BUILDING RURAL INCOMES THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP (BRITEN)
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
TO CONDUCT END TERM PROJECT EVALUATION
Building Rural Incomes through Entrepreneurship (BRITEN) is a non-profit organization that was set up in 2011 to help accelerate agriculture transformation in Tanzania through agriculture initiative that are designed to facilitate market access enhance agribusiness competitive increase productivity and improve access to inputs and finance of value chain actors
AGRA in partnership with BRITEN the consortium lead for the Ihem Ludewa consortium is looking for the contract an individual or group of consultants to carry out the final project evaluation
The project goal is linking farmers to output and input markets to spur maize, beans and soybeans productivity in Ihem Ludewa cluster and is alleged to AGRA overall goal of catalyzing and sustaining and inclusive agriculture transformation in Tanzania to increase incomes and improve food security at least 2 million smallholder farming household directly and 2.5 million indirectly through target (i) government engagement to strengthening sector leadership, implementation capabilities and resources mobilization (ii) downstream and system level investment to unlock private sector engagement and sculling of proven technologies and (iii) alliance building with partners in the field to ensure value through better with partners in the field to ensure value through better activity and resources coordination. The project targeted activity and resources coordination. The project targeted 100,000 farmers in Iringa, Njombe and Ruvuma Region
REQUIRED EXPERTISE QUALIFICATION
The lead consortium should have the following qualification and experience
- Lead consultant have a minimum master’s degree in development studies, international development or any other relevant university degree
- Extensive expertise, knowledge development, food security agriculture, value chain development and working with smallholder farmers
- At least 10 years’ experience in working with international organization donors
- Extensive expertise of programs formulation monitoring and evaluation
- Experience in evaluating similar projects
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English fluency in spoken Swahili will be an added advantage
HOW TO APPPLY
Interested firms should submit a request for TOR from [email protected]. the deadline for request for Clarification Is 17:30 hrs local time (Tanzania) 11 May 2020, no question no request for TOUR will be responded to after this date
COMPLETE APPLICATION WILL CONSIST THE FOLLOWING
- SUMMRY OF PROPOSED technical approach methodology and timetable
- Past performance summaries (at least brief description of past current contracting mechanism for efforts similar in size, scope and complexity to this tender) and list of reference that demonstrate performance in conducting similar evaluation
- At least one previous relevant project report and list of previous similar jobs done
- CV confirming to the qualification listed above for person to manage and conduct the evaluation
- Detailed budget proposals that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price supported by a breakdown of coast
Deadline for submission of application is 14th May 2020 applicants must submit the application by email to [email protected] with attachments compatible with MS WORKD, EXCEL in MS Window environment only those pages are requiring original manual signature must be sent in scanned pdf Format .award and contract signing will take place on or before 22 May 2020
Source the Guardian 7 May , 2020
