Consultancy: Freelance Photography for She Leads Ethiopia Programme – Terre des Hommes Netherlands
Consultancy and Training, Creative Arts
Terre des Hommes Netherlands
Travelling child sex offenders too often go unpunished. Local police do not have the manpower to investigate these cases and moreover, collecting evidence is very complicated. Therefore, Terre des Hommes Netherlands will train local child protection officers in Indonesia, the Philippines, India and Nepal to identify perpetrators and assist local authorities with prosecution. Project Undercover is based on the successful approach of her project partner, Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), in Cambodia.
Terre des Hommes Netherlands identified Indonesia, the Philippines, India and Nepal as countries where, due in part to the Internet and the increase in tourism, child sexual abuse is prevalent. Being a taboo subject, child sexual abuse is often hidden behind a wall of silence, denial and indifference. With Project Undercover, Terre des Hommes Netherlands aims to protect more children against sexual exploitation. “We notice the approach in Cambodia is successful, therefore we want to copy this to other countries”, says Albert Jaap van Santbrink, executive director of Terre des Hommes Netherlands.
Background
Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH NL) is an international child rights organisation that works to create a world free from child exploitation. Since 1965, the organisation has protected children from violence, trafficking, sexual exploitation and abuse. TdH NL has been supporting local partners in East Africa to implement programmes that help improve the wellbeing of children in the region.
One of these programmes is She Leads. She Leads is a five year joint programme (2021-2025) that brings together child rights organisations, feminist/women’s rights organisations, and groups led by girls and young women. The programme focuses on increasing the sustained influence of girls and young women (GYW) in decision-making and the transformation of gender and social norms in formal and informal institutions.
She Leads is a partnership of Plan International Netherlands, Defence for Children – ECPAT the Netherlands (DCI-ECPAT), African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), and Terre des Hommes Netherlands, in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The programme is implemented in Lebanon, Jordan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana.
Advocacy is central to the programme, specifically advocacy by girls and young women themselves. Training and empowerment of girls and young women is a key strategy of She Leads, as well as mobilisation of GYW to amplify their voices. She Leads works in three interrelated domains; central to the She Leads programme is the enhancement of collective action of GYW in a gender-responsive civil society (civil society domain), supported by increased acceptance of positive social gender norms (socio-cultural domain) and by meaningful participation of GYW enabled in decision-making by political institutions (institutional domain).
About the assignment
The advocacy efforts and other programme activities of She Leads are supported by a sound communication and publicity initiative. To this end, actual professional photo footage from various countries of implementation is needed. This footage will serve the entire She Leads community – domestically in the countries of implementation; regionally and internationally e.g. in lobbying the United Nations; and in the Netherlands to inform and give accountability to the constituencies of the Dutch She Leads partners.
Objective of the Assignment
The overall objective of the assignment is to produce a series of photographs that captures the essence, spirit and work of the She Leads programme, particularly the youth advocates.
Required Qualifications
For this assignment, TdH NL is specifically looking for local talent. In line with the She Leads programme, the photographer for this assignment is preferably a young feminist /gender advocate. The photographer should have:
- 2-3 years of demonstrable, relevant photography experience
- Experience in producing advocacy/development work related photography
- Local knowledge of the community in (Amhara Region)
- Excellent technical capacity and equipment (state of art photography equipment).
