ICPAC Request Call For Proposals: Monitoring Natural Resources and Food Security in East Africa Region

Deadline: 13-Oct-21

The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) was awarded a grant by the African Union Commission (AUC) to implement the GMES & Africa thema focusing on Monitoring Natural Resources and Food Security in East Africa region comprising 10 countries, namely: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda.

The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and Africa (GMES & Africa) Support Program is a joint program co-financed by the European Commission and the African Union Commission. The Program aims at improving African policy-makers ‘, planners’, scientists ‘, business and private sector and citizens’ capacities to design, implement, and monitor national, regional and continental policies and promote sustainable management of natural resources through the use of Earth Observation data and derived information.

Objective: The objective of this work is to engage EO private sectors in East Africa countries to enhance agricultural monitoring and food security systems at ICPAC by using the freely high resolution available EO data to develop and to enhance existing crop masks. This work seeks to improve crop masks and relate it with quantification of crop production areas in parts of the East Africa region.

Deliverables

validated a high-resolution crop mask for selected EA countries
processing chains for developing the mask
Step by step training manual on crop mask development / validation
Report on methodology and generated products

Duration: 2 months.

Criteria

Firms must meet the following criteria:

Be a private company registered in at least one of the 10 eastern Africa countries
Demonstrate at least three years’ experience offering EO / geospatial products and / or services within East Africa / Africa
Knowledge and experience in developing and validating agricultural masks
Ability to develop crop mask using EO data
Ability to develop crop type mask using EO data.
Demonstrate competency in developing or using modern field survey approaches and tools.
Capacity to implement complex and big data workflows for products and service generation.
Demonstrate previous project experiences in the application of earth observation and geo-information in agriculture monitoring
Certificate of registration / certificate of incorporation
Valid tax compliance certificate
Brief company / organization profile in narrative form
References of similar assignments with full contact information of clients (Name of organization, name of contact person, telephone numbers and email address)
Signed letter confirming willingness and availability to facilitate inspection of office premises by staff of ICPAC to ascertain existence of key human and infrastructural capacity, prior to concluding procurement of the contract.