Georeferencing of Care Services — National Consulting Firm

The assignment encompasses five interconnected work streams, broadly aligned with the CGT implementation phases: The firm shall identify, request, collect, and process data on the supply of care services from national and subnational institutions, including but not limited to: 1. Early childhood care and education centers including but not limited to workplace creches, public, private, and community based. 2.

Elderly care facilities (residential, day-care, and community-based) 3. Services and centers for persons with disabilities (specialized, rehabilitative, inclusive education) 4. Community-based and municipal care services 5.

The firm shall also conduct qualitative and quantitative surveys to complement existing data. 1. Compiling and dispatching formal data requests to relevant ministries, agencies, local governments, and regulatory bodies, guided by the CGT Data Sources Checklist.

• Conducting technical meetings with data custodians to clarify variable definitions, coverage, and limitations. 3. Obtaining official administrative boundaries and geospatial files (shapefiles, GeoJSON, or Geo Package format) from the national mapping agency or statistics office at all relevant administrative levels.

• Geocoding service addresses and harmonizing variables across datasets (type of center, ownership, target group, capacity, operating hours, services offered). 5. Complementing administrative records with alternative data sources, including web scraping, API queries (e.g.

Google Maps, OpenStreetMap/Overpass Turbo), and collaborative field mapping or crowd-mapping to capture community initiatives absent from official registries. 6. Merging, cleaning, deduplicating, and classifying data to build a unified, documented supply database.

The firm shall secure access to, process, and analyze data on the territorial distribution of populations that require care, including: 1. Developing key parameters fo