CALL FOR CONSULTANT: Development of a Digital Safety Toolkit with Integrated Reportrix Safeguarding / GBV Reporting Application

CENTRE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT (CITAD)

CALL FOR CONSULTANT

Development of a Digital Safety Toolkit with Integrated Reportrix Safeguarding / GBV Reporting Application

Project: Strengthening Digital Safety and Collective Resilience for Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) in Northern Nigeria

ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT

Women Human Rights Defenders, feminist organizers, journalists and community advocates in Northern Nigeria face growing online harassment, surveillance, misinformation, account compromise and other forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) tied directly to their advocacy.

CITAD seeks a consultant or consultancy team to develop a practical digital safety toolkit, and to customize and integrate Reportrix, CITAD’s existing safeguarding and GBV reporting application, as the toolkit’s embedded reporting mechanism.

SCOPE OF THE WORK

• Stream 1 – Toolkit content: develop toolkit content covering account and device security, secure communications, protecting sensitive information, responding to doxxing, misinformation and online harassment, and psychosocial first aid, delivered in editable source format.
• Stream 2 – Reportrix integration: configure Reportrix’s reporting workflows around WHRD-specific referral pathways, implement survivor-centred privacy and consent safeguards, run user-acceptance testing, and document all customizations.

Feminist, rights-based, trauma-informed and survivor-centred principles must run through both content and technical design.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Demonstrated experience developing digital security training materials or toolkits, ideally for WHRDs, journalists, feminist organizations or civil society actors.
• Demonstrated technical experience customizing, configuring or integrating a reporting or case-management application, with attention to data protection and privacy-by-design.
• Familiarity with TFGBV, with survivor-centred and trauma-informed approaches to safeguarding, and with the Northern Nigeria context.

CITAD welcomes individual consultants holding both skill sets, or a small team or firm, for example, a lead consultant paired with a developer. Full qualification and evaluation criteria are set out in the Terms of Reference.

HOW TO APPLY

Applications should contain:

1. Cover letter and technical proposal (max. 5 pages) outlining understanding of the assignment, methodology and work plan for both streams.
2. Financial proposal indicating the total lump-sum fee and proposed payment schedule.
3. CV(s) demonstrating both content-development and technical/development expertise.
4. At least two samples of relevant previous work, and contact details of two professional references.

Send applications to info@citad.org on or before 13^th August 2026, with the subject line:

“Consultancy Application – WHRDs Digital Safety Toolkit & Reportrix Integration”

Read the full Terms of Reference: CLICK HERE