Deadline: 3-Feb-22
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is inviting you to submit a Proposal to this Request for Proposal (RFP) for “Facilitating collectivization and market access for farmers, and setting-up local micro-enterprises in districts of Jamnagar and Devbhumi Dwarka, Gujarat”.
The key areas of project intervention include promoting entrepreneurship, enhancing access to employment, facilitating collectivization and market access for farmers, and leveraging government schemes and enabling access to entitlements.
The overall aim of this project is to develop the potential of the rural and semi urban communities and provide them with the opportunities to enhance their livelihoods in sectors like agriculture, dairy, poultry, handloom, goat rearing and handicraft, etc. The project also will help in building their managerial capabilities and providing stronger market linkages.
Objectives
The main objective of the project includes the following:
- Promoting entrepreneurship – Support youth and women economic empowerment through setting up demand driven micro and nano enterprises (self-employed) through mentoring and business advisory support.
- Enhancing access to employment – Strengthen the employment ecosystem in the project area for enhanced access to jobs through building soft skills of youth and facilitating employer-employee interface for job placement.
- Facilitating market access for farmers – Improve capacities of FPOs and enable enhanced market linkages through linking farmers’ collectives and groups with finance and market opportunities.
- Leveraging government schemes and enabling access to schemes and entitlements – Enhanced access to relevant social entitlement and livelihoods welfare schemes of central and state governments for the poor and vulnerable.
Location: Devbhumi Dwarka and Jamnagar, Gujarat
Duration: February 2022-July 2023
Eligibility Criteria
- A vendor should not be suspended, debarred, or otherwise identified as ineligible by any UN Organization or the World Bank Group or any other international Organization.
- Vendors are therefore required to disclose to UNDP whether they are subject to any sanction or temporary suspension imposed by these organizations.
- It is the Bidder’s responsibility to ensure that its employees, joint venture members, sub-contractors, service providers, suppliers and/or their employees meet the eligibility requirements as established by UNDP.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=87221