Individual Consultancy Service for the Implementation of the Livelihood Restoration Plans for the Modjo-Hawassa Expressway Project

Source: World Bank — Ethiopia- Expressway Development Support Project

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING

 (CONSULTANCY SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL SELECTION)

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

For

Individual Consultancy Service for the Implementation of the Livelihood Restoration Plans for the Modjo-Hawassa Expressway Project

1. Project Background

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) has received financing from the World Bank towards the cost of the Ethiopia Expressway Development Support Project; and intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments to finance the Individual Consultancy Service for the Implementation of the Livelihood Restoration Plans for the Modjo - Hawassa Expressway Project.

The LRP aims at improving the livelihoods of the impacted communities; and to restore their situation at least to pre-displacement levels. To this end, the livelihood and income restoration plan targets those individuals and groups who are and will be at risk of losing their livelihood and income due to loss of   more than 20% of their farm land and those PAPs who lost their business in town sections. From the total road project affected households of the all four Lots around 2,458 households are found eligible for Livelihood Restoration program.

The livelihood and income restoration plan broadly identified both land-based livelihood strategies such as modern crop cultivation, dairy farming, animal fattening and non-land-based business strategies including petty trading, hotel, local food productions and beverage makings, to absorb the intended target beneficiaries.

To implement this plan on the ground, ERA seeks to hire and assign a dedicated and competent Livelihood and Income Restoration Expert to be base in the project sites to guide and expedite the implementation of the LRPs prepared for the four LOTs with due professional input, close follow-up, series of consultations and advices.

2. Objectives and Duration of the Assignment

The overall objective of the assignment is to ensure the proper implementation of the LRP which eventually helps to minimize the socio-economic adverse impacts of the involuntary resettlement and to enhance the development impact of the project by enabling affected people to share various project benefits, restore incomes, and thereby improve their living standards.

The specific objectives of the Individual Consultancy service are:

• Convert the cleared LR Plans  into reality
• To lead and Coordinate the implementation of LRP on the design and build of Modjo- Hawassa for the four LoTs at grassroots level
• Provide the necessary professional and technical support, guidance, and assistance to ERA to make sound and evidence-based decision regarding the LRP implementation.
• Conduct consultations with the LRP target PAPs and stakeholders including CBOs
• Re-establish and strengthen GRM committees together with the PAPs and Woreda officials in Woredas where the exiting GRM committees are non-functional as well as provide the required capacity building trainings to the committee members as necessary. 
• Work closely with the woreda and kebele administration regarding to ensure the proper and smooth implementation of the LRP
• Together with the responsible body, facilitate for the establishment cooperatives as required by the LRP
• Organize capacity building trainings listed in the LRP for the PAPs in consultation with the woreda administration and other concerned bodies
• Ensure the budget allocated for the PAPs has been utilized for the intended purpose and reach to the specific PAPs identified in the LRP.
• Implementing the livelihood activities specified in the LRP, strengthening, guide and monitor the livelihood inventions and ensure compliance with the LRP.

The duration of this consultancy service is a total of Two (2) years after commencement date of the program.

3. Required Qualifications

The Ethiopian Roads Administration now invites eligible individual consultants to indicate their interest in providing the services discussed above. Interested consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Service. The following criteria will be used to assess the Expression of Interest documents;

4. Selection of Applicants

The selection of an Individual Consultant will be made as per section V of the Guidelines for Selection and Employment of Consultants under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants by World Bank Borrowers, dated January 2011 Revised July 2014 available on www.worldbank.org/procure.

Further information or Terms of Reference (TOR) can be obtained at the address below during office hours from 09:00 A.M to 12:30 A.M hours and from 2:00 P.M to 5:00 P.M hours, Mondays to Thursdays and 09:00 A.M to 11:30 A.M and 2:00 P.M to 5:00 P.M hours on Fridays.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in three (3) hard copies or electronically to the address below (in person, or by mail) on or before Sptember 08, 2022. Please note that the number of pages of the Expression of Interest document shall not be more than 50 (fifty) pages.                                                        

Attn: Mr. Zekaris G/Giorgis

Engineering Procurement Directorate, Director

Building Block B, 1st Floor

P. O.  Box 1770

Ras Abebe Aregay Street

Email: eth.exp.sup@gmail.com/eraprodir@gmail.com

Tel. +251-115 18-57-74 (Extension-5775)

Fax: +251 11 554 4434

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ethiopian Roads Administration