Name: Rfp - End Line For The Project, “ Preventing And Protecting The Rights Of Girls Against The Child, Early And Forced Marriages (Cefm)
Start: 2024-02-06
End: 2024-02-17
Location: Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3)

Organization Details:

Organization Name:

Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3)

Country:

India

Contact Person:

Address:

Location: Odisha ,

Contact Details - Email:

procurement@c3india.org

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Notice Details:

Notice Type

Tender Notice

Bidding Type

Other

Notice No.

77990289

Deadline

2024-02-17

Description

End line for the project, “ Preventing and protecting the rights of girls against the Child, Early and Forced marriages (CEFM) in
Odisha”
Request for Proposal
Background
Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3) brings with it over 30 years of experience working closely with adolescents, designing initiatives at-scale that would mobilize, equip, educate and empower young girls to reach their full potential. C3 recognizes that a change as systemic as the curbing of child marriage can only occur with interventions at each stage of a young girl’s life, ensuring they are equipped with the right knowledge, skills, and decision-making power. C3 began its investment in adolescent girls in India in 1987 with the launch of the Better Life Options Program to help adolescent girls make better life choices around education, rights, sexual and reproductive health, nutrition, hygiene and civic responsibility. C3’s approach of working on adolescent girl programs is an integrated and context specific framework with well-defined impact areas (e.g. Completing education, delaying age of marriage, being equipped and informed about SRHR, etc.). C3 uses group education methodology and context specific curricula and tools (print and digital) aimed at influencing gender attitudes and behaviour, building life skills and equipping them for accessing sexual and reproductive health and rights and creation of an enabling environment by working with communities and systems.
One in three of the world’s child brides live in India.1 The prevalence of child marriage in India was 27% in the last round of NFHS (2015-16), and 23.3 as per NFHS 5. Child marriages, a form of gendered violence, affect girls’ health, education and career options. Girls who live in rural areas or come from poorer households are at greater risk, and a higher proportion of child brides are found among those with little or no education2. The COVID 19 pandemic has exacerbated the situation. Girls have always faced the brunt in times of crises and COVID 19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown was no different. Childline, a children's helpline, has reported a 17% increase in distress calls related to early marriage of girls in June and July in 2020 compared to 20193. Factors like poverty and education are more likely to play a greater role in increasing child marriages. The economic constraints families go through in such times lead them to adopt negative coping mechanisms like getting girls married off. Finally, schools which protect girls from marriages were closed, which is expected to lead to girls dropping out, which in turn will lead to increased child marriages. Restriction on number of people who can be invited to a wedding has also pushed families to conduct hasty marriages since the marriages can be held on smaller budgets. The nationwide lockdown in the first phase of the pandemic caught everyone unawares. Closure of businesses, educational institutions led to a mass reverse migration and limiting people to their home. When the lockdown became prolonged and extended, that’s when financial losses began to kick in, a large majority of students could not access online classes, burden of care increased on girls and women.
Child marriage in Odisha at 20.5 % is a little below 23% for India. Government of Odisha is working hard for ending child marriage by 2030, but job losses and increased economic insecurity during COVID-19 pandemic are forcing families to marry their daughters to ease financial burden.
With administrative machinery and all other personnel busy in COVID 19 management, the vigilance on child marriage went down in the state of Odisha. Between January 1 and August 31 2020, the authorities managed to detect and prevent 706 child marriages in 16 of 30 districts of Odisha, according to a presentation made in a meeting of the state level child marriage prevention committee. Of these, 365 marriages – more than half – were held in three months between January 1 and March 24 – the day the national lockdown came into place. Since then, till August 31, 2020, the authorities were able to detect only 341 marriages in five months.
In Odisha, with the experience of implementing Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram in the state, the project used the platforms available through this program to raise awareness and protect girls from child marriage and worked in Daspalla block of Nayagarh district and Kaptipada block of Mayurbhanj district.
Goal and Intended Outcomes of the Project
Goal: Creation of an enabling and empowering eco-system to protect girl’s human rights, promote access to services, and safety from violence, abuse, and exploitation, by preventing Child and Early Forced Marriages.
Outcomes:
Increased capacity of 20,000 adolescent girls to protect themselves from child marriages via linkages with life skills, psychosocial, educational and skilling support, to establish pathways for adolescent girls to lead collective action against child marriage in the community
200 Adolescent Champions selected, trained and mentored as change-makers to implement campaigns, create early warning systems, and prevent child marriage in their communities reaching 1,25,000 stakeholders
100 faith based leaders selected and trained as change makers to increase awareness of 1,65,000 stakeholders such as families and communities on the harmful impact of child marriage and alternatives available through engagement with community
Messages around the consequences of child marriage and the importance of protecting girls’ rights spread to reach 41 lakh people which would help to prevent and mitigate risks of child marriage
Geographical Area and Coverage
To reach stakeholders and increase capacity of 20,000 girls (10-19 years), Nayagarh (block Daspalla) and Mayurbhanj (block Kaptipada) in Odisha, and Gumla and

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