Call for Proposals for Upscaling Agricultural Technologies for Smallholder Farmers in Kenya

Deadline: 17-Mar-21

The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) is now inviting interested entities and organizations working with small-holder farmers, pastoralists and fisher-folk to submit proposals to upscale and promote adoption of existing proven and climate smart technologies that have been developed by KALRO and its partners.

Since the year 2012, KALRO has worked along value chains to implement its research agenda. KALRO’s strategy of working with partners, particularly in dissemination of research findings, has resulted in improved adoption of new agricultural technologies.

Objectives of the Programme and Priority Issues

The overall objective of the Action is to strengthen productive, climate change adapted and market integrated small holder agriculture aiming to reduce the national food deficit and improve agriculture sector competitiveness. The specific objective of the action is to develop and adopt climate change adapted and innovative agricultural technologies with potential for market integration. The global objective of this call for proposals is to promote adoption of existing and new KALRO technologies through public private partnerships.

The CS APP will support implementation of activities that build on the achievements of the ASAL APRP and will be targeted at achieving the following results:

• Result area 1 (a): New drought resistant and more yielding climate smart technologies developed. This will address specific productivity constraints facing farmers and whose solution will unlock farmer integration in commodity markets
• Result area 1(b): Small holder farmers adopt existing technologies developed by KALRO in value chains in Kenya to enhance production and value addition. This will cover upscaling of new and existing technologies through public-private partnerships approach via competitive sub-grants. The key focus will be increased adoption of technologies thus enabling farmers to take full advantage and integration into commodity value chains markets.

The Priorities of this Call for Proposals

Priority areas for this call are:

Expected Outputs

• Output 1. Farmers adopt climate smart technologies for increased production and productivity;
• Output 2. Farmers are linked to commodity markets and deriving economic benefits;
• Output 3: Farmers have increased access to and use of production inputs;
• Output 4. Farmer have access to and derive services from financial institutions.

Expected Outcomes

1. Adoption of new climate smart technologies in target value chains improved;
2. Productivity (yield) and production of target value chains improved;
3. Marketed share of production in target value chains improved.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • Be a legal person or an entity without legal personality1 or a natural person and
    • Be non-profit-making and
    • Be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation, faith based organization, public sector operator such as, a cooperative society, farmer association, Common Interest group (CIG), Community based Organization( CBO), international (inter-governmental) organisation as defined by Article 43 of the rules of application of the EU Financial Regulation and be established in a Member State of the European Union.
    • be duly incorporated in Kenya and operating under the applicable Kenya law;
    • be compliant with all national and local laws and regulations including but not limited to tax regulation, health and safety and environmental standards;
• Co-applicant(s)
  • Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
  • Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant himself.
  • Co-applicants must sign the mandate in ANNEX A2 Section 5.2 of the grant application form.
  • Applicants included in the lists of EU restrictive measures at the moment of the award decision cannot be awarded the contract.
  • If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the coordinator)
• Affiliated entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity (ies). Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to co-applicant(s):
    • Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
  • This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
    • Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings: Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
      • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or firsttier subsidiaries) They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
      • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
      • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
    • Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.

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