Strengthening Childcare Models that Advance Women’s Economic Power

Description

1) Objective

This RFP seeks to support evidence-based testing and learning of childcare models in South Asia and Africa that support women’s workforce participation by offering paid work opportunities, reduce and redistribute the burden of unpaid care, support women’s pathways into leadership and/or shift gender norms related to paid work and caregiving.

They are looking for projects with an up to 3-year timeline that will achieve at least one of the following objectives:

• Support Women’s Economic Opportunity: Advance childcare models that support women’s economic opportunities and/or pathways to leadership by expanding access to childcare services, reduce and redistribute the burden of unpaid care for women, and/or increase decent work opportunities for women in the childcare workforce.
• Advancing Evidence: Advance evidence of scalable, sustainable, effective and gender intentional models of childcare, including (but not limited to) pilots which test and compare multiple models of childcare provision, proposals that study applicability and customization of successful care models in target geographies, programs that demonstrate business models which can sustain themselves (either with public or private resources) and/or pilots which help to understand the minimum and optimal levels of childcare quality.
• Shift Gender Norms: Accelerate the economic benefits and impacts of childcare for women by shifting gender norms to expand women’s economic agency through (but not limited to): increasing acceptability of women working outside the home, increasing women’s control over newly gained income (inside or outside the care workforce), and shifting social norms regarding acceptability of women using care services.

2) Eligibility

This initiative is open to organizations based in South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and Africa, including nonprofit organizations, for-profit companies, international organizations, government agencies and academic institutions.

3) Location

Actions must take place in Africa and South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka).

4) Budget

They will consider proposals for awards of up to $400,000 USD for each project, with a grant term of up to 3 years.

5) Application

Submission of Request for Proposals is 6 December 2023.