Consultancy: Sharing learning, evidence and methodology with practitioner audiences

Are you passionate about child-centred solutions, children’s participation and child protection? Do you want to share the findings of an exciting Action Research programme working with highly marginalised child workers in Bangladesh and Nepal with wider audiences? Can you help us create resources to support NGOs, grassroots organizations and practitioners to enable children to fully become agents of change in their communities (when it comes to the realization of children’s rights)?

To help NGOs, grassroots organizations and practitioners enable children to become agents of change in their communities, we are inviting consultants / a group of consultants to synthesize and transform data and evidence from the CLARISSA programme into readily accessible, practitioner-focused resources on child-centred and child-led programming.

The aim of the CLARISSA Consortium (Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia) is to build a strong evidence base and generate innovative solutions to enable children to avoid hazardous, exploitative labour in Bangladesh and Nepal. CLARISSA’s methodology is systemic Action Research, and the Action Research groups we are running in both countries, comprising children in the worst forms of child labour (WFCL), are engines of innovation, developing their own local evidence base and then taking actions to address concerns.

CLARISSA has produced a vast amount of research evidence on how to use child-centred approaches to reveal the driving factors behind an issue (in this case, child labour) and how and in what contexts effective and child-driven innovations can be generated. However, due to the research focus of the program, most of CLARISSA’s publications to date are academic in nature and not tailored for or directly applicable in the work of the ‘practitioners’ community.

We are offering a consultancy of up to 50 days, depending on rate, over nine months from July 2023, to address this gap through the synthesis and transformation of our data and evidence for the practitioner community.

Consultants will be expected to:

• Conduct online workshops with selected user/practitioners and undertake a digital survey targeting a global practitioner’s community in order to collect qualitative data on user needs and requirements for an online interactive toolkit and accompanying e-learning modules to be developed. Consultants will then analyse the data from the workshops and survery and use findings to inform the development of appropriate resources.
• Attend a CLARISSA programme learning synthesis event in Nepal – August 2023. This workshop will be used to undertake further assessment of users’ needs. It will run from August 21st to August 25th and will take place in Kathmandu.
• Synthesise CLARISSA products and develop content for new products, such as an online interactive toolkit and accompanying e-learning module, animations, videos (or other products, as defined by user need).
• Disseminate new products – for example running webinars with practitioners

Duration

• Phase 1 to be completed by 31st October 2023
• Phase 2 to be completed by 31st March 2024

To find out more, check out our website and read the Terms of Reference.