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WATER FOR PEOPLE INDIA Terms of Reference for hiring of agency/consultant/developer to development of Playbook/Toolkit supported with android based applications for the Water Resource Management. A) ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION Water For People India initiated its operations in West Bengal in 1996 in Nadia and North 24 Parganas districts. Consistent with the global vision and mission, we exist to promote the development of high-quality drinking water and sanitation services, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments. Our organizational values are accountability, courage, empowerment, partnership, and transparency. Water For People India programs have been implemented in 28 districts in the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Odisha. In all, nearly 2.6 million people have been reached through community drinking water and sanitation, WASH in public institutions and market led approaches to sanitation. By 2030, Water for People India programs aim to directly benefit 10 million people. We aim to build capacities at the district level which will contribute to organizational commitments, thereby indirectly benefitting 14.8 million people. Water For People India implements programs directly and through locally registered non-government organizations. B) ABOUT THE PROGRAM Aligned to GOI mission to achieve sustainable water management, Water For People India aims to demonstrate that it is possible to conserve and respect water through a new way of living with the life critical resource i.e., building water-conscious households and communities while implementing water conservation and good governance practices. Key interventions focus on water conservation and good governance measures, with an integral behaviour change communication effort to promote water consciousness among households (and farmers), increased water availability, and increase in the proportion of greywater (the relatively clean wastewater from baths, sinks, dishwashing, clothes washing, and other household water use except toilets) reused and recycled at the household and community level, as appropriate. The objective is to work with local households, communities, and Panchayati Raj Institutions to identify innovative and effective ways to build a culture of water consciousness. Behaviour change framework that focuses on ‘Measure-Reduce-Reuse’ in the target communities also include participatory management, monitoring, and reporting of water resources, supply and demand management, water use, re-use, wastage, and water quality. Creating such water consciousness will help increase the sustainability and effectiveness of any infrastructure created under the JJM and thus will complement GoI efforts in these directions. With appropriate contextualization and improvements to this ‘proof of concept’, it’s scaling-up could have significant positive implications for the sustainability of India’s water resources for the future. As a part of the larger strategy of Water For People India to support the district administration for building the capacities of the service providers, there is a need to understand the functional domains of water management, identifying and securing the mandate for the right service providers with right skills at the GP/ Village level, identify their training needs and designing a process for capacity building comprising planning, implementation and O&M related to water resource management. C) OBJECTIVE The purpose of the ‘terms of reference’ is to engage any agency/consultant to develop a playbook/toolkit on the water resource management framework model jointly with WFP staff. Water For People encourages young entrepreneurs/startups and students to submit the proposal. Objective of Assignment: Develop a toolkit to support communities, frontline workers, service providers and local government representatives to understand and manage water resources. Align the toolkit to the priorities of Jal Jeevan mission, Atal Bhujal Yojana and SBM 2.0 guidelines regarding sustainable water management practices for water and sanitation provision. Target Audience: This toolkit/playbook is intended for use by local governments, officials, planners, frontline workers, consultants working in rural areas engaged in implementation and planning as well as NGOs and civil society groups championing the cause of rural water safety and security. The Toolkit/playbook can be utilized and applied, in whole or part, across a variety of contexts. Fundamentally, the toolkit is designed to fit into the common activities typically carried out by water, sanitation, and health (WASH) service delivery organizat |