Oxfam Denmark invites applications from expert organizations, centers of excellence, and institutions (academic/research centers, NGOs, INGOs, think tanks, training centers, consultancy firms) to support Education Out Loud (EOL) in generating knowledge and evidence-based learnings from ongoing program implementation and civil society work across the three operational components to be used by EOL grantees, EOL staff and the wider education community.
This will be done through the following means:
- Conducting of research within the areas of the above-mentioned six learning priorities followed by production of research reports, policy and guidance notes, and other research outputs.
- Analysis of grantees’ data and reporting to aggregate and distil learnings and identify best practices and gaps to be fed back into EOL program implementation.
- Building and facilitation of shared learning spaces and processes in collaboration with grantees, EOL staff, and Regional Learning Partners through the creation of learning platforms, convening of webinars and online discussions, and through use of other appropriate methodologies, and
- Production of learning outputs relating to the six global learning priorities (publications, articles, digital content, films, online learning elements, and more) to be made available for EOL grantees and a wider audience of education actors and decision-makers.
Applicants will be required to outline and explain their chosen approach in the application template:
Criteria, qualifications and competencies of Global Learning Partners
- Strong experience with and knowledge of education systems, and the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4.
- Strong experience of working with CSOs, including alliances, membership-based coalitions, and community-based civil society actors, within the fields of advocacy and social accountability.
- Demonstrated expertise through analysis and research in one and preferably more of the six global learning priority areas of EOL.
- Capacity to work with rights-based and gender responsive approaches to civil society participation and education advocacy.
- Capacity to facilitate organizational development and action learning in a civil society context, and facilitate collaboration between diverse groups of civil society members, academics, and policymakers.
- Experience in identifying and assessing lessons learned and applying strategic learning approaches, and translating into outputs for the uptake of a wide group of stakeholders.
- Diversity of staff and resource people and of their areas of expertise
- Presentation of a strong grounding and experience of work in the global South.
- Demonstrated experience in the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to facilitate learning activities, and in communicating research results and analysis to a diverse audience of practitioners and decision-makers, and
- Capacity to work in the relevant contexts of the EOL portfolio and main languages (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic are languages in use across the EOL network).
Please note: Organizations and institutions receiving funds from Education Out Loud under any of the Operational Components (OC1, OC2, and OC3) are not eligible to apply under this call. This includes alliance members of OC2 and OC3 grant recipients.
EOL welcomes applications from coalitions/ consortiums of organizations and institutions.
Apart from the above criteria, Global Learning Partners will be selected to achieve a balanced pool of expertise.
Applications should be submitted to EOL no later than 19 March 2024.