Indo-Global Social Service Society is issuing a call for proposals for its Urban Poverty Programme for 2015-17. We are seeking proposals from interested Indian NGOs as implementing partners in the following cities namely Ranchi, Dhanbad and Jamshedpur cluster in Jharkhand, Kolkata and Asansol cluster in West Bengal, Guwahati in Assam, Patna and Muzaffarpur cluster in Bihar, Jaipur in Rajasthan, Bhopal and Indore cluster in Madhya Pradesh, Bhubaneswar in Orissa, Raipur in Chhattisgarh, Agra, Lucknow, Allahabad, Jhansi and Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh,Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara cluster in Gujarat, Faridabad and Gurgaon cluster in Haryana and Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra.
Submissions will be accepted only until 06th July, 2014.
The Context
Cities in India have grown by nearly 2.6% in the decade between 2001 – 2011 with 31.16% of India’s total population living in urban areas according to the 2011 Census. With nearly 377.10 million people living in the urban areas, urban planning and development are emerging areas for engagement of civil society organisations that work for equitable and just development.
While cities are the engines of India’s economic growth, cities have also become sites of struggle, material deprivation, informal, insecure livelihood and exclusion for a large segment of the population. 93 percent of total workforce in India is engaged in the informal sector of which the urban informal sector workers constitute a significant mass. The contribution of urban informal sector workers is pegged at over 50 percent in the GDP of India. However, the urban poor informal workers’ group face residential, social and occupational vulnerabilities and are not reflected within the city’s formal governance and planning process.
IGSSS has worked intensively on the issue of shelter rights of homeless residents during the years 2008 until now. It now envisages a strong engagement on the overall rights of urban poor informal workers in cities. The key constituencies for IGSSS’ urban programme are Construction workers, Street Vendors, Rickshaw pullers, Rag pickers, Domestic help, Child labor, Sex workers, Homeless, Migrant labourers and Slum/Pavement dwellers.
Focus Areas for Proposal
IGSSS is interested in partnering with NGOs and institutions for developing and implementing projects for the above categories of urban poor at priority locations, in the areas of assertion of their Legal Identity, Migration, Housing/Tenurial security, Enhancing participation of informal sector workers and other excluded groups in Urban Planning, City governance and social accountability, Labour rights and legal aid, Livelihood and Social Security, Access to Entitlements and Organisation of workers.
1.Eligibility
IGSSS is seeking small to medium sized NGOs as implementing partners with experience of working in urban areas/strong conviction and vision in the above identified areas, understanding of advocacy and ability to work with several key stakeholders and Government systems.
IGSSS is also interested to work with knowledge/resource partners (institutions) with expertise on the above focus areas. The knowledge/resource partners IGSSS is seeking will contribute to strengthening the dialogue and advocacy with duty bearers and critical stakeholders on issues of workers’ rights, municipal governance and urban planning.
Eligible organizations must fulfil the following criteria:
•Organization must be registered under Society’s Registration Act or Trust
•It must be registered with the FCRA division of Ministry of Home Affairs
•Must possess 12A certificate of Income Tax exemption under the Income Tax Act, 1961
•Implementing organizations must be capable in resource mobilization as there is a component of raising local contribution in the project (minimum 10 percent of the total project cost).Local contribution implies funds raised through other grant making bodies, Government institutions, CSR and individual donors. It does not consider beneficiary contribution.
2.Duration of support
The overall project is for a period up to 23 months (starting from April 2015)
3.Submission Procedure
Interested NGOs can submit the proposal along with budget (in soft copy only) for 23 months in the format attached in Annex I to V. Organizations must submit the above documents through email in appropriate formats as shared, at the following email address: urbanintervention@igsss.net
4.Legal Documents
NGOs whose proposals are short-listed will be contacted for submission of the following mandatory documents (which has to be self attested).
•Society Registration Certificate
•FCRA Registration Certificate
•12A Registration Certificate
•Audited Financial statement for last three years
•Income tax return for last three years
•FCRA return for last three years along with FC audited statement of accounts
5.Minimum and Maximum Limit
•For implementing NGOs and institutions, the total project budget per city will be in the range Rs. 10,00,000-Rs. 20,00,000 for 23 months (this will cover support from IGSSS as well as minimum 10 percent local contribution in cash raised by the applying NGO)
•For knowledge/resource partners, IGSSS’ support will be up to 4,00,000/- for mutually agreed time-frame
6.Last date for receiving proposal: 06th July, 2014
7.Language of the proposal
The proposals have to be submitted in English (using Times Roman Font, Size 12). In exceptional case where the interested NGO is not able to make the submission in English, Hindi language will be considered.
8.Cost of Proposal
The applying organisation shall bear all costs associated with the preparation and submission of the proposal. IGSSS will in no case be responsible or liable for those costs, regardless of the conduct or outcome of call for proposal.
9.Screening of the Proposals
•Proposals will be screened by a Committee formed by IGSSS
•Submission of proposal does not guarantee that the proposal will be accepted
•Only organizations whose proposals are short-listed will be communicated with, and asked to submit the statutory documents
•Decision of the Screening Committee of IGSSS will be final. IGSSS is no way obliged to respond to the rejection of the proposals. IGSSS also reserves the right to accept or reject any proposal, and to annul the call for proposal process and reject all proposals at any time prior to screening and selection procedure, thereby incurring no liability towards the affected Organization or any obligation to inform the affected Organization or organizations of the grounds for the organization’s action
•IGSSS will inform the shortlisted NGOs in writing after the decision of the screening committee
•Personal canvassing is strictly prohibited
10.Visit to NGOs/Due diligence
IGSSS will visit shortlisted Organizations to verify the credentials of the Organization and its work in the field. An Organizations’ proposal can be rejected if any discrepancy is found during the visit.
11.Signing of Agreement
After the verification visit to NGOs, IGSSS and the selected NGO will enter into agreement as per the existing norms, rules and regulation of IGSSS.
Detail Form - Call For Proposal – Urban Poverty Programme,June 2014 : http://igsss.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Call-For-Proposal-Urban-Poverty-ProgrammeJune-2014.pdf
Budget Template – Budget Template_EOI.UrbanPoverty.June 2014. : http://igsss.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Budget-Template_EOI.UrbanPoverty.June-2014..xls
Source: IGSSS Website : http://igsss.org/currentvacancies/call-for-proposals-urban-poverty-programme
