Consultant – Baseline Study – Farm Africa
Job Title: Consultant – Baseline Study
Organization: Farm Africa
Funding Source: aBi Trust
Duty Station: Lira, Uganda
About US:
Farm Africa is an international non-governmental organization working to end hunger and bring prosperity to rural Africa. We work to increase the incomes and improve food security of smallholder farmers, pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, and forest dwellers in East Africa. A core part of our strategy is to ensure that our interventions are both economically sustainable and scalable. The systematic integration of market linkages in implementing programmes is crucial to our ability to scale our interventions cost-effectively. Farm Africa has the ambition to be the leading European NGO specialising in Agriculture, Natural Resource Management and Market Engagement.
About aBi Trust Project:
aBi Trust recently awarded Farm Africa and the North East Chilli Producers Association (NECPA) funding for a three-year project focused on creating a more competitive and profitable chilli value chain within Lira, northern Uganda to capitalise on growing international demand for varieties of Ugandan African Birds Eye (ABE) dried chillies. The project will strengthen the technical capacity of NECPA and their extension team to support market- orientated chilli production across their entire area of operation. Key project activities will include; delivering an enhanced extension package to 3,000 (120 groups of 25) chilli farmers in Aromo, Barr and Amach sub-counties; reforming input supply within Aromo, Barr and Amach sub-counties to ensure there is an adequate flow of high-quality inputs to service growing demand from farmers; supporting NECPA to obtain the proper certification and licencing required in order to begin accessing and selling their farmers’ chillies directly into high-value export markets. At the same time, the project will promote greater inclusivity within the value chain, encouraging female and youth led production by educating on gender mainstreaming and creating new enterprise opportunities.
Farm Africa and aBi Development Ltd. are seeking a consultant to carry out a baseline study for the Commercialising Chilli Production project, implemented in Lira district, Uganda.
Scope of Work
This baseline study will help establish the baseline values for all the impact and outcome indicators in the linear logframe, including seven key indicators – performance against which will inform the ‘payment by results’ (PBR) component of the project. The full terms of reference and annexes can be found on the link availed at the bottom of this advert.
The baseline study must be completed and fully reported on before the end of May 2019. The total available budget (including costs and expenses) for the study is UGX 50,000,000.
How to Apply:
Interested consultants or firms are requested to submit:
- A full technical and financial proposal (template for adaptation attached to the full terms of reference in Annex A). Please provide as much detail as possible, however at a minimum please clearly distinguish between consultancy costs and expenses, and detail any expenses (including indicative costs) that you will require Farm Africa to pay directly.
- Copies of all relevant Curriculum Vitae (CVs). Only CVs for the specific individuals that will form the proposed evaluation team should be included;
- A sample of a baseline or evaluation report for a similar project completed within the last 24 months (this will be treated as confidential and only used for the purposes of quality assurance);
- Contact details for two references (including one from your last client/employer).
All documents must be submitted by email to our ‘sealed’ email address tenders@farmafrica.org. The email subject line should clearly indicate ‘Bid for the CCP Baseline Consultancy’.
Full Terms of reference, Download Here
Annexes
Annex A: Technical and Financial Proposal Template, Download Here
Annex B: Farm Africa’s Style Guidelines
Annex C: CCP Linear Log frame
Annex D: Results Chain
Deadline: 7th April 2019 by 6pm
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