Terms of ReferenceConsultant Writer for the ASEAN Foundation S
Rajaratnam EndowmentASEAN Community Forum Report BACKGROUNDDuring the 27th ASEAN Summit, the ASEAN leaders
adopted the ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together document as the reference for
the next chapter of ASEAN community building efforts. The document contains the
blueprints of the ASEAN Political Security Community (APSC) 2025, the ASEAN
Economic Community (AEC) 2025, and the ASEAN Social Cultural Community (ASCC)
2025 which essentially serve as the roadmap towards an ASEAN Community 2025. As
surmised in ASEAN 2025 at A Glance, the focus of the ASEAN community building
in the next 10 years will be, among others: ·        
Greater emphasis on the
peoples of ASEAN and their well-being; ·        
Enhance awareness of ASEAN
and its Vision of a politically cohesive, economically integrated and socially
responsible Community; ·        
Engage all nationals of ASEAN
Member States through effective and innovative platforms to promote commitment
and identification with ASEAN policies and regional interests; ·        
Ensure fundamental freedoms,
human rights and better lives for all ASEAN peoples.  The above goals are in
principle shared and understood by ASEAN at the institutional/elitist level,
but limited at the community and grassroots levels. It remains to be seen
whether peoples of ASEAN know about them, really understand and share what is
being envisioned and captured in the ASEAN 2025. As pointed out in the ERIA
report (2015), there are two distinctions of ASEAN identity, i.e. institutional
identity and communal identity. The former is reflected by all ASEAN
institutions, programmes and initiatives, and processes; while the latter is
about peoples’ participation in the initiatives and processes, and about the
sentiments of the “we feeling”, the “ours feeling” and “we are in this
together”. Nevertheless, as stated above, the disconnection between these two
identities unfortunately remains a challenge. Responding to such
challenges, the ASEAN Foundation has been mandated to perform as a platform to
forge more people-to-people engagement/connectivity outside the circles of the
inter-governmental institutions. In this regard, through the support from S.
Rajaratnam Endowment, the ASEAN Foundation will be organising three (3) ‘S.
Rajaratnam Endowment – ASEAN Community’ Forums, within the period of March 2017
– April 2018, that are aimed to assist in narrowing the gaps between ASEAN’s
institutional identity and ASEAN’s communal identity. The Forums will not only
evolve around forging people-to-people engagement, but it will do so in a
manner that will also contribute concretely to the ASEAN’s key issues and
blueprints that matter for the well-being of the ASEAN peoples. The first forum of the S
Rajaratnam Endowment – ASEAN Community Forum was organized on 9-10 March 2017
in Singapore. Focusing on the three thematic areas namely Women Economic
Development, Rural Development, and Micro-Small-Medium-Enterprises (MSMEs), it brought
together 42 Civil Society Organization (CSOs) from Rural Development, Women
Economic Development and Micro-smalls – medium enterprises (MSMEs). This forum

has allowed the CSOs to develop their work plan, and gained knowledge of how
the ASEAN’s 2025 blueprints will impact CSOs nature of works across ASEAN. For more information,
visit: http://aseanfoundation.org/ JUSTIFICATION The
ASEAN Foundation’s report on S Rajaratnam Endowment – ASEAN Community Forum
outlines the overall objectives of the forum covering reported activities
result against the programme agenda. The report includes all result from the
two-day forum both at the plenary and world café sessions.  The production of the SRE –
ASEAN Community Forum helps the ASEAN Foundation to attain effective and
efficient use of resources and be more accountable to donors and other
stakeholders and Civil Society Organization (CSOs) participants who
participated the forum. This is to build credibility for the organisation and
to inspire confidence that the organisation is worthy to receive the
contribution and investment, made.DESCRIPTION OF THE RESPONSIBILITIESUnder the supervision of the
Programme Manager and overall guidance of the Executive Director, and in close
collaboration with relevant staff, the consultant will perform the following
tasks:

• To develop the concept
  of the ASEAN Foundation report which address objectives of the S
  Rajaratnam Endowment – ASEAN Community Forum.
• To formulate its draft
  content by extracting and collecting information from the forum proceedings
  including presentations of guest speaker, thematic resources persons, the
  CSOs action plans, and post forum evaluation report.
• To extract key
  information from presentation materials during the plenary session.
• To incorporate the
  information from the post forum evaluation report into the forum’s report.
• To prepare the first
  draft, subsequent drafts and final version of the S Rajaratanam Endowment
  – ASEAN Community Forum Report; including fact-checking and proof-reading
  (including after the report goes to the designer)
• To identity relevant
  photos, graphics, etc from the ASEAN Foundation’s library to go with the
  text
• To liaise with graphic
  designer on a regular basis on the development of the S Rajaratnam
  Endowment – ASEAN Community Forum report
• To deliver the S
  Rajaratnam Endowment – ASEAN Community Forum S Report

OUTPUT

• Final
  text as word document, including table of contents, photo caption and
  credit information, for the S Rajaratnam Endowment – ASEAN Community Forum

  Report.

• Proof
  Reading of design layout to ensure text and graphic are error free

EXPECTED
RESULTS/DELIVERABLES

• First
  draft of the forum report submission : 20 April 2017
• Final
  draft of the S Rajaratnam Endowment – ASEAN Community Forum submission : 27
  April 2017

TIME FRAME AND RENUMERATION The
consultant will work for ten working days spread out from 11 to 21 April 2017.
It is noted that due to the nature of the project, there will be periods of
time when no actual writing will occur because the writer will be waiting for
either text clearances from ASEAN Foundation and/ or layout from the designer. QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• University degree in
  communications, social sciences or other related fields
• At least over five years
  of progressive work experience in a relevant field
• Previous experience in
  writing the high level forum report writing experience
• Previous experience in
  copy-editing and fact-checking
• High level proficiency
  in standard computer software, in particular, Microsoft word and Excel.
• Excellent written and
  oral communication skills in English, of publication standard
• Persistence in follow
  up, tact and diplomacy
• Demonstrated ability to
  meet deadlines

 All
interested applicants to send application, stating the position with the
following documents to procurement@aseanfoundation.org 

• Application letter and time table on how
  the assignment will be carried out completed with clear deliverables
• Curriculum vitae
• Samples of writing
• Financial proposal
  specifying a total lump sum amount highlighting deliverables.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: 14
April 2017