Date: March 18, 2026
REQUEST FOR QUOTATION
RFQ Nº UNFPA/IND/RFQ/26/004
Dear Sir/Madam,
UNFPA hereby solicits a quotation for the following service:
“Advancing Rights and Choices: Documenting Good Practices and Policy Pathways for Married Adolescent Girls in India”
UNFPA aims to commission a study to identify, analyse, and document good practices that improve married adolescent girls’ access to rights and services, with particular emphasis on adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH), and to articulate actionable policy pathways for institutionalization and scale-up.
I. About UNFPA
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is an international development agency that works to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every child birth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.
UNFPA is the lead UN agency that expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy sexual and reproductive lives. To read more about UNFPA, please go to:UNFPAaboutus
Terms of Reference (ToR)
1. Background and Rationale
Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices—particularly child marriage, is a strategic priority for UNFPA. Across India, government and civil society partners have implemented a range of interventions for adolescent girls, including community mobilization to shift social norms, life-skills and leadership programmes, and social protection approaches.
However, there remains a gap in the design, resourcing, and scale-up of programming that specifically addresses the realities of married adolescent girls, including those married before 18 and those married soon after turning 18—whose needs, constraints, and risk profiles often differ substantially from unmarried adolescents. Married adolescent girls frequently face intensified restrictions on mobility and decision-making, heightened exposure to intimate partner violence, early and closely spaced pregnancies, and limited access to rights-based, adolescent-responsive sexual and reproductive health information and services.
While many adolescent initiatives include “adolescent girls” as a broad category, the programmatic and policy pathways that effectively reach married adolescent girls—especially the most marginalized—are less consistently documented and translated into scalable approaches. This lack of deliberate, centered design can result in missed opportunities for prevention (e.g., early pregnancy, GBV) and for strengthening protective factors (e.g., agency, service access, supportive families, and enabling systems) for married adolescent girls.
Finally, programming and policy discussions often remain adult-led. There is a critical need to better center the voices, lived experiences, and priorities of married adolescent girls in programme design, implementation, monitoring, and policy decision-making—ensuring that “what works” reflects their realities and definitions of safety, dignity, and choice.
UNFPA aims to commission a study to identify, analyse, and document good practices that improve married adolescent girls’ access to rights and services, with particular emphasis on adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH), and to articulate actionable policy pathways for institutionalization and scale-up.
Instructions for submission
Proposals should be prepared based on the guidelines set forth in Section III above, along with a properly filled out and signed price quotation form, and are to be sent by email to the contact person indicated below no later than : 31st March 2026, till 23:59 Hrs
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For detailed information, please check the complete version of the RFP attached below.