Social Empowerment of Women through Women Self-Help Groups (Mission Shakti)

UNFPA requires the provision of services for conducting an implementation research  for the project “Social Empowerment of Women through Women Self-Help Groups (Mission Shakti)”. This Request for Quotation is open to individual or legally constituted institutions (companies, academic institutions, research organizations, and non-profits) with demonstrated expertise in conducting rapid assessments, programme evaluations, and mixed-method research in the domain of gender, livelihoods, and community systems.

The assessment is being commissioned at an advanced stage of programme implementation, where a state-level cadre of 425 Master Trainers have already been trained and are now, in turn, conducting subsequent large-scale training of Digishaktis across all 30 districts through a structured cascading model. The objective is to generate timely, credible, and decision-oriented evidence on the extent to which these trainings are translating into improvements in knowledge, behaviour, and institutional engagement among self Help Group (SHG) women beneficiaries.