Short Term Service Contract – CRMRS IEC Materials

Tdh engages with the private sector to improve the lives of children, families, communities, and countries by working across the public and private sector divide to strengthen child protection and promote children's rights in business operations and global supply chains. Tdh is committed to ensuring that companies not only avoid harming children in their supply chain but actively contribute to their rights and welfare. Tdh partners with businesses to align their operations with child rights principles. These partnerships aim to ensure that companies' pursuit of business goals does not come at the expense of child welfare, but instead supports it through a holistic, multisectoral, innovative and sustainable approach which capitalizes and strengthens local child protection systems and is embedded in the communities where these businesses operate.

Recognizing companies as essential ecosystem actors, we are committed to empowering businesses to be positive drivers for societal well-being in the countries and communities in which their supply chains start. Tdh thereby supports companies in developing child protection strategies, policies, tools, building staff capacity, designing and implementing human rights due diligence systems and community development interventions on the ground to enhance the protective environment for children and promote children's rights.

Tdh collaborates with the private sector through various public and private partnerships. While Tdh's CRB work is primarily focused on agricultural value chains, particularly in the coffee and cocoa sectors, its experience spans over a decade in the cotton, artisan gold mining, leather, and adult entertainment sectors. Tdh addresses the root causes and drivers of child labour and broader child rights violations by designing and implementing holistic and sustainable monitoring and remediation systems. These systems integrate whole-of-supply chain and area-based approaches through collaboration with the private sector, governments, civil society, communities, families, and children and young people.

The overall objective of this assignment is to design and produce high-quality, user-friendly IEC materials that effectively communicate key messaging on children's rights and child protection, including child labour prevention, allowable forms of child work, and safe agricultural practices, within the Ugandan context.

The service provider will be responsible for designing and producing three visually engaging IEC products (with versions in English and local dialects as provided by Tdh) supporting child rights, child protection and child labour key messaging:

The Child Rights and Business Implementation Coordinator will serve as the focal point for the service provider(s), providing overall direction, leadership, and oversight throughout the assignment.

All materials, data, and information shared during the service contract shall remain the property of Tdh. The consultant shall maintain strict confidentiality and shall not use any information obtained during or after the assignment for commercial or personal purposes.

Interested applicants shall submit their application via email to ken.tenders@tdh.org. The e-mail should have the subject-line: Child Rights and Business – IEC Materials – [Applicant's name]. The deadline for submission is 15 June 2026.

Terre des hommes-Lausanne Foundation (Tdh) is the leading Swiss-based international non-governmental organization working, since its creation in 1960, on the promotion and realization of children's and youth's rights. For more than 60 years, Tdh has been working in difficult situations, in countries at war, regions devastated by natural disasters, and places where poverty and malnutrition force millions of children and their families to migrate elsewhere. It provides direct and indirect support to millions of children, their families and communities in around thirty countries every year. In order to protect children and their future, Tdh is committed to fostering sustainable change to protect children's rights and well-being. To make a difference, Tdh supports children in expressing their needs and interests and encourages them to participate actively in their communities to promote their empowerment, advocates for the rights of children worldwide and ensures their well-being and the effective implementation of their rights as defined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and other human rights instruments. Tdh thereby focuses its efforts on protecting the lives of children in fragile contexts as well as in more stable environments.