Deadline: 4-Mar-22
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is requesting for proposals for Technical Partner for Utthaan – Urban Social Protection Program for Safai Sathis.
UNDP India has been working on addressing the plastic pollution through its integrated plastic waste management (PWM) approach in more than 30 cities since 2018. The programme is working towards implementing a socio-technical model, which addresses two-fold challenges in the domain – management of plastic waste through recovery and recycling and mainstreaming Safai Sathis (waste-pickers) in formal system through focus intervention on improving livelihoods and enabling social protection linkage. The project has successfully collected 76,600 MTs of plastic waste since 2018 and reached out to more than 10,000 Safai Sathis and their family members through this intervention.
The Social Protection Programme for Safai Saathis aims to enable access, facilitate effective and equitable administration of social protection programs, and increased livelihood resilience. The program will achieve this through awareness and an innovative and ‘whole-of-society’ approach to promote a more inclusive recovery in challenging circumstances, including a recovery that promotes gender equality.
Outcomes
To achieve this, UNDP proposes a comprehensive strategy based on three (3) complementary outcomes:
- Outcome 1: Inclusive and equitable social protection systems that leave no one behind will contribute to poverty reduction, reduce vulnerability across India and support populations left behind due to geography, vulnerability to shocks, discrimination, socio-economic model and impact of various laws and policies. The inclusion of previously left behind populations will help respond to multidimensional vulnerability.
- Outcome 2: Social protection programs are effectively administered reaching those furthest behind through capacity building and evidence-based planning. Improved capacity, documentation, and an understanding of challenges (both policy and operations) will strengthen the integrity of the social protection system, keep social protection equitable, responsive, and geared to inclusive distribution of resources while increasing efficiency and effectiveness of delivery.
- Outcome 3: Increased livelihood resilience as gender, vulnerable and marginalized groups, climate-related and other disaster related contingencies are being mainstreamed into social protection programs.
Deliverables
- Deliverable 1: Inception report including roll out strategy, detailed implementation plan, training details and timeline.
- Deliverable 2: Data of mapped 4500 Safai Sathis (50% in Mumbai and 50% in Delhi) to be submitted in MS Excel/ MIS as per the agreed UNDP formats.
- Deliverable 3: Training of minimum 6 Community Mobilisers (3 in Delhi and 3 in Mumbai).
- Deliverable 4: Submission of detailed report on awareness and information sharing sessions with 3000 Safai Sathis (1500 in Mumbai and 1500 in Delhi) including details on training batches.
- Deliverable 5: Submission of applications for 3000 Safai Sathis (1500 in Mumbai and 1500 in Delhi) from the mobilised group for accessing benefits. The hard copies of these forms should be reviewed monthly by UNDP Project Associate (Social Protection Program and Project Officer)
- Deliverables 6: Actual linkages to at least 2 government schemes per safai sathi should be achieved for atleast 3000 applicants (1500 in Mumbai and 1500 in Delhi).
- Deliverable 7: Data and supporting documents on each of the 3000 Safai Sathis (1500 in Mumbai and 1500 in Delhi) who have been linked with government program in MS Excel/MIS as per UNDP agreed formats.
- Deliverable 8: Well-designed and formatted digital Compendium of relevant government schemes/programs in English and Hindi.
- Deliverable 9: Documents, reports and proof should be submitted against all. Final report and a case studies compendium (professionally designed) should be submitted with the final invoice. The Service Provider should make sure to share data on a regular basis as per UNDP M&E mandates and MIS.
Qualifications
- At least three years of experience of working on social protection/government programs and working with government line departments. Organizations having experience of working in Maharashtra and/or New Delhi will be preferred.
- Should have linked at least 10,000 individuals with social protection and government welfare schemes.
- Notes:
- If no proposal meets the criteria, UNDP reserves the right not to reward the tender to any of the applicants. The convincing business case is a necessary condition.
- If bidders do not meet any of the criteria, their proposals will not be considered for further evaluation.
- Bidders meeting criteria are required to submit evidence (details / documents) in support – otherwise proposal maybe disqualified.
Competencies
- Technical Proposal (70%)
- Organization’s relevant experience as per the scope ofwork mentioned in the ToR: 20%
- Methodology and proposed work plan (all program activities with timelines and implementation strategy, COVID preparedness, use of technology, other details as mentioned in scope of work):30%
- Qualification and experience of the project team and other key personnel as specified in the ToR: 20%
- Financial Proposal (30%)
- To be computed as a ratio of the Proposal’s offer to the lowest price among the proposals received by UNDP.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=88304