Deadline: 31-May-22
The Public Affairs Section (PAS) Mumbai is seeking applications for promoting women’s economic empowerment by helping Indian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) develop and implement practices and policies that better attract and retain female staff.
This project aims to encourage and enable Indian companies to develop and implement practices and policies that better attract and retain female staff. Through a series of training workshops, American and Indian experts will highlight global best practices, and share their experiences and expertise with the management and human resource leaders of select Indian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to help them better formulate, roll out, and enforce gender-inclusive workplace policies.
Objectives
- Within 18 months, train management and HR leaders of at least 100 SMEs in the effective design and implementation of workplace policies and practices that will improve gender equity in their organizations. A key component of the training will be the sharing of best practices adopted by U.S. counterparts and networking between Indian and U.S. SMEs.
- A successful grantee will have a strong understanding of the Indian business landscape as well as the market, regulatory, and cultural contexts in which Indian businesses operate so that they can effectively identify, recruit, and influence participating organizations.
- A successful project would result in at least 30 percent of participating SMEs reporting the official adoption of new gender-inclusive policies and practices in a post-training survey conducted six months after the conclusion of the training sessions.
Funding Information
- Funding Mechanism Type: Grant
- Estimated Total Project Funding: USD 50,000
- Estimated Award Ceiling (Maximum): USD 50,000
- Estimated Award Floor (Minimum): USD 40,000
- Length of Project Period: Not to exceed 18 months
- Anticipated program start date: September 15, 2022
Project Audience(s): The project’s primary audiences are the management and human resource leads of SMEs. The project’s beneficiaries include both the companies, which stand to benefit from the improved recruitment and retention of female talent, as well as the female employees of participating companies.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following organizations are eligible to apply:
- Not-for-profit organizations
- Civil society/non-governmental organizations
- Think tanks
- Public and private educational institutions
- Individuals
- Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339327