India’s last-mile delivery of financial services is hindered by the digital and gender divide, posing significant challenges. While basic access to financial services has been achieved, there remains a disparity in the usage and quality of these services, especially among low-income and vulnerable groups. A critical factor in ensuring sustainable usage and maintaining services quality is the role of Business Correspondent (BC) agents. However, the gender gap in BC agents delivering affordable financial services is a pressing concern. To enhance their viability and bridge the gender gap, Grameen Foundation USA and Grameen Foundation India, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, launched the BCNM Experiments & Demonstrating Scale (BEADS) Project.

The endline evaluation report offers a comprehensive assessment of the BEADS experiment encompassing three pilot interventions, strategically designed to enhance agent viability. The report showcases project performance, and underscores the impacts arising from these pilots. Notably, the project led to product diversification, the augmentation of agent soft skills to better serve customers, and an enhancement in customer awareness through the implementation of low-cost marketing efforts.

Grameen Foundation India has developed a model around the three components of the project to overcome FPOs’ challenges and establish smooth institutional functioning by developing sustainable business in collaboration with the private players and convergence with the government departments. Not only that but also induced women shareholders and women board of directors and developed a gender Agri value chain to enhance the women’s agency resilience and entrepreneurship. In this context GFI intends to capture the successful intervention and stories through the development of video documents. Four video documents will be developed on three components of the project and one on gender inclusion to share the success of intervention with the largest audience and among the different stakeholders for replication and scale.
The impact video stories will cover the challenges, the intervention ideas, process and best practices adopted, impacts created through various interventions in the light house FPO and will also cover vision to scale up it and lessons learned from the project etc.

Overall objective of the Assignment:
The overall objective of the assignment is to produce a program documentary film on LightHouse FPO model of TRAGE UP, highlighting best approaches, best practices, achievements and real impact of the program focal area.

Last date to apply: August 25, 2023
How to Apply: Please email detailed Technical and Financial proposal to ssingh1@grameenfoundation.in. Final approval and payment will be done after the evaluation of proposal and previous work from GFI management.

The objective of the proposed assignment is to identify gender barriers and develop strategies to improve agri market ecosystem to enable Women farmers with the platform of farmer producer companies (FPCs) to develop their capacities to gain enhanced access to markets, market information and networks, and profits”. The consultant would be essentially a gender expert, she/he would be conducting a detailed gender analysis and developing strategies for gender mainstreaming in the agriculture marketing ecosystem.

Last date to apply: August 25, 2023
How to Apply: Please email detailed Technical and Financial proposal to ssingh1@grameenfoundation.in. Final approval and payment will be done after the evaluation of proposal and previous work from GFI management.