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Endline of “Engaging with boys, life skills, livelihood and gender equality project” Request for Proposal Background Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3), formerly CEDPA India, began its investment in youth in India in 1987 with the launch of the Better Life Options Program (BLP) to help adolescent girls make “better life choices”.C3 works to mobilize women and girls to achieve gender equality.C3’s vision is a future in India where women and girls are fully empowered and equipped to realize their rights, access opportunities and achieve gender equality and are able to fulfil their dreams free from the constraints of poverty and inequality. Over the decades, C3 has been able to establish itself as a pioneer institution in the area of adolescence sexual and reproductive health.Equipping adolescents with life-skills for better life choices and providing relevant information so that they are able to choose an aspirational future is one of the key focus of C3’s Adolescence Program.For the last 10 years, C3 has been providing technical assistance to various government departments in Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Delhi working for/with adolescents, with the twin purposes of maximizing outreach and building the system’s capacity for effective delivery of programs and schemes. Through the proposed intervention of three years C3 intends that young boys develop gender equal attitudes, demonstrate gender equal behaviour and counter gender stereotypes in their communities leading to a balance in the genders. The objectives are Objective 1:Build confidence and self-esteem in boys, support them to appreciate their qualities and abilities, life skills and attitudes and improve their capability in being gender egalitarian in constructive and creative relationships Result 1.1: Adolescent boys have better understanding of gender, relationships and knowledge of SRH and rights, access to health services, etc. Result 1.2: Increased capability of adolescent boys in being gender egalitarian in constructive and creative relationships Result 1.3: Improvement in adolescent boys understanding and appreciation of diversity of masculinity and male roles. Objective 2: Facilitate understanding of life goals and improve work readiness in boys to avail livelihood opportunities Result 2.1: Young boys can identify their life goal and plan to realise their goal Result 2.2: Young boys’ take up skilling opportunities increases by 20% over the baseline Objective3: Empower communities to become gender equal and support community level actions to promote gender equality Result 3.1: Awareness about gender issues built at the community level Result 3.2: Plans for promoting gender equal communities preparedat the Gram Panchayat levelResult 3.3: Episodes of violence against women & girls come down from what is reported in the baseline by 10 percent Result 3.4: Adolescents run effective community action/ initiatives for their rights and counter gender stereotypes Objective 4: Build a health system that has the capacity of sensitively responding to the needs of the boys, with responsive and respectful care Result 4.1: Proportion of boys accessing services increases by 10% over the baseline Result 4.2: Boys reporting receiving gender sensitive services increases over baseline by 10 percentThe project is being implemented in six blocks namely Basia, Palkot, Bharno & Dumri of Gumla district and Kisko and Kuru of Lohardaga district of Jharkhand state. C3 has conducted the baseline at the beginning of the project in the month of June 2021 and the end line at the end of the project in the month of Jan 2024. The key respondents are the adolescent boys aged 10-19 years and the end line will be done to understand the status of schooling, life skills, gender equality and entrepreneurship. The findings of the baseline survey will be the used to measure the effectiveness of intervention and the training modules. The baseline survey followed a multistage probability proportional to size systematic random sampling to select the requisite number of samples. C3 is planning to conduct the endline survey with the same adolescents in the baseline or using the same methodology as in baseline. In the first stage, all three implementing blocks out of 6 blocks will be selected in both the districts. Similarly, for comparison blocks, agency will select one block each in Gumla and Lohardaga districts. In the second stage, the villages or AWCs will be selected from each of the block to enlist the number of adolescent boys in the age group of 10-19 years - which was the universe for each selected block. In the third stage, a total of 400 Adolescent boys from intervention and 200 from non-intervention blocks will be selected using PPS method. Along with the Quantitative data, C3 would like to interview with the stakeholders such as PRI members, parents, ANMS, ASHAs, counsellors, Medical officer, adolescent boys and Girls to understand the processes followed at the community level to improve the status of schooling, knowledge on SRH, Gender issues, and livelihoods. The number of interviews per stakeholder can be shared by the agency. The sampling methodology can be suggested by agency in the proposal. Tools and Data collection: The end line intends to measure the present knowledge and skills of adolescent boys regarding Schooling status, knowledge on SRHR, life skills, decision making, mobility, gender e |