AGRICULTURE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT APPLICATION

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  • , Somalia
  • TBD USD / Year
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World Vision

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Agriculture Curriculum Development Consultant

World Vision Somalia

SomReP Program

Somali Response Innovation Lab

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1.0 Organizational Context

The Somalia Resilience Programme, (SomReP) is an ambitious approach to tackle the challenge of recurrent droughts and the chronic vulnerability that results among pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, and peri-urban households across Somalia. Eight NGOs (ACF, ADRA, CARE, COOPI, CARE, Oxfam Shaqodoon and World Vision) with deep experience in Somalia have joined as a long-term consortium to build and field test a resilience model based on the latest global resilience thinking, innovative livelihood approaches for the Somalia context, and bridging the relief to development continuum.

The SomReP program has grown significantly since its inception in 2013. To date the consortium has over five active donors with on-going program interventions.

The Response Innovation Lab (RIL) is an interagency global partnership whose original founding members include World Vision, Oxfam, Save the Children, Civic George Washington University that operates in Iraq, Jordan, Uganda, Puerto Rico, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.

The RIL is hosted under SomReP in Somalia, and it seeks to create and apply effective innovation to enhance the impact of humanitarian and development investments and interventions designed to improve the resilience of populations in Somalia. The RIL aims to provide a supportive and safe environment to create new and existing innovation for application at scale for enhanced resilience.

2.0 Project Overview

The Somali Response Innovation Lab (SomRIL) co-convened a workshop with the Somali Food Security Cluster (FSC) on agriculture in Mogadishu in May 2019 with a cross-section of stakeholders from INGOs, LNGOs, UN Agencies (FAO and WFP), government, donors (including DFID, USAID and the EU) and the private sector. These representatives collectively under the Food Security Cluster submitted a challenge statement related to advancing the capacity of those in the sector into the RIL’s MatchMaker platform.[1]

After the completion of the RIL’s Solution Pack on Agricultural Capacity (the output from the MatchMaker process), one of the promising approaches to address the challenge was around working with a Somali academic institution together with the SomReP consortium to share practical field-based knowledge around agricultural best practices to develop a curriculum that can be hosted and owned by the academic partner for longer term sustainability.

3.0 Scope of Work

The Agriculture Curriculum Development Consultant (ACDC) Chaired by the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MoAI) will support the SomReP and the chosen Somali University to take modules around agricultural trainings developed by the SomReP and other players in agriculture for training Agriculture Extension Officers and Lead Farmers, and develop a curriculum. This curriculum will be hosted under the university, and will be targeted towards training Agriculture Extension Officers and Lead Farmers from the university’s facility.

3.1 Objective

To develop a Best Practice Agriculture Training Curriculum via a co-creation process led by Somali Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MoAI) and the Somali University partner with support from SomReP.

3.2 Expected Outcomes (Key Results Expected / Key Deliverables)**

They will be the architect for the:

i. Inception report developed outlining the approach to the assignment

ii. Completed Agricultural Training Curriculum with a Facilitator Handbook, Participant Handbook, tools & Visual Aids validated and endorsed by the MoAI, with inputs from Somali FSC members, the private sector, and the SomReP university partner.

iii. Co–creation workshop held

iv. Develop contents in modular forms, that are continuous, and series based, upgradable, course specific and problem based that conforms to the graduation model of SomReP.

v. Validation workshop held

vi. Curriculum designed to be delivered by a Somali university face to face that can successfully target Agriculture Extension Officers and Lead Farmers, who can then go back and train people in their communities.

vii. Curriculum translated into Somali Language

3.3 Activities/Methodology**

The assignment will involve developing standardised agricultural curriculum on Good Agricultural Practises from land preparation to post harvest management including Climate Smart Agricultural practises using an inclusive process. To achieve this, an inception report for the assignment will be developed to guide the assignment

Some of the activities May include but are not limited to:

● Work with a Committee chaired by MoAI to guide the curriculum development

● Establishing Key crops and accompanying activities on which to develop curriculum that includes but not limited to (subject to selection and approval by Committee)

o Soil/Water Conservations

o Principles of Good Agricultural Practices

o Key Crop Specific Modules (Cowpeas, Maize, Onion, Sesame, Sorghum, Tomato, Watermelon)

o Post Harvest Grain handling

o Conducting On-farm Demonstrations

o Organising farmer groups

o Pastoral Farmer Field School

● Review documented agricultural/crop production practises from Food Security Cluster Members – INGOs, LNGOs, UN – FAO, Agriculture Research Institutions, Private Sectors player in Agriculture

● Work with identified Local University in contextualising the curriculum

● Lead / facilitate a co-creation process

● Research (desk based; KIIs; FGD…)

● Ecosystem mapping

● Designing survey tools

● Designing Agricultural capacity building modules

● Reporting

● Developing Knowledge Products

● Holding validation workshop

● Conducting training and capacity building of partners

● Travel to project locations (in Somalia)

● SomReP agriculture training modules are reviewed and extrapolated into a curriculum around Best Practice Agriculture Training for Somalia.

● Agriculture best practice from other actors are incorporated into the curriculum.

4.0 Project Timeline

The expected timeline is up to 3 months.

5.0 Logistics Required

It is preferred that the consultant be based in Mogadishu. However, this can be a remote based position, but the applicant should be based in the East Africa Time zone for easy coordination. The Agriculture Curriculum Development Consultant (ACDC) will also need to travel to Mogadishu, Somalia for many of the activities.

6.0 Evaluation Criteria

6.1 Mandatory Requirements

  1. Provide a certified copy of a certificate of business registration, Certificate of incorporation, business licence or similar document (Companies/Organizations)
  2. Provide a certified copy of tax registration, tax clearance certificates or similar documents (Companies/Organization**)**
  3. Provide information on ownership structure (Name of directors of the company / Owner) (Companies/Organization)
  4. Provide references from previous clients for similar works.

Note – Applicant who will not meet the above mandatory requirement will not be considered for Technical Evaluation.

6.2 Technical Evaluation by a Technical Team

Applicants will need to have the following experiences and qualifications (as detailed in their CVs that are submitted as part of the application):

● Strong education academic background (Masters preferred)

● Strong understanding of and experience with designing educational technologies and, innovative approaches to learning, and educational systems with and for partners in resource constrained contexts

● Strong experience in curriculum development and instructional design with relevant work in competency and problem-based curricula

● Experience of working and traveling in East Africa and the Horn of Africa

● Strong experience in working with institutions within East Africa and the Horn of Africa at a systems level

● Strong networks with academic institutions across East Africa and the Horn

● Experienced in localized capacity building, organizational resilience building, and leadership development

● Located in the East Africa Time zone for easy coordination

● Experience in designing and leading co-creation workshops would be beneficial

● Strong research experience (designing survey tools, remote and onsite data collection, report writing), especially in a fragile context

● Experience of working for/with academic institutions as well as NGOs

● Strong experience working with teams to co-create educational products

● Experience in mapping ecosystems and similar knowledge management activities

● Experience in designing curriculum for practical and hands-on learning (i.e. farmer field based training) that is interactive and has strong visual aids

● Experience with developing learning products that are inclusive, especially for persons with disabilities would be highly beneficial

● Experience with developing learning products that are gender sensitive would be highly beneficial

● Experience working with a Somali university would be significantly beneficial

● knowledge of Farmer Managed Natural Resource and dryland farming practises is an added advantage.

All applicant CV’s will be reviewed by a WV / SomReP / RIL / MoAI technical panel to determine:

● If the applicant has the necessary skills and experience to deliver on the Expected Outcomes

● If the applicant has the networks and relationships that can be leveraged as part of the co-creation process with multiple stakeholders

6.3 Financial Evaluation

Given the complexity of the deliverables and the fluid nature of the co-creation process, all bidders are advised to submit the following:

• Daily rate

• Payment terms (i.e. submitting an invoice on a monthly basis)

7.0 Application Process

All interested bidders/consultants are requested to submit their Technical Proposals and Financial Proposals in Separate documents as attachments (Bidders who will combine both technical and financial proposals shall be disqualified) via email [email protected] on or before 13 April 2022*. Bids received after deadline shall not be considered.*

Email title should be; Agriculture Curriculum Development Consultant Application

Your financial proposal should have your professional fee (Daily Rates) and payment terms. Financial proposal should not be part of the technical proposal, it should be a separate document.

Only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview (done virtually).

[1] The MatchMaker is the RIL’s mechanism to pair challenges identified with promising solutions: https://www.responseinnovationlab.com/matchmaker

How to apply

7.0 Application Process

All interested bidders/consultants are requested to submit their Technical Proposals and Financial Proposals in Separate documents as attachments (Bidders who will combine both technical and financial proposals shall be disqualified) via email [email protected] on or before 13th April 2022*. Bids received after deadline shall not be considered.*

Email title should be; Agriculture Curriculum Development Consultant Application


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