Call for Proposals: Enabling Women’s access to Safe and Decent Jobs and Livelihoods (India)

Deadline: 29-Jul-22

UN Women is calling for proposals from a civil society organization partner for enabling women’s access to safe and decent jobs and livelihoods in Gujarat and Maharashtra in India.

UN Women seeks the services of a civil society organization (hereinafter referred as proponent organization) working with community-based organizations of women in the two states of Gujarat, and Maharashtra to mobilize and train them for employment opportunities/ absorption in jobs such as Trent’s shop floors, Voltas’s factory floors as well as other potential employers after a suitable selection process.

To address this, UN Women is partnering with TATA Trent and Voltas in the two states of Gujarat, and Maharashtra for enabling decent and safe employment for qualified women in factory and shop floors after the required selection process. The intervention is a part of larger collaboration with India’s top private sector leaders through UN Women’s Business Sector Advisory Council.

Funding Information

The budget range for this proposal should be INR 30,00,000/- to INR 35,00,000/- [Indian Rupees Thirty Lakhs to Thirty Five Lakhs Only].

Geographical Focus

Gujarat
- Ahmedabad, Surat, and Waghodia ( near Vadodra)
Maharashtra
- Mumbai, Pune, and Nashik

Timeframe: Start date and end date for completion of required services/results

All work must be completed between 1st September 2022 to 31 July 2023.

Eligibility Criteria

UN Women is soliciting proposals from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). Women’s organizations or entities are highly encouraged to apply.
All work must be completed between 1st September 2022 to 31 July 2023.
Qualifications of the Organisation
- Five years of work experience on the issue of women’s empowerment and Livelihood.
- Significant outreach with women in the project locations and demonstrable capacity to mobilize them for participation in the programme.
- Demonstrable capacity to mobilize relevant stakeholders.
- Demonstrable experience of designing, conducting and monitoring of trainings/ capacity building workshops on vocational training including conversational English / women’s livelihood initiatives.
- Understanding of the local context and knowledge on the structure and functioning of vocational training system is desirable.
- Demonstrable experience in advocacy initiatives with Government and other key stakeholders.
- Ability to deliver efficiently large-scale mobilization and training programmes in a defined timeline.
- Documenting, analyzing the change in learning outcomes through Monitoring & Evaluation tools.
Qualifications of Team Lead
- Post-graduate degree in social sciences or international development.
- Minimum ten years working experience Women’s empowerment programmes and good understanding and experience of UN.
- Demonstrated experience in implementing skilling and livelihood programmed for women and girls.
- Sound knowledge on human rights based approaches to programming on Women’s empowerment and livelihood;
- Excellent analytical skills and communication skills;
- Demonstrated excellent report writing skills in English;
Qualifications of Team Members
- Post-graduate degree in social sciences, international development or relevant field.
- At least seven years (for mid-level consultants) and five years (for junior consultants) experience in development, with specialisation in gender, social development and women’s rights.
- Significant knowledge and experience on working with girls and women on skilling and livelihood; gender equality into policies/programming/development.
- Excellent analytical skills and communication skills.
- Demonstrated writing skills in English with strong Hindi proficiency.