Consultant (Development of PAGE’s 2021 Online Annual Report and Website)

Background

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system. UNEP’s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment. We aim to achieve this mission by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

UNEP’s Economy Division supports partners across governments, private sector and civil society to develop and implement policies, strategies and practices for sustainable development. Located within the Economy Division, the Resources and Markets Branch enhances the capacity of partners to integrate environmental considerations into economic policies and practices. A particular focus of the Resources and Markets Branch is UNEP’s work related to Green Economy.

The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) brings together expertise and guidance of five UN agencies (ILO, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNDP and UNEP) and eight funding partner countries to assist eighteen countries in their sustainable development. UNEP is providing secretariat services to this multi-year interagency programme. PAGE is currently supporting Mongolia, Peru, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mauritius, Ghana, South Africa, Brazil, China, Kyrgyz Republic, Barbados, Guyana, Uruguay, India, Indonesia, Guatemala, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Thailand and Morocco in addition to a portfolio of global activities, including training programmes, knowledge sharing, and outreach and communication. Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Partnership is directing is work towards assisting countries in a green economic recovery.

The Partnership, led by PAGE Secretariat, is developing its annual report for the year 2021, building on the successful release of its online annual reports in the past five years. The publication looks back at the results of PAGE’s activities in its partner countries. Presenting results in an online format helps PAGE more innovatively communicate its mission and achievements, as requested by funding partners. The interactive report will be used as a communication tool from the beginning of 2022 and feed into different outreach activities and events in 2022. Given the success of past online reports, PAGE would like the online tool to become the main online resource, including new pages and content selected from the current PAGE website. The report will be encompassed in the new website. The new website will follow a similar structure to the 2020 Annual Report and act as a streamlined and unified tool for outreach activities, reporting and resource mobilization.



This activity contributes to Outcome 4 (global outreach and knowledge sharing) of the PAGE Programme, and specifically Output 2 on global advocacy on inclusive green economy, outreach and communications.



Purpose

The purpose of this consultancy is to design and build an online tool that serves as a functional website encompassing PAGE’s achievements and introduces PAGE to external audiences as well as funding partners. This is inclusive of the PAGE’s 2021 Online Annual Report, including web-editing of text appropriate for an informed general public. The consultancy aims to create an expanded online tool that includes content selected from the current PAGE website, as well as new pages, organized and developed into a modernized format that is user-friendly to showcase news, reporting, and the overall long-term impact of the Partnership. The online tool will be created to ensure the PAGE Secretariat can easily make content amendments and additions to serve as a comprehensive and functional website. It will include a 2021 Annual Report and serve to include additional annual reports moving forward.

Specific tasks and responsibilities per outputs:

The consultant will build an integrated website and online annual report, using internal linking, simple navigation, use of small blocks of text, optimized for mobile viewing conforming to the style guidelines of UNEP, the visual identity guidelines of PAGE and in a similar visual style of the previous Online Annual Reports (for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020). The 2021 report should be interactive, highlighting the PAGE results for funding partners and a broader audience and should build on the information provided by the PAGE Secretariat summarizing the programme’s global and country level work as well as a few cross-cutting themes. The additional content integration from the current PAGE website will follow the above guidelines and the consultant will support the organization and development of a user-friendly presentation of the text and supporting visuals.

The output will include the following elements for Report Design, Web-editing, and Set-Up.

Website and Report Design (online tool):

• The design will include design of key interaction elements, colors, typography and the establishment of key content blocks.
• The website and 2021 report design will be informed by the previous, 2020 annual report to maintain consistency and include updated and additional pages, reports and news.
• The online tool will include interactive infographics.
• The online tool should be fully design responsive in terms of interaction features and load times, with layouts adapted for mobile, tablet and desktop.
• The online tool will need to integrate high resolution, professional imagery.
• The online tool’s design should integrate the comments from three rounds of feedback from PAGE Secretariat.
• For a pdf/ creation of a template including all content and relevant images/charts and infographics, optimised for printing in PDF.

Content Integration:

• Content uploaded on online tool should be integrated from summary text, files, and data provided by the PAGE Secretariat, aligning the design to be accessible for a broad audience.
• The text should present key data in with infographics, charts, tables and graphs.
• Content management should be easily accessible for amendments and full back end access be provided to the PAGE Secretariat, meaning that the Secretariat and web host will have full backend access as highest admin, and knowledge of the internal structure.
• The content should integrate the comments from three rounds of feedback: one round prior to the publication of the draft report, one round prior to the publication of the final report. Communication should remain ongoing directly with PAGE Communications team throughout.
• Content for new online pages will be selected, streamlined and integrated from the current PAGE website, with additional pages created as needed. The consultant will engage the PAGE Secretariat in a consultation process and propose how the content will be displayed and interacted with.

Handover:

• Consultant will provide user guidelines for the PAGE Secretariat to ensure updates and maintenance can be taken forward.
• Consultant will liaise and maintain regular contact with the contracted web provider (Eau De Web) to ensure content integration and dissemination