Deadline: 12 January 2017
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) on behalf of National Water Mission (NWM), Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation (MoWR, RD & GR), Government of India (GoI) is seeking Expression of Interest (EoI) to empanel reputed Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) having prior experience in water sector to promote water conservation, augmentation and preservation.
Program Goals
The five identified goals of the Mission are:
- Comprehensive water database in public domain and assessment of impact of climate change on water resource
- Promotion of citizen and state action for water conservation, augmentation and preservation
- Focused attention to vulnerable areas including over-exploited areas
- Increasing water use efficiency by 20%,
- Promotion of basin level integrated water resources management.
Program Scopes
- Promotion of Water literacy, awareness building and sensitization at stakeholder level (e.g. awareness building on water-efficient technologies, best practices and techniques).
- Development and promotion of innovative technologies, techniques, processes, products, etc. for effective water augmentation, conservation and management.
- Develop modules and deliver customized capacity building, skilling and trainings to suite regional requirements for key stakeholder (e.g. barefoot engineers and technicians, communicators, social workers and volunteers).
- Specific indicator based customize Data collection at local and regional scales promote GIS enabled information sharing system in regional and local levels and languages.
- Water demand assessment and management at local and regional scales.
- Adaptation of appropriate technologies with required upscaling/ downscaling (including judicious mix of traditional and modern technologies.
- Initiate a multi stakeholder’s consultative process, sharing success stories organizing forums for Action Dialogue, Status and Potential Solution for collective action towards achieving Outcome Based River Basin Action Plans (OBRBAP) specifying strategies and mechanism to accomplish river basin outcomes from short, medium and long-term perspective.
- Any other activities decided by the NWM, MoWR, RD & GR.
Eligibility Criteria
- Registered Distinct Legal Entity: The NGOs or VOs applying should not be running for profit to any individual or body of individuals and be a registered distinct legal entity under:
- The Central Societies Registration Act 1860 or under corresponding State Act
- Indian Trust Act, 1882 (Not for profit)
- Charitable Company licensed under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1958
- Autonomous bodies incorporated under a statute of Govt. of India or a State Govt.
- Private limited non-profit Company under section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013
- The Charitable Trust Act or Other statutes
- Cooperative Societies
- Public Trusts
- A Minimum of 3 Years’ Experience in Water Resource Management: The NGOs at the time of Applying for the empanelment should have minimum 3 years of experience in executing water related projects (eg. Watershed, Drinking Water, Water Literacy and Mass Awareness, and Advocacy on Water Conservation and environment etc.).
- Should Not Have Been Blacklisted: The NGOs or VOs applying should not be blacklisted by Central/State Governments in the last 3 years at the time of submitting the application for this EoI.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: India
For more information, please visit National Water Mission.