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PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms-vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations-that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passio...
Background and context
Launched in 2016 by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank Group, the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN) is a global platform to catalyze collective action so that so that every young child is safe, well-nourished, healthy, happy, and learning. ECDANs strives to bring together hundreds of members of the early childhood development (ECD) community as well as stakeholders in other sectors to advocate for the needs of young children and their caregivers to be centered in policy and implementation discussions. Stakeholders are connected across regions and sectors to share promising practices, tools, and other resources that benefit the youngest children, creating a global community that learns and shares together. ECDAN also encourages stakeholders to collaborate and undertake joint initiatives, maximizing the impact of limited resources by connecting and aligning.
ECDAN is currently hosted by PATH.
Purpose of consultancy
The consultant will work with ECDAN’s Global Policy and Advocacy Lead to support the overall development and implementation of ECDAN’s advocacy strategy. The consultant will play a particularly key role in advancing ECDAN’s global childcare campaign.
In 2021, in response to a crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic made glaringly apparent, ECDAN launched a global childcare campaign that seeks to increase investments to expand access to high-quality, affordable, accessible, publicly financed childcare services across the globe. The campaign strategy is centered on building bridges between the ECD and gender equality movements to align behind common objectives, develop shared messaging, and harness the combined influencing power of a broad range of partners to elevate the issue within the global policy agenda and support localized advocacy campaigns aimed at strengthening childcare systems.
A key component of ECDAN’s childcare campaign is to support and catalyze civil society led advocacy at the country-level. ECDAN plans to develop a Catalyze Advocacy, Research, and Engagement (ChildCARE) fund to strengthen partner capacity and coordinate advocacy activities between gender equality, labor, and ECD stakeholders at the country-level. Currently, ECDAN is in the process of developing an overarching strategy and operational plan for the fund.
ECDAN is looking for a consultant to work closely with ECDAN’s Global Policy and Advocacy Lead to support this design process by facilitating relationship building, designing and managing in-person and virtual consultations, and documenting key decisions, and other necessary steps, ultimately leading to an operational and implementation plan for the ChildCARE Fund.
In addition to the childcare focused work, the consultant will assist with moving other aspects of ECDAN’s broader advocacy and communications strategy forward as ECDAN refreshes its strategic plan for the coming five years (2024-2028). Specific areas of work may include advocacy for parenting support, climate change, ECD financing, and other priorities that may emerge.
Timeline
The consultancy is expected to start in October 2023 and take approximately nine months to complete. We expect to contract this consultant for approximately 100 days.
Specific activities
Elements of the consultancy will include but are not limited to:
Inception
Timeframe: October-December
Development
Timeframe: January-April
Completion
Timeframe: May-June
Qualifications
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