Recruitment of an ITA at the Guinean House of the Entrepreneur MGE

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Expression of Interest are invited for Recruitment of an ITA at the Guinean House of the Entrepreneur MGE The National Directorate of Rural Engineering via the Ministry of Agriculture has received funding from the French Development Agency AFD for the financing of the project for support of Rice Farming Systems in Mangrove Trees SARITEM and intends to use part of the amount thereof to make the payments for the provision of Technical Assistance services to the NGO Maison Guin enne de l Entrepreneur MGE for the implementation of the downstream component of the rice sector The aim of the SARITEM project is to contribute in a chain and territory logic to the improvement of food security and income in the sustainable rice farming systems of the mangrove areas while preserving the surrounding ecosystem The components or expected results of the intervention can be organized into three components as follows Component 1 Development and maintenance of rice plots o Strand 11 Rehabilitation and extension of facilities o Strand 12 Management maintenance and maintenance of facilities Component 2 Sustainable agricultural development and development of rice and solar salt sectors o Component 21 Sustainable Agricultural Development o Component 22 Downstream of the rice and solar salt sectors Component 3 Coordination monitoring and evaluation and environmental and social diligences o Section 31 Environmental and social support measures o Section 32 Monitoring and evaluation o Stream 33 Project Coordination The Services of the Candidate will be for technical assistance to the NGO Guinean House of the Entrepreneur MGE for the implementation of the downstream component of the rice sector This sub component aims to establish a quality rice sector within the operators so that they can obtain a better income and increase the volumes produced as well as to consolidate inter professional approaches The project will participate in the following activities 1 Consolidation of the processing and marketing activities of the upstream and downstream operators of the rice sector through the consolidation of the warehouses of the producers unions support for the empowerment of the groups of steamers dehullers and tradesmen the consolidation of the Koba and Tougnifily centers and the extension of the network of processing centers 2 Market development through sustainable quality rice approaches through the consolidation of the Fanyi B ra Maal collective brand and the development of other specific markets for mangrove rice to offer a differentiated range of quality rice mangrove and touch different types of market 3 Support for interprofessional dynamics through support for operator representations FOP BG FEDERIZ RBM legal and governance support economic empowerment development of the interprofessional framework external communication and training FEDERIZ RBM legal and governance support economic empowerment development of the interprofessional framework external communication and training FEDERIZ RBM legal and governance support economic empowerment development of the interprofessional framework external communication and training Selection of Consultants Call for Expressions of Interest 2 ope M2092 Call for Expressions of Interest V5 4 Strengthening economic information through the revival of the Rice Observatory so that the public authorities and professional organizations of the The rice sector has reliable up to date and mobilizable information as part of the rice policy dialogue processes The mandate of this international technical assistance will focus specifically on the support of the MGE on the different aspects of strategic framing technical and budgetary programming specialized technical advice on demand monitoring and evaluation and capitalization processes Several highlights and principles are expected from this support At the start of the project the international service provider will have to support the MGE in the strategic technical and budgetary framework of the whole component in consultation with the various stakeholders concerned UGP DNGR FEDERIZ RBM FOP BG BDS SIPAG etc Support to piloting support will specifically concern support for strategic and operational steering of the component through the materialization and monitoring of activity dashboards and budget commitments consistent with the start up programming Methodological and technical support to the MGE Methodological and technical support will be provided on all the activities that will be implemented by the MGE whether on request or in depth on specific topics that will be pre identified during the start up phase Monitoring and evaluation support The international provider will provide support to the MGE concerning the monitoring and evaluation activities to be carried out It will have to ensure the robustness of the data collection system in coherence with the capitalization elements to be produced during and at the end of the project Reporting support The international provider will ensure the quality control of the annual activity reports mid term and end of project produced by the MGE Capacity building training and skills transfer The international provider will contribute to the capacity building of the different actors involved in the implementation of the project in the sector whether through formal training sessions implementation of approaches based on skills transfer or learning by doing This function will be based on the implementation of methodological approaches specific tools etc The sizing of the support provided by the international provider during the duration of the project is estimated as follows an international volunteer placed at the disposal of the MGE for the duration of the project about 6 HM of short term expertise 90 men days of seat backstopping No CV is expected at the AMI stage The sizing of the support provided by the international provider during the duration of the project is estimated as follows an international volunteer placed at the disposal of the MGE for the duration of the project about 6 HM of short term expertise 90 men days of seat backstopping No CV is expected at the AMI stage The sizing of the support provided by the international provider during the duration of the project is estimated as follows an international volunteer placed at the disposal of the MGE for the duration of the project about 6 HM of short term expertise 90 men days of seat backstopping No CV is expected at the AMI stage The DNGR invites applicants to express their interest in providing the Services described above This Call for Expressions of Interest is addressed to q Design offices q Individual consultants x NGOs q NGOs and study office s Grouping The eligibility criteria for AFD financing are specified in the following table Article 1 3 of the Guidelines for the Procurement of Contracts Funded by AFD in Foreign States available online on the AFD website http www afd fr Candidates can only submit one application in their own name or in Grouping If a Candidate including the member of a Group submits or participates in several applications they will be eliminated On the other hand the same Subcontractor may participate in several applications Selection of Consultants Call for Expressions of Interest 3 ope M2092 Call for Expressions of Interest V5 If the Applicant is constituted as a Grouping the Expression of Interest must include a copy of the Grouping Agreement concluded by all of its members or a letter of intent to constitute a Groupement signed by all its members and accompanied by a copy of the proposed Groupement Agreement In the absence of this document the other members will be considered as Subcontractors The references and qualifications of the Subcontractors are not taken into account in the evaluation of the applications Interested Candidates must produce information demonstrating that they are qualified and experienced to perform the present Services As such they will justify that they have recent and similar service references The similar nature of the references will be analyzed according to The size of the markets The nature of the Services Technical assistance for the development of upstream and downstream activities of an agricultural sector Domain and technical expertise Professionalization of actors downstream of the rice sector Commercialization of agricultural products establishment of reliable marketing networks of products and marketing Support to interprofessional dynamics establishment of collective brand or IGP Knowledge of the rice sector in Guinea Geographical context in the subregion and or Guinea The Client will also examine the relevance of the Expressions of Interest with regard to the following criteria Skills and internal availability for technical support to experts located in the country The National Directorate of Rural Engineering in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture will draw up a shortlist of up to six 6 Candidates pre selected on the basis of the candidatures received and in accordance with the procedure defined in the Code of Public Contracts of the Republic Guinea to whom it will send the Request for Proposals for the completion of the required Services The expressions of interest written in French at least in two 2 copies and an original must be deposited at the address below National Direction of the Rural Engineering located in Matoto BP 65 conakry Tel 224 622 26 22 93 628 53 33 31 E mail bsaikou78 gmail com 05 June 2019 at 11 am at the latest Conakry 22 MAY 2019

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