Terre des hommes Foundation

Terms of Reference for
Qualitative Research Assistant for Children’s Journey Mapping

1. About Terre des hommes:

Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is the leading Swiss INGO focusing on child rights. It is active in more than 30 countries with development and emergency projects. Tdh interventions are focused on the three programs; i.e. Health, Migration and Access to Justice particularly for vulnerable children. Tdh Foundation has a transversal approach towards Child Protection programming, and it cuts across all the thematic areas while also has been considered as one of the key value propositions in its business model.

2. Background

CLARISSA is a consortium partnership programme, led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), and implemented in partnership with Terre des hommes, ChildHope UK, and Consortium for Street Children (CSC) to generate a strong evidence base on, and innovative solutions to, the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) in Bangladesh and Nepal. The programme is designed to build on the strengths of all consortium partners to work towards a decrease in the number of children in the WFCL in the programme countries. Its focus is on surfacing key drivers of the worst forms of child labour and developing interventions to counteract them. The programme’s primary beneficiaries are children in the worst forms of child labour and those who are vulnerable to being drawn into it. The families of these children will benefit from greater resilience to shocks, better options for their children’s safe and healthy future and less intra-family stress and conflict.

Using geographic information system (GIS) combining this with ethnographic observation and reflections, CLARISSA aims to map children’s journey in their neighbourhood to understand a day in the life of a working child. Through the journey mapping of children, the project would explore neighbourhood dynamics that lead children in worse form of child labour. According to research design one research assistant would accompany one child over the period of 12 hours from morning to evening. During this period the research assistants will use GPS location tracker to collect children’s pathway of movement within the neighbourhood and will use a software with few questions to record children’s feelings. Besides, the research assistants will reflect on their whole day experiences with the children using observation method and later documenting that in writing.
We are seeking at least five qualitative research assistants to conduct the journey mapping of 15 children from the broader Hazaribagh neighbourhood. Each qualitative research assistant will collect three journey mapping accompanying the child for at least 12 hours a day.

Purpose:

The primary objective of this assignment is to do journey mapping with the children. The specific objectives are:

Attending workshops for getting training on the research objective, tools, methods, policies and practices related to the journey mapping
Pilot data collection
Collecting data using a mobile phone with a GPS location tracker and data collection software
Participating in debrief sessions and workshops for collective understanding and reflections
Written documentation of their whole-day experience including the record of observation of the children’s whole-day journey
Photo documentation of the journey mapping process

3. Scope of work:

Tasks	Duration
Attending orientation meetings (including project overview, understanding the TOR, reviewing required documents and safeguarding	1 day
Attending Workshop Two-day workshop with the team and with the children. Time: 8:30 am to 6:00 pm	2 days
Pilot before data collection Complete at least one pilot before data collection. Accompanying each child for 12-14 hours from morning to evening (depending on the child’s schedule). Keep a detailed description of children’s feelings and the researcher’s observations in the software as well as in the paper. Capture photos/videos during data collection. Keep a record of their whole day experiences with the timeline.	1 day
Debriefing session after the pilot Debriefing session with the team after the pilot. Writing the pilot observation notes and experience	1 day
Data collection Collect data from 3 Children Accompanying each child for 12-14 hours from morning to evening (depending on the child’s schedule). Keep detailed descriptions of children’s feelings and the researcher’s observations in the software as well as in the paper. Capture photos/videos during data collection. Keep a record of their whole day experiences with the timeline.	3 days
Data cleaning and debriefing session Debriefing session with the team after each journey mapping. Recheck the collected data. Give input in the children’s reflection and the researcher’s reflection part. Add photos and videos in the software according to time and space.	3 days (one day for each journey map)
Ethnographic observation writing Write reflective observations from the data collection experience for each journey mapping, including comments from the children (for each child). Write a whole day story from the experience (for each child)	3 days (one day for each journey map)
Experience sharing (in workshop mode) One day experience sharing session with the team and with the children. Time: 8:30 am to 6:00 pm.	1 day
Total	15 days

4. Expected output:

S/N	Outputs	Means of Verification
1	Attending workshop	Familiar with the process, give input in data collection tools and process.
2	Each researcher will complete at least one pilot	Accompanying with the children, giving input in the data collection tools and process, and share reflective observation notes.
3	Each researcher will complete journey mapping of at least three children as part of their data collection	Accompanying with the children, record GIS data using mobile phone, written record of detail observation notes and children’s reflections
4	Each researcher will capture photos and videos related to their journey mapping	Collect relevant photos and videos as much as they can.
5	Each researcher will write ethnographic observation from 3 days data collection.	Write their observation, experiences, reflection and a story for each journey mapping with recording time.
6	Attending experience sharing session	Give researchers insight from the data collection

5. Duration of the assignment:

Each Qualitative Research Assistant will be contracted for around 15 days during the period of 1 March to 31 March 2023. Dates and the number of days will be fixed according to necessity.

6. Location of the assignment: Dhaka

7. Attributes, experience, and essential requirements of the individual Researcher

The Qualitative Research Assistant should have the following skills and experiences:

Graduation in Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Development Studies and other subjects related to social science.
Similar work experience in qualitative data collection will be desirable.
Willingness to work in an urban slum context for 12 hours a day.
Willingness to work with working children and accompany them throughout their journey in a day.
Good comprehension of the local context of the lives of the working children will be preferable.
Excellent communication skills both in Bangla and written English.
Skills to build rapport with children

8. Researcher’s relationship with the team:

The research assistants will liaise with the Qualitative Researcher and Research and documentation officer during their assignment. They will contact Tdh’s finance and logistics managers regarding their contract and payment.
The researchers will submit all the data collected by her/him per the negotiable deadline and will abide by safeguarding policy and protocol and data protection policy.

9. Application process

Interested candidates should submit:

An up-to-date CV including a motivational letter mentioning why they consider themselves suitable for this role

10. Submission of Applications and Assessment Criteria:

Interested individuals who meet the minimum requirements should submit application to bgd.tenders@tdh.ch by 5th February 2023.