CONSULTANCY TO ADAPT THE HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN TOOL KIT AT Aga Khan Foundation

About the Aga Khan Foundation

The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), was established by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1967. AKF is a private, not-for-profit international development agency that seeks to provide long-term solutions to society’s problems. AKF brings together human, financial, and technical resources to address challenges faced by the poorest and most marginalised communities in the world. AKF has a special focus on investing in human potential, expanding opportunity, and improving the overall quality of life, especially for women and girls. AKF’s primary areas of focus are Education; Early Childhood Development (ECD); Health and Nutrition; Civil Society; Agriculture and Food Security; and Economic Inclusion.

AKF is committed to ensuring girls and boys, women and men, are equipped with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to help them interact effectively with the world and be contributing members of a pluralistic society. This demands AKF assumes a holistic, life-long, and systems approach to education. AKF ensures all the interventions are globally informed, locally rooted, and embedded in government and community interests and structures, and work to promote social inclusion, equity, and pluralism.

About the Project:

AKF, in partnership with a global consortium of private foundations, is co-launching Schools2030, a 10-year (2020-2030) learning improvement programme. Schools2030 will partner with national governments and 1000 school sites (pre-primary, primary, secondary, and youth education providers) across 10 countries from around the world to develop understanding and evidence of ‘what works’ in equipping children and young people with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed to successfully navigate uncertainty and become contributing members of society. In Uganda, AKF will partner with 100 school sites to drive classroom level innovation to enable teacher generated solutions to find and inform ‘what works in education’. This will be achieved through the Human Centre Design Approach.

To date, AKF has completed the development of a Human Centred Design tool kit. At contextual level we are currently seeking the services of three 3 consultants /organisations to adapt and contextualise the HCD toolkit into a simpler and user friendly language that is toned and tailored to use by teachers and other stake holders that are not highly trained in design language including local government partners, youth development partners, education training institutions and schools. The consultants or organisation will be required to work remotely to:

• Adapt and simplify the toolkit without losing its function and purpose.
• To collaborate with the connected reviewer for the proofreading
• Finalize a design to enable these to be attractive and user friendly as they look in their original versions

Key Study Deliverables

Adapted version of the toolkit

TIME FRAME

• The assignment (Desk work) will be done in 4 Months, starting in June
• The adapted version will be subject to feedback and iteration in consultation with firsthand users over a period of six months to test for validity.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal consultancy’s Required Experience, Knowledge and Competencies:

• Post Graduate qualification in Education, Development Studies, Social Sciences, or any other related field with at least 4 years’ co-creation and innovation, experience in action-oriented research in development issues is required
• Demonstrated skills and experience in design thinking as coaching approach and Education content development
• Proven experience in writing and designing materials for training especially teachers.
• Good oral, written communication
• Five or more years of relevant design research work experience
• Must have had experience in education research, Life skills development for in and out of school youth and children both in and outside Uganda
• Graphic design, formatting, and layout document.
• Experience designing education models and curricula is a MUST
• Sound knowledge of the Ugandan learning frameworks and education framework (Syllabus structure for ECD, Primary, Secondary and Vocational )

IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE

1. Planning and designing

• Conduct desk review of existing literature like proposal documents, existing HCD toolkit assessment tools, learning frameworks and education guidelines. (5 days)
• Develop study proposal detailing methodology, tools, sampling framework, data collection schedule, analysis and reporting timeframe (4 Days)
• Present proposal to AKF- Schools2030 management for review and feedback (3 Days)
• Tools development, discussion and approval (4 Days)

2. Data collection, analysis and presentation

• Field visit and time study- to align Toolkit refine methodology, tools and sampling (4 Days)

3. Contextualizing and adapting HCD toolkit

• Reviewing and aligning the Schools2030 HCD content, language, illustrations and references to Uganda’s learning framework whilst being sensitive to cultural differences in the different geographical locations. (5 Days)
• Data management; transcribing, cleaning, coding and analysis

4. Report Writing and Submission

• Report writing, discussions and submission to AKF-Schools2030 (4 Days)
• Revisions based on feedback (Iteration) Writing abridged version, discussions and revisions. (3 Days).
• Revisions on basis of feedback. Quarterly iteration sessions (Once quarterly through 2022.)

Duration – 34 Working Days