UNDP seeking Proposals for Livelihoods Promotion – India
Deadline: 15 July 2020
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) kindly request to submit your proposal for “COVID-19 Response: Livelihoods Promotion through Agri-Nutrition Gardens in Assam”.
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With over 9 million people infected by COVID-19 globally, this pandemic has created enormous pressure on healthcare systems, livelihoods, and has even brought major economies to an almost standstill. Although India fared better than other countries in the initial stages, India is now ranked fourth globally in official cases and experiencing new daily case peaks as the virus spreads and continues to grow on a daily basis.
The nationwide lockdown and shuttering of non-essentialservices caused a tremendous upheaval of daily life and unleashed a wave of reverse migration. As seen nationally and globally, the lockdown interventions and abrupt shuttering of economies have created huge pressure on unemployment levels and livelihoods. Project Agri-Nutrition Garden has been designed by UNDP to create an ecosystem to improve household level food security and alleviate micronutrient deficiencies; critical to help enhance immunity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In rural areas where there are limited income earning opportunities – especially now during the COVID-19 pandemic – home gardens can ensure a healthy diet of macro and micronutrient rich produce. Therefore, the project shall work on Agri-Nutri Gardens in the specified project locations by providing technical training support, value addition and processing of existing farm produce through small scale machinery support, and appropriate digital & non-digital marketing linkages development.
Objectives
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The objective of the proposed assignment would be:
Implement & handhold the field components of the project in 3 clusters in Assam for at least 300 farmers / SHGs with support from existing Government programmes such as NRLM, etc. for the successful functioning of the programme.
Develop training modules and organise trainings on Scientific Package of Practices and Business Development.
Handhold and guide the Lead Farmersin training the fellow farmers and ensuring the adoption of the PoP and technologies.
Development of community led institutions / enterprises for food processing, marketing and business development.
Support the institutions / enterprises in market linkages and business development of the local and processed produces.
Expected Outputs
It is expected that the Service Provider would work towards achieving the following key outputs:
Training successfully imparted to lead farmers and PG/PO
Processing of Agricultural / Horticultural products and marketing
Market linkages of the produce from the farm and the processing units
Eligibility Criteria
At least 5 years of experience of working in livelihood and value chain sector.
In-depth understanding and proven experience of at least 5 years in mentoring and incubating individual and group enterprises.
Note:
If bidders do not meet any of the above listed criteria, their proposals will not be considered for further evaluation.
Bidders meeting above listed criteria are required to submit evidences (details / documents) in support – otherwise proposal may be disqualified.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=67611