Deadline: 3-Jun-22
UN Women India is implementing a programme titled “COVID-19 and ensuring women’s health, wellness, and safety in rural spaces in the tea sector in Assam” to forge and strengthen multi-sectoral partnerships in Assam, India.
The programme aims to effectively respond to the COVID-19 and pandemic through targeted interventions, mitigate the impacts of the pandemic, and enhance women workers’ health, wellness, and safety in the tea sector.
Objectives
- Inform: Assess the impact of COVID 19 on women and girls in the tea sector in rural spaces to inform locally owned women’s health, wellness and safety solutions for COVID 19 response and recovery
- Get the Information out: Leaders in a range of sectors (workers in tea / government/ producers/managers/associations and other civil society groups including women health workers) have access to information to enable women and girls’ fullest role in COVID-19 response, with a priority focus on women’s health, wellness and safety. Builds capacities of 8500 rightsholders through training programmes etc.
- Provide Critical Support: Women workers’ access to health and other essential services in the tea sector in Assam are increased.
Funding Information
The budget range for this proposal should be INR 48,10,000 – INR 59,20,000].
Activities
- Design and present the approach and methodology to UN Women to engage in building capacities (training programmes etc.) of the stakeholders on women’s health and wellbeing on measures to respond to escalating risks related to VAWG during COVID-19 in the Tea gardens in Assam, approximately 10-12 tea estates with an outreach of 8500 rightsholders.
- Design and present the approach and methodology to UN Women to engage the Women’s Safety and Empowerment Tea Platform in Assam to facilitate dialogue for gendered understanding and management during humanitarian crisis.
- Design and present the communication outreach strategy to UN Women for wider dissemination of the project messaging towards responding to women’s health and wellbeing to VAWG during COVID- 19 and aftermath.
Responsibilities
- The CSO/ NGO will work directly with UN Women India Programme Team, who will provide advice, guidance and information as appropriate.
- The CSO/NGO is expected to provide highly qualified resources/personnel for this specific assignment, with appropriate skills and expertise.
- The CSO/NGO will work in collaboration with UN Women personnel to complete the assignment and will bear all the related costs based on the schedule of payments to successfully achieve the end results of this assignment.
Eligibility Criteria
- Qualifications of the Organisation
- The agency should have at least five years of experience in conducting large scale field implementation projects on issues of gender equality, women’s empowerment, public finance management, and/or gender responsive governance focused in India and at the state level.
- The agency should have a national presence and preferably state presence, with proven experience and /or outreach and knowledge of local language of the proposed states highly desirable. Proven experience of working with central and state Governments, other development and UN agencies would be an asset.
- Not profit Organisations which are registered in India with following background and experience will be eligible.
- Qualifications of Key Personnel
- Master’s degree in social science, development studies, gender studies or any other related and relevant studies for this assignment;
- A minimum of five years experiences in providing high-quality implementation on issues of gender equality, women’s empowerment, and/or gender responsive governance focused in India and at the state level in partnerships with Central/State Governments and International Organizations, and demonstrable experience in organizational learning and training programmes;
- Proven experience of working with central and state Governments, other development and UN agencies would be an asset.
- Ability to deliver quality services within the timelines provided.
- Fluency in English required and state languages desirable.
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2022/05/call-for-proposals-unw-ap-ind-cfp-2022-007-womens-health-wellness-and-safety-in-rural-spaces-india