Public work baseline survey

Source: World Bank — ET Productive Safety Nets Project 4 (PSNP 4)

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

                                                     (CONSULTING SERVICES - FIRMS SELECTION)

Name of Country; Ethiopia

Name of Project: Productive Safety Net Project (PSNP4)

Credit No: 5440 – ET

Assignment Title: PSNP4 Public Works Baseline survey

Reference No.: ET-MANR-40314-CS-QCBS

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from International Development Association (IDA) and other Development Partners toward the cost of : Productive Safety Net Project (PSNP4) and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consultant services.

The objective of this consultancy assignment is to undertake a baseline study in selected PSNP watersheds.

The consulting services (“the Services”) include:

•         Collecting of primary and secondary data at community, household, kebele and watershed levels on the environmental conditions of each selected watershed; Assessment of the status of implementation of the PW programme in the watershed/lowland equivalent;

• Identification of the extent of watershed development activities that have been carried out in each selected watershed, including through PSNP PW subprojects, GoE Mass Mobilization, MERET, etc., and Mapping of each watershed and the PW subprojects including other interventions within it, using GPS/GIS; 

•         Analysis of data, compilation of findings and documentation for discussion, production, presentation and publications of final study

The data collected shall include but not limited to the following:-

• Soil types, slope & topography/terrain, land use/cover, agro-ecosystem characteristics, types and level of visible erosion processes; and, impacts of the project on the land cover, water sources … etc.,
• Production and productivity of major cereal crops and pulses,
• Characteristics of households within the watershed,
• Status of construction and maintenance of SWC measures (physical, biological), specifying activities undertaken, and type of SWC measures maintained. Describe your observations on the maintenance of SWC measures constructed in previous other similar projects. Presence or not of gullies and hillsides treated; and, note destroyed or poorly maintained SWC measures or plantations.

• Soil fertility improvement technologies and practices (e.g. compost or manure use) and note accounts (anecdotes) of tangible changes & benefits reported by individual households.
• Situation of area closures (vegetation regeneration, enrichment planting, illegal use of grass and woods, free grazing, firewood collection, etc.).
• Surface and subsurface water availability (refer to links with watershed protection works), household and community level water harvesting, water use/irrigation uses (refer to links with water availability, watershed protection and household incomes and food security).
• Household gardens and vegetable, fruits, spices production (link with water harvesting, household incomes and nutritional effects), status of animal fattening,  existence of income generating activities (e.g. petty trade, food processing and sales, baking, coffee shops, street restaurants that might have resulted from higher productivity of land releasing labour to undertake some non-farm economic activities), and Estimate of carbon sequestration level and Status of woody biomass of the watershed;
• Assessment of the watersheds in terms of climate change and governments response through climate resilient green economy strategy (CRGE strategy)

The implementation period is for five months (mid May 2018 to end of September 2018)

The Natural Resources Management Directorate (NRMD) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources (MoANR) now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing these services. Interested consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.). The short-listing criteria are: core business and years in business, qualifications in the field of the assignment, technical and managerial organization of the firm, and general qualifications and number of key staff. Consultants may associate to enhance their qualifications.

The attention of interested consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants by World Bank Borrowers (January 2011 revised July 2014) (“Consultants Guidelines”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.

Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of joint venture or a sub consultancy to enhance their qualification.

A consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality and Cost Based Selection method set out in the consultant guidelines.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours, 9:00am to 12:00 noon and 2:00pm to 5:00 pm. Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by mail, or by fax, or by e-mail) by 9th March 2018 on or before 16:00 local time

Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources (MoANR)

Building B: Floor 1

Attn to: Ato Dimos Yigzaw, Director, Procurement and Property Administration Directorate,

Email: yigzawdimos@gmail.com or wihibisenbet@yahoo.com or

abmengistu2003@gmail.com

PO Box 62347, Gurd Sholla,

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia