Expression of Interest For Study Of Locally Led Climate Adaptation And Mitigation Actions By Self-Help-Groups Of Women In India

Expression of Interest are invited for Study of Locally led Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Actions by Self-Help-Groups of Women in India The main objective of this study is to: (i) undertake a scoping/mapping exercise of programs that have worked on climate adaptation and mitigation solutions with womens SHGs across India, based upon a mutually agreed taxonomy of such models (by agro-ecological zone, crop grown, type of program implemented (led by the government, private sector or civil society), scale achieve, type of financing etc.; (ii) systematically document a select few models that have been scaled, by interviewing program implementers around the process followed, financing arrangements used, challenges faced in scaling up; and (iii) collate training modules that are gender-sensitive and that have been used by the selected models to build capacity of rural women to adopt such interventions (e.g., training modules on how to: shift to drought resistant indigenous varieties of rice, access climate data to make climate smart farming decisions, produce and use biogas, assemble and distribute biogas cookstoves etc.). Specifically, the assignment is aimed at completing the following broad tasks: (i) Meta-review of the range of promising climate adaptation and mitigation solutions used by womens groups in different states based on a mutually agreed taxonomy. (ii) Selection of a few models for in-depth assessment that can be discussed in a first workshop with the World Bank, DAY-NRLM, select state representatives and partners (iii) Development of methodology for in-depth assessment (iv) Travel and Field work: key informant interviews and short surveys with relevant staff and partners such as civil society organizations, private sector organizations and national and state government departments working on adaptation interventions or climate smart technology or RE solutions selected for the in depth assessment, to document how they went about working on the solution, how much did it cost (process cost heads), how did they train women, partners that needed to be involved, training modules used, governance and monitoring structure, time taken, what worked, what didnt, and challenges for scaling up; few focus group discussions (FGDs) with beneficiaries to document benefits perceived; (v) Development of a program implementation plan (PIP) with focused recommendations to DAY-NRLM on how to mainstream climate adaptation and mitigation through its SHG platforms for women, with an annex compendium of training modules used by the aforesaid models. (vi) Final workshop with DAY-NRLM to present the PIP and establish a community of practice (CoP)/knowledge exchange platform with different partners working on climate adaptation and mitigation solutions with womens SHGs across India. Tender Link : https://wbgeprocure-rfxnow.worldbank.org/rfxnow/public/advertisement/4871/view.html