RFP - Agency to conduct Baseline Evaluation of Project on ‘Creating a Women-Led Gender-Transformative Eco-System in Rajasthan’

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About the Organization

Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3), is a not for profit organization that improves the lives of women and girls in India. Through local partnerships and programs, C3’s proven approach to development gives women, young girls and boys the tools they need to improve their lives, as well as that of their families and communities. Our programs focus on increasing educational and livelihood opportunities for adolescent girls and women ensuring access to life saving reproductive health information and services, and strengthening their ability to become leaders in their communities. C3 is leading a range of interventions to promote women’s leadership and gender integration across the country.

About the Proposal

Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3) invites proposals from qualified firms/consultants/individual experts to conduct a Baseline Evaluation for a 3-year project on creating a women-led gender-transformative ecosystem in 200 Gram Panchayats across 4 districts of Rajasthan. This baseline will establish values for key indicators on prevalence of Gender-Based Violence, social norms, leadership capacity, help-seeking behaviors, and system responsiveness to address rigid gender norms limiting women and girls' access to skills, livelihood and GBV support services. Based on a gender analysis of roles, needs and intersectional power dynamics the baseline will provide data and insights to inform and monitor the program.

Rigid social norms and traditional gender roles among in communities, societal influencers and gatekeepers, limit institutional support, hindering women and girls from accessing education, skills, and support services for GBV in domestic and public domains. Despite the women’s collective network being reckoned as groups which exert collective agency and action, even within these networks, very few women seek formal support for GBV, especially domestic violence. Within this social context, our project aims to establish a gender-transformative ecosystem driven by empowered Elected Women Representatives (EWRs, n=600) in panchayats, SRLM SHG leaders (n=800), and young women (18-30 years, n=2000), indirectly reaching approximately 500,000 women in total. It tests a GBV prevention and response model via working with Panchayat Level Gender Forums (PLGFs), activated Gender Resource Centres (GRCs), and convergence with other formal and informal service providers. The project intends to work on prevention and response of Gender Based Violence at individual, collective, and system levels. It intends to shift gender attitudes of EWRs and women’s collective leaders, recognition of different forms of violence, action on making their villages gender friendly, developing and pushing for gender sensitive infrastructure in the villages, encouraging actions on gender-based violence and gender-based discrimination etc.

Outcomes of the Project

• 1: 40% increase in comprehensive knowledge of their governance roles, entitlements for women and girls, and available rights and support services related to genderbased violence (GBV) for EWRs and SHG leaders
• 2: 25% of Young women who are daughters/daughter in law of SHG members and younger members of SHGs will exhibit significant improvements in digital and financial literacy, protections pertaining to Technology Facilitated GBV.
• 3. 25% of EWRs promote gender friendly and poverty free gram panchayats 4. 10% of SHG leaders and Young Women as Community Leaders women will demonstrate agency through their practices and actions, actively communicating their learning to others within their social networks and spheres of influence.

Objectives

• Establish baseline values for short-term outcome indicators (e.g., knowledge and awareness about GBV prevention and response services and women and girls’ social entitlements among Elected Women Representatives/women’s collective leaders/young women/other ecosystem actors; help-seeking rates and behavior; PLGF and GRC functionality).
• Assess current social norms, attitudes toward GBV among program participants and duty-bearers, and the barriers to support-seeking and access to essential support services.
• Nature and extent of current efforts and capacities for gender integration, including mapping and functioning of existing GRCs, PLGFs, and their linkages to formal support services (One-Stop Centres, health services, legal services, police, cyber cells).
• Assess current Livelihood readiness (both farm and non-farm) specially for members of SHGs. Women Panchayat Leaders’ understanding and perceptions around what are the barrier and enabling factors for women to pursue livelihood options, what is their role in furthering it in their panchayats.

C3 invites proposals for a project baseline with a clearly defined methodology, preferably, Quasi-Experimental, mixed methods, evaluation design using quantitative and qualitative methodology. It is suggested that the survey covers Elected Women Representatives and Women Collective leaders from the implementation area, and a matching sample across comparison areas for the quantitative assessment. It will be useful to include family members and key community level leaders in the assessment, to understand the impact of the intervention during the course of the program (numbers to be decided by research agency/individual consultant) in consultation with C3. Under the proposed intervention, impact would also be assessed through qualitative methods to capture processes and engagement of officials and stakeholders of the project.

The technical proposal should include details of methodology, sampling frames and units, indicators to be measured, proposed structure of tools to be used, data gathering and analysis plans, team composition, and deliverables.

Project Geographic scope: 200 Gram Panchayats in 4 Rajasthan districts The Project will be implemented in all blocks of Alwar and Dausa and 100 GPS from each district.

 Project Target groups: 600 EWRs, 800 SHG leaders, 2000 young women (18-30, SHGlinked), duty-bearers (police, health workers, GRC staff), community members.

Apart from tis, 1 block each in Kota (Ladpura) and Rajasmand (Bhim) blocks C3 will support with technical assistance for GRCs.

How to Apply

Interested agencies should share the technical and financial proposal and the agency's credentials with procurement@c3india.org by 5.30 pm on/before 15 th February 2026

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