Consultancy Needed - Child Care Training Material Alignment

Programme & Policy

Overview

Develop and align childcare training materials for Indonesia.

You have:

• Proven experience in training material design and development.
• Strong understanding of child rights-based principles and caregiving standards.
• Experience with gap analysis and comparing competency frameworks.
• Ability to conduct stakeholder consultations and integrate feedback.
• Knowledge of educational programming and early childhood development.

Scope of Work

External Collaborator for Child Care Training Material Alignment

Background

The care economy, encompassing childcare, elderly care, and disability support, is emerging as a key sector for Indonesia’s inclusive growth. Besides its social importance, it is a high-potential driver of job creation and GDP growth. The Momentum to develop this sector gained speed during Indonesia’s G20 Presidency in 2022, when the government made the care economy and women’s economic empowerment central to its global agenda. This led to strong policy alignment with the ASEAN Comprehensive Framework on the Care Economy (2021) and resulted in Indonesia‘s Care Economy Roadmap and National Action Plan (2025-2045), coordinated by the National Development Agency (BAPPENAS). The roadmap sees care work as both an economic driver and a social investment, vital for achieving Indonesia’s goal of becoming a high–income, gender – equitable society by 2045.

According to the International Labor Organization (ILO, 2022), investing in universal childcare alone could generate 4.3 million direct jobs and 1.7 million indirect jobs by 2035 in Indonesia. Suppose the investment expands to cover both childcare and long-term care. In that case, the total potential reaches 10.4 million new jobs, positioning the care economy among the top labor-intensive sectors of the next decade. Complementing these findings, the World Bank (2024) estimates that a five-percentage-point increase in female labor-force participation—rising from 53 percent to 58 percent—enabled by improved access to childcare, could add approximately USD 62 billion annually to Indonesia’s GDP, equivalent to a 0.7 percentage-point boost in annual growth. These projections underscore that investment in care infrastructure is not only a social necessity but also a critical lever for enhancing productivity and national competitiveness.

Within this context, focusing on childcare provides the most immediate and scalable entry point. Strengthening childcare services can deliver quick, measurable progress across three interconnected areas:

• Job placement for young women as trained caregivers and early childhood educators. These jobs are entry-level jobs in education and health care careers

• Workforce participation for mothers re-entering or staying in employment

• Child well-being through improved quality of care and early learning environments.

In alignment with this evidence, Save the Children, through discussions with the National Development Agency (BAPPENAS), has prioritized childcare as the first subsector for implementing Indonesia’s Care Economy Roadmap. Lessons from this phase are expected to inform the eventual expansion to elderly and disability care, establishing a strong foundation for a comprehensive national care system.

Save the Children has extensive experience in skills training, employment, early childhood development, and economic empowerment. Since 2012, the Skills to Succeed (S2S) program in Indonesia has provided employability skills, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy training, mentorship, job counselling, and job linkage services for both in-school and out-of-school youth aged 15–24. The program also targets out-of-school youth at risk of hazardous work and youth with disabilities, ensuring inclusive access to decent work opportunities. Since its inception, S2S has trained over 200,000 young people and supported more than 139,000 to secure jobs, self-employment, or paid internships. In addition to technical training, S2S fosters youth leadership through advisory councils, innovation labs, youth clubs, and research initiatives.

Globally, Save the Children implements several Common Approaches that directly align with the care economy agenda, including Nourishing the Youngest, Building Brains, Ready to Learn, and Life Skills for Success. These approaches have been implemented across multiple countries to strengthen early childhood care and education, promote positive parenting and responsive caregiving, and enhance youth employability—providing a strong foundation for advancing the care economy in Indonesia.

Objectives

The Consultant will consolidate and integrate multiple training modules into a coherent, developmentally appropriate learning program designed to effectively prepare child-caregivers, ensuring logical sequencing, alignment with competency standards SKKK (Standar Kompetensi Kerja Khusus) and the evolving SKKNI (Standar Kompetensi Kerja Nasional Indonesia), and adherence to child-rights–based caregiving principles.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Perform a structured gap analysis to identify missing competencies, inconsistencies, or areas requiring enhancement in relation to the Occupation Map, SKKK, and the evolving SKKNI framework. The consultant will review, research, and analyse the above resources and then compare them to the existing training materials, both from Save the Children and other relevant sources. The consultant will recommend the best practices.
• Conduct a comprehensive review of all existing training materials to verify conceptual accuracy, clarity, and alignment with child-rights–based caregiving principles and incorporate training from other resources from relevant key stakeholders to produce Child Care Training Modules. Note: Save the Children will provide several materials for reference.
• Refine and update training content to ensure it reflects current best practices and evidence-based approaches in childcare and child protection.

Deliverables

• Gap Analysis Report Report indicating the result of gap analysis between policies and existing training material as stipulated on task and responsibility
• Training Material Review A consolidated report detailing the alignment between the manuals, with alignment to SKKK and the transitioning SKKNI framework, and adherence to child-rights–based caregiving principles.
• Training Content Consultation At least 2 (two) consultations to disseminate information about the training content and model to seek feedback from the audience. The consultation is limited to relevant key stakeholders, but open for other stakeholders where necessary.
• Improved and Alignment Training Modules A fully updated, evidence-based, and cohesive set of training modules incorporating child-rights–based caregiving standards, logical sequencing, pedagogical soundness, and usability for trainers and learners.
• Recommended Training Model A set of training in Child Care Training with specific approaches and methodology.

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Added 3 months ago - Updated 3 months ago - Source: savethechildren.net