Request for Proposal
| To design, develop, and implement a hygiene behavior change campaign in selected garment factories in Savar and Gazipur area |
1. About VisionSpring
VisionSpring, a pioneering, global social enterprise, creates access to affordable eyewear, everywhere. We expand the optical market, using innovative distribution strategies to sell radically affordable eyeglasses to customers earning less than $4/day. In 2019 alone, VisionSpring reached 1.3 million people with the corrective eyeglasses they need to sustain productivity, learn more in school, stay safe on the roads, and enjoy a higher quality of life. Since our founding in 2001, VisionSpring has reached 6.9 million people, generating a cumulative $1.5 billion in increased income earning potential at the household level.
2. About Clear Vision Workplace Project
Focusing mainly on garment factory workers, VisionSpring developed and implemented the Clear Vision Workplace program to increase workers’ use of eyeglasses in industries that are central to advancing Bangladesh’s economic growth. Vision correction enhances worker well-being by reducing headaches, fatigue, and feelings of frustration. Addressing blurry vision also helps businesses relying on worker productivity and meeting quality standards to compete in a global market. A recent study published the global health journal, The Lancet, demonstrated that corrected presbyopia can increase productivity by 22%
3. Brief overview of VisionSpring’s Covid-response project
Like the global economy, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has affected Bangladesh’s garment sector. Many factories have experienced order cancellations leading to a reduction in the number of workers. Factories in production struggle to keep the workplace and workforce Covid-safe. Although sector specific morbidity and mortality data is not available, anecdotal observations have suggested that garment workers lack the knowledge, behavior, and access to facilities and supplies to maintain recommended infection prevention practices. With the support of leading brands, VisionSpring has taken a three-pillar approach to help workers stay COVID-safe so that they can continue to work and make a decent living during this difficult time. VisionSpring has developed several sub-projects being implemented through local partners to ensure that the three-pillar approach is implemented properly in the field to achieve desired outcomes.
4. Objectives of the hygiene behaviour change campaign
It is now widely known that most people know about recommended Covid-specific hygiene behaviors such as frequent washing of hands with soap, wearing of masks in public, and maintaining social distance to reduce the risk of being infected. However, this knowledge is challenging to transfer into practice. For garment factory workers it is even more true because of the crowded factory atmosphere that they work in and their over-crowded residences.
To promote recommended hygiene practices, the specific objectives of this assignment is to design, develop and implement a hygiene behavior change campaign in selected garment factories in Savar and Gazpur areas to promote how to turn Covid-specific hygiene knowledge into practice.
5. Submission of proposal
The technical and financial proposals should be submitted electronically to the email address: aftab.opel@visionspring.org. Proposal submitted to any other email account except this and in hard copy will be treated as disqualified. Submissions after the deadline 5 February 2021 will be treated as disqualified. Two different folders i.e. technical and financial should be submitted into one zip folder with a covering letter. The proposals should be submitted in pdf format.