Deadline: 17-Aug-22
UN Women calls for proposals for an implementing partner for mobilizing and skills training of marginalized women and girls in higher/technical/vocational institutes in Mumbai, Greater Mumbai, and Pune regions in Maharashtra, India.
Focus Areas
The proposed program will primarily focus on enabling girls pursuing their higher education (including distance learning), to mentor and provide digital skills and employability skills to them, in Mumbai, Greater Mumbai, and Pune Region in Maharashtra. These geographies have been selected based on the following criteria:
- Availability and high frequency of transportation for mobility
- Strong presence of industry and service sector
- Presence of internet and access to technology.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should beINR 2,00,00,000/- to INR 2,30,00,000/- [Indian Rupees Two Crore to Two Crore Thirty LakhsOnly]
Activities
UN Women seeks the services of a civil society organization (hereinafter referred as proponent organization) working in the mentioned geographical location with women and girls from marginalized backgrounds (hereinafter referred as target group), from higher/technical/vocational institutes in the specified geographies, to strengthen their opportunities for receiving formal education, employability skills and employment. The services of the organization are sought to fulfill the planned activities.
- Mobilization of candidates and creating an enabling environment:
- Train 2500 women from marginalized backgrounds in employability skills in higher/technical/vocational training institutes, Mumbai, Greater Mumbai, and Pune regions of Maharashtra.
- Provide industry exposure and placement support to trained candidates.
Outcomes
Create a cadre of skilled women and girls, who are digitally equipped to link to jobs, markets, and participate gainfully in the formal economy.
- Output 1: Enhanced knowledge of project stakeholders on education, skill and employment gaps for women
- Output 2: Enhanced awareness on employment pathways and 2500 women and young women enabled to pursue career aspirations.
- Output 3: Enhanced capacity of 2500 young women on transferrable, digital skills for increased employability.
Eligibility Criteria
- The organization must have a minimum 7 years of experience in facilitating and managing large scale skills development and placement projects.
- Five years of work experience on the issues of Gender equality, women’s empowerment, Livelihood, and related legislations.
- Demonstrable experience of designing, conducting, and monitoring of trainings/ capacity building workshops on skill/vocational training and placement initiatives.
- Demonstrable experience of developing skill training modules.
- Demonstrable experience of working with private sector companies for employment of women.
- Understanding of the local context and functional competency in the local languages in Maharashtra knowledge on the structure and functioning of vocational training system (it is) 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.
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2022/08/call-for-proposals-unw-ap-ind-cfp-2022-011-mobilizing-and-skills-training-in-maharashtra