Expression of Interest MATCHING GRANTS SPECIALIST

1. OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The Matching Grants Specialist will be the Head of the Competitive Grants Programme Secretariat and will also serve as Secretary to the Matching Grants Committee. He/she will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Matching Grant Programme under the guidance of the Matching Grants Committee and the Project Director, including organizing training and information activities, proposal processing and grant administration, monitoring grant implementation and organizing evaluations. The Matching Grants Specialist will be administratively and technically responsible and report to the Project Director.

Expression of Interest for Project Field Officer

 

Under direct supervision of the Project Manager, the Project Field Officer will be responsible for addressing the Project’s Project implementation in their assigned districts for all activities of Component 1 and 2.

Qualifications and Required experience

• BSc. in Agriculture, Agronomy or related discipline
• 3 to 5 years professional experience in Agricultural production
• In-depth knowledge of agriculture in Lesotho.
• Sesotho and English Fluency

Expression of Interest-for Irrigation Specialist (1)

EXPERIENCE

• At least 10 years of professional experience in irrigation development;
• Ability to design small-scale irrigation schemes and design of rehabilitation of on-farm water management systems;
• Experience with designing and supporting farmer-managed Irrigation schemes and formation and strengthening of WUAs
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams;

• Individual consultants who has undertaken a similar assignment elsewhere preferably in the Southern African Region.

Expression of Interest for WUAs

 

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• At least 5 years’ experience in participatory training and capacity building programs of Community Organization.
• Ability to draft and develop simple-to-use training materials, and Terms of reference for Water Users Associations.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams.

Expression of Interest for Technical Reviewers

 

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

The technical review process is central to the concept of a Matching Grants Programme, providing the technical oversight during the selection of the portfolio. As such the technical reviewers are responsible to:

• Review in detail and evaluate the applications against the approved criteria and weighting-scoring system and procedures provided by the MGP Secretariat;
• Complete an evaluation report for each application evaluated, use the forms provided by the MGP Secretariat;

Expression of Interest for CSA Training Consultancy

 

SCOPE OF WORK

• Develop field training materials both in English and Sesotho (maximum of 60 pages for each language) on five (5) climate smart agriculture initiatives that will be prioritized by the PMU unit and which will be implemented by the project in the duration of its life. The 5 prioritized Climate Smart Agriculture initiatives are improved crop varieties & livestock management, protected Agriculture (shadenets and Plastic tunnels), water harvesting & drip irrigation, conservation agriculture and lastly agroforestry.
• Facilitate training of trainers’ (TOT) trainings on the prioritized climate smart agriculture practices
• Work with Project Field Officers s in the formation and revitalization of Farmer Field Schools as needed.

Expression Of Interest for Agro Weather Tools

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSIGNMENT

This consultancy is in four parts: Development of agro-weather data, Agro-weather dissemination systems to users, Capacity building in the use of agro-weather and tools, and mentoring services The agro-weather tool will be hosted by the Ministry of Energy and Meteorology as the mother ministry leading climate services in the country.

Second Call of Applicants

 

5.0 Budget:

This round of applications is allocated a maximum of USD7 million.

There are two levels of grants. The first level is M400 000.00 – M450 000.00 and cash equity is 25%. The second level of grant is M451 000.00 – M1.5 million and cash equity is 40%.

6.0 Beneficiary contribution:

To engender ownership and to demonstrate commitment, the applicants together with their service providers and other partners should contribute to co-financing of at least 40% of the total cost of the project for the larger grants and 25% for the smaller grants. The entire 100% of the applicants’ co-financing should be in cash.

 

7.0 Deadline and Place for Submission of Applications:

The deadline for submission of applications and all necessary supporting documents is not later than 30^th November 2021 at 16:00 pm.

Expression of Interest-for Market Information Farmers Data Base

 

4.0 Experience

1. At least 3 years professional experience in developing Agricultural Information Systems for Government or recognized bodies.
2. Demonstrate to have the knowledge of or experience of local and regional Market Information Systems.
3. The consultant must have experience with international agencies and have a good understanding of World Bank mandates in project implementation,
4. At least three (3) years experience in developing ICT based Agricultural Advisory systems

5. Experience in international MIS projects that can be demonstrated will be an asset specifically;

• Development of mobile applications,
• Development of decision support systems and data modeling platforms,
• Development of inbound and outbound web services for data acquisition and sharing; and
• Experience in market surveys in agriculture will be an added advantage.

 

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III paragraph 3.14 to 3.17 of the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers dated July 2016 and revised in November 2017 and August 2018, setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. A consultant will be selected in accordance with the selection of the Individual Consultants Method set out in Procurement Regulations.

Expression of Interest-for Irrigation Specialist

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• At least a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field such as Irrigation engineering, Agricultural engineering, Rural Engineering, Soil and Water Resources Management;

 

EXPERIENCE

• At least 10 years of professional experience in irrigation development;
• Ability to design small-scale irrigation schemes and design of the rehabilitation of on-farm water management systems;
• Experience with designing and supporting farmer-managed Irrigation schemes and formation and strengthening of WUAs
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams;

• Individual consultants who have undertaken a similar assignment elsewhere preferably in the Southern African Region.