Deadline: 8-Feb-21
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) hereby invites you to submit a Proposal to this Request for Proposal (RFP) for “ Enterprise training and business development assistance with mentorship support through women community Cadres (Unnati Sakhi’s)”.
Project Code Unnati: Empowering Youth and Women for Future Employability Skills and Entrepreneurship is a three -year partnership project between United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Volunteers (UNV), and through the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) support from SAP Labs India Private Limited (“SAP”).
The project aims to improve access to entrepreneurship and employment opportunities for 20,000 youth and 5000 women, while also empowering them to make informed decisions. Across the two proposed target groups (youth and women), the interventions would work towards increased awareness, enhancing employability and business skills capacity, facilitation of linkages, mentorship support and nurturing the innovation potential of youth and women of rural and urban areas.
The project activities will be implemented across 3 districts in the state of Karnataka viz. Bangalore Rural, Dakshin Kannada and Raichur. The proposed project builds on UNDP’s experiences on youth and women empowerment globally and specifically in India, its deep engagement with the state government of Karnataka and leverages United Nations Volunteers (UNV)’s strong on-the-ground presence present across the country. It also incorporates the essence of SAP’s CSR strategies to make a meaningful contribution to communities, emphasizing on the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
- SDG 1, No poverty: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
- SDG 5, Gender Equality: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
- SDG 8, Decent Work and Economic Growth: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
Objectives
Main aim of this assignment is to improve the local support system in 3 districts (Bangalore Rural, Raichur, and Dakshin Kannada) and enhanced the capacity amongst women to start and run micro-enterprises on a sustainable basis, leading to increased income. UNDP intends to partner with an experienced and competent agency to achieve the above aim and following objectives:
- Creation of pool of master trainers, local community mentors and improving the capacity of women and SHGs network.
- Improving the availability of business advisory services, mentoring and handholding support to women.
- Improved access to government support schemes and enterprise development services.
- Demonstrating entrepreneurship as an attractive and income-generating avenues for women.
Outcomes
The outcome of Project Code Unnati are:
- Promotion of rural women-owned microenterprises by creating a local mentorship and facilitation system through a community-based businesswomen mentors (Unnati Sakhis) who provide awareness, trainings, psychosocial support and handholding support through mentorship in a sustainable manner to the aspiring and budding women entrepreneurs.
- Ensuring that youth, especially girls, are better equipped to make informed career choices and capable to access income generation opportunities in 50 Government colleges through career guidance, counselling, digital/ employability skills training and entrepreneurship development programs (EDP) to improve their employability and entrepreneurial skills – including enhanced digital and 21st century skills – with improved connectedness with industry for job/internship/apprenticeship and connect/access to Incubation/Accelerator programs for entrepreneurship.
- Improved institutional ecosystem to support above objectives by ensuring teachers/faculties working in Government colleges have capacity to guide/mentor students and also government stakeholders including policy makers are sensitized through access to mentorship training programs, digital platforms, printed training materials and other communication materials.
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.
Examination Criteria
Proposals will be examined to determine whether they are complete and submitted in accordance with RFP, requirements as per the below criteria on a Yes/No basis:
- Technical proposal is submitted separate to financial proposal.
- Financial proposal is password encrypted; further do not disclose price on the technical proposal/
eTendering portal. Otherwise proposal will get disqualified. - Submission of CVs of proposed key personnel to be engaged.
- Submission of latest Business Registration Certificate.
- Submission of latest Audited Financial Statements for 3 years, including profit & loss account
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=74723