Re-advertised: Consultancy for Development of Teacher-Focused Materials on Hygiene, Sanitation, and Sustainable & Pandemic-Ready Learning Spaces

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Türkiye, with a population of nearly 85 million, hosts the world’s largest refugee population, including approximately 3.6 million Syrians. The February 2023 earthquakes further affected over 9 million people, putting additional strain on an already vulnerable education system. Children and teachers in the impacted areas continue to face challenges related to safe, sustainable, and pandemic-ready learning spaces.

While progress has been made in integrating children into the education system and strengthening early learning environments, significant gaps remain in ensuring hygiene, sanitation, and resilience of learning spaces. Teachers and administrators often lack access to practical tools, structured training, and adaptable learning materials to support safe and sustainable education delivery.

There is need for the development of teacher-focused resources that combine hygiene and sanitation practices with approaches to sustain education delivery to be prepared for emergencies and pandemics. This includes training modules for teachers and administrators, hygiene & sanitation cards, and practical activity guides that can be easily adapted across different early learning environments.

For every child, inclusivity

Background: 

The purpose of this assignment is to develop and pilot a set of ECE teacher and local manager focused materials to improve hygiene and sanitation practices and to support the establishment of sustainable and pandemic-ready early learning spaces. The consultant will design resources to strengthen ECE teachers’ capacity and resilience in ensuring safe and continuous education delivery.

How can you make a difference? 

The following table provides a tentative plan summarizing task, deliverables, timeline, and estimated person-days. The contracted consultant/expert is expected to carry out the tasks under the supervision of the UNICEF Early Childhood Education Officer.

*Delivery dates are tentative and can be negotiated based on the project calendar.

*Colored tasks are supposed to be conducted in cooperation with another consultant.

Duty Station: In general consultant/expert will work home based. The selected long-term individual consultant/expert is expected to travel for face-to-face trainings, validation workshops, and other in-person meetings as required.

Supervisor: The consultant will work under the direct supervision of the Early Childhood Education Officer, UNICEF Türkiye, and in close coordination with relevant programme staff.

Estimated Duration and Cost of Consultancy:

Duration: The contract will be effective from the date of signing until the successful submission of the deliverables, which are estimated to require a total of 140 working days which will be planned during the initial working days. The consultancy is spread within 36 months from November 2025-November 2028.

Estimated Cost of Consultancy: Applications shall include a detailed financial proposal that elaborates on daily costs based on the completion of above-mentioned deliverables, including a total sum demanded. All costs, including travel, accommodation, administrative costs, etc. shall be covered by the contractor and should be included in the financial proposal as a separate heading and broken down into details of accommodation and travel costs in line with UN DSA rates. The candidate is required to specify their daily rates and the total amount as per the number of anticipated working days for each deliverable in the fina