Deadline: 31-Aug-20
UN Women is looking for a “Sunflower” Value chain responsible party for UN Women and UNFPA Joint Programme which aims to empower women and female youth farmers economically as a result of enhanced sunflower production and marketing. The Responsible party will collaborate and support the overall AMCOS to adopt good agricultural practices (GAP) and post-harvest best practices to all male and female members.
This project aims at empowering women and female youth farmers economically through agriculture. In terms of the sunflower production and marketing, the project will collaborate and support the overall AMCOS with undertaking soil tests and providing good agricultural practice (GAP) training to all male and female members and constructing a warehouse to improve their individual and collective productivity and marketing.
However, the project explicitly intends to promote women’s new membership and leadership in the AMCOS for women sunflower producers to equally participate and benefit from the cooperative structure. For that purpose, in the given limited budget, the project will provide farming inputs only to existing and new women members in AMCOS. In addition, for the purpose of self-sustainable supplies of improved seeds for all AMCOS members, the project will support on provision of training on Quality Declared Seeds (QDS) production to selected farmers from 3 AMCOS in collaboration with the Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute (TOSCI).
Objective
The objective of the program is to enhance the social and economic status of women and adolescent girls in both districts by:
- empowering women and female youth farmers economically; and
- enhancing the capacity of the sub-national actors and community to prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBV), including harmful practices.
Outputs
The selected organization will be responsible for implementing identified activities under Output 1.1 and Output 1.2 of the project.
Output 1.1: Increased capacity of women and female youth farmers to apply Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) in sunflower farming for higher yields
Under Output 1.1, selected activities to be implemented by the organization as below:
- Undertake a market identification assessment of horticulture in Singida, Dodoma, Arusha & Dar es Salaam markets to assess buyers, their demands and its seasonality;
- Facilitate conducting the soil test (for all AMCOS members), needs assessment of farming inputs and a contractual arrangement of bulk purchase (for existing and new women members of AMCOS) of improved seeds, organic fertilizers, and pesticides with reliable input suppliers – arrange a local procurement of organic fertilizers for agroecological practice;
- Facilitate training of selected farmers on Quality Declared Seeds (QDS) production
- Train on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) including conservation and agroecological farming and harvest and postharvest handling of sunflower
Output 1.2: Increased collective marketing capacity of women and female youth farmers
Under Output 1.2, selected activities below:
- Support the Sunflower AMCOS to develop and implement their market-driven production and marketing plans as a group (planning session); Construct one sunflower warehouse at Mnang’ana Village to enhance collective marketing and reduce postharvest loss
- Conduct basic entrepreneurship training with access to financial information and follow up business and financial management mentorship
Competencies
Technical/functional competencies required; the selected organization must demonstrate in its technical proposal that it meets the following criteria:
- Having a legal status under the laws of the United Republic of Tanzania.
- Having technical expertise and experiences in implementing a project and providing technical assistance for increasing sunflower production and productivity, collective marketing, reducing postharvest loss, establishing and operating a Warehouse, and strengthening sunflower agricultural entrepreneurship in Tanzania.
- Having a network and market information/data systems along the sunflower value chain in Tanzania from input suppliers, producers, traders, processors, and buyers to maximize target farmers’ access to markets of inputs and outputs.
- Having policy level expertise and engagement with the Government with regards to sunflower production, marketing, and markets.
- Having a capacity and experience in providing capacity strengthening and extension services to sunflower producer groups, particularly women farmers, in collaboration with the Local Government Authorities.
- Administrative capacity to handle and manage the financial and program aspects of the expected assignments under this ToR.
Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Comprehensive experience in implementing economic growth development projects through the agribusiness-market related solutions in the edible oil value chain.
- Having working experiences as an implementing partner of UN agencies.
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