ChildFund Sport for Development - Inclusion Assessment Consultant

Background

ChildFund Sport for Development partners with organisations to provide children and young people with opportunities to play, learn, and lead.

Through integrated sport and life skills learning, young people from vulnerable communities are equipped to overcome challenges, inspire positive social change, and take active leadership roles within their communities.

All partnerships contribute to building an equitable and inclusive future, where children are safe from violence — reflecting targets within the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

ChildFund Sport for Development is led by ChildFund Australia, an independent international development organisation that works to reduce poverty for children in developing communities and a member of the ChildFund Alliance - a global network of 12 organisations which assists almost 23 million children and their families in 70 countries.

ChildFund Sport for Development have identified a need to provide an assessment tool for partner organisations to increase accountability and capacity to effectively engage vulnerable, marginalised and excluded populations as well as ensure safe and positive environments for all stakeholders. Furthermore, National Sports Governing Bodies, have an increasing need to improve practice in this area, in-line with International Olympic Committee inclusion principles.

The following needs have been identified as key to Sport for Development work delivering more inclusive programming:

• Improving knowledge and understanding the principles of inclusivity;
• Introducing best practices around recruitment and inclusive business/work cultures.

Service Outcomes

This proposal outlines a set of services ChildFund seeks to engage a service provider to support:

1. Develop an inclusion self-assessment tool that can be utilised by Childfund Sport for Development and partner organisations to assist in developing policies and protocols towards international standards of inclusive practices;
2. Deliver half-day training to Childfund Sport for Development staff to build understanding of the principles of inclusion regarding terminology, relevant international commitments toward inclusion, and how to implement best practices of inclusion throughout the organisation by utilising the self-assessment tool as a a guide.

As inclusion in sports is of increasing importance to international federations and building on ChildFund’s experience in international safeguarding in sport, a pre-training meeting with key staff to prepare the half-day training is requested to ensure content is aligned with international sport commitments.

A post-training meeting is requested to support ChildFund in documenting training learnings and actions toward development of creation of a set of best practice inclusive programming integrations and ensuring equitable representation in demographic and impact data.

Service Agenda and Timetable

Activity Description                                                                                                                                        Approximate Date             Time (Days)

Initial Meeting: Discuss and agree on content and ensure alignment with service outcomes.         May 2023                           0.5

Create inclusion self-assessment tool                                                                                                    May 2023                            2

Feedback Process (via e-mail and video conference and updating tool)                                             May 2023                           1.5

Pre-Training Meeting - Discuss and agree on content and alignment across sport commitments.  May 2023                           0.5

Training  — Deliver Online Training to ChildFund S4D key staff                                                          June 2023                           0.5

Post-Training Meeting: Reflection and Next Steps                                                                               June 2023                            0.5

TOTAL                                                                                                                                                                                                               5.5

Staff Training Content

It is proposed that the content of the online training should cover an introduction to the following:

1. Introduction to Principles of Inclusion
2. Key terms and language
3. Introduction to the self-assessment tool
4. How to talk about inclusion with sports organisations, government agencies and communities
5. Good practice around inclusion in the workplace

A decision on the agenda and content will be made during the formation of the training agreement.

Minimum Requirements

• Extensive knowledge and experience with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion work
• Ability to deliver outputs on-time, accurately, and efficiently;
• Ability to ask for clarification or explanation when faced with challenges;
• Ability to receive and use feedback constructively.