Establishment of 180 Open Drip-irrigation fitted Demos for the ACTING NOW for Food Security and Resilient Food 115 views0 applications


1.0 About Solidaridad

Solidaridad Network is an international solution-oriented civil society organization working through eight regional expertise centres to transform markets to make them more sustainable and inclusive. Our eight regional expertise centres include Asia, Eastern and Central Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, Southern Africa, South America, West Africa and our global Secretariat in the Netherlands. Solidaridad Eastern and Central Africa, one of the regional centers, is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with country offices and programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda. We bring together supply chain players and engage them with innovative solutions to improve production, ensuring the transition to a sustainable and inclusive economy that maximizes the benefit for all. We facilitate the strengthening of local capacity in developing countries, support the creation of enabling environments for economies to thrive, and improve market access.

The Acting Now for Food Security Project

The ACTING NOW for Food Security and Resilient Food Systems program seeks to improve the resilience of smallholder farmers by integrating local agricultural production of food crops and products (vegetables, fruits, Pulses, Grains, and livestock) and agriculture businesses into their production systems. The main aim of the project is to achieve increased sustainable production volumes, better quality, increased incomes, reduced production costs, and improved market access The project targets 70,000 smallholder farmers, (60% women) and their co-operatives/producer hubs in three counties in Kenya (Makueni, Taita Taveta, and Kwale). This will be through the promotion of improved crop production technologies, regenerative farming practices, addressing challenges related to access to quality farm inputs and services, and market access initiatives.

2.1 Background

Globally, record-high food prices continue to impact citizens, disproportionately affecting people in low and middle-income nations. In the continent of Africa, the drastic rise in food prices continues to intensify food insecurity. The situation is further compounded by the sporadic conflict in Ukraine, the resultant agro-inputs and food supply chain disruptions, and the steep rise in commodity prices – fuel, staple foods like maize flour, and cooking oil in Kenya. The rising cost of agro-inputs and food has further widened the food insecurity/vulnerability gap for both rural and urban households in sub-Saharan African nations. The combined economic shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, increased incidences of pests and diseases and conflict also threaten to push some countries to acute food insecurity.

Assignment Objective:

The objective of the assignment includes:

The objective of this assignment is guided by the impacts of climate change that are already widespread and the consequences have been witnessed all around the world. Any fluctuations in temperature, rainfall, humidity, soil nutrients, moisture, sunlight, aeration, and soil temperature directly impact the growth and productivity of crops and plants. Hence, adaptation of mitigation strategies involving actions to reduce global warming is an important option to overcome the impact of climate variations on crop production. In this regard, the Acting Now project is promoting climate-smart technologies and seeks to construct and establish 180 drip irrigation demonstration sites each in a 1/4 of an acre, in Makueni, Taita Taveta, and Kwale Counties in order to showcase water-efficient use technologies for crop production and to realize the desired outcomes and impact from the project results framework.

2.5 Responsibilities of the Service Provider /Scope of Work:

The service provider will be primarily responsible for:

● Set up 180 open drip demos construction to the satisfaction of Solidaridad across the 3 counties (60 in Makueni, 60 in Taita Taveta, 60 in Kwale) in a period of 2 months and as per specifications and accessories provided in Annex A below.

● Train and support the beneficiaries on the use as well as management of drip demonstration sites during the establishment phase.

● Train the Project officers and lead farmers who will carry out follow-up and monitoring visits

● Provide a progress report after attaining 50% of the installation work

● Submit a final report compiled version of the report in electronic version in Word format to the project after incorporating the feedback and suggestions from Solidaridad.

Coordination and Cooperation

● The Contractor undertaking the assignment will work under the coordination of the Solidaridad (ECA) Project management team

2.7 Expert/Consultant’s

Develop a comprehensive expression of interest (E.O.I) outlining:

• A short profile of the firm/contractor, including photos of previous work.

• Firm/Contractors’ statement on the interpretation of the TOR, methodology of execution, detailed work plan, and budget.

• A detailed diagrammatic layout and designs for the open drip demonstration sites

• At least a reference to similar assignments undertaken in the last 2 years

• It is desirable if the contractors/firm has previous experience in setting up and managing drip irrigation systems.

Submission deadline

The consultant is required to submit the E.O.I detailing the approach & methodology, budget, and work plan by the 5th of June 2023.

2.8 Installation Period:

The overall time frame of the activity installation will be 60 days (including Saturdays and Sundays), which will include the approach and methodology, construction, and establishment of the system and presentation of the final completion report.

Subject reference: Establishment of 180 drip-irrigation fitted demos for Acting Now for Food Security Project in 3 counties (Makueni, Taita Taveta and Kwale) in Kenya

Submissions are by email to [email protected]whileaddressed to:

Regional Managing Director

Solidaridad Eastern and Central Africa Expertise Centre

Kilimani Business Centre, Kirichwa Road,

P.O. Box 42234 – 00100 GPO

Nairobi

ANNEX A: SPECIFICATIONS

1) Open Drip-irrigation fitted Demos

● 2,000-liter capacity plastic water tank

● Metallic raised stand 10 feet for the water tank

● Full drip irrigation kit for ¼ an acre farm fitted with water controls and drip lines

● Install a 1.2m3 submersible solar-powered water pump with a motor of 200 watts

● 250 watts solar panel

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As a frontrunner in the area of sustainable economic development, Solidaridad seeks to create prosperity for everyone that respects both the people and the planet. With almost 50 years of experience, experts in the field and pragmatic collaboration with influential partners in and around the supply chain, Solidaridad develops smart solutions that bring lasting positive impact.

We envision a world in which all we produce, and all we consume, can sustain us while respecting the planet, each other and the next generations.We bring together supply chain actors and engage them in innovative solutions to improve production, ensuring the transition to a sustainable and inclusive economy that maximizes the benefit for all.

Solidaridad initiates corporate social responsibility and fair trade to combat poverty worldwide.

Solidaridad is an international network organization with more than 20 years of experience in creating fair and sustainable supply chains from producer to consumer.

Solidaridad was launched in 1969 by the Catholic bishops as an advent campaign in aid of Latin America. In the 1970s, protestant churches joined Solidaridad and a formal ecumenical organization emerged in 1976. During those days, this model was a unique form of collaboration between the Dutch churches in their programmes for development aid in Latin America.Unfortunately in the 90s, inter-church cooperation came under pressure and the breakdown of ecumenical collaboration started. In the end, the church-based foundation of Solidaridad’s work gradually eroded. The Catholic Church became increasingly inward-looking and less inclined to see responsibility for the world as a task. The growing conservatism within the churches led to breaking of the ties. The era of 40 years of eucumenical cooperation ended in 2010. But still to date, many local Christian communities are committed to Solidaridad’s work.International network organization The developments in the relationships with the churches created new opportunities for Solidaridad. An international network organization is being built up, both in terms of governance as well as in terms of operations. This change of structure will give our partners in the South a prominent say in the policymaking processes. The implementation of that policy will be better underpinned by the knowledge and experience of local partners. Moreover, the implementation of the policies will be decentralized and delegated to the regional expertise centres, thus making a better use of local expertise.Solidaridad The Netherlands is to be one player in a network of nine Regional Expertise Centres (RECs) in various parts of the world. In the process, the organization’s centre of gravity is shifted from North to South. The offices in the South take over the entire project cycle. Solidaridad The Netherlands will apply itself to market development in the North, fundraising to cover the network budget and publicity campaigns to involve consumers, citizens and businessess in the taks of making the international economy more sustainable.Fair Trade In 1988, Solidaridad was the founding father of the Max Havelaar label for coffee for the Dutch market. This was the starting point of Fair Trade certification, directly leading to the international standard of Fair Trade (FLO). After having introduced fair trade coffee Solidaridad initiated in 1996 a fair trade scheme for bananas. For this purpose, Solidaridad set up the fruit company Agrofair. This company is co-owned by farmers and supplies its fair trade labelled fruit to supermarkets across Europe. At the turn of this century Solidaridad established Kuyichi jeans, a trendy sustainable fashion brand that is sold in over than 500 leading stores across Europe.CSR-models Corporate social responsibility is developing at a fast rate. Solidaridad is building on this together with UTZ CERTIFIED, the sustainable label for coffee, cocoa and tea. MADE-BY, the label for clean clothes introduced in 2004, is another of Solidaridad’s initiatives. Solidaridad is also intensively involved in CSR models such as Social Accountability International (SAI) and the Business Social Compliance Inititiative (BSCI), and is active in Round Tables for responsible soy, palm oil, sugarcane and cotton. An increasing number of large and small companies, brands and retailers, all over the world are now working with Solidaridad on sustainable chain development.
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1.0 About Solidaridad

Solidaridad Network is an international solution-oriented civil society organization working through eight regional expertise centres to transform markets to make them more sustainable and inclusive. Our eight regional expertise centres include Asia, Eastern and Central Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, Southern Africa, South America, West Africa and our global Secretariat in the Netherlands. Solidaridad Eastern and Central Africa, one of the regional centers, is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with country offices and programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda. We bring together supply chain players and engage them with innovative solutions to improve production, ensuring the transition to a sustainable and inclusive economy that maximizes the benefit for all. We facilitate the strengthening of local capacity in developing countries, support the creation of enabling environments for economies to thrive, and improve market access.

The Acting Now for Food Security Project

The ACTING NOW for Food Security and Resilient Food Systems program seeks to improve the resilience of smallholder farmers by integrating local agricultural production of food crops and products (vegetables, fruits, Pulses, Grains, and livestock) and agriculture businesses into their production systems. The main aim of the project is to achieve increased sustainable production volumes, better quality, increased incomes, reduced production costs, and improved market access The project targets 70,000 smallholder farmers, (60% women) and their co-operatives/producer hubs in three counties in Kenya (Makueni, Taita Taveta, and Kwale). This will be through the promotion of improved crop production technologies, regenerative farming practices, addressing challenges related to access to quality farm inputs and services, and market access initiatives.

2.1 Background

Globally, record-high food prices continue to impact citizens, disproportionately affecting people in low and middle-income nations. In the continent of Africa, the drastic rise in food prices continues to intensify food insecurity. The situation is further compounded by the sporadic conflict in Ukraine, the resultant agro-inputs and food supply chain disruptions, and the steep rise in commodity prices - fuel, staple foods like maize flour, and cooking oil in Kenya. The rising cost of agro-inputs and food has further widened the food insecurity/vulnerability gap for both rural and urban households in sub-Saharan African nations. The combined economic shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, increased incidences of pests and diseases and conflict also threaten to push some countries to acute food insecurity.

Assignment Objective:

The objective of the assignment includes:

The objective of this assignment is guided by the impacts of climate change that are already widespread and the consequences have been witnessed all around the world. Any fluctuations in temperature, rainfall, humidity, soil nutrients, moisture, sunlight, aeration, and soil temperature directly impact the growth and productivity of crops and plants. Hence, adaptation of mitigation strategies involving actions to reduce global warming is an important option to overcome the impact of climate variations on crop production. In this regard, the Acting Now project is promoting climate-smart technologies and seeks to construct and establish 180 drip irrigation demonstration sites each in a 1/4 of an acre, in Makueni, Taita Taveta, and Kwale Counties in order to showcase water-efficient use technologies for crop production and to realize the desired outcomes and impact from the project results framework.

2.5 Responsibilities of the Service Provider /Scope of Work:

The service provider will be primarily responsible for:

● Set up 180 open drip demos construction to the satisfaction of Solidaridad across the 3 counties (60 in Makueni, 60 in Taita Taveta, 60 in Kwale) in a period of 2 months and as per specifications and accessories provided in Annex A below.

● Train and support the beneficiaries on the use as well as management of drip demonstration sites during the establishment phase.

● Train the Project officers and lead farmers who will carry out follow-up and monitoring visits

● Provide a progress report after attaining 50% of the installation work

● Submit a final report compiled version of the report in electronic version in Word format to the project after incorporating the feedback and suggestions from Solidaridad.

Coordination and Cooperation

● The Contractor undertaking the assignment will work under the coordination of the Solidaridad (ECA) Project management team

2.7 Expert/Consultant’s

Develop a comprehensive expression of interest (E.O.I) outlining:

• A short profile of the firm/contractor, including photos of previous work.

• Firm/Contractors’ statement on the interpretation of the TOR, methodology of execution, detailed work plan, and budget.

• A detailed diagrammatic layout and designs for the open drip demonstration sites

• At least a reference to similar assignments undertaken in the last 2 years

• It is desirable if the contractors/firm has previous experience in setting up and managing drip irrigation systems.

Submission deadline

The consultant is required to submit the E.O.I detailing the approach & methodology, budget, and work plan by the 5th of June 2023.

2.8 Installation Period:

The overall time frame of the activity installation will be 60 days (including Saturdays and Sundays), which will include the approach and methodology, construction, and establishment of the system and presentation of the final completion report.

Subject reference: Establishment of 180 drip-irrigation fitted demos for Acting Now for Food Security Project in 3 counties (Makueni, Taita Taveta and Kwale) in Kenya

Submissions are by email to [email protected]whileaddressed to:

Regional Managing Director

Solidaridad Eastern and Central Africa Expertise Centre

Kilimani Business Centre, Kirichwa Road,

P.O. Box 42234 - 00100 GPO

Nairobi

ANNEX A: SPECIFICATIONS

1) Open Drip-irrigation fitted Demos

● 2,000-liter capacity plastic water tank

● Metallic raised stand 10 feet for the water tank

● Full drip irrigation kit for ¼ an acre farm fitted with water controls and drip lines

● Install a 1.2m3 submersible solar-powered water pump with a motor of 200 watts

● 250 watts solar panel

2023-06-06

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