Overview

Introduction
Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) is seeking consulting services to create a bilingual adaptation for Ontario of Oxfam’s care policy scorecard tool, assess Ontario’s care policies with the adapted tool, and with ONN co-produce an assessment report.

About Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN)
Ontario Nonprofit Network is the independent network for the 58,000 nonprofits in Ontario, focused on policy, advocacy and services to strengthen Ontario’s nonprofit sector as a key pillar of our society and economy. ONN works to create a public policy environment that allows nonprofits to thrive. We engage our network of diverse nonprofit organizations across Ontario to work together on issues affecting the sector and channel the voices of our network to governments, funders, and other stakeholders.

Background
The Care Policy Scorecard was launched by Oxfam in September 2021. The scorecard provides care advocates with a practical tool to measure and track government progress and commitments on policies that have a direct impact on care (unpaid and paid) and provides policy makers with evidence and information to make informed decisions on these policies.

The scorecard draws on the work of feminist and development economists and the International Labour Organization’s 5R Framework to outline the key components of a care-enabling public policy environment: one that is able to recognize, reduce, redistribute, and represent unpaid care work and adequately reward paid care work.This is accompanied by a set of policy indicators and questions to assess progress systematically and holistically across relevant public policy areas for unpaid and paid care work.

Adapted to be used at multiple levels of government, the scorecard allows researchers to carry out an assessment of the care public policy environment in any country to understand where there is positive progress, and where there are gaps and room for improvement. The scorecard is intended to be used by civil society, government, and academia alike. The scorecard allows for an assessment of the care public policy environment in any country to understand where there is positive progress and where there are gaps and room for improvement. The indicators and assessment questions have been designed to have relevance across different socio-economic contexts and be used around the world to measure governments’ progress towards an enabling policy environment on care, in line with commitments on SDG 5.4 and other international human rights obligations.

Recently, Oxfam Canada adapted the tool at the federal level but cited its limitations given most care policies are in the provincial and territorial jurisdiction.

Broader ONN Project
ONN has been awarded a three-year grant from the Department of Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) under its women’s economic and prosperity through systemic change stream for its care economy scorecard project. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within Ontario’s care economy by:

  • Adapting Oxfam Canada’s care economy scorecard to the Ontario context.
  • Assessing Ontario’s care economy using the adapted scorecard.
  • Mobilizing the results of the Ontario care economy scorecard.

Identifying efforts to seed, support, and grow to advance a care policy framework (care informed public policy and a collective and holistic public policy approach to the care economy) rooted in gender-based analysis+

Proposed timeline and work plan with activities and deliverables for consulting services
Tentative Timeline: January 20, 2024 – March 31, 2026
For a full breakdown of the Timeline and work plan with activities and deliverables, click here.

Key success factors for evaluator in order of importance

  • Expertise in research, ability to gather data and assess its quality, ability to bring together primary and secondary sources.
  • Expertise in, and knowledge of, intersectionality and/or Gender-Based Analysis+ lenses in research.
  • Familiarity with public policy processes and stakeholders in Ontario and ability to interpret public policy documents.
  • Experience of working with a variety of stakeholders to achieve a shared goal.
  • Project management skills to develop and execute a work plan efficiently.
  • Expertise in and knowledge of Canada/Ontario’s care economy.

Expertise in and knowledge of Canada/Ontario’s nonprofit sector.

Budget
$44,000 CAD (inclusive of HST)

Submitting a quote
Please submit a brief quote with the following information by December 11, 2024:

  • Expertise
  • Ability to meet timelines
  • Project personnel and relevant qualifications
  • Completed ONN’s social procurement policy questionnaire
  • Please indicated if, and if applicable how, your organization meets the following criteria:
    • Corporate structure is a nonprofit or co-operative.
    • Local headquarters and at least 75% of the owners/controllers are based in Ontario.
    • The majority of owners/controllers identify as Indigenous, Black, gender-diverse, and/or living with a disability.
    • Organization has policies and practices committed to decent work.
    • Organization has environmentally sustainable certification or description.


Please submit the proposal to:
Pamela Uppal-Sandhu Director of Policy,
Interim Co-Executive Director
pamela@theonn.ca