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Request for Proposal (RFP) Impact Evaluation of BRLF Programmatic Interventions in four states (Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand)

Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation (BRLF) invites proposals from consultant organisations to conduct an impact evaluation study for BRLF's programmatic interventions in the states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Odisha.

Last date for submitting proposals: November 11th, 2024; 5:00 pm

Background

Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation (www.brlf.in) is an autonomous body established in 2013 under the Ministry of Rural Development through a Union Cabinet decision by the Government of India. With a vision to transform the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations across India, BRLF plays a crucial role in fostering and facilitating civil society action in partnership with the government and people’s institutions.

BRLF has a pan-India mandate and focuses on tribal geographies, particularly those in the Central Indian tribal belt and Northeast India.

BRLF invites proposals from organisations for an impact assessment of its key initiatives in four states of the Central Indian tribal belt (CITB): Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal, and Jharkhand. Annexure 2 captures the extent of BRLF outreach to participant households across these four states.

Objectives of the Evaluation Study

The impact assessment is expected to provide insights into the effectiveness of BRLF interventions in ensuring enhanced outcomes against existing development outlays in BRLF’s operating geographies. The key objectives of the evaluation study are:

▪ To assess the effectiveness of BRLF interventions in 4 states in achieving the originally intended outcomes of enabling sustainable income, Climate resilience, Conservation and biodiversity enhancement, effective governance, enhanced individual and institutional capacities of key stakeholders, and effective recognition of rights and entitlements of tribal and vulnerable communities.

▪ To assess the effectiveness of BRLF state partnership projects in enabling gender mainstreaming as an embedded strategy in the architecture of interventions pursued in concerned geographies.

▪ Document and assess the institutional architecture of BRLF’s collaboration model, its relevance, and its contribution to the overall intended and unintended impact on the ground.

▪ To generate rapid learning/ inputs/ recommendations to support further enhancement of BRLF programmatic design, collaborative implementation strategy, and benchmarks on key performance and relevance parameters.

▪ To document good practices, successful prototypes, key challenges and learnings of livelihood practices with counterfactual evidence.

The study is expected to assess the cumulative impact of BRLF initiatives on the a) agency of community members, particularly women farmers; b) capacities of various institutions (CSO, CBO, PRIs, and VOs); c) ecological integrity and conservation.

Scope of Services

The study is to be conducted in two parts across 143 blocks of four states in the Central Indian Tribal Belt (CITB): Odisha, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand. BRLF projects in these states had a total direct outreach of 7,16,406 households between 2017 and 2024.

• Part 1 of the study shall evaluate BRLF projects in the states of Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, and Jharkhand.

• Part 2 of the study shall evaluate BRLF projects in Odisha.

Evaluation Criteria

A proposal evaluation committee will evaluate the received proposals. The final score for each proposal will be the weighted average of scores received in technical and financial evaluation, with weights assigned as 70% and 30%, respectively. The proposal with the highest weighted score on the combined technical and financial proposal would be the contract’s lowest substantially responsive bidder.

Proposal Submission

The consultant responding to this RFP may choose to apply for one or both parts of the study based on their organisational profile and team capacities to execute the Impact evaluation study successfully.

The technical and Financial proposals must be sent in two different sealed envelopes combined in a larger envelope. The last date for receiving proposals via courier or post at our office is November 11th, 2024, before 5:00 pm.

Please send proposals to the address mentioned below:

Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation (BRLF) C-32, 2nd Floor, Neeti Bagh, New Delhi- 110049 Contact No- 011-46061935

Consultants can also email the proposals to procurement@brlf.in  on or before November 11th, 2024 (5:00 PM) with the subject line of email communication being

“Proposal for Impact Evaluation of BRLF programmatic interventions – Part 1” Or

“Proposal for Impact Evaluation of BRLF programmatic interventions – Part 1 and 2” Or

“Proposal for Impact Evaluation of BRLF programmatic interventions – Part 2”

For more details, please refer to the attached RFP.