AP-LEGO Play To Grow Project - Improved Delivery of Home learning to foster social-emotional skills and early literacy in children through responsive parenting and play.

Translation and Proofreading  of the Parent Educator Resources

Terms of Reference (ToR)  May, 2024 

Right To Play International 

Right To Play is a global organization committed to improving the lives of children and youth affected by conflict, disease, and poverty. Established in 2000, Right To Play has pioneered a unique playbased approach to learning and development which focuses on quality education, life skills, health, gender equality, child protection and building peaceful communities. With programming in 14 countries, Right To Play transforms the lives of more than 2.3 million children each year, both inside and outside of the classroom. In addition to our work with children, Right To Play advocates with parents, local communities, and governments to advance the fundamental rights of all children.  

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Project Overview 

Play to Grow project is a parent education program that supports the delivery of at-home learning to foster social-emotional skills and early literacy and numeracy in children aged 3-6 through responsive parenting and play in the districts of Isingiro and Adjumani.

The long-term outcome for Play to Grow is for children to have improved SEL, early literacy and early numeracy skills as a result of responsive parenting and Learning through Play. This will be achieved through four modalities of programming led by Parent Educators: 

• Parent Education Sessions where parents learn about responsive parenting, the nine responsive parenting skills, and stimulating playful activities;
• Parent Support Sessions focusing on self-care and collaboration;
• Home Visits to collaboratively play with the children, observe how parents practice the nine parenting skills, and answer questions on how they can improve their practices; and
• Community awareness initiatives utilizing radio programs and parent-teacher meetings to reinforce the value of positive parenting and playful learning for improved SEL, learning outcomes, and family cohesion.

Play to Grow (BBB) is a years project that shall be implemented in 50 ECD centers from the refugee settlements in Adjumani and Isingiro and also from the host communities. 

Beneficiaries . Direct Reach of 1,600 children from 50 ECD centres: in Adjumani and Isingiro districts.

• Indirect Reach of 7,500 children = Total number of children in 50 ECD centres (9,100) – Total number for direct reach (1,600)
• Parent Educators: 150; Direct reach: 100; Indirect reach: 50
• ECD Teachers: 50 (from 50 ECD centers)
• Parents: 1,500

 Purpose of the Translation

The purpose of the translation is to support the improvement of the next phase of implementation. The Play to Grow Project needs to translate the Parent Educator Resource materials (Flex Parent Education Resource, Flex Home visit guide, Handouts and Toy making Guide) from English into three (3) local languages for effectiveness and efficiency of project implementation in the districts of Adjumani and Isingiro.

Translation Objectives 

The objectives of the translation are to:  

1. Translate the Parent Educator Resource materials (Flex Parent Education Resource, Flex Home visit guide, Handouts and Toy making Guide) from English into 3 local languages. That is Runyankole/Rukiga, Kinyarwanda and Madi.
2. To proof-read the translated resources content for quality assurance.

 Expected outputs.

1. Parent Educator resource, home visit guide, Handouts and Toy making resources translated into 3 languages; That is Runyankole/Rukiga, Madi and Kinyarwanda.
2. The translated materials thoroughly proof-read to ensure quality of the work done and the right content.

 Methodology

• The service provider or company contracted to do the translation will use different translators and proof-readers to translate and proof-read the translated materials respectively.
• Different resource persons in the different locations like care givers/parent educators and teachers of languages shall be used to proof-read the material translated.
• The translated resources will be submitted to the organization and shared with the community structure to proof-read for purposes of ownership before printing.

Facilitation 

The service provider will share an invoice with Right To Play.

Criteria for selection of participants to take part in translation.

• Native speaker of language of translation
• English language knowledge - ability to understand our English text fully
• Years of experience
• Type of experience/area of specialization - e.g. have they done this type of material before such as training material or education/parenting related materials - Translator credentials - e.g. are they certified?
• Attention to detail
• Excellent writing skills
• Quality of past work (e.g. can we verify the quality of past translation?)
• Time Management Skills ->This feels essential as we have to meet the deadline for translation.

Key Deliverables

 Over view:  The activity will run for 3  weeks including; translation and Proof reading.

 
Interested and qualified please send your application to , ugandahr@righttoplay.com   

Deadline for submission: Wednesday 25th May  2024