United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hereby invite qualified companies to submit electronic offers as follows:

The Creation of accessible reading materials in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Timor-Leste, from 15 April 2021 to 15 September 2021, tentatively (5 months)

The contractor is expected:

• To translate existing accessible reading materials (including storybooks and school textbooks) for children with disabilities into languages of the nine GPE EPSIG-eligible countries in Asia
• To obtain endorsement of the translated reading materials from the governments of the nine GPE EPSIG-eligible countries in Asia
• To convert relevant reading materials into accessible formats (such as braille HTML, digital multimedia books, accessible E-books)

Expected outputs are:

• A list of existing one hundred (100) reading materials per country, using titles provided by GDL, to be translated into accessible format, indicating which titles are to be translated if not already available in local languages
• One hundred (100) accessible reading materials per country translated into languages of the nine GPE EPSIG-eligible countries in Asia
• One hundred (100) accessible reading materials per country endorsed by the governments of the nine GPE EPSIG-eligible countries in Asia
• Conversion into accessible formats (braille HTML, digital multimedia books, accessible E-books) of one hundred (100) accessible reading materials for the nine GPE EPSIG-eligible countries in Asia