, UN Women has extended its work to include the Arab Region through UN Women’s Regional Office for Arab States (ROAS). UN Women is active six impact areas: political participation, economic empowerment, gender-based violence, gender-responsive budgeting, women in peace and security and HIV.

For over two years, the Government of Japan has supported a UN Women regional programme in the Arab States and North Africa for the economic empowerment of refugees and women breadwinners in refugee and host communities. The programme has so far supported 10 community centres in three refugee camps and in non-camp settings in Egypt and Lebanon. In Jordan, Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon 29,500 families benefited from UN Women's "Economic Empowerment of Syrian Refugees" programme.

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Programme Manager - with support from the Communications consultant, UN Women is procuring an animated story from Iraq or Egypt detailing the flight of women from Syria and the experiences in displacement – with a particular focus on the importance of livelihoods for building resilience. To support this UN Women will provide 4 testimonies from women and girl Syrian refugees currently displaced in Iraq and Jordan, detailing details of their flight from Syria, their lives in their current place of living, their needs and what assistance has supported them effectively. The deadline for final submission is May 30, 2016.