Presidency

H. E. Joseph N. Boakai, Sr.

President of Liberia

H. E. Zegben J. K. Koung

Vice President of Liberia

Request for Expression of Interest to Air Jingles and Public Service Announcement

 

The Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Liberia, seeks the services of a national broadcasting institution (Radio & TV) to air Jingles and Public Service Announcements (PSAs) on the Rio Conventions.

This project is in line with the GEF-6 CCCD Strategy objective 1, 3, and 5 which call for countries to: a) integrate global environmental needs into management information systems and monitoring, b) integrate MEA provisions into national policy, legislative, and regulatory frameworks, and c) update NCSAs, respectively. The goal of this project is for Liberia to make better decisions to meet and sustain global environmental obligations. This requires the country to have the capacity to coordinate efforts, as well as best practices for integrating global environmental priorities into planning, decision-making, and reporting processes. To that end, the objective of this project is to strengthen a targeted set of national capacities to deliver and sustain global environmental outcomes within the framework of sustainable development priorities. The CCCD Project is implemented by the Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the UNDP with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The EPA is seeking the recruitment of 3 broadcasters to air jingles and public service announcement. Aim The aim of the assignment is to improve awareness of global environmental values and adopt friendly behavior Objective Air a gender inclusive (1) public service announcement in Liberian English and (2) jingoes) on the Rio Convention mainstreaming. This component of the project aims to combat the lack of awareness on climate change, biodiversity loss and sustainable land management by creating an enabling environment for the general public to gain awareness, effective participation and access to data, information and knowledge relating to the Rio Conventions. This intends to build knowledge of wider communities against environmental ignorance, support for implementation of environmental policies laws against human induced environmental degradation. Realizing the effectiveness of media capacity building and mobilization to complement government and CSOs efforts in policy discourse in favors of educating the general public, the CCCD is developing the Radio Jingles and PSAs in three different themes for the media campaign on Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Sustainable Land Management. The Specific Objective of the activity: See Details: