TOR: Field Content Collection: Photography & Videography - Ethiopia

ABOUT INKOMOKO

Inkomoko supports entrepreneurs to grow their businesses in order to improve livelihoods, create jobs, and help communities thrive.

In 2025, Inkomoko was listed by the Financial Times as the 8th fastest-growing company in Africa, supporting entrepreneurs across East and Central Africa to grow thriving businesses and build inclusive, resilient economies. Founded in 2012, Inkomoko is a non-profit that has worked with more than 100,000 entrepreneurs, including thousands of refugee businesses. Inkomoko provides a combination of training, consulting, access to finance, and market-level systems change to drive impact for our clients. We are the largest investor to refugee entrepreneurs in Africa.

Inkomoko has 800+ staff in 50 offices across Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and South Sudan. Through Inkomoko’s 2030 strategic plan, we are adding 3 additional countries to positively impact 7M people, by serving more than 550,000 entrepreneurs and growing our $30M loan fund.

INKOMOKO VALUES

All staff at Inkomoko are connected to a shared set of organizational values:

• Purpose: be solutions-oriented, produce high-quality work, and be a global leader.
• Achievement: push yourself to reach beyond what you previously thought possible. 
• Improvement: be humble, engage in continuous growth through open & accurate feedback
• Bravery: willing to take risks, create a safe space for others, be compassionate, and inclusive.
• We Eat Goat: we celebrate success and support each other in hard times. We do this work together in the spirit of turikumwe, tuko pamoja, abren nen, Kula na sawa, On est ensemble.

BACKGROUND & CONTEXT

Inkomoko's communications and digital media work is grounded in authentic visual storytelling. Across our five country offices, our clients (entrepreneurs running thriving businesses in displacement-affected markets) represent some of the most compelling stories of resilience and economic agency on the continent. Bringing these stories to life visually is central to how we communicate our impact to donors, partners, board members, government stakeholders, and the public. These assets will support Inkomoko’s campaigns, donor communications, reports, website content, social media, newsletters, board materials, and organizational videos

As Inkomoko grows and our client base continues to expand, so does the need for fresh, diverse visual content that reflects the diverse range of client businesses and program activities across the specified locations in South Sudan. To keep pace with this growth and ensure our communications remain vibrant and representative, Inkomoko is commissioning a coordinated, multi-country field content collection exercise in August 2026.

Through this assignment, a team of photographers and videographers will be deployed to three program locations in South Sudan to produce a high-quality library of photographic and video assets. The visual library should accurately reflect Inkomoko’s programs, entrepreneurs, and impact, and support communications, fundraising, advocacy, and media engagement over the following 12 months.

OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The primary objectives of this field content exercise are:

• To build a refreshed, high-quality content bank of photographs and b-roll footage primarily featuring Inkomoko clients, with additional coverage of client-staff interactions during field visits and program activities such as training, across the two country offices.
• To capture the lived realities of entrepreneurs in displacement-affected markets in a dignified, action-oriented, and authentic manner. 
• To document the diversity of client businesses – from retail trade and food production to services and manufacturing – across different geographic and cultural contexts.
• To produce a defined set of edited images, usable b-roll, short video selects, and content logs for future communications use across multiple platforms and formats, including reports, social media, newsletters, donor materials, and organizational videos, for a duration of at least 12 months.
• To ensure consistent visual quality and brand alignment across all five countries.
  

SCOPE OF SERVICES

The selected service provider should be a qualified creative production firm or agency capable of assembling, managing, and supervising a team of experienced photographers, videographers, and editors. The provider will be responsible for coordinating field production across three program locations in South Sudan, ensuring consistent visual quality, compliance, timely delivery, and alignment with Inkomoko’s communications objectives.

The service provider will work closely with Inkomoko’s Communications team and country teams to plan and deliver the assignment, including pre-production coordination, field content collection, post-production, file organization, and final delivery of