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RFP-Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP) Study on Gender Norms and Soci...

India

  • Organization: Save the Children
  • Location: India
  • Grade: Consultancy - Consultant - Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Statistics
    • Women's Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming
    • Agriculture and Forestry
    • Scientist and Researcher
    • Food Security, Livestock and Livelihoods
    • Training
    • Advocacy
    • Microfinance
    • Rural
    • UrbanCapacity Building
  • Closing Date: Closed

Job id : 145738 Apply by: 10 Jul 2020 Relevant Sectors Agriculture, Livelihoods, Microfinance, Rural, Urban Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
Request for Proposal
 
Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP) study on gender norms and social practices that restrict young girls’ economic empowerment
 
Deadline for receipt of proposals at Save the Children: 
10th July 2020
Introduction:
 
Save the Children India, Bal Raksha, Bharat (SC) is a leading child rights organisation and an independent member of the International Save the Children Alliance, which works to deliver immediate and lasting improvement to children's lives worldwide. SC works with children, communities, government and civil society organizations across 16 states and Union Territories for realisation of children’s rights, particularly in the areas of quality education, protection from abuse and exploitation, health & nutrition, disaster risk management and climate change adaptation and protection in emergency situations and humanitarian crisis.
 
 
Adolescents and youths (15-24 years) comprise approximately 20% of the total population in West Bengal[1] (48% Girls and 52% Boys of total population). This large cohort of young people represents a great demographic dividend with the potential to contribute to the state’s overall economic growth and development. The state of West Bengal has a population of 9.03 crores of which 19.98% live below the poverty line.[2] Studies have shown that youths from the bottom 20 per cent (poorest) of the households are disproportionally disadvantaged in terms of access to education, employment, and skilling opportunities ascompared to youths belonging to middle and upper income households.[3] Hence, the transition from adolescence to adulthood is often not smooth due to poverty, poor access to social services (education, health, nutrition, skilling, and social protection) and age-old harmful social and gender-based norms.Adolescent girls are particularly disadvantaged due to patriarchal norms, forcing them to drop out of schools, get married and bear children at an early age. Such factors effect into; unutilised or underutilised youth energy, poverty, deprivation and inter-generation transfer of poverty and deprivation.
 
Although since 2005, West Bengal has outperformed other states in India in terms of job growth, the development is slow with less than a third of its women working. Female labour force participation stands at a dismal 16% in the state (vs. 82% male employment) and is lower than the national average of 33% (NSS 2011/12). Further, women’s labour force participation (LFP) has shown no improvement between 2004-05 and 2011-12. Additionally, it is also worth noting that labour force participation among women between younger women (age 15 to 30) is significantly lower than for older women (age 31 to 60) in both West Bengal and in India.
 
Lack of access to labour markets for young girls/ women is not only a loss to their well-being but also for India’s economic growth.
Societal and Gender norms play a critical role in preventing women from joining workforce. In India, much of the discussion on the falling trends has focused on four key explanations: 1) rising educational enrolment of young women; 2) lack of employment opportunities; 3) effect of household income on participation; and 4) measurement[4].
 
 
Save the Children, along with partner organization Sabuj Sangha and supported by SC Italy, is implementing the project on Child Poverty entitled, ‘New Horizons Plus, 2020-2023’’ in Kolkata and South 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal. Save the Children aimed to scale up its on-going New Horizons Programme in West Bengal. Specifically, in this project, the organization aims to break the vicious cycle of intergenerational poverty by bringing marginalized adolescents and youth (15-24 year) under existing government’s skilling platform, linking them with dignified livelihood options and facilitating linkages with government sponsored social security schemes. While doing so, the project also aims to contribute to improve the implementation and outreach of West Bengal Government’s ongoing social protection schemes, livelihood programmes and skill development initiatives. Further, the project will also focus to bring in changes to the attitude and practices of the targeted community through Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) to ensure investment of enhanced income towards children, breaking age-old harmful social and gender-based norms.
 
Our intervention will specifically focus on girls and young women (15 -24 years). In the context of targeted geographies, girls & boys experience adolescence differently. While boys tend to experience greater freedom, girls tend to face extensive limitations on their ability to move freely and to make decisions affecting their work, education, marriage and social relationships. The prevalence of biased social norms, behaviours and practices, and mind-sets across most regions in the country results in girls being exposed to discrimination, early marriage, early pregnancy, exploitation in work, poor education and health, sexual abuse, exploitation and violence, lack of ownership of assets and employment opportunities. Our work will explicitly address the existing ill harmful-practices linked with gender-based discrimination. Towards this, 50% of our beneficiaries will be girls and young women from the vulnerable sections and this initiative will provide them with life-skills, financial literacy, SRH, entrepreneurship skills& vocational training. Further, they will be linked with career opportunities in order to facilitate the smooth transition to safe and productive employment. Although the target is to have 50% females in our outreach, continuous efforts will be made to increase this number over the course of the intervention.
 
Towards this, the proposed project aims to adopt a multi-pronged approach focusing on the following components to ensure a dignified life for adolescents and youths –
  • Assessing the Labour Market to identify diversified and contextual livelihood opportunities for marginalized youths and families in the target region.
  • Skilling for Successful Transitions: The project will provide life skills and financial literacy training to lay the foundation of a better future to adolescents (15-17 year) and youth (18-24 years).
  • Provide knowledge on Sexual Reproductive and Health Rights and support in accessing the Health Services: It focusses on equipping and building adolescents’ capacities by informing and motivating them on importance of education, providing life skills, including Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR).
  • Access to Social Protection Services: The project will support vulnerable families, adolescents and youths in accessing relevant social protection schemes, attain legal documents, financial inclusion schemes and livelihood opportunities that will help targeted beneficiaries’ counter poverty and other vulnerabilities.
  • Working with Alumni groups (forming and strengthening) enable us to strengthen voices of youth and also create a platform to sustain our intervention related to awareness building.
  • Social Mobilisation: Age and context-specific activities will be conducted with the help of Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) tools for families, communities, local bodies to address social & gender norms, taboo, behaviour and practices. The aim is to bring a catalytic change in the way children’s and adolescents’ basic needs (i.e. education, health, nutrition, protection) are addressed within households and communities.
  • Collaboration: The project will form and nurture collaborations with training institutes, employers and government representatives to provide quality training, decent and conducive job environment and avenues for entrepreneurship.
Procedure for Application:
 
 
Save the Children is seeking proposals from interested organizations/individuals.
 
A.Technical Proposal
 
A narrative proposal including the following sections:
 
a)Study Methodology: Describe your overall approach and study methodology including, and not limited to, study/research questions, study design and methodology which includes technical specifications like an estimate of the sample size, methods to be used for collecting data from different categories of stakeholders and in data analysis and validation, in ethical considerations.
b)Relevant Experience: Provide details of projects of similar scope, complexity and nature you have worked on previously. Please include any experience with formative and summative study.
c)Specific Expertise: Describe your level of knowledge and expertise conducting quantitative and qualitative study, particularly in India.
d)Key Personnel and Staffing: Describe the key personnel. Include CVs (no more than 2 pages each and attach as annex) of key personnel who would be part of the proposed plan.
e)Timeline: Include a detailed timeline of key activities.
 
B.Financial proposal
 
The financial proposal should include a line-item budget and a budget narrative (specimen template is in Annexure 1). The consultant needs to prepare a financial proposal taking into consideration the following heads of expenses as a broad reference. The consultant is free to add or reduce the heads depending on the nature of the study design. However, it is preferable for the budget to be prepared with more details taking into account realistic cost estimation.
 
The Application should be sent through email. The Application comprising of financial proposal should be on organization’s / agency’s letterhead (signed and scanned pdf version) and shared via email. The Application comprising of technical and financial proposal should be addressed to Dr. Sharmistha Das at (s.das@savethechildren.in) with CC to Pranab Kumar Chanda (pranab.chanda@savethechildren.in) and Piyali Sen (p.sen@savethechildren.in) via e-mail by 10th July 2020. The subject line of the e-mail should read: “Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP) study on gender norms and social practices that restrict young girls’ economic empowerment”.
 
Submission timeline of the proposal – 10th July 2020. As the shortlisted consultant needs to interact with children s/he needs to sign and abide by Save the Children’s Child Safe Guarding Policy.
 
Only short-listed consultant / organizations will receive an acknowledgment and will be called for personal interactions. Consultants who do not hear from us within two weeks may assume that their application has not been successful.
 
For detailed information, please check the complete version of the RFP attached below.

[4]https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/---sro-new_delhi/documents/genericdocument/wcms_342357.pdf 

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