National Consulting Firm for Care Geo-referencing

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:

• Early childhood care and education centers including but not limited to workplace creches, public, private, and community based.

• Elderly care facilities (residential, day-care, and community-based)

• Services and centers for persons with disabilities (specialized, rehabilitative, inclusive education)

• Community-based and municipal care services

• The firm shall also conduct qualitative and quantitative surveys to complement existing data.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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:

• Developing key parameters fo