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Call for Tenders: Feasibility Study on Strengthening Independent Media in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and Armenia

by | Sep 15, 2025 | Tenders

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Closing Date: 14 September 2025

Anticipated Dates of Project: 2 October – 15 November 2025

Contract Value:  15,000 Euro

 

 

 

Brief Outline of the Project:

The project “Tackling Transformation” aims to stabilize 120 small and medium-sized media outlets in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia (30 per country) that face existential threats due to financial instability, cuts in foreign donor support, and pressure from Russian disinformation campaigns. Through innovative cooperation models, peer learning, and capacity building, the project seeks to support the necessary economic transformation of independent media.

 

Key information to encourage interest

The feasibility study should provide a comprehensive contextual analysis across three interrelated levels – micro, meso, and macro – in order to capture dynamics at the level of individual actors, sectoral structures, and the broader socio-political environment. Also it should:

  1. Map existing structures
    Provide an overview of relevant institutions, networks, and umbrella associations connected to the project and its activities.
  2. Assess the project’s approach
    Analyse how the project contributes to stabilizing independent media through cooperation, using the OECD DAC criteria: relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability.
  3. Develop recommendations
    Formulate practical suggestions for refining the project concept. These should address project design, activities, methods, intervention logic, and risk management.

The study should comprise between 20 and 30 pages and will be remunerated with 15,000 Euros including all fees and taxes. Applications from expert teams to share the individual analysis on the four project countries (but still work with an integrated analytical framework) are welcome.

In order to apply for this tender, please send your application and offer to Antonina Rybka (rybka@n-ost.org) as soon as possible, but no later than 14 September 2025, 23:59 CET.

For the full application the following documents have to be submitted:

  • A detailed outline of the objectives and methods to be deployed in the feasibility study;
  • A list of products, deliverables, and activities that will be provided, including timeline and specification of costs;
  • A structural framework for the final report;
  • Proof of independence of the evaluators, as well as their technical, organizational, methodological and other capacities, composition, roles and tasks of all those involved;
  • A list of sources such as policy papers, references to other studies, prior project documents, and methodological guidelines;
  • A presentation of the team members and their relevant experience for this study.

The successful applicants will be selected by 2 October 2025. We expect to receive the final study by 15 November 2025.

Any questions can be directed to Antonina Rybka (rybka@n-ost.org

 

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