Deadline: 15-Mar-22
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is inviting proposals from Hiring Firm/ NGO for provision support for strengthened food and nutrition security on project “Strengthening Integrated Sustainable Landscape Management in Enga Province Papua New Guinea”.
Objectives
Under the overall supervision of the Environment Lead and direct oversight of the UNDP International Technical Advisor and the technical guidance of the CCDA and in close coordination with Enga Provincial Administration, an NGO or a firm will be selected to be responsible for conducting set of activities for Strengthened food and nutrition security in the province and achieve following results:
- Strengthen community-based research and innovation for climate compatible agricultural development.
- Climate compatible coffee production strengthened.
Components
The project will assist in strengthening sustainable and inclusive economic development of the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea by three components:
- Improved climate change mitigation and adaptation: This component will focus principally on delivering improvements in the status of climate change mitigation and adaption by strengthening its integration into the development planning framework, supporting the development and early implementation of climate compatible provincial and district development plans, including the development of effective financing mechanisms to support climate mitigation, adaptation and disaster risk management activities.
- Strengthened food and nutrition security: This component will focus on strengthening food and nutritional security within Enga through engagement with both key commercial value chains and subsistence farmers to improve cultivation techniques and help integrate new crops and produce within production systems.
- Improved Biodiversity and land/forest ecosystems conservation, restoration and sustainable use: This component focuses on enhanced action on conservation, restoration and sustainable use of high value areas within the landscape.
Duration: Duration of assignment will be ten months from signing of contract.
Eligibility Criteria
- A vendor should not be suspended, debarred, or otherwise identified as ineligible by any UN Organization or the World Bank Group or any other international Organization.
- Vendors are therefore required to disclose to UNDP whether they are subject to any sanction or temporary suspension imposed by these organizations.
- It is the Bidder’s responsibility to ensure that its employees, joint venture members, sub-contractors, service providers, suppliers and/or their employees meet the eligibility requirements as established by UNDP.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=88543