Beschreibung der Beschaffung
Over the past three decades, Early Childhood Education (ECE) has been recognized in the political and educational agenda in Jordan. Nonetheless, studies and reports on the topic show the gap on the ground and indicate the need for projects focusing on ECE. The project is committed to ensuring that all children have access to early childhood education, especially refugees and children with disabilities, and aims at contributing to closing the gaps in education.
GIZ is seeking to procure the services of a contractor with relevant experience in the fields of ECE policy and teacher development. As part of the tender, the contractor shall set up and manage a flexible short-term-experts pool of international and local short-term experts as a technical backstopping function for the project, for assignments to contribute to all three outputs and to achieve defined indicators with the respective deliverables.
The contractor delivers services in the following areas of action and is expected to flexibly assign short-term experts with international or regional expertise on jointly agreed priorities of the project and its partners as described in the list of tasks and areas of expertise listed below, so long as this is within the scope of the agreed overall hours for this consultancy.
Early childhood education sector development
- Provide short-term-expertise to elaborate an assessment grid to measure the improvement of capacities of selected stakeholders.
- Provide short-term-expertise to analyse the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic (and its countermeasures) on the Jordanian early childhood education sector.
- Provide short-term-expertise to analyse the implications of digitization and online learning offers on teachers, students and parents.
- Provide short-term technical advice including analysis and elaboration of studies and implementation strategies with regard to educational indicators, such as early learning outcomes.
- Provide short-term technical advice in the area of policy frameworks and important regulations and legislative frameworks for the early childhood education sector in Jordan.
- Provide short-term technical advice in the area of organizational development to the Jordanian Ministry of Education and subordinated regional/ local structures of public education services with the aim of making the measures more effective and efficient.
- Provide short-term technical advice including analysis and elaboration of studies and implementation strategies with regard to universalizing the early childhood education system in Jordan.
- Support the organization of consultation meetings, chaired by the MoE on the following topics: inclusive education, capacities and needs to move towards universal introduction of KG2, inclusive education, decentralization processes, and coordination with directorates.
Teacher development
- Provide short-term-expertise to support the elaboration of strategies to support teachers in their short-term and long-term development through a coherent training and mentoring concept, making use of existing offers and structures.
- Provide short-term technical advice to develop training concepts promoting inclusive early childhood education and designing child-friendly and playful learning environments for early years.
- Provide short-term technical advice including analysis and elaboration of studies and implementation strategies with regard to inclusive education, looking specifically at refugee integration and the needs of children with disabilities.
- Provide short-term technical advice to digitize educational and training materials and develop digital peer exchange and training platforms.
Private education sector development
- Provide short-term technical advice to analyse financial sustainability of private institutions, in consultation with other important stakeholders such as the World Bank.
- Provide short-term technical advice to develop training concepts that support leaders in early childhood education institutions to develop their business and management skills.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
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- Provide short-term technical advice including analysis and elaboration of studies and implementation strategies with regard to the projects indicators and objectives as specified in the log-frame.
- Technical advice for setting-up and refining the project"s Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system as well as capacity building of local project staff for MEL.
- Provide short-term-expertise to design and carry out small surveys and qualitative research for the monitoring of module objective indicators.
- Provide short-term-expertise to partner and project staff to sustainably set-up knowledge management and dissemination of lessons learnt of project activities and outputs and support scaling up.
The contractor is therein expected to contribute to the achievement of the following indicators with short-term technical expertise:
Output indicator 1.1: 900 additional KG places have been created for children aged 5-6 (50% girls) at state schools in areas in the North of Jordan where provision is inadequate.
Output indicator 2.1: 1.200 kindergarten places for children aged 4-6 (of which 50% girls and 60% refugees) have been created at private, non-profit KG establishments (community-based organisations, community centres and camps).
Output indicator 2.2: 15 out of 20 private, non-profit KG school groups have each developed a sustainable funding strategy.
Output indicator 3.1: 75 educators and other pedagogical staff, of which 20% are refugees, will receive training on implementing inclusive readiness measures for children from vulnerable families.
Output indicator 3.2: Parents of 50 children with disabilities or special learning needs confirm, that their children were supported in their access to early childhood education or in their transition to Grade 1.