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Call for Proposal
Innovation Project on Safe Migration
Open Idea from NGOs
BRAC Migration Programme is playing a significant role for promoting the development and welfare
for potential migrant workers and their families in over 122 upazilas in 33 migration prone districts of
Bangladesh. We are calling for proposals from NGOs /CBOs/ idea incubation experienced
organisations for Innovation Fund Open Idea. The Innovation Fund ideas will be utilised under the
project “Safe Migration for Bangladeshi Workers” which is implemented in 80 Upazilas under 21
districts (see annex for the list of upazilas).
It is observed that innovation programmes to support potential migrants lack seed capital for their
testing/replicating/further strengthening. As per the project strategy, the Innovation Fund will be
utilised for migrant workers’ and their families for pre-departure preparation to ensure migrants’ safe
migration, welfare and development. Proposals should focus on the community based skill resource,
service delivery mechanism, business model/concept, new product that can test the existing ones or
adaptation of existing products and services. These services should be accessible and affordable
especially for the migrant workers and their family members in the project areas. The services remain
sustainable after completion of project period.
Expected Outcome
The organisations will submit a viable project that may support the migrants and their families
focusing on but not limited to any of the following issues:
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Established functional service providing mechanism for migrants
Provide skill development training for potential migrants
Sponsor training for the potential female migrants
ICT based training/business centres for migrants and their family members especially for
female
Business model etc.
Proposal submission date
Last date of proposal submission is 1 March 2015 by 5:00 pm via hard copy.
Address of Submission: Proposals submission sent via postal mail should reach at:
BRAC Migration Programme
BRAC Centre
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12 Floor, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh.
For related queries please email S M Al Jubayer at [email protected]
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Terms of Reference
Safe Migration for Bangladeshi Workers Project
Funded by: JSDF under World Bank trust fund
1 Background:
BRAC Migration Programme is playing a significant role in promoting the development and
welfare of potential migrant workers and their families in over 122 upazilas in 33 migration prone
of Bangladesh. (see annex for the list of unions/upazilas). BRAC is piloting a 3 years long project
on Safe Migration for Bangladeshi Workers funded by the Japan Social Development Fund
(JSDF), a trust fund managed by the World Bank. This grant is supporting an innovative pilot of
significant scope and scale which aims to address the knowledge and information needs of
potential migrants in Bangladesh by disseminating knowledge in an appropriate manner,
particularly at the pre-decision to pre-departure stage of the migration process.
The project is aiming to reduce vulnerability of migrant workers and their families through (i) better
access to accurate and timely information and services for safe migration for both male and
female migrants; and (ii) reducing dependency of migrants on middlemen by establishing and
strengthening community-based organisations. The key issues the project intends to address
include identification and establishment of CBOs to protect migrants’ rights and promote safe
migration services; pre-departure preparation to promote safe migration; knowledge on safe
migration process; reduce dependency on middlemen; improve management of remittances, etc.
We are calling for proposals from the NGOs/CBOs/idea incubation experienced organisations for
Innovation Fund Open Idea. The Innovation Fund ideas will be utilised under the project “Safe
Migration for Bangladeshi Workers”. It is observed that innovative programmes to support
potential migrants lack seed capital for their testing/replicating/further strengthening. As per the
project strategy, the Innovation Fund will be utilised for migrant workers’ and their families for predeparture preparation to ensure migrants’ safe migration, welfare and development. Proposals
should focus on the community based skill resource, service delivery mechanism, business
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model /concept, new product that can test the existing ones or adaptation of existing products
and services. These services should be accessible and affordable especially for the migrant
workers and their family members in the project areas. The services should remain sustainable
after completion of project period.
2 Innovation Fund
As per the project strategy, BRAC Migration program has embarked an Innovation Fund to
support the migrants, their family members and the people of migrants’ community in predeparture stage through new product, service delivery mechanism, business model/concept that
can test the existing ones or adaptation of existing products and services. The services should
remain sustainable after completion of project period. Initiatives that prioritises direct benefits to
migrant workers will be considered.
The concept of Innovation Fund emerges from finding the most effective programmes for migrant
workers and their families, pilot those programmes in the selected areas under project geography,
aiming to replicate their success among migrants communities around the country later on. By
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Business Model is a plan for the successful operation of a business, identifying sources of revenue,
the intended customer base, products, and details of financing. It will brief what problems of the
migrants we are going to solve through the Business model; which group of migrants it is going to
attend; which sort of products and services it is going to deliver; who we are going to solve the
problem; what sort of value propositions it is going to suggest; how it is efficient; effective and
sustainable for the development and welfare of the migrant workers of the project areas.
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focusing on high impact, result-oriented minimum profits , this innovation project will ensure that
grant money is spent in a way that is effective, accountable and worthy of the migrants’ trust and
benefits.
Proposed Innovation Fund project themes should cover at least one of the following:
a) Supporting potential Migrants’ families who are left behind
b) Training/capacity building courses for potential migrants and
c) Supporting potential deceived women migrants
The brief description stated below may give some idea about the innovation initiatives to be
considered. However, open ideas are not necessarily limited to this description only:
a) Supporting migrants’ families who are left behind
The potential migrants and their immediate family members will be organised in groups. A
common contributory fund will be created with equal share from the group members and a seed
grant from project allocated for innovation piloting. The group members will be provided with
essential trainings to build their capacity, eg. IGA/SME development, operational and financial
management of IGA/SMEs etc. After training, the innovation fund will be endowed within the
groups. This endowed fund will be used to sponsor the fund required for the potential migrants or
their family members to receive different trainings from government and non-governmental
organisations that would facilitate their successful migration or income earning capacity. In
addition to that, any other viable projects may support the families of the migrants.
b) Training/capacity building courses for potential migrants
The applicant NGOs will form groups of returnee migrants. The NGOs will provide support for
potential migrants in terms of skill development in language, financial management of remittance
etc. The NGOs will have similar joint fund (comprising project fund and contributory fund from
members). The seed money will be utilised for essential support they require for the training
module development, specific ToT they need to perform their operation including business plan
preparation. The NGOs will work as liaison and referral service organisation for the potential
migrants’ technical training and pre-migration documentation services. This will be a paid service.
c) Supporting women migrants
Similar groups will be formed for the women migrants in the female migration prone areas. The
NGOs will provide support to sponsor training of the potential female migrants in BMET, TTC and
other non-governmental organisations. Moreover, these NGOs will also arrange and provide
trainings by the CBOs with token fees charged to the training recipients. The NGOs will also try to
make productive investments and establish ICT based female migrants training/business centres
at upazila level for generating income. It can be ICT based call centres; ICT based training per the
demand and needs created by the formal and informal sectors in destination countries.
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Minimum profit means the limit of products/services affordable for the potential migrants and their
families in the poverty prone areas of Bangladesh i.e. unit service/product should not cost more than
BDT 500.
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Innovation Ideas need not be confined to these examples mentioned above.
Submitted projects should demonstrate the following key components•
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Replicable and sustainable improvements for the migrants and their family members
Initiate practical and quality improvement projects that directly improve the migration
management, support and service delivery for the migrants and their first kin such as spouse,
first parents, children and the migrants vulnerable for the consequences arisen for migration
3 Expected Outcome
Expected outcomes are as follows:
The NGO will submit a viable project that may support the migrants and their families focusing on
but not limited to any of the following issues:
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Established functional service providing mechanism for potential migrants
Provide skill development training for potential migrants
Sponsor training for the potential female migrants
ICT based training/business centres for migrants and their family members especially for
female
Business model, etc.
4 Eligibility
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Credibility in the community and country
Mission and values in relation to ensure Safe Migration in the community
Experience of working in development issues and in partnership approach
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Having proven track record of any innovative project implementation
5 Geographical location
Individual proposals should cover one upazila of the project area. Proposals for/from poverty
prone and high migration prone areas will be preferred.
6 Language of proposal submission
English
7 Proposal Submission process
Interested organisations may submit their proposal with relevant documents in a sealed envelope
addressed to the address given below. Envelope must be marked with the title of the assignment.
8 Proposal selection Criteria
Proposal will be evaluated on the basis of technical (80%) and financial (20%) assessments. The
technical assessment will review the following:
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Criteria
Technical assessment
Extent to which the proposal fulfils the requirements of the call for proposals
Soundness of strategy and proposed action
Realistic work plan to complete the activities
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Proven Track records means the evident and accredited proofs of innovation fund managed,
implemented and helped to incubation of innovations especially for migrants and their families.
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Sustainability plan of the proposed innovation fund project
Applicants’ institutional capacity and relevant experience (please submit relevant
reports as a proof of experience)
Gender responsive approach
Build the capacity of target beneficiaries and relevant stakeholders
Financial assessment
Extent to which the financial proposal fulfils the requirements of the allowed
budget range
Budget justification
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Explain why your organisation is best suited to undertake this work. (No more than half a
page)
Institutional profile: brief description of your organisation, including its registration details and
relevant experience
Financial proposal should be submitted in separate envelope
A single proposal should not exceed the limit of BDT 30 lakh
Each of the proposals should be submitted in hard copies and electronic versions in DVD
Proposals should be submitted in Microsoft word Arial/Times New Roman font size 12
Main proposal should not exceed page limit of 10 (excluding annex) in A4 size paper
Any organisation having yearly fund management experience of minimum 25 lakh may apply
9 Guidelines for the Submission of Proposals
The proposal should contain the following:
a) Geographical and population coverage: The proposal should be for/from the poverty ridden/
high migrant prone areas of the stated project areas;
b) Problem statement: Problems of Migrants/their families are facing are desired
internationally/nationally to be resolved;
c) The project objective: specific objectives to resolve the core problems of the potential
migrants and their families;
d) Expected results: the expected outputs and outcomes that would be achieved through this
innovation idea in line with the outcomes mentioned above;
e) Strategy: How the organisation will achieve the objectives of the innovation fund idea;
f) Description of activities
g) Work plan: It will describe the duration of the project not exceeding more than 1 year.
h) Sustainability plan: It should be replicable and self reliant after the innovation fund;
i) Proposed budget: A detailed budget proposal showing how much required for each activity. It
should be submitted separately.
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10 Selection Process
Phase 1: Screening
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Call for proposal — opens on 1 February 2015 and close on 1 March 2015
Short listed organisations will be notified by March 2015
Phase 2: Evaluation
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Representatives from short listed organisations will be called to present the proposal inperson (date TBA)
Additional documents to support the proposal may be requested if necessary
Phase 3: Selection
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BRAC Migration Programme will do the final selection based on both the written proposal and
the interview.
The result will be announced by April 2015
11 Annex
BRAC Migration Programme
Safe Migration for Bangladeshi Workers
Working Area list
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District
1.
Chittagong
2.
Cox’s Bazar
3.
Feni
4.
Comilla
5.
Chandpur
6.
Brahmanbaria
7.
Narsingdi
8.
Kishoreganj
Upazila
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24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
Chittagong Sadar
Sitakunda
Mirsharai
Patiya
Satkania
Cox’s Bazar Sadar
Ukhiya
Pekua
Feni Sadar
Daganbhuiyan
Comilla Sadar
Daudkandi
Chandina
Chandpur Sdar
Hajigonj
Faridgonj
Brahnanbaria Sadar
Sarail
Ashugonj
Bhairab
Narsingdi Sadar
Shibpur
Palash
Belabo
Kishorgonj Sadar
Bajitpur
Hossainpur
Karimgonj
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9.
Mymensingh
10.
Dhaka
11.
Munshigonj
12.
Gazipur
13.
Tangail
14.
Sirajgonj
15.
Pabna
16.
Kushtia
17.
Jessore
18.
Khulna
19.
Shariatpur
20.
Madaripur
21.
Faridpur
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33.
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80.
Mymensingh Sadar
Trisal
Gouripur
Nandail
Nawabganj
Keraniganj
Savar
Singair
Uttara
Dokhhin Khan
Munshigonj Sadar
Tongibari
Sreenagar
Lohajong
Sirajdikhan
Gozaria
Tongi
Sreepur
Kaligonj
Kaliakur
Tangail Sadar
Madhupur
Ghatail
Kalihati
Sirajganj Sadar
Kamarkhanda
Belkuchi
Ullahpara
Pabna Sadar
Atgharia
Ishwardi
Santhia
Kushtia Sadar
Khoksha
Bheramara
Kumarkhali
Jessore Sadar
Jhikargacha
Monirampur
Keshobpur
Dighalia
Dumuria
Khan Jahan Ali
Batiaghata
Shariatpur Sadar
Zanzira
Naria Upazila
Shibchar
Faridpur Sadar
Charvadrasan
Sadarpur
Bhanga
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