SoW- Study on Children's Habit of Reading and Literacy Skills - Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand & Rajasthan

Study on Children's Habit of Reading and Literacy Skills - Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand & Rajasthan 2025

 

Scope of Work for Hiring of External Agency

Organization Overview

Founded in 2000 on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children®, Room to Read is creating a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality through education. We are achieving this goal by helping children in historically low-income communities in developing literacy skills and a habit of reading, and by supporting girls as they build life skills to succeed in school and negotiate key life decisions. We collaborate with governments and other partner organizations to deliver positive outcomes for children at a scale. Room to Read has benefited more than 39 million children and has worked in 23 countries and in more than 182,000 communities, providing additional support through remote solutions that facilitate learning beyond the classroom. Room to Read aims to benefit 40 million children by 2025.

Room to Read India was established in 2003 and presently has programs in twelve states – Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi NCR, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh.  We aim to make available educational opportunities and resources to more disadvantaged children in our mission to break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy one child at a time.

Program Overview

Room to Read's literacy program is a multi-faceted intervention that works with local governments, strengthening child literacy skills in the foundation phase and reading habits in primary grades (1 to 5). The literacy program consists of three core components: (i) Instruction: reading and writing instruction in Hindi language for foundational children (grades 1 & 2) (ii) Library: establishment of child-friendly school libraries[1]/classroom libraries[2] to provide children with access to reading materials (grades 1 to 5); and (iii) Quality Reading Materials (QRM): the development of quality reading materials for children.

Study Objectives

This study aims to understand the association of Room to Read's literacy program on promoting the habit of reading and improving literacy skills among children of Grades 3 and 5. The specific objectives of the study are: 

• To assess library management and its functionality.
• To understand Teachers’ Knowledge Perception and Practices (KPP) on children’s reading habits and literacy skills.
• To examine the influence of libraries on the habit of reading among children of Grades 3 and 5.
• To assess the literacy skills of Grades 3 and 5 children.
• To examine the association between children’s reading habits and literacy skills.

Requirements and Evaluation Criteria for Technical Proposal 

• Organization with at least 5 years of experience in the field of education. Experience in foundational literacy assessments will be preferred. 
• Technical proposals should not be more than 10-12 pages. The technical proposals must be submitted as per the prescribed format in Annex A below.  
• Individual technical proposals will not be accepted for this study. 
• The technical proposals will be evaluated based on the following (but not limited to):  (a) experience in Education field/similar domain and conducting similar studies; (b) suggested study team, including data collectors, supervisors, other technical members; along with their qualification and experience; (c) process and steps of data quality assurance, including data quality measures taken during the trainings for selection of the data collectors, data collection monitoring, troubleshooting mechanisms etc; (e) understanding of the scope of work; (d) training and data collection plan; (e) timelines of sub-activities as per main activities listed in Table 5 below. The details of the technical evaluation criteria are given below (Table 4).

HOW TO APPLY

Proposals are invited from the interested agency for the above assignment and the last date for receiving the proposal is 31^st May 2025 at procurement.india@roomtoread.org  [do not copy anyone from RtR]

Kindly submit two separate emails with the following subject lines:

o EMAIL (1): TECHNICAL PROPOSAL – Children's Habit of Reading and Literacy Skills

o EMAIL (2): FINANCIAL PROPOSAL – Children's Habit of Reading and Literacy Skills

Submission terms:

• All agencies are advised to thoroughly review the SoW  before applying.
• Technical and Financial proposals are to be shared in two different emails separately and not in a single email (mandatory)
• Incomplete applications or deviations from the prescribed process will result in automatic rejection.
• Proposals received after the prescribed deadline will not be considered.
• Only shortlisted agencies will be contacted and may be requested for face-to-face/online interaction/presentation.

For queries, please contact:

Vivek Shrawat

vivek.shrawat@roomtoread.org

To download the full ToR, click here

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