Request for Proposals for Establishing Continuing Education and Training Centres (CETCs)

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EngenderHealth Society, New Delhi, India

Request for Proposals for Establishing Continuing Education and Training Centres

Eligible Educational and Non Government Organizations (NGOs) are hereby invited

to submit their technical and financial proposals for

establishing two Continuing Education and Training Centres (CETCs) for

EngenderHealth Society. EngenderHealth Society is a part of consortium of local

Indian NGOs, that has been awarded grant assistance in round 4 of the Global

Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM).

The purpose of this assignment is establishment of two CETCs later

referred as

CETC - A: providing services to states of Maharashtra and Karnataka and

CETC - B: providing services to the states of Andhra Pradesh and

Tamil Nadu.

Both CETC - A and CETC - B will be responsible for

* Organizing and conducting technical trainings to care and support service

providers from NGO sector

* Carrying out pre and post evaluation of participants and

* Providing information on training and trainees as per EngenderHealth

Management Information System.

The CETCs will serve as a model training centres for EngenderHealth

Society to train and support public, private and NGO sector providers.

Any Indian registered or incorporated educational, training

organization or an NGO, that meets the following eligibility criteria

can apply for participation:

1. The organization should have advanced technical and management

expertise in training including:

* Demonstrated experience in conducting training programs,

curriculum development, training management and use of participatory

training methodologies besides evaluation and monitoring of such

programs, preferably in the health and HIV/AIDS sector

* Knowledge of the HIV/AIDS situation in India

* Demonstrated experience of Evaluation of Training and

Development Programs

* Regional Experience - work experience in at least one of the

target states: For CETC -A, the organization should have experience of working

in Karnataka and/or Maharashtra, whereas for CETC - B, the

organization should have experience of working in Andhra Pradesh and/or Tamil

Nadu

* Strong Financial Management capabilities

2. The organization should have at least 5 years experience in

conducting training and development programs and their evaluation.

3. Only organizations, which have previously carried out trainings of

at least INR 5,00,000 (5 lakhs) within one year, during any of the past 3 years

(2003, 2004, 2005) are only eligible.

4. The NGO Consortium partners of EngenderHealth Society and their

affiliated organizations are not eligible to participate in this

project.

5. An organization can submit their proposals for one or both CETC - A and CETC

- B. However, separate technical and financial proposals must be submitted for

individual CETCs.

6. The organization should be capable to mobilize and initiate project

activities within 10 days of the award of contract.

7. Request for Proposal (RFP) documents can be requested by providing a brief

write up about your organization indicating year of establishment, focus areas,

geographical coverage, training experience, annual budget and expressing their

interest in establishing CETC-A and/or CETC-B.

The information can be submitted by email, fax or letter to EHS, New Delhi

office (address as provided below). The email communication could be addressed

to <tkapuh@...> or to

<mratnani@...>. After preliminary scrutiny of the

submitted details, only eligible organizations would be issued RFP

documents. However, the EHS reserves the right to issue the RFP to only selected

organizations.

Important dates are as follows:

a. Advertisement for Expression of Interest (EOI) : February

10,2006

b. Deadline for Expression of interest and submission of

information requested under item 6 by the organization: up to 17:00 hrs on

February 17, 2006 (by email, fax, letter)

c. Issue of RFP to Eligible Organizations: February 17, 2006

d. Request for Clarifying issues arising out of RFP : March 01,

2006

e. Deadline for Issue of Clarifications by EHS: March 03, 2006

f. Deadline of Submission of Technical and Financial Proposals: up

to 15:00 hrs on March 10, 2006 at EHS, New Delhi.

g. Opening of Technical proposals: At 15:30 hrs on March 10, 2006

at EHS, New Delhi

Further information can be requested by fax/letter from the undersigned at EHS,

New Delhi office or emailed to tkapuh@... or

mratnani@...

Jyoti Vajpayee

Country Director

EngenderHealth Society

F 6/8-B Poorvi Marg,

Vasant Vihar, New Delhi -110057, India

Ph. Nos.: (91-11) 26147123/24/25

Fax: (91-11)-26140861