External Trainer for Capacity Building Program

About the Organization  

WRI India, an independent charity legally registered as the India Resources Trust, provides objective information and practical proposals to foster environmentally sound and socially equitable development. WRI India’s mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. Through research, analysis, and recommendations, WRI India puts ideas into action to build transformative solutions to protect the earth, promote livelihoods, and enhance human well-being. We are inspired by and associated with the World Resources Institute, a global research organization. Currently over 400 researchers are working with WRI India in our offices at Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.   

About the  Project: Background and objectives  - 

MSMEs and their workers are the backbone of our economy, and while they are known to be resourceful and nimble to work within their resource constraints, they are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Climate change poses risks to MSMEs, including damage to physical assets, infrastructure services, increased financial risks, regulatory uncertainties, market fluctuations and supply chain disruptions. This is potentially devastating to economies and livelihoods. Furthermore, Indian MSMEs find it difficult to access finance and build climate resilience. Their response to the climate crisis is also plagued by limited awareness, regulatory challenges, and complex policy norms.   

Given this context, WRI India is undertaking capacity building of Micro, Small and Medium enterprises (MSMEs) to support them in building climate resilience, with the objective to support MSMEs and their workers with the right capacity to respond to threats posed by the climate change. We aim to support Indian MSMEs in Automobile industry in Chennai and Coimbatore city of Tamil Nadu undertaking work to strengthen their resilience and taking necessary steps to future proof their business models within a changing climate. In building the sector's resilience, we intend to ensure that marginalized MSMEs and the people employed are included in the discussions and are engaged in shaping the outcomes. We also want to focus on bringing about gender parity in the selected sectors.   

Program participants, profile and status (as on date)  

This focussed capacity building trainings will comprise of topics under the pillar of decarbonization, which includes energy conservation and audit, lean tools application etc .The training will support MSME workers to practically understand how to decarbonize unit operations, undertake energy efficiency and waste management measures in their unit through lean tools applications. 

Learning Design  

The program offers a blended learning design starting with classroom type trainings, practical on site workshops , and  individual unit level trainings.      

Scope of work  

WRI India plans to utilise services of external training providers for undertaking capacity building program focussed on the topics of decarbonization and productivity improvement with experience of training MSME and its workers. We are seeking proposals from established training service providers/ professionals/ institutions for the same.  

Approach  

The training program will involve:   

Deliverables   

The training partner, will be responsible for undertaking the following field activities with support from the WRI India team:   

Duration:  

We aim to complete the training program within 8 months of selecting a suitable agency/ professional.  Proposed Training schedule will be as under:

Selection Criteria 

We are looking forward to receiving technical and financial proposal to undertake the aforesaid capacity building activities. The technical proposals will be assessed on the following criteria: 

Location: Chennai and Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.

Request for Proposal:  

The financial proposal should include a breakup summary of all cost heads proposed including expenses, service fee, travel (if any), etc. 

Table 1: Milestones, Timelines and Payment Schedule  

Start date:  

Interested parties are requested to submit their proposals by 27 June 2025 at arunachalam.venkatraman@wri.org and supratheesh.t@wri.org

Mr. Arunachalam Venkatraman, Program Manager

arunachalam.venkatraman@wri.org