Clean Air Fund is seeking an excellent writer with specialist expertise in synthesising and presenting complex, technical concepts and evidence. The writer must be able to turn a large volume of information into a concise, clear and engaging summary for our Board of Trustees and other non-technical audiences. Find out more and apply by September 25, 2026.
Request for Proposals: Writer and editor for CAF’s Progress and Evidence Review The Clean Air Fund (CAF) is seeking an excellent writer with specialist expertise in synthesising and presenting complex, technical concepts and evidence. The writer must be able to turn a large volume of information into a concise, clear and engaging summary for CAF’s Board of Trustees and other non-technical audiences. CAF has been operating for more than six years. During this time, the organisation has grown significantly, contributed to important progress and major wins for clean air, and built a substantial body of evidence and learning. CAF now wants to bring this material together in one accessible and useful summary. The review will look back at CAF’s 2023-2026 strategy, setting out its biggest wins, the main progress made, and what CAF has learned about funding and scaling solutions that provide clean air for all. It will be written first for CAF’s Board of Trustees, but will also become a central communications asset for donors, partners and the wider clean air sector, and will be suitable for publication online. Background to Clean Air Fund Launched in 2019, the Clean Air Fund (CAF) is a philanthropic initiative with a mission to tackle air pollution around the world. Our aim is to help build and support a powerful global movement for clean air. We achieve this by bringing together funders, researchers, policy makers and campaigners working on a wide range of issues to find and scale solutions that will provide clean air for all. We work where the need and potential for impact are greatest: in the EU, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Poland, South Africa and the UK and global cities across Africa, LatAm, Asia and Europe. We also have global thematic programmes, raising air pollution up the international climate and health agendas. Our global themes span data, health, advocacy, Super-Pollutants and Private Sector Engagement. More information about the Clean Air Fund can be found on our website: www.cleanairfund.org Background to assignment With the current organisational strategy coming to completion and a new strategy soon to begin, CAF has an opportunity to take stock of the progress made during the last four years and to bring together, in one place, the evidence about what it has achieved and learned. CAF has already done a great deal of background and preparatory work. Our Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team has reviewed and analysed a large body of evaluations, reviews, research and internal reflections and has produced an internal summary of CAF's main learning and evidence. We have also compiled a summary of CAF's major achievements, progress and key wins since CAF’s inception. What we need now is an exceptional writer who can turn this material into a short, engaging and accessible publication. The successful writer will not be expected to carry out new analysis. Instead, their role will be to identify the strongest messages, shape a compelling narrative, and translate complex evidence and organisational learning into language that is clear, engaging and easy for non- technical audiences to understand. The proposed Impact and Learning Review will have two closely connected elements. The first will present CAF's biggest wins and the main progress to which it has contributed since 2023. The second will summarise what CAF has learned and the evidence it has built about what works to fund and scale clean air solutions. Where useful, it should also explore what these findings mean for CAF and for others working in the sector. This is a retrospective review, not an evaluation and not a technical monitoring, evaluation and learning report. It will be honest, evidence-based and proportionate about CAF's contribution, while providing a clear and engaging account of progress. The final review should be no more than 15 designed pages. It must use plain, non- technical English, avoid jargon and explain unfamiliar concepts clearly. It should be easy to read, engaging and accessible to senior and non-technical audiences, while remaining faithful to the underlying evidence. Project objectives and scope The assignment is to develop a concise, publication-ready narrative that: ▪ Summarises CAF’s most important achievements and major areas of progress since 2023. ▪ Explains CAF’s role accurately, making clear its contribution without over-claiming. ▪ Synthesises the main lessons from CAF’s evidence and experience about what helps clean air solutions succeed and scale. 1 ▪ Presents the evidence clearly, without overstating certainty or impact. ▪ Draws out practical implica
