Call for Proposals: Women Empowered for Climate Resilience through Agricultural Innovation in Madhya Pradesh
Section
Deadline Date
August 7, 2025
Donor Agency
UN Women
Grant Size
$10,000 to $100,000
The UN Women is inviting proposals from proponent organizations to demonstrate gender-responsive agricultural innovation development and initial adoption of climate smart innovations by women smallholder farmers in Madhya Pradesh as part of the Women Empowered for Climate resilience through Agricultural innovation (WE-CAN) project.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be [INR 31,00,000 – 37,00,000].
Expected Outputs
- Closely engage with 15 women farmers as lead farmers and their households over two agricultural seasons.
- Work with 50 women smallholder farmers to pilot and test an on-farm biosensor for effective use of biofertilizers.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizational experience and competencies:
- The organization must have a minimum 3 years of experience in programme design and implementation
- The proponent organization must have experience in agricultural development sector with smallholder farmers,
- Have experience in engaging women smallholder farmers with gender-sensitive practices specifically with training and capacity building
- Have demonstrated experience helping scale technology adoption with smallholder farmers.
- Qualifications and Competencies of Team Leader:
- The team manager must have minimum 4 years of experience working with the development and implementation of gender-sensitive agriculture development programmes.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in leading action research, hands-on experience on monitoring/evaluation of projects,
- Master’s or higher degree in social sciences, human rights, gender/women's studies, international development, or a related field is required
- Good command over English is a must.
- Qualifications and Competencies of Team Members:
- Team members must have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in coordinating projects and/or capacity building in agriculture development, and working with women smallholder farmers
- Demonstrated experience in process documentation
- Master’s degree in social sciences, human rights, gender/women's studies, international development, or a related field is required.
- Good command over English is a must.
- Knowledge of Hindi and other local languages in Madhya Pradesh is a must
