Production of Animated Video to Promote Gender-Sensitive Climate Security Action

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Mission and objectives

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
We are on the ground in some 170 countries and territories, supporting their own solutions to development challenges and developing national and local capacities that will help them achieve human development and the Sustainable Development Goals. Our work is concentrated on three main focus areas:
Sustainable development
Democratic governance and peacebuilding
Climate and disaster resilience
UNDP helps countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we promote gender equality and the protection of human rights.

Context

UNDP is a critical partner to Papua New Guinea in multi-dimensional fragility contexts, particularly in the country’s Highlands region. Within the Highlands, it oversees the delivery of various interventions in addressing the Peace-Development-Humanitarian nexus. The impact of violent conflict in the Highlands is significant, resulting in fatalities, physical and psychological suffering, destruction of private and public property, gender-based violence, curtailed freedom of movement, displacement, and loss of access to services. Further exacerbating an already fragile social landscape, climate hazards are increasingly seen as threat multipliers contributing to insecurity, overburdening limited community and state resources, and making already vulnerable communities more desperate and susceptible to incidences of violence.
As part of operationalizing UNDP’s CPD output of promoting peace and security across Papua New Guinea, UNDP is working on a multi-pronged crisis prevention approach of investing in key interventions to address the strategic imperatives such as impactful gender transformative interventions to prevent climate-induced crisis in the Highlands.
As part of these interventions, in 2023, UNDP conducted a downscaled Climate Risk Assessment focused on Hela and Southern Highlands provinces. The assessment revealed, among others, the disproportionate impacts of climate variability extreme events and hazards on women and girls, urging for broadening awareness on gendered impacts of climate-induced security risks and priority gender-responsive climate security actions at different levels. To this end, UNDP seeks an online volunteer to produce an animated video to support building awareness on anticipatory gender-sensitive climate action for sustainable peace and development.

Task description

Produce an animated video on the key findings and recommendations from the UNDP Climate Risk Assessment Report focused on Hela and Southern Highlands provinces of Papua New Guinea for a wide range of audiences, including civil society, policymakers, and development actors.
The video aims to build awareness of promoting gender-responsive climate security action in the Highlands region by learning of the intersection of potential impacts of climate variability projections with existing vulnerability dimensions such as gender inequality and conflict in fragile contexts.
The video should be between 2 and 4 minutes long with a social media edit of up to 2 minutes. It should incorporate infographics, maps, a combination of existing videos and animated characters if required, concise narration, and subtitles.
Below is an example of a relevant style.

Specific tasks:
• Develop a script and a storyboard and/or mood board concepts.
• Produce the animated video as per the approved script and storyboard.
• Participate in virtual meetings to review progress at the storyboard and animation stages (3 meetings per week).
• Record/use standard English narration, using simple, informative, and concise language.
The final animation files should be:
• Landscape format to be used on the mainstream media (TV) and social media platforms.
• Two master files (with and without voiceover and subtitles).
• Content must be in line with UNDP branding requirements provided by the project.