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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) seeks proposals from consultants or agencies interested in producing multimedia content (e.g., videos, infographics, etc.) for a transformational anti-racism project.
MSF aims to identify a consultant or agency to help design and produce multimedia materials that seek can convey concepts surrounding anti-racism in a compelling and dynamic way. This includes producing short videos that will be used for organization-wide e-learning modules; infographics that can summarize anti-racism principles, guidelines and best practices for multiple internal audiences; and other multimedia materials as requested – to ultimately help improve organization-wide long-term awareness, understanding and action on anti-racism.
ANTI-RACISM TIC PROJECT: PROGRESS TO DATE & NEXT STEPS REQUIRING AUDIO-VISUAL SUPPORT
In 2020, several MSF offices – including MSF Canada, MSF East Africa, MSF Southern Africa, MSF Western and Central Africa, among others – submitted a proposal to co-sponsor a new TIC project that aims to create spaces and capacity for deeper conversations about anti-racism at MSF. Specifically, this TIC project seeks to design a staff journey (with different entry points) into anti-racism awareness and practices; create a conversational framework to discuss racism, and build/strengthen capacity to host conversations about racism across the MSF movement. The project was submitted to the TIC and conditionally approved for half of the project funds in February 2021.
Since that time, the Anti-Racism TIC project laid a strong foundation to lay the groundwork for continued success. Over the past four months, we have established a Project Steering Committee and Content Team with representatives across offices and disciplines at MSF. We are also in the process of finalizing the recruitment for the Project Lead, who will serve as a full-time focal to help lead and implement this project. In addition to this progress on staffing, the Content Team also finalized a curriculum to be piloted in every participating entity with identified ‘users’ (i.e. specific staff and association members to engage with in the 8 co-sponsoring MSF entities, as a start). The curriculum will guide the project’s learning content for conversation spaces, articulating key messages for anti-racism awareness and competencies.
Through this process, it has been revealed that while offices across MSF have increased their initiatives related to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
and at times explicitly to anti-racism, those initiatives can remain at an intellectual level where lived experiences can be seen as debatable. As a result, the critical emotional intelligence required to meaningfully engage with any social justice efforts, can remain missing.
We would like to implement conversation spaces so as to fit within the broader project framework of “head – heart- hand”. Within this framework we want to encourage participants to become more familiar with anti-racism concepts at an intellectual level, develop the pertaining self-awareness and social awareness allowing them to relate to these concepts on a personal level and finally use their intellectual and emotional understanding to take action.
Furthermore, to ensure these conversation spaces become common practices in MSF, we would like to offer some coaching and guidance to any interested individual who would like to become an anti-racism conversation navigator and engage with more participants in their respective MSF entity.
Requisitos
PROPOSAL GUIDELINES
As part of the annual project plan for the TIC Anti-Racism project, we aim to begin rolling out our e-learning curriculum and conversation spaces by the fall of 2021. Established skills to engage with, navigate and reflect on topics around race and racism, Whiteness and White privilege, and racism and colonialism in the aid sector will be key to achieving this plan.
We are seeking a consultant or a group of consultants to: 1. facilitate conversation spaces about anti-racism topics with MSF staff and association members from different geographic and cultural contexts; 2. Provide some guidance and feedback to MSF staff and association members interested in becoming anti-racism conversation navigators.
The consultant(s) will play a critical role in contributing to increasing emotional intelligence in participants via their participation in these anti-racism conversation spaces and/or their process to becoming an anti-racism conversation navigator themselves.
The new partner(s) will have a high emotional intelligence with proven experience navigating confronting and transformative conversations about anti-racism in an informed, respectful and sensitive way.
Outline of Expectations
The successful consultant or agency will be mediators and facilitators with a subject-matter expertise in anti-racism. They will have a track record for adapting their approaches to different audiences in different geographic and socio-cultural contexts, including by liaising with other mediators and facilitators from a specific socio-cultural context.
The consultant(s) will provide and formalize guidelines and methodologies to center lived experiences, active listening, vulnerability, humility, empathy and shared responsibility during conversation spaces.
They will provide a proposed strategy for ensuring an alignment between the “head-heart-hand” framework and the topics identifying in the curriculum (see Appendix I).
The consultant(s) will also contribute to the development of a matrix to assess the readiness and evolution of prospective anti-racism conversation navigators. They will also participate in the formulation of metrics to assess the impact of every conversation space.
The consultant(s) will be familiar with identifying power dynamics and will know not to position themselves as a hierarchical superior but instead as a peer navigating similar reflections.
If you are interested in preparing a proposal, please review the following guidelines. All interested candidates are expected to present with:
- Solid understanding of topics outlined in the TIC Anti-Racism project curriculum as well as the adaptations required to navigate these topics in different socio-cultural contexts
- Proven experience facilitating discussions and reflections about anti-racism, including with participants with varying degrees of awareness and resistance
- Proven understanding of power dynamics and their potential negative impact on storytelling related to racism
- Experience providing guidance and coaching to navigate anti-racism conversations
- Experience developing assessment matrix and collecting feedback on anti-racism conversations
- Experience in unpacking and analyzing colonialism and racism in the aid sector is a strong asset
- Prior experience in facilitating anti-racism conversations with a global audience is a strong asset
- Advanced english: proposal must be submitted in english, preferably
TIMELINE
- RFP sent by MSF to respective consultants or agencies: Tuesday, September 14
- Full proposals due to MSF: Monday, September 21
- Meetings with finalists: Week of September 28
- Final partner selection: Week of September 28
- Work starts immediately
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ABOUT MSF AND THE ANTI-RACISM TRANSFORMATIONAL INVESTMENT CAPACITY (TIC) PROJECT
About MSF
MSF is an international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency medical care to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters or who are excluded from healthcare. Our organization works independently from governments to offer assistance to people based on their needs, irrespective of their race, religion, gender or political affiliation. We are a federation of 30+ national offices, with medical projects in more than 70 countries that employ over 60,000 staff worldwide.
About the Transformational Investment Capacity (TIC)
The TIC is an exciting new international initiative that aims to transform how MSF supports people, builds in robust operational processes and technologies and takes MSF to the cutting edge of medical innovation. The TIC funds large scale projects and smaller incubator ideas that can scale across MSF – with a substantial investment over 3.5 years in improving the way MSF does its work. Projects and ideas can come from Operating Centers, Partner Sections, each and every MSFer and will be evaluated by a world-class Selection Committee. The sum of TIC projects and ideas can help MSF better fulfill the present and evolving medical-humanitarian needs of people living in crisis by investing money, intellectual capital and human resources to implement transformational, game-changing and radical initiatives.
About the Anti-Racism TIC Project
Addressing structural racism has been identified as a priority for MSF, highlighted over the years in the La Mancha agreement, the People, People, People statement, the People Respect and Value Rome/Dakar workshop, the International Board’s Call for Change statement and more recently, with movement-wide discussions related to the Black Lives Matter protests (June/July 2020). According to the recent various exchanges and discussions on various platforms across MSF, there appears to be a widespread lack of knowledge and understanding of racism. There also appears to be internal misalignment on what racism is, and how it manifests in MSF. Several entities across MSF have recognized a gap in being able to hold conversations on racism, which certainly inhibits MSF’s ability to take action to address racism. Furthermore, discussions at MSF are often anchored in a debate paradigm, an approach that is neither suitable to discussing racism or encouraging anti-racism practices.
The Anti-Racism: Building Awareness and Changing Practices TIC project is articulated around 3 objectives:
- Facilitate an anti-racism journey to increase anti-racism awareness and change practices
- Create a conversation space to discuss racism and anti-racism practices
- Build internal capacity for conversation hosting
The project targets the conscious unskilled (i.e. staff, association members in MSF that have identified a need to better understand racism and address it).
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