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Hiring a Consultant for Research for understanding the challenges and potential for engaging male parents and primary caregivers in Gender Transformative Early Childhood Development (GeTECD) processes About Plan International Bangladesh Founded over 80 years ago, Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children's development organizations in the world. Plan has experience working with children living in poverty, their families, and their communities. Plan is one of the most respected and trusted grassroots, child rights-based organizations in the world. Plan is independent and has no religious, political, or government affiliations. Plan plays an important role in mobilizing children, youth, communities and civil society organizations to claim the rights of children and youth and achieve agreed local development priorities, with a commitment to ensure the wellbeing of children in support of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Plan is active in 71 countries, with 21 countries raising funds to support work in 50 developing countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. Child Sponsorship is Plan’s largest source of income and support and is a key enabler of everything Plan does. Child Sponsorship also guarantees Plan’s independence. Over the last 75 years, Child Sponsorship has adapted and evolved alongside changes to Plan’s programmatic approach and its global presence. Child Sponsorship has embraced and benefited from changes in technology, with increased digitization and efficiency. Child Sponsorship nurtures meaningful relationships with communities, families, children, and sponsors that enable the plan to establish long-term interventions with lasting improvements to quality of life. It is a solid foundation on which to build a global community that is aware of, involved in, and united around the needs and rights of children. Through Child Sponsorship, a sponsor has the opportunity to support the world’s most vulnerable children. Plan has been operating in Bangladesh since 1994. Currently, under Plan’s Country Strategy (CS) V (2020-2030), Plan International Bangladesh (PIB) is implementing programs in the following thematic areas: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), Skills and Opportunities for Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship (SOYEE), and Learning, Education, and Development (LEAD) throughout the country. Our country office is located in Dhaka and we are working in 22 districts, through four divisional offices. We partner with national and local non-governmental organizations, and together our work benefits more than a million children and their communities. Project Description Plan International Bangladesh and other two PNGOs named Surovi and South Asia Partnership Bangladesh along with Sesame Workshop Bangladesh are currently working together on a Gender Transformative Early Childhood Development (GeTECD) project where all parties challenge the stereotypical gender and social norms following the application of innovative approaches and strategies. This project has been implemented in Dhaka Urban of Dhaka City Corporation and Barguna Sador Upazila under the Barguna district of Bangladesh. The location information is as follows: Dhaka Urban region: Ward Number 1, 33, 38, 47, 49, 54, 59 Dhaka South City Corporation under Dhaka, Bangladesh) Barguna Rural Region, Dholua, Burirchar, Ailapatakata, Gourichonna, M Baliatoli, Bodorkhali union under Barguna Sadar, District, Barishal Division. This project is covering 0-8 years old children along with the parents, grandparents, and extended family members as primary caregivers for the children. Besides this project is working with youths, local government representatives, teachers, local elites, religious leaders, and mainstream government departments from Upazila to the Central level. Male engagement in nurturing care is one of the major components of this project. Involving grandparents and religious leaders is also a key strategy to make people aware of the importance of men’s engagement and to strengthen parents’ capacity for positive parenting. Under this project already, several audio-visual (AV) materials for children’s learning have been repurposed around four public service announcements regarding Covid-19, and have been shared on social media with a reach of over more than 2.7 million viewers . PIB and Workshop’s other partners expect that throughout the GeTECD project additional AV content, including printing materials, will be developed through their partnership. These new materials will be focusing on men’s engagement in nurturing care, sharing household chores that will challenge gender norms, and set positive examples to grandparents, and community people to change their traditional practices. Project scope The scope of the project is to conduct an Innovation Sprint in Bangladesh. This will be an innovation sprint with male parents/primary caregivers, fathers-in-law, mothers, mothers-in-law and extended family members to: The resulting ideas should help us solve the problem. We expect there might be multiple concepts coming out - some new ideas to prototype and others which can improve existing parenting programs to make them gender-responsive. Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be downloaded from this link. Submission proposals: The technical and financial proposals should be submitted electronically to the email address: planbd.consultant.hiring@plan-international.org with title “Proposals for Research of Understanding the challenges and potential for engaging male parents and primary caregivers in Gender Transformative Early Childhood Development (GeTECD) processes” as subject line. Proposal submitted to any other email account except this and in hard copy will be treated as disqualified. Submissions after the deadline 11 July, 2022 before at 4:00 PM will be treated as disqualified. Two different folders i.e. technical and financial should be submitted into one zip folder with a covering letter addressing to Md. Enamul Haque, Supply & Procurement Specialist, Plan International Bangladesh. |