1a. About CIVICUS
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation has worked for nearly two decades to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens' freedom of association are threatened. CIVICUS has a vision of a global community of active, engaged citizens committed to the creation of a more just and equitable world.
1b. About CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness CPDE
Following civil society’s participation to the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Republic of Korea, and key role in shaping the multi-stakeholder outcome agreement, the two global CSO processes involved in aid effectiveness have mobilized to better respond to the emerging post-Busan development agenda.
Over the past year, BetterAid and Open Forum facilitated CSO consultations worldwide regarding the mandate and structure of a new and unified global platform for civil society development effectiveness work. This consultation process has come to a conclusion this December 2012, when the Global Council of the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) met in Nairobi, Kenya, to finalize the new civil society strategy and working arrangements in the post-Busan reality.
The CPDE will act as the collective successor of BetterAid and Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness, and will unite CSOs from around the world on the issue of development effectiveness, particularly in the context of the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (BPd) and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC).
2. The Platform
2.1 CIVICUS is seeking the services of a web design and development agency (joint proposals are welcome) to:
(a) Design the branding (web and print) and;
(b) Design, develop and support a website with the following key features:
- Serve as a global repository of resources for the new CPDE work
- Will be have a public front end with tiered access (two access levels thus: free and membership only)
- Have content organised around 5 main themes (navigation)
- Have a publicly available blog, calendar of upcoming and past events with a means of indicating interest in participating in CPDE organised events
- Provide a members only section complete with dashboards, reports, notices, etc. accessible only to authenticated members
- Content from the Open Platform and Development Effectiveness websites will be archived in sub directories of the new platform and made available to interested parties via dedicated links in strategic locations on the new platform (portal like page detailing the history of both projects)
- Provide social sharing tools
- Support at least three languages (English, French, Spanish)
3. Your proposal
Your proposal should detail the following:
3.1 A narrative on your proposed solution (a maximum of 1 MS Word page, with type font not smaller than 11 points)
3.2 A Matrix detailing how your solution meets our needs (a maximum of 1 MS Word page, with type font not smaller than 11 points). Please use format:
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3.3 If submitting a joint proposal, indicated clearly what each party will contribute
3.4 Implementation (hosting) Landscape: describe the hosting environment in which completed product will reside e.g. LAMP stack
3.5 Support: State the level of support you are willing to offer and the associated cost, and relief to CIVICUS in case where established service goals are not met
3.5 Training: State the level of training, expected outcome(s), requirement(s) and cost
3.6 Project schedule: Detailed schedule showing work break down, activity sequence and dependencies and key milestones
3.7 Itemised project cost: An itemised project cost showing details of associated cost to each identified activities/milestones
3.8 Your experience: Please provide details of three projects with similar depth as our own completed in the last 12- 24 months. Detail you approach and outcomes and any lesson learnt. Please include for each project references that can be contacted to verify completed work
4. Method of submission
- All requests for information should be sent to:
- All proposals must be submitted by email to: Hardcopies will not be accepted.
5. Key dates
- 16 March 2013 - deadline for request for additional information/clarification
- 18 March 2013 – deadline for submitting proposals
- Date to be confirmed – review of proposals submitted and interviews with shortlisted candidates
- Date to be confirmed – Sign contract and commence work
6. Miscellaneous:
- Only consultants whose proposals are shortlisted will be contacted
- This document is not a contract and should not be treated as such