Deadline: 1-Jul-22
The Education Cannot Wait (ECW) is seeking proposals to promote inclusive education and provide targeted support to children with disabilities in emergencies and protracted crises.
The purpose of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to pilot or deliver initiatives and services that promote inclusive education, particularly by ensuring that the preconditions for education access and learning for girls and boys of all ages with disabilities are in place. By piloting or delivering these interventions and services, the RFP will develop globally-relevant public goods and evidence that can be used to expand access to quality education in emergencies and protracted crises. As such, the focus of the current RFP is on programmatic work while knowledge products and tools are a desirable output that would result from implementation.
Focus Areas
- Pre-conditions for Access
- Supporting children living with disabilities and their families
- Stigmatization of children with disabilities (in and out of school)
- Inclusion of out-of-school children with disabilities
- Accessibility and provision of assistive and learning devices and technology
- Pre-conditions for Learning
- Inclusive learning environments
- Quality teaching, including materials, curricula, pedagogy, learning plans and assessments.
- System strengthening
- Capacities exchange, joint planning and implementation between Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) and humanitarian actors to deliver inclusive education in emergencies that meet the requirements of children with disabilities
- Professional development of school administrators, technical staff and teachers
- Enhancing the uptake and use of Universal Design for Learning.
- Data on the learning environment.
Proposals under this RFP should consider that ECW MYRPs cover pre-primary, primary and secondary education. Applicants should also consider that MYRP interventions are tailored to the context
Scope of work
- To further the above initiative, ECW is looking to establish a partnership with an experienced partner that can work alongside MYRP grantees in emergencies and protracted crises to implement work on one or several focus areas listed above.
- This partner should have strong relationships with local and national organizations on the ground, and have the capacity to sub-grant to local and national organizations.
- Preferably, the RFP seeks a partner with capacities to develop and implement comprehensive strategies addressing access, learning and system strengthening requirements to advance inclusive education and deliver targeted support to children with disabilities.
- EoIs should highlight how the prospective grantee is going to engage and support the development and implementation of ECW’s MYRPs.
- As such EoIs should highlight and detail what the prospective grantee can do in supporting the MYRPs to deliver inclusive education and targeted interventions for children with disabilities under focus areas.
Funding Information & Duration
- The envisioned budget is US$ 1.25 million in total, for the full portfolio of work that responds to this call.
- It covers a period of a minimum of 3 years, as MYRPs by design are implemented over a 3-year period.
Priority Countries
Eligibility Criteria
- This RFP is open to all international organizations that can provide the requested goods/services/works and are legally constituted or represented in the procuring country.
- Applicants must have been HACT assessed as being either “low” or “medium” risk (in all localities of implementation, not only at HQ level), be able to register at the United Nations partner portal and pass the core assessment and PSEA assessments.
- Other parties may receive funds as implementing partners of direct grantees in line with the direct grantees’ policies on sub-grants.
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