The Addis Ababa City Administration has developed a comprehensive 2020/2021 annual action plan for the Future Hope of Addis Ababa Early Childhood Development (“ECD”) Initiative. The action plan details the key program components and the key activities to be implemented under each strategic initiative. The RFP notes that the costing should guide the government and its partners in making key decisions on how best to achieve the objectives of the annual plan, including key policy issues such as budget planning, ensure accountability, inform cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis and to support future investment in ECD services.
The key objective of this assignment is to cost the vision of the Future Hope of Addis Ababa ECD Initiative and to determine at what cost will the program’s ambition be attained.
The supporting objectives of this assignment are to:
- to develop a costing model (tool) to cost the Future Hope of Addis Ababa ECD initiative
- a costed implementation plan for the Future Hope of Addis Ababa’ ECD Initiative.
- provide training and support to officials on the use of the costing model to support planning and budgeting for ECD services.