: Save the Children
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: 5 June 2020
15 June 2020
Consultant to Development of a Manual/Guidelines on Inclusion Water Safety and Survival Swimming
Background
Each year thousands of Thai children die from drowning, even though drowning is a preventable cause of death. One of the most vulnerable groups of children prone to drowning are children with disabilities. Under the recent Save the Children project on Drowning Prevention Education for Children, a number of students with disabilities could not fully participate in the water safety and survival swimming training and activities provided by their schools. These children were faced with many challenges during the training, as they needed adapted support. The survival swimming teachers did not have a special education background to teach them effectively. These challenges made the Children with disabilities lose the opportunity to learn from the water safety and survival swimming activities, leaving them unable to help themselves when they encounter a drowning situation.
The Department of Mental Health, Ministry of Public Health has raised concerns that there are more than 800,000 children with psychiatric illness: autism, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, mental delays, and learning disorders who are highly prone to drowning. They need more supervision from their caregivers, including educators. (https://th.rajanukul.go.th/preview-3097.html). The mortality rates of drowned children with disabilities are still unknown as there is a lack of data. However, most drowning cases of children reported in the news are children with autism and/or children with other mental disorders.
On 29 January 2020, the Inclusive Survival Swimming Working Group, composed of 14 organisations, including the Special Education Bureau (SEB), agreed on the need to develop a teaching manual/guidelines for special education teachers (and parents and caregivers) on inclusive water safety and survival swimming to effectively support the water safety learning needs of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or with Intellectual Disability (ID). Save the Children, in collaboration with the SEB, Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC), is seeking a consultant to develop a teaching manual/guidelines for special education teachers (and parents or caregivers) on inclusive water safety and survival swimming to support the learning needs of children with ASD and children with ID.
Scope of the Consultancy
In close consultation and coordination with Save the Children and SEB, the consultant will:
Scope of Study:
Timeframe & Deliverable Outputs
The consultancy service period for the whole assignment is 70 working days during July 2020 to February 2021
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Deliverable/Output |
Timeframe |
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July 2020 (This can be first 1-3 days of the consultancy) |
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July 2020 (5 days) |
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August 2020 (10 days) |
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September-October 2020 (20 days) |
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October 2020 (10 days) |
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November-December 2020 (10 days) |
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January 2021 (5 days) |
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February 2021 (10 days) |
Reporting and Documentation
The consultant will be supervised and overseen by Save the Children’s Child Health & Safety Programme Coordinator and will be required to work with SEB specialists, special education teachers, ASD/ID caregivers, survival swimming instructors, and children with ASD/ID.
Participation and contribution to the meetings with the team and the members of Inclusive Survival Swimming Working Group is required for improving the water safety and survival swimming for ASD/ID manual/guideline and for recording best practices.
Place of work: Bangkok
Consultant qualifications:
• Thai Nationality
• At least master’s degree in special education or other related discipline
• Minimum of 10 years of work experience in special education and other relevant fields
• Authored curriculum/manual/guidelines related to children with ASD/ID (Request for sample works of the applicant)
• Thai and English language proficiency
• Ability to work within strict deadlines
Required Documents:
• Quotation with proposal rate.
• Expression of Interest
• CV of the applicant (or agency profile, if applicable)
• Proposed implementation plan and detailed budget
• Sample works
• References
Closing date for submission:
15 June 2020 at 17.00 pm.
Interested candidates please submit the required documents via THA_Procurement_BKK@savethechildren.org
And for further enquiries – please contact admin.thailand@savethechildren.org
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