date: 07 Oct 2016
Background
The Alliance for a Green
Revolution in Africa (AGRA, www.agra.org) is
a not-for-profit organization working with African governments, other donors,
NGOs, the private sector and African farmers to significantly and sustainably
improve the productivity and incomes of resource poor smallholder farmers in
Africa. AGRA
aims to ensure that smallholder farmers have what they need to succeed: good
seeds and healthy soils; access to markets, information, financing, storage and
transport; and policies that provide them with
comprehensive support. Through
developing Africa’s high-potential breadbasket areas, while also boosting farm
productivity across more challenging environments, AGRA works to transform
smallholder agriculture into a highly productive, efficient, sustainable and competitive
system, while protecting the environment.
Under its recently refreshed
strategy AGRA will make investments in three new components: 1) Catalyze an
agricultural transformation in key agro-ecological zones on the continent, 2)
Unlock the value of private and public sector investments to sustain
agricultural transformation, and 3) Develop capacities and capabilities that
will strengthen and sustain the foundation for African agricultural
transformation in the future
AGRA’s mission is to catalyze an agricultural
transformation in Africa through
innovation-driven, sustainable, productivity increases and access to finance
that improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
AGRA’s overall vision of success
is centered on two headline goals to achieve by 2020 through its efforts to
catalyze, convene, and align with an alliance of partners and grantees:
Double
the incomes of at least 30 million farm households through productivity
improvements and access to markets and finance.
AGRA
will hold itself directly accountable for 9 million farm households through the
direct activities of grantees and partners in its first program in 6 countries
to lay the foundations of an agricultural transformation.
Through
partnerships with the private and public sector in tis second program, AGRA
will contribute to the wellbeing and livelihoods of 20 million farm households
in countries where an agricultural transformation is already under way, but
needs to be sustained.
Ensure
all focus countries are on a pathway to attain and sustain an agricultural
transformation through sustainable agricultural productivity growth and access
to market and finance.
Pursuant to the above
highlighted, AGRA would like to engage a qualified consultant(s) to evaluate
and redesign training manuals that have been developed under the Patient
Procurement Platform initiative currently in its pilot phase in Rwanda,
Tanzania and Zambia. In order to facilitate trainings, platform partners have
collaboratively developed draft training manuals on land preparation and
planting, soil health and fertility and safe use. These draft manuals need
external validation for consistency, coherence and technical soundness, testing
for practicability and finally translation.
Scope of Work
The consultancy will include but
not be limited to the following tasks:
Evaluate
training Manuals: The consultant(s) will be expected to evaluate the existing
manuals that have been developed, make additions where additional information
is needed and also develop guidelines for conducting the training sessions.
This will include the development of TOT guidelines and also help design Farmer
facing materials. Initially the manuals will focus on:
Land
preparation and seed planting
Integrated
pest management
Soil
and soil fertility
Safe
use
Undertake
a Trainer of Trainer session for field officers expected to deliver on the
above trainings.
Work
with Platform partners to refine each manual and training aids before final
printing
Deliverables
The consultancy will be expected
to deliver, the following outputs:
A
manual evaluation report detailing
4
draft manuals ( in relation to the aforementioned topics) with suggested
additions
Draft
Training guides and aids. This will include TOT guides and farmer facing power
point slides.
Workshop
report on the Trainer of Trainer sessions
Field
report
Proposal Submission
Interested and qualified
consultants are invited to submit their proposal(s) comprising of the
following:
An
understanding of the consultancy requirements
Methodology
and work-plan for performing the assignment
Project
delivery plan
Team
composition and tasks assignment
Detailed
reference list indicating the scope and magnitude of similar assignments
Relevant
services undertaken in the past three (3) years
Registration
and other relevant statutory documents
Evaluation Factors and
Sub factors
The Proposal for this contract
will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
Thoroughness
in complying with all of the elements laid out in the tasks;
Years
of experience in delivering similar assignments.
Technical/educational
background of the consultant(s)
Quality
of sample manuals from previous assignments.
Strong
familiarity with scope of work
Quality
of technical proposal
Methodological
approach
Work
plan
Budget
Technical and Financial proposals
will need to be submitted as separate
documents. Financial proposals will not be opened until the
conclusion of the technical evaluation and then only for those proposals that
are deemed qualified and responsive. Note that the financial proposal should
include all applicable taxes.
Clarifications
Questions and/or clarifications
may be submitted to jmacharia@agra.org by 28th Sept 2016
Responses will be shared with all those who will have shared their e-mail
addresses with us by 29th
Sept 2016