Tender Description:

UNICEF announces tender -  Call for Expessions of interest for Geogrian Universities/ an Academic institutions: Development of an Academic Course on Inclusive Social Protection in Georgia.

For consultations and the requests for clarification before the submission please contact Ketevan Melikadze, Social Policy and Economy Specialist at kmelikadze@unicef.org  Email title: ''Expression for interest''

Project Background:

Inclusive social protection systems are central to reducing poverty, addressing deprivations and inequalities, and promoting human capital development. They play a critical role in protecting children, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable populations from social and economic risks, while fostering social inclusion and resilience.

Georgia has made progress in strengthening its social protection system; however, UNICEF Georgia’s engagement with national stakeholders consistently highlights limited conceptual and analytical understanding of social protection among decision-makers and mid-level managers at both central and local levels. The absence of a shared conceptual capacity constrains evidence-informed policy dialogue, programme design, and implementation of reforms.

In response, UNICEF Georgia is supporting the development of an academic course on Inclusive Social Protection within Georgian universities as an initial step toward strengthening national academic capacity. Building on UNICEF’s earlier experience supporting the development of a Master’s programme in Child Rights, the initiative envisages collaboration between Georgian universities and an international academic institution that will provide technical assistance and methodological leadership for the course development process.

Through this Expression of Interest, UNICEF Georgia seeks to establish a Georgian Academic Team composed of interested universities, academic institutions, and faculty representatives who will serve as national academic counterparts throughout the course development process.

The Georgian Academic Team will work collaboratively with the selected international academic institution and UNICEF Georgia to co-develop, contextualize, review, and strengthen the course content and teaching materials to ensure relevance to the Georgian higher education and policy context.

Participation in the Georgian Academic Team is voluntary and intended as a professional and institutional collaboration opportunity. Participating institutions will benefit from:

• access to internationally developed and fully adapted teaching and learning materials; 
• participation in curriculum co-development and peer learning processes; 
• capacity development opportunities; 
• strengthened institutional capacity in inclusive social protection teaching; 
• access to a complete course package that can be incorporated into existing academic programmes; 
• trained academic personnel capable of delivering the course in the future

Full information see in the attached files.

Please note that the deadline for submissions will be 25.06.2026.

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