Environmental shocks and slow-onset climate stressors are accelerating migration into unregulated industrial "grey zones" and peri-urban informal settlements. In these contexts, children experience a multifaceted erosion of their well-being, driven by the intersection of precarious residency status, environmental hazards, and systemic exclusion from social protection frameworks. Current research lacks a granular, qualitative understanding of how the built environment of these "urban shadows" acts as a risk multiplier for already vulnerable children. This consultancy serves as a diagnostic inquiry into the socio-legal and environmental hazards facing "legal ghosts" and marginalized children - specifically looking at how Thailand’s migration magnet towns manifest as sites of heightened protection risk.
- To establish an empirical evidence base and a conceptual framework that delineates the intersectional protection risks facing children in urban informal settlements within the context of the climate-urban-protection nexus.
- To conduct a comprehensive desk review of internal secondary data [Multidimensional Child Vulnerability Index (MCVI), AIM+, and programmatic records] alongside contemporary academic literature.
- To delineate specific qualitative risks - spanning environmental stressors (heat, flooding, and air pollution), built-environment hazards, and structural exclusion - that emerge uniquely from the urban informal settlement context.
- To ground-truth these risks using a GEDSI-responsive (Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion) lens to identify the disproportionate impacts on the most marginalized child cohorts.
- Elaborate the specific frames of references to perform the consulting service effectively. This may include the parameters, locations, dates and other mandatory aspects to be considered as a part of service rendering.
- Elaborate the approaches the consulting service provider is expected to undertake as providing the services as well as meeting the objectives. Could include ethical considerations, step by step instruction to perform the services methodically and other requirements as per the immediate plans.
How to apply
- Access the Detailed Request for Proposal and Terms of Reference through this link https://wvi.box.com/s/wil7ecdxr68rfp1u4v69ia74njrtkrvs
- Direct all inquiries, intent to participate, and clarification requests, related to this RFP to tender_easro@wvi.org.
- Read and sign your agreement to the WV Supplier Code of Conduct (Click the link to access and sign the document)
- Documents for Submission
- Technical and Financial Proposal - Methodology and approach Budget with a detailed breakdown of costs.
- Legal Registration Documents
- Curriculum Vitae
- Team Composition (for group/firm/institution)
- CVs of the proposed key team members
- Roles and responsibilities of each team member are clearly outlined.
- Previous Experience and References - A list of previous relevant research conducted in migration, urban migration, and/or climate-induced displacement for an international organization
All interested participants must provide their email address to be registered in the WV Procurement System by 17 February 2026 at 3 pm, UTC+8 (e.g., Manila, Singapore, Beijing time). By this time, we expect that the proposal is ready for submission in time for the deadline on 19 February 2026.
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On that same day, 17 February 2026, we will upload the email addresses of all interested participants into the World Vision Procurement System (Coupa) in a single batch. Following this, you will receive an email from “World Vision International” containing the link for proposal submission.