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Tenders are invited for Engagement of Consultant to Prepare Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) and Development of Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for Gully Erosion Control, Land Reclamation in Lafiagi, Edu Lga, Share, Ifelodun Lga and Urban Storm Water Management in Area, Ilorin West Local Government Area, Kwara State, Federal Republic of Nigeria Date Added: April 22, 2026 Deadline: 06/05/2026 Category: Consultancy BACKGROUND 1.1 The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has initiated the preparation of the Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) project with the World Bank. The project is to help Nigeria address critical challenges of regional desertification control and landscape management in northern Nigeria. In 2020, the FGN planned to plant 30 million trees to control desertification. For effective implementation of issues related to the already planned rehabilitation of 20 oases in the current Medium Term Sector Strategy, establishing 550 hectares of rangelands in the Frontline States, stabilizing and restoration of active sand dunes in eight of the 11 frontline States, and continued assessment of the extent and magnitude of drought and desertification in Nigeria. Sustainable natural resources management is critical to addressing land degradation and building climate resiliency in the Semi-Arid Landscapes in Nigeria. The issue requires urgent and focused action to scale-up cost-effective land restoration practices, to ensure more sustainable future food and water security in a changing climate. An integrated approach which collectively focuses on reducing exposure, managing sensitivity and increasing the coping capacity of all major factors of production are critical for building resiliency in dryland. Integrated catchment management is an appropriate framework to help address the natural resources management and human development challenges outlined above but these are not yet carried out at a large scale in the country, including northern regions. 2.0 PROJECT DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE (PDO) The project development objective (PDO) is to increase the adoption of climate resilient landscape management practices in targeted watersheds of northern Nigeria and to strengthen Nigerias long-term framework for integrated landscape management. This ACReSAL project seeks to build on the lessons from the many international development partners including the World Bank Group and help develop a more integrated, spatial, multi-sectoral approach to build community resilience as well as improve the sustainable productivity of its natural resources. In particular, the project will support activities to develop multi-sectoral approaches for desertification control and landscape management, improve community livelihoods and resilience, and strengthen institutions. 3.0 NEED FOR ACRESAL INTERVENTION Poverty alleviation is considered a high priority in the north. Almost half (87 million) of Nigerias total population is living in extreme poverty. A significant disparity exists between the northern and southern regions in the country with economic development and poverty. Out of the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria, the three in northern regions have the worst indices of poverty. The country has a total land area of 923, 770 km² out of which about 15% is believed to have been lost to desert encroachment according to studies (Fasona, M. et al, 2014). The annual loss of land to desertification has been estimated at 351,000 hectares. The spread of desert-like conditions southwards has been estimated at a rate of 0.6 km per year. It has been estimated that between 50 % to 75 % of Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Kwara, Kebbi, Sokoto, Yobe, and Zamfara States in Nigeria are being affected by desertification. These States, with a population of about 27 million people account for about 38 % of the countrys total land area (NAP, 2000). Seven other buffer states (Federal Capital Territory, Plateau, Adamawa, Taraba, Niger, Kwara and Kaduna states) are under severe ecological pressure from migrating human and livestock populations from the frontline states. It is reported that these buffer states have about 10-15 % of their land area threatened by desertification. Desertification is therefore considered one of the most serious environmental problems in the country. Drought and desertification impact directly or indirectly on all aspects of human life and the environment including the ecological, health, geo-chemical, hydrological and socio-economic facets (Olagunju, 2015). Among the anthropogenic factors are poor land management, inadequate farming techniques and over-cultivation, overgrazing and the removal of natural vegetation; misuse of water resources; and poor environmental and ecosystem management. The droughts-affected areas in Nigeria are characterized by low rainfall and high rainfall variability, high evaporation and potential evapotranspiration rate. Generally persistent negative rainfall anomalies, occasional torrential rains resulting in floods, rapidly high erosive runoff especially on steep terrains sparse vegetation cover and too little moisture for rainfed cultivation throughout the year. Similarly, desertification-affected areas are characterized by a reduction in the fraction of the soil covered by the vegetation. In particular, under desertification, the fraction of bare soil increases, and vegetation may be reduced to isolated patches or clumps. Other aspects of the characteristics of desertification affected areas of the country include rise in the reflective capacity (albedo) of the surface for solar radiation, a considerable and permanent loss of perennial plants, especially woody shrubs and trees, considerable soil erosion and impoverishment by wind, gully and sheet erosion of soils by occasional heavy rainfalls and overgrazing and inadequate forage in relation to vegetative resources. All these prevailing climatic and anthropogenic conditions, continually put excessive pressures on the livelihood and living conditions of people residing within desertification and arid area of Nigeria. The proposed ACREsAL intervention is targeted at arresting desertification and improving the sustainable productivity of land in the targeted areas of degraded and desert landscapes. The project also aims to support communities with improved capacity and investments to improve sustainable livelihoods. These works trigger the World Banks Safeguard Policies including ESS1 Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts, ESS2 Labor and Working Conditions, ESS3 Resource Efficiency and Pollution Prevention and Management, ESS4: Community Health and Safety, ESS5: Land Acquisition, Restrictions on Land Use and Involuntary Resettlement, ESS6: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Management of Living Natural Resources, ESS8: Cultural Heritage, ESS10: Stakeholder Engagement and Information Disclosure The environmental and social safeguards concerned are being addressed through two Environmental and Social standards instruments already prepared under the project: an Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) and a Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF). These safeguards instruments are frameworks that need to be translated into specific costed, measurable, and monitorable actions for specific intervention sites through the preparation of site-specific management and action plans. ESF: In general, the ESF specifies the procedures to be used for preparing, approving and implementing (1) environmental/social assessments (ESAs, or alternately both an SA or an EA) and/or (2) environmental/social management plans (ESMPs, or alternately both an EMP and SMP) for individual civil works packages developed for each project. ESMPs are essential elements for Category B projects. RPF: The RPF applies when land acquisition leads to the temporary or permanent physical displacement of persons, and/or loss of shelter, and /or loss of livelihoods and/or loss, denial or restriction of access to economic resources due to project activities. It sets out the resettlement and compensation principles, organizational arrangements and design criteria to be applied to meet the needs of project-affected people, and specifies the contents of a Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for each package of investment. 4.0 PROJECT AREA (KWARA STATE) BACKGROUND AND INTERVENTION SITES DESCRIPTION AND LOCATION The major ecological problems in the State include drought, desertification, water resource depletion and general impoverishment of the soil through rill, sheet and gully erosion, deforestation and unpredictable climatic fluctuation. Floods also pose a problem on the flood plains, riverine areas and urban settings during the rainy season, while aridity is a problem even to areas close to rivers during the dry season leading to compounded adverse impacts to the land, property and livelihoods. As part of the Federal Governments commitment to transform the Nigerian socio-economy landscape, a multi-sector project is being proposed to be executed in the State to mitigate the vulnerability to erosion and water resources depletion by supporting the affected communities in improving their socio-economic livelihood. In order to achieve this, the State Government, through ACReSAL Project, received a credit from the World Bank towards the cost of the project. Portion of this credit is intended to cover provision of consulting services for site identification, feasibility studies, detailed design and supervision of erosion control, flood management and water resources development related engineering infrastructures in the State. In particular, the project will support activities to develop multi-sectoral approaches for desertification control and landscape management, improve community livelihoods and resilience, and strengthen institutions. 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