Name: Request For Proposal For Developing Manual On Legal Rights Of Lgbtq+ And Fsw Community
Start: 2023-11-11
End: 2023-11-21
Location: The Humsafar Trust

Organization Details:

Organization Name:

The Humsafar Trust

Country:

India

Contact Person:

Address:

Location: India ,

Contact Details - Email:

procurement@humsafar.org

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Notice Details:

Notice Type

Tender Notice

Bidding Type

Other

Notice No.

74335584

Deadline

2023-11-21

Description

Request for Proposal: HST-NETREACH-2023/11/01
Request for Proposal for developing manual on Legal Rights of LGBTQ+ and FSW Community
Purpose of Consultancy
Manual on Legal Rights and Responsibilities of LGBTQ+ and FSW Community
Project Owner
The Humsafar Trust
Duration for Completion
Up to 15th January 2024
Last Date of Submission
21-11-2023
About The Humsafar Trust
Founded in April 1994, The Humsafar Trust (HST) is India’s first community-based organization (CBO) of self-identified homosexual men, men who have sex with men (MSM), Hijras and Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (LBT) persons. The HIV interventions of HST are supported by National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) and Mumbai District AIDS Control Society (MDACS) to provide health services to men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender (TG) communities every year through public health care delivery systems and its in-house clinics.
HST organizes advocacy workshops for health care provides, law enforcement agencies, judiciary, legislators, politicians and political parties, government bodies, media, student community, corporate staff to sensitize them on Gay, MSM and TG issues. HST also builds capacities of Community Based Organizations in 27 Indian states on HIV prevention, treatment, care & support and advocacy for LGBTQ rights, in addition to providing legal support, crisis management, mental health and nutrition counselling to its communities. Kindly refer to the website https://humsafar.org/ for more details about the organization.
Background of the RFP
In India, the members of the LGBTQ+ and Female sex workers (FSW) community continue to face stigma and discrimination. There is a growing fear of coming out from the closet to identify oneself from the community. Despite the Honourable Supreme Court confirming the rights of the LGBTQ+ and FSW community, many remain unidentified due to fear of harassment. Not only do they face stigma but because of fear of coming out they remain invisible and lack access to health care services and other social entitlement provisions including the realization of basic human rights.
Among the LGBTQ+ and FSW community, physical health and mental wellbeing continues to be a pressing concern leading to increased vulnerability and further marginalization. The community’s social exclusion is compounded by lack of adequate access to social protection measures including curtailed rights. Since 2014, affirmative changes have taken place in India in terms of recognising fewer rights of LGBTQ+ and FSW community. With the emergence of a more LGBTQ+ and FSW aware and tolerant ecosystem, there is a need to better educate the community about their rights and welfare provision enacted from time to time. This can further contribute towards being the change makers themselves in addressing the challenges related to recognition of equal rights for the community.
Through this RFP, we invite individuals/agencies to develop a manual to provide better understanding of the judgements affecting the lives of the LGBTQ+ and FSW communities such as judgement on section 377, NALSA judgement, Supreme Court’s direction on ‘sex work is a profession’. Collating and simplifying these judgement and direction is expected to empower the community to be able to advocate for their rights to promote gender equality, social and legal acceptance in society.
The objectives are as follows:
To simplify the legal judgement/direction affecting the lives of LGBTQ+ and FSW community for better understanding of the community to understand their rights.
To be able to use the manual by the community as advocacy tool.
Scope of Work
The selected agency/consultant(s) is expected to review the judgement/direction pertaining to LGBTQ+ and FSW community and simplify the content for better understanding of the community:
Perform a desk review of the judgement and directions provided by the Honourable Supreme Court of India
Conduct community consultation to take inputs from the community of FSW and LGBTQ+
Simplify the judgement/direction for comprehension of the community members
Provide relevant section-wise rights of the community under different chapters/sections
Scope for advocacy with different stakeholders
Brief report of community consultation
These Terms of Reference (ToR) may vary to reflect the changing needs of The Global Fund and HST, Alliance India, and NACO. This will be done in consultation with the selected agency/consultant(s). The selected agency/consultant(s) will be expected to work in a flexible and adaptable manner, responding to changing needs, priorities and context.
4. Safeguards
Agency/consultant(s) are advised to adhere to the HIV and AIDS (P&C) Act 2017 and especially adhering to consent & confidentiality and in respecting the human rights of all participants during the process of developing the manual. The HST is committed to safeguard community members’ confidentiality, respect for online spaces and not intrude to cause imbalance (disgrunt) in discussion themes or services emanating from the project.
The agency/consultant(s) will ensure non-discriminatory approach while developing

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