Request for Proposals: Communications Consultant(s) - Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants
INTRODUCTION:
OCASI invites qualified individuals or consulting firms to submit a proposal for a communication contract for a new national initiative on equity and racial justice, based on a trilateral North American agreement.
OCASI was formed in 1978 to act as a collective voice for immigrant serving agencies and to coordinate responses to shared needs and concerns. Its membership consists of more than 245 autonomous community-based organizations across Ontario. OCASI champions equity and human rights for immigrants and refugees through advocacy, collective action, collaborative planning, research, capacity-building, and information and knowledge transfer.
Project
OCASI is now supporting a project that will build a network of experts and organizations involved in addressing decoloniality, ant-racism, equity and hate across Canada, in local communities and in diverse social sectors, i.e., education, business, the arts, public services, media, health, labour, law enforcement and justice. The network will be involved with the North American Partnership for Equity and Racial Justice.
The purpose of the Network will be to facilitate the exchange of information, share best practices and innovative strategies, and facilitate the pursuit of cross-border initiatives developed across the three countries for advancing equity and racial justice in public policies and societies, and help identify further action areas for the Partnership.
The Network of Experts will be an ongoing working group composed of civil society leaders, including representatives of the community, business, academic, education, philanthropic, labour, arts, sport, and health sectors.
BACKGROUND
On January 9, 2023, on the margins of the North American Leaders Summit in Mexico City, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, the Honourable Marcelo Ebrard, Minister of Foreign Relations of United Mexican States, and the Honourable Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State signed the Declaration on the North American Partnership for Equity and Racial Justice. The Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat led negotiations with the U.S. and Mexico before the signature of the Declaration on January 9, 2023.
The purpose of the Partnership is to share best practices and commit to taking concrete steps domestically and trilaterally to combat systemic racism, discrimination, and hate while striving towards cohesiveness between national laws and mutual commitments to international human rights conventions.
One of the commitments stemming from the North American Partnership for Equity and Racial Justice is to establish a trilateral Network of Inclusion Experts
The purpose of the Network will be to facilitate the exchange of information, share best practices and innovative strategies, and facilitate the pursuit of cross-border initiatives developed across the three countries for advancing equity and racial justice in public policies and societies, and help identify further action areas for the Partnership.
The Network of Experts will be an ongoing working group composed of civil society leaders, including representatives of the community, business, academic, education, philanthropic, labour, arts, sport, and health sectors.
An organization in Canada will be responsible for setting-up the Canadian chapter of the Network, which will galvanize the sectors noted above around the North American initiative. Using the North American Partnership for Equity and Racial Justice as its guide, the Network of Experts is anticipated to pursue the following thematic priorities:
Particular attention will be placed on pursuing action on the thematic priorities in ways that advance the rights and aspirations enshrined in multilateral commitments, such as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the International Decade for People of African Descent, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and other joint undertakings.
The objectives of the Canadian Chapter of the Network of Experts for Equity and Social Justice will be to:
The Communications Consultant(s) will work under the direction of the Project Lead, and as part of a team that includes a Project Coordinator consultant, Administrative Coordinator and staff of the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants.
DELIVERABLES:
The successful consultant(s) will have experience working on decolonization, anti-racism, equity and anti-oppression issues as well as communications with diverse communities, governments, academics, unions, business and other groups and institutions will help the Canadian Network Equity and Racial Justice (CNERJ) reach and actively engage stakeholders in public forums across Canada.
To achieve this, the successful consultant(s) will:
Fees are at a rate of $88 per hour x 75 hours per month (approximately) and not to exceed $79,200 incl HST in each year of the Project. The Consultant reports to the Project Lead.
OCASI invites qualified individuals or consulting firms to submit a proposal for a communication contract for a new national initiative on equity and racial justice, based on a trilateral North American agreement.
OCASI was formed in 1978 to act as a collective voice for immigrant serving agencies and to coordinate responses to shared needs and concerns. Its membership consists of more than 245 autonomous community-based organizations across Ontario. OCASI champions equity and human rights for immigrants and refugees through advocacy, collective action, collaborative planning, research, capacity-building, and information and knowledge transfer.
Project
OCASI is now supporting a project that will build a network of experts and organizations involved in addressing decoloniality, ant-racism, equity and hate across Canada, in local communities and in diverse social sectors, i.e., education, business, the arts, public services, media, health, labour, law enforcement and justice. The network will be involved with the North American Partnership for Equity and Racial Justice.
The purpose of the Network will be to facilitate the exchange of information, share best practices and innovative strategies, and facilitate the pursuit of cross-border initiatives developed across the three countries for advancing equity and racial justice in public policies and societies, and help identify further action areas for the Partnership.
The Network of Experts will be an ongoing working group composed of civil society leaders, including representatives of the community, business, academic, education, philanthropic, labour, arts, sport, and health sectors.
BACKGROUND
On January 9, 2023, on the margins of the North American Leaders Summit in Mexico City, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, the Honourable Marcelo Ebrard, Minister of Foreign Relations of United Mexican States, and the Honourable Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State signed the Declaration on the North American Partnership for Equity and Racial Justice. The Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat led negotiations with the U.S. and Mexico before the signature of the Declaration on January 9, 2023.
The purpose of the Partnership is to share best practices and commit to taking concrete steps domestically and trilaterally to combat systemic racism, discrimination, and hate while striving towards cohesiveness between national laws and mutual commitments to international human rights conventions.
One of the commitments stemming from the North American Partnership for Equity and Racial Justice is to establish a trilateral Network of Inclusion Experts
The purpose of the Network will be to facilitate the exchange of information, share best practices and innovative strategies, and facilitate the pursuit of cross-border initiatives developed across the three countries for advancing equity and racial justice in public policies and societies, and help identify further action areas for the Partnership.
The Network of Experts will be an ongoing working group composed of civil society leaders, including representatives of the community, business, academic, education, philanthropic, labour, arts, sport, and health sectors.
An organization in Canada will be responsible for setting-up the Canadian chapter of the Network, which will galvanize the sectors noted above around the North American initiative. Using the North American Partnership for Equity and Racial Justice as its guide, the Network of Experts is anticipated to pursue the following thematic priorities:
- Seek opportunities to engage communities with lived experience of racism, discrimination and hate.
- Drive solutions to protect the rights of members of marginalized communities.
- Advance health equity and economic inclusion.
- Address racial and other disparities in the justice system.
- Assist in access to the ballot.
- Provide educational opportunities; and,
- Reflect the diversity of the three countries in their federal public services workforce.
Particular attention will be placed on pursuing action on the thematic priorities in ways that advance the rights and aspirations enshrined in multilateral commitments, such as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the International Decade for People of African Descent, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and other joint undertakings.
The objectives of the Canadian Chapter of the Network of Experts for Equity and Social Justice will be to:
- Establish the organizational structure, strategic plan, workplan, membership, and network of the Chapter.
- Establish and oversee the processes and opportunities for cross-border information and collaboration for Canadian organizations and individuals working in the priority areas of the Partnership across Canada and in Mexico and the United States;
- Identify challenges and barriers, as well as evidence-based remedies, related to racism and hate; and
- Develop indicators and performance impact measurement protocols and processes to track and report publicly on progress.
- Led research, dialogue and information exchange across the three countries in the partnership.
- Shared local best practices and inventive approaches to anti-racism and hate from each of the three nations to advance equity and racial justice at the public policies and society level.
- Generated a strategy to identify and act in additional areas within the Partnership.
- Developed the organizational structure, including governance, operations and human as well as financial resources required to continue the Network’s initiatives beyond the first three years
The Communications Consultant(s) will work under the direction of the Project Lead, and as part of a team that includes a Project Coordinator consultant, Administrative Coordinator and staff of the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants.
DELIVERABLES:
The successful consultant(s) will have experience working on decolonization, anti-racism, equity and anti-oppression issues as well as communications with diverse communities, governments, academics, unions, business and other groups and institutions will help the Canadian Network Equity and Racial Justice (CNERJ) reach and actively engage stakeholders in public forums across Canada.
To achieve this, the successful consultant(s) will:
- Provide strategic communications and issues management lens to create and implement communication products and plans that embed the principles of decoloniality, human rights, anti-racism, equity and anti-oppression;
- Develop and implement strategic communications plans that are focused on promoting the Project’s activities and to reach their target audiences;
- Research and write web copy, briefing notes, speeches, news releases, FAQs, key messages, media statements and backgrounders;
- Coordinate marketing, issues management, media relations to ensure that activities reach the project’s broad audience base;
- Manage project budgets in collaboration with the Project Lead;
- Participate in the selection of organizations in the locations identified across Canada and developing their engagement in this project;
- Support outreach strategies to ensure the reach and relevance of the project to relevant communities;
- Work collaboratively with colleagues providing information regarding the research, outreach, participant selection, and communications of the project;
- Coordinate community consultations across Canada with local stakeholders to inform project deliverables;
- Support, prepare reports and updates on these activities;
- Engage in active ongoing evaluation of the project, measuring its impact and making recommendations for immediate improvements and future changes
Fees are at a rate of $88 per hour x 75 hours per month (approximately) and not to exceed $79,200 incl HST in each year of the Project. The Consultant reports to the Project Lead.
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