Hiring of agency to implement the ATL Marathon – School Innovation Program through UNISOLVE platform and UPSHIFT Innovation Framework across 7 states

UNICEF has now issued a Request for Proposals in order to select a supplier to implement the ATL Marathon – School Innovation Program through UNISOLVE platform and UPSHIFT Innovation Framework across 7 states Driven by its mission to deliver results for children, UNICEF has come together with its public and private sector partners to establish the Generation Unlimited (GenU) (known as ‘YuWaah’ in India). GenU is a global multi-stakeholder platform that aims to prepare young people to transition to productive work and active citizenship. In India, by 2030, GenU aims to: • Build pathways for 100 million young people to aspirational economic opportunities. • Facilitate 200 million young people to gain relevant skills for productive lives and the future of work. • Partner with 300 million young people as changemakers and create spaces for developing their leadership. As part of its focus on economic opportunities, skilling and civic engagement, YuWaah, UNICEF India has been developing systems, platforms and processes to help young people achieve their aspirations. In India until very recently, a majority of the education system’s pedagogy and syllabus laid emphasis on literacy, numeracy and rote learning-centric pedagogy. As a result, young people have been graduating from schools, equipped with fundamental skills, which narrow-streamed their job opportunities and impact their workforce participation. Moreover, since the COVID-19 pandemic, the youth unemployment rate is purported to rise to 32.5 per cent – the third-highest rate predicted among the 13 countries in the Asia-Pacific and with steadily decreasing female labour force participation in the region. However, the National Education Policy is heralding a new order across India by influencing a systemic shift towards higher-order skills such as critical thinking, creative thinking, problem-solving etc. Another opportunity at hand is the political-economic thrust across India towards building self-sufficient individuals and self-sustaining communities to forge a new post-pandemic normal. Thus, YuWaah is enabling the Innovation Challenge – an innovation challenge for the youth across different states in India – namely, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu through UNISOLVE platform to promote design thinking and the development of 21st-century transferable skills in upper primary and secondary government schools. This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system. By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html . In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for documents that must be attached prior to submitting your Offer (you will also see if there are any mandatory questionnaires to complete). As such, you are recommended to `opt in` well before the submission deadline so you are clear exactly what documents are required to be uploaded prior to completing your submission. Please note that in order to access the tender documentation through UNICEF’s e-submissions system, vendors must: (i) be registered with UNICEF in UNGM as a company/NGO; (ii) have successfully completed all mandatory information currently required by UNGM when registering. Please ensure that any files submitted as part of your Bid are not corrupt or damaged in any way. Please exercise particular caution when using compressed files. Any corrupt or damaged files may lead to your Bid being invalidated. All vendors are strongly recommended to regularly log in to the UNICEF e-submissions system to check for any deadline extensions, new clarifications, new correspondence or updated tender documents relating to this tender.