Save the Children Request for Proposals: The Economic Consequences of Hazard Impacts on Education

Deadline: 22 August 2017

Save the Children International Asia Regional Office is inviting submissions for proposals for conducting the research “The Economic Consequences of Hazard Impacts on Education: Analytical Framework and Case Studies”.

The purpose of this research is to appraise the short- and long-term, tangible and intangible, direct and indirect economic consequences of intensive and extensive hazards impacts on the education sector, including and especially with reference to reducing educational inequities and disparities.

The project has two elements:

To Construct a framework to analyse the economic consequences of hazards on the education sector
To apply that framework to three case studies

The framework should include the impact of hazards and associated policy responses on both

education sector infrastructure (facilities, teaching and learning materials, etc.) as well as
educational outcomes for students (achievement and attainment).
The framework should be constructed so that it can be used for cost-effectiveness, cost benefit, and social return on investment analyses in the future.

Objectives

To understand the differential and longitudinal economic consequences of hazards impacts on children’s education outcomes (including larger intensive disaster impacts and extensive and recurrent impacts of hazards);
To understand the economic impacts of hazards on education sector investments;
To utilize quantitative data for analysis of economic consequences of hazard impacts in three case studies.

Budget Information

Budget range: Max EUR 45,000

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants may be an individual or a team.
Applicants should demonstrate that the team has:
- A qualified economist
- Subject-matter expertise in education sector research
- Subject-matter expertise in disaster impacts research
- Subject-matter expertise in educational inequities research
- Strong research design and quantitative data analysis skills
- Excellent writing, conceptual and analytic skills, including being able to write for practitioners and policy-makers
- Proven track record in designing and implementing social science research
- Commitment to research dissemination and interest in implementation science highly desirable
- Appropriate cultural and language skills to carry out research in this particular context