REQUEST FOR TENDER (RFT) TO PROVIDE PROJECT CO-ORDINATION
INTRODUCTION
Sage Advocacy is a support and advocacy service for vulnerable adults,
older people and healthcare patients.
The mission of Sage Advocacy is to promote, protect and defend the
rights and dignity of vulnerable adults, older people and healthcare
patients. We support and advocate for people independently of family,
service provider or systems interests and much of our work involves
people whose decision-making capacity is in question.
Sage Advocacy has received a grant from the Irish Human Rights &
Equality Commission under the Human Rights & Equality Grant Scheme
**Apply on the website** on a project called ?Establishing an
Observatory on Rights-based Long-Term Care in Ireland?.
This Project will seek to establish a mechanism (Observatory) where
the components of a rights-based approach to long-term care will be
identified and evaluated.
The Observatory on Long-term Care will initially seek to ensure that
the Commission on Care, as proposed in the Programme for Government,
uses a human-rights approach to reviewing care and designing the
future model.
Through this Project, Sage Advocacy will facilitate and enable the
participation of older people and other care-recipients in shaping the
architecture of long-term care in Ireland. As well as feeding into the
proposed Commission on Care, the Observatory, once established and
consolidated, will have an ongoing role in monitoring long-term care
in Ireland through an equality and human-rights lens.
Sage Advocacy is seeking an experienced project co-ordinator to
produce deliver on the activities of this project, with the support of
Sage Advocacy.
AIM OF THE PROJECT
The overall aim of the project is to establish and consolidate an
Observatory on rights-based, long-term care.
Subsidiary aims are to;
* Influence policy and public discourse about long-term care
* Influence the proposed Commission on Care to ensure that the
social and economic rights of older people are central to its
deliberations.
* Produce terms of reference for an Observatory on Long-term Care,
which would monitor and comment on an ongoing basis,
* Produce a Good-Practice Guide based on the participatory
approaches taken through our project, which can inform other policy
development structures relating to long-term care.
KEY OBJECTIVES
* Develop Terms of Reference for an Observatory on rights-based,
long-term care,
* Establish and use participatory approaches to ensure the
involvement of the communities impacted by the proposed Commission on
Care e.g. older people and other vulnerable adults in the work of the
Observatory,
* Develop mechanisms for ensuring that the voice of care-recipients
and their carers are reflected in policy decisions and, specifically,
in the deliberations of the Commission on Care,
* Preliminary research to identify the key human rights issues
presented by our current system of long-term care and feed into the
Commission on Care, once established.
* Preliminary research on human-rights based approaches to long-term
care incorporating not just health and social care needs but broader
issues of equality, social inclusion, safeguarding and right to
self-determination,
* Explore funding models used in other jurisdictions to ensure that
the burden of care does not fall unfairly on individuals or their
families.
ACTIVITIES PROPOSED
The Project Coordinator will;
* Attend all steering committee meetings. (approx. 4)
* Assist Sage Advocacy to co-ordinate the steering committee.
* Produce a good-practice guide on participatory approaches to
ensure the involvement of the communities involved e.g. older people
and other vulnerable adults in the work of the Observatory,
* Produce a final report to publication standard to include
* Literature review to include approaches to long-term care in other
jurisdictions, including their funding.
* Key human rights issues presented by our current system of
long-term care and feed into the Commission on Care, once established.
* The elements of a human-rights based approach to long-term care
incorporating not just health and social care needs but broader issues
of equality, social inclusion, safeguarding and right to
self-determination,
* A model Terms of Reference for an Observatory on rights-based,
long-term care
* Participate in a launch of the report by Sage Advocacy.
Sage Advocacy will;
* Issue invitations to the project steering committee using,
* Host and secretariat for steering committee meetings,
* Develop a communication strategy for the project outputs with our
Communication Team,
* Organise the webinar / launch of the reports,
* Manage report and financial returns to IHREC,
PROJECT TIMELINE
The project will run for 8 months from mid-March to mid-November.
The proposed time-line is as follows:
* March **Apply on the website** ? Project co-ordinator awarded a
contract.
* March **Apply on the website** ? Project plan completed and
agreed.
* April **Apply on the website** ? Initial steering committee
meeting
* April - June Coordinator conducts project research (literature
review, comparative research, focus groups).
* June ? October - Together with steering committee, coordinator
develops good-practice guide based on the participatory approaches
taken through our project,
* May **Apply on the website**, August **Apply on the website**,
October **Apply on the website** ? Steering committee meets,
* November **Apply on the website** ? Final products of the
project are launched
PROJECT BUDGET
A maximum of ?**Apply on the website**,**Apply on the website**
(including VAT if applicable) is available for the work of the
co-ordinator, over 8 months.
CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF TENDER
Tendering individuals or organisations must submit a tender document
of no more than four pages as soon as possible and by March **Apply on
the website**th at the latest.
Each tender should include:
* A profile or CV of the individual(s) making the proposal;
* Details of previous relevant work in this area;
* Samples of written work (these may be URLs to work published
online);
* The methodology you propose to adopt in order to achieve the key
deliverables;
* Costing and timeline with respect to the proposed work expressed
within the overall budget for research of ?**Apply on the
website**,**Apply on the website** (incl. VAT if applicable); and
* Estimated number of days for completing the work.
Queries on the tender and any tender bids should be emailed asap and
no later than THURSDAY MARCH **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**TH to Sarah
Lennon, Executive Director, Sage Advocacy - **Apply on the website**
_Canvassing will disqualify_
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