Deadline: 11-Apr-22
UN Women invites proposals from civil society organisations for establishing training-cum-production centres in at least two out of three second chance education (SCE) programme districts (Jalagon, Nadurbar, and Mumbai M-Ward) in Maharashtra, India under the SCE and Vocational Learning Programme.
The Programme has built upon and expanded UN Women’s ongoing work and is offering pathways for young women and women, who have dropped out of education, either back into formal education or to employment or entrepreneurship.
The programme is also creating an evidence-based advocacy for women and young women’s second chance education and vocational learning through engagement with national and local policy makers and influencing frameworks/policies and strategies that enable marginalized women and young women to return to and remain in school and/or access vocational and entrepreneurial learning opportunities.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be INR 45,00,000 to INR 48,00,000.
- All work must be completed between 1st June 2022 to 31 December 2023.
Outcomes
The overall design of the Programme includes four outcome areas:
- More marginalized women and young women access and benefit from high quality educational content, material and learning pathways.
- More marginalized women and young women benefit from increased employment, livelihood and entrepreneurial opportunities.
- Fewer marginalized women and young women are disadvantaged and denied education opportunities due to harmful and discriminatory social norms.
- More marginalized women and young women have improved access to education and employment pathways through enhanced multi-sectoral policy and financing frameworks that enabling scaling of successful SCE solutions.
Competencies
- Organizational competencies:
- Five years of work experience on the issue of Gender equality, women’s empowerment, Livelihood, Governance and Violence against Women and related legislations.
- Five years of work experience on managing large scale skills development and placement projects for women and girls.
- Demonstrable experience of designing, conducting and monitoring of trainings/ capacity building workshops on professional/vocational training/ women’s livelihood and employment.
- Understanding of the local context and functional competency in the local languages in Maharashtra; knowledge on the structure and functioning of professional/vocational training system is desirable.
- Demonstrable experience of developing skill training modules.
- Demonstrable experience of networking with private/public sector companies and Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises to facilitate mentorship, exposure visits and employment of women and girls.
- Demonstrable experience in advocacy initiatives with Government institutions and other key stakeholders.
- Demonstrable experience in policy engagement and research on gender, skilling and employment issues.
- Ability to deliver efficiently large-scale training programmes in a defined timeline.
- Documenting, analyzing the change in learning outcomes through Monitoring & Evaluation tools.
- Qualifications and competenciesofTeam Leader:
- Post-graduate degree in social sciences or international development.
- Minimum fifteen years working experience in international development and good understanding and experience of UN;
- Experience in implementing skilling and livelihood programmed for women and girls;
- Sound knowledge on human rights based approaches to programming on WEE issues;
- Excellent analytical skills and communication skills;
- Excellent report writing skills in English;
- Qualifications and competencies of Team Members:
- Post-graduate degree in social sciences, international development or relevant field.
- At least ten 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 WEE;
- Recent experience with gender equality issues and knowledge of mainstreaming gender equality into policies/programming/development;
- Experience working in India specially in Maharashtra;
- Excellent analytical skills and communication skills;
- Demonstrated writing skills in English and strong Hindi proficiency.
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2022/03/call-for-proposals-unw-ap-ind-cdp-2022-003-training-cum-production-centres-in-maharashtra-india-for-second-chance-education-and-vocational-learning-programme