PAS Kolkata seeks proposals for the project titled “Cyber Safe East India-Workshops on Cyber Security for E-Businesses.”  Based on funding availability, the Recipient organization will organize a series of workshops for business practitioners in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, and Guwahati.  The workshops will be devised and implemented by the grantee with the help of U.S. cyber security and data protection experts.  The goal of the workshops is to connect American and Indian cyber security experts to help small and medium businesses adopt safer business practices, ultimately ensuring the shared prosperity between the U.S. and India. The grantee will solicit participation from local and American cyber security experts, academics, chamber of commerce representatives, cyber law enforcing agency officials, and other relevant stakeholders to conduct a needs assessment of local business owners regarding web-based business tools.  Collaborations should start early and virtually and will continue in-person during the workshops.  The experts, in tandem with the grantee, will design the curriculum for a series of three workshops that help business owners mitigate e-business risks.  The curriculum should be practical and relevant to a wide spectrum of businesses.The workshops should be conducted in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, and Guwahati.  Other workshop locations are a possibility depending on the findings of the needs assessments conducted by the grantee as a pre- workshop survey.  Workshop duration and the number of participants at each city will be determined by the grantee and experts in close consultation with PAS Kolkata.   A notional workshop size should be approximately 20 participants for each workshops over two to four days, which will be conducted in partnership with academic institutions, chambers of commerce and other businesses entities. The grantee will design and develop the workshop module and organize the workshops in coordination with PAS Kolkata.

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Consulate General Kolkata is a major stakeholder in anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) efforts in East India.  The Consulate’s anti-TIP conclaves – the seventh of which was held in April 2018 – have evolved into important events on the regional anti-TIP calendar.  The goals of the conclaves are to enhance cooperation among stakeholders, share best practices on anti-TIP policy, and boost public engagement on TIP issues. The primary goal of this funding opportunity is to: encourage intra- and interstate stakeholder collaboration to strengthen the fight against human trafficking

The recipient organization will implement three workshops, one each in Patna, Ranchi, and Guwahati, in order to share best practices of the Swayamsiddha program, culminating in a final conclave in Kolkata that will encourage intra- and interstate stakeholder collaboration to bolster human trafficking prevention efforts.

The primary goal of this funding opportunity is to: Encourage intra- and interstate stakeholder collaboration to strengthen the fight against human trafficking

Secondary goals for this program include:

·         Promoting the empowerment of women and girls through peer leadership

·         Fostering youth leadership and development

·         Strengthening resilience safety nets against human trafficking through multiple stakeholder collaboration

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Grant Application Manager US Consulate,Kolkata

kolkataPASG@state.gov