UNESCO
Research background study for 2026 GEM Report Request for proposal

Reference: RFP/ED/GEM/24/01 RESEARCH SERVICES
Beneficiary countries: France
Published on: 18-Oct-2024
Deadline on: 18-Nov-2024 23:59 (GMT 1.00)

Description

 

United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hereby invite qualified companies to submit sealed tenders as follows:

The Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) is an editorially independent, authoritative and evidence-based annual report hosted and published by UNESCO since 2002. Drawing its current mandate from the Incheon Declaration at the World Education Forum and the Education 2030 Framework for Action, it is the international community’s tool for monitoring and reporting on:

  • Progress towards the education targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations Member States in September 2015
  • The implementation of national and international strategies aimed at contributing to the achievement of SDG 4, the global education goal.

The next three reports, named Countdown to 2030, will be based on a review of progress on selected SDG 4 indicators, with particular emphasis on SDG 4 benchmark indicators, focusing on countries that have improved faster than their peers over the course of the past 15-20 years and countries that have stagnated or reversed. The purpose of these reports will be to assess the reasons for this improvement (or stagnation and reversal) and extract potential policy lessons. These lessons should help inform the debate on how to set the education agenda priorities beyond 2030.

 

For the 2026 GEM Report, which will focus on access and equity indicators at three levels of education, the GEM Report team is seeking to commission three background papers that will provide:

  • A conceptual framework of the broad education and social policy areas that are known to affect progress in participation and graduation.
  • For each policy area, a systematic review of the evidence

Each background paper will focus on one of the three following education levels:

  • early childhood and pre-primary education, looking at participation rates
  • primary and secondary education, looking at participation (out-of-school) and graduation (completion) rates
  • post-secondary education, looking at participation and graduation rates

Please refer to attached procurement notice.