Terms of Reference for Curriculum Translation

1. Introduction 

Mastercard Foundation Accelerating Impact for Young Women in Partnership with BRAC – or AIM – is a multi-faceted, seven-country program designed to equip 1.2 million Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in Africa with age-appropriate entrepreneurship, employability, and life-skills training, along with the tools to start and scale their own businesses. AIM applies a “best-of-BRAC” approach, achieving social and economic development for AGYW by drawing from several programmatic models already shown through rigorous research to achieve positive impact.

The goals of AIM are to foster the agency and voice of AGYW to act on their aspirations to enable AGYW to engage in sustainable livelihoods, create an enabling environment for AGYW, including support for their engagement in advocacy. In Rwanda, AIM program is being implemented in four sectors and two districts namely Kinazi and Rusatara Sectors in Huye District; Busasamana and Muyira Sectors in Nyanza District, all in Southern Province. Each Sector has 250 eligible participants to get the support from the program. Meaning that the total target of this year is 1000 participants composed of VeryYoung Adolescents (VYA) aged  12-14, Adolescent Girls (AG) aged 15-17, Young Women (YW) aged 18-24, Early Adults (EA) aged 25-35; Adolescent Boys Young Men (ABYM)  aged 15-19.

For VYA,aged 12 to 14, AIM club's objectives are to keep them in school and, for out-of-school girls, support their return to education. The clubs will also provide basic life skills education, financial and digital literacy, and orientation on livelihoods and savings. For adolescent girls aged 15 to 17, the clubs encourage and support staying in or returning to school while offering life skills education and more extended training for small income-generating activities that can be done alongside education. For young women aged 18 to 35, the program activities  put them on sustainable livelihood pathways through livelihood, technical, and life skills training, with asset and input support where needed. Upon establishing stable entrepreneurial activities, these young women will have the opportunity to become BRAC microfinance clients.

2. Rationale of the assignment

Accelerating Impact for Adolescent Girls and Young women is a program that enables AGYW to have improved quality of life. For effective program implementation and monitoring, for each specific age, there is a curriculum that is delivered by a mentor. To ensure that the curriculum is well implemented, it requires translation from English to local languages for delivery. In Rwanda, this will be done in  Kinyarwanda. BRAC Rwanda is looking for a consultant to translate the developed curricula from English to Kinyarwanda with attention to keeping concepts and key messages aligned while translating into appropriate local terms.

3. Components of the curriculum

The broad areas of the curriculum are provided below:

The curriculum has 700 pages in English to be translated in Kinyarwanda.

4. Expected Outcome

Due to the AIM Program implementation methodology and calendar of the curricula, mentors will be teaching clubs in Kinyarwanda with use of some images provided for the curricula.

5. Calendar of the assignment

6. Knowledge and Skills required from individual consultant or firm /company

• Having academic qualification in linguistics literature, translation, social sciences, community development
• Fluency in English and Kinyarwanda
• Excellent proofreading skills
• Cultural Competence: Having an understanding of Rwandan Culture and history
• Subject Competence: Having knowledge of key concepts on and skills on gender relations, GBV, SRHR and empowerment Include the SRHR, GBV etc,,…
• Textual Competence: pay attention to text, genres, varying text types etc,…
• Having Knowledge of translation software and proven experience of having translated a training curriculum in Kinyarwanda, preferred experience with curriculum for youth
• Able to demonstrate proven examples of having translated curriculum content inclusive of Rwandan context
• Able to work an provide the required assignment respecting the deadlines
• Provide RDB certificate if it is a company
• Completion certificate for the similar assignment

7. Documents required

Interested candidates should apply by sending in PDF format the following documents:

• Proposal of the assignment including the methodology and timeline
• Detailed budget including the unit cost for one page.
• Academic qualification documents and CVs for the company team or individual consultant
• Rwanda Revenue Authority document that proves the individual or company declares taxes
• Proof of past work or completion certificates for the similar work by a recognized organisation or company
• Rwanda Development Board (RDB) Certificates testifying the official registration of the company or individual consultant

Safeguarding Policy

BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. BRAC holds a zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation, discrimination, exploitation, abuse and harassment. Violations to stated policies will be subject to corrective action up to and including termination of contract.

Interested candidates should apply by sending all the required documents to anaise.nahayo@brac.net and copy jeanbaptiste.nkurunziza@brac.net. The deadline for submission is 19^th September 2023 at 05:00 pm.