RFP for Establishment and sustenance of Standard Nutrition Garden at household level among the rural community within four development blocks

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

 (HCLF/RFP/Samuday/Agri/Nutri/15022024)

 

HCLFoundation, under its flagship programme Samuday, invites proposals for ‘Establishment and sustenance of Standard Nutrition Garden at household level among the rural community within four development blocks’ in Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh.

 

RFP released by	HCLFoundation
RFP Code	HCLF/RFP/Samuday/Agri/Nutri/15022024
Programme Name	Samuday
Date of Posting	23st October 2024
Last date for submission	5th November 2024
Location	Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh

About HCLFoundation

HCLFoundation delivers the corporate social responsibility agenda of HCLTech in India through its flagship programmes and special initiatives. It is a not-for-profit organisation that strives to contribute towards national and international development goals, bringing about lasting positive impact in the lives of people, through long-term sustainable programmes.

HCLFoundation aims to alleviate poverty and achieve inclusive growth and development. Active community engagement ensures optimal long-term gains and upward accountability. It works through Life Cycle Based, Integrated Community Development Approach with a thematic focus on Education, Health, Skill Development and Livelihood, Environment, and Disaster Risk Reduction and Response. Child protective strategies, inclusion, and gender transformative approaches remain central in all initiatives of HCLFoundation, thus ensuring comprehensive development. At present, HCLFoundation is implementing five flagship programmes, Samuday and HCLTech Grant – Rural Development programmes; Uday and My Clean City – Urban Development programmes; Harit - Environment Action programme and 4 special initiatives - Power of One, Sports for Change, Academy and My E-Haat.

For more details, please visit our website – https://www.hclfoundation.org

Description of RFP

For decades, nutrition has been a top development focus. Nutritional security is a global topic that continues to pose a significant burden for underdeveloped countries. India is ranked 101 out of 116 countries in the Global Hunger Index-2022. India has a score of 30.3, indicating that country has a major hunger problem. Although India is the world's second largest producer of fruits and vegetables, it also has the world's second largest population of undernourished people. Long-term impacts of malnutrition include cognitive and growth deficits, as well as lowered immunity to infection. Vegetables play a significant role in our daily lives, especially for vegetarians' nutritional security. They are a good source of vitamins, proteins, and minerals. The importance of vegetables and fruits in terms of human nutrition, national economies, and health standards is well acknowledged. According to the dietary advice, an adult should consume 85 g of fruits and 300 g of vegetables per day for a balanced diet, however the current level of vegetable production in the country only allows for a per capita consumption of 120 g vegetables per day. Nutrition, kitchen, and home gardens have all been found to help resource-poor rural households in developing countries improve their food security. This is one of the simplest ways to ensure that a balanced diet with appropriate macro and micronutrients is available and it is especially crucial.

By addressing these issues, HCLFoundation aims in providing Nutrition Garden which is a low cost, scientific model of home garden with variety of nutritious, vegetables and fruits plants produced throughout the year organically. Objective of a Nutrition Garden is to improve the dietary requirement of the rural households and improve the malnutrition indices by providing ½ kg of fresh naturally grown vegetables from Standard Nutrition Garden to rural household throughout the year in sustained manner of Hardoi district.

The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to appoint an institution / social sector organization, which would undertake all the activities pertaining to establishment and management of Nutrition Garden in households through regular counselling and monitoring to ensure that the requirements of the intervention are met and the end beneficiary obtains the desired result.

Scope of Work

RFP seeks an organization which will support in establishing and managing HCLFondation recommended Standard Nutrition Garden while achieving the following objectives:

• Ensure identification of the marginal family (landless family in preference) with space to establish standard Nutrition Garden in their household vicinity
• Enhance beneficiary’s awareness and knowledge about nutrition and its associated factors by capacity building and counselling
• Ensure establishment of standard Nutrition Garden Model as per the criteria recommended by HCLFoundation
• Ensure the year-round sustainability and productivity of the Nutrition Garden
• Ensure the timely use of bio formulations (Amrit jal, Amrit Khad, Neem oil, Neem khad) by the household to prevent application of chemical supplements, which can reduce the consumability of the fresh harvest by the household
• To ensure assessment of the household (Pre and Post) to measure impact of availability of fresh and chemical free vegetables from Nutrition Garden on the household
• Foster volunteer-driven community cadres trained by the agency, to take ownership of the intervention and ensure its scalability and sustainability. 

Who Can Apply        

• Not-for-Profit organizations with valid 12A & 80G certificates are preferred.
• Preference will be given to organization who have prior experience of working in Uttar Pradesh.
• The organization should have prior expertise in working in agriculture, nutrition and women empowerment.

Submission Details & Deadlines

• Please submit proposals (1. Technical & Financials/Budget) by 5^th November 2024 as per mail to:

1. Technical proposal with organizational details (as per template) to be submitted to – tiwari-r@hcltech.com  marking in cc.    renu.mahato@hcltech.com in cc.
2. Financial/proposed budget (as per annexure II) to be submitted to - mehrotrar@hcltech.com

• Please send in your submissions with Subject Line in the given format: HCLF/RFP/Samuday/Agri/Nutri_<Name of Organization>
• All enquiries regarding this RFP should be made before 30-10-2024 via email to tiwari-r@hcltech.com  & renu.mahato@hcltech.com
• Proposals received after the due date will be liable for rejection.
• Proposal must include all the components mentioned above.
• We will adhere to strict activities-timeline listed as per Annexure 01. We encourage organizations to submit proposal and deliver the said work keeping the defined timelines as per the HCLFoundation’s Gantt Chart in Annexure 01.

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