ABC+, Advancing Basic Education in the Philippines, is a five-year, $38.5 million United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project to improve early reading, math, and social and emotional skills for children in the early grades (kindergarten through grade 3 (K–3) in the Philippines. ABC+ pursues the goal of improving outcomes in early grades through work in three result areas. Intermediate Result 1 (IR1) aims to help improve early grade instruction and delivery systems, with a focus on research-based teacher professional development. IR2 helps increase access to quality, leveled locally developed supplementary reading materials to support early literacy. IR3 supports the enabling environment within which the two other IRs will operate, namely by improving education system capacity and commitment to manage and implement interventions supporting effective early grade instruction.

In May 2024, ABC+ in partnership with the Regional Offices and Schools Divisions will be conducting an evaluation study to gain perspectives on the use and effectiveness of the different components of ENI Program. In addition, the ENI schools involved will benefit from learning about the numeracy practices of the teachers and its possible impact on learners’ outcomes in numeracy. The study can be utilized as a lens and a reference for possible professional development topics for the Learning Action Cell of the schools. Further, the evaluation study can also set the direction for the scale-up of the program and can also be endorsed to Dep Ed as a potential reference for the future activities of the National Math Program. This study can also be a springboard for future research and initiatives on numeracy in Dep Ed Central and Field Offices.

The Early Numeracy Initiative is a small-scale model developed at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. ABC+ in collaboration with the University of the Philippines (UP) National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (NISMED) designed the program with three phases of implementation to achieve its goal while battling the effects of the pandemic on the education sector.

To accomplish this, RTI seeks to outsource a consultant to transcribe FGD and interview recordings and subsequently translate these to English to help the evaluation team in the analysis of the study.

The selected consultant will perform majority of the work remotely. Orientation and workshops relating to the transcription and translation will be face-to-face at areas arranged by RTI.

ABC+ will engage Transcriber-Translators who will provide transcription and translation assistance to the ENI Evaluation Team, specifically:

The following deliverables are expected from the consultant: