TOR For Capacity Building Of Existing/established Honey Producers In Beledweyne And Baidoa, Somalia

CONSULTANCY TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR CONDUCTING CAPACITY BUIDLING OF EXISTING/ESTABLISHED HONEY PRODUCERS IN BELEDWEYNE AND BAIDOA.

1	Title of Consultancy		CAPACITY BUILDING OF EXISTING/ESTABLISHED HONEY PRODUCERS IN BELEDWEYNE
			AND BAIDOA.
2	SCI Contracting Office		Save the Children- Somalia
3	Period of Consultancy		November 2021
4	Consultant type required		Individual or Consultancy Firm.
5	Responsibility for Logistics		The consultant will cover for the Logistics arrangement and costs/expenses associated
	arrangements and Costs		with it; including food, accommodation and local transport and all cost associated
6	Taxation Provisions		Consultant shall be responsible for all Taxes arising from the consultancy in line with the
			local Tax regulations applicable at the SCI contracting office named above
7	Travel requirements		The consultant will cover the travel costs (tickets) and arrange local travel to field sites.
8	Qualification and Experience		The following are the minimum requirements for Consultant/Firm to be considered for
			carrying out the assignment.
			•    Master’s degree in the field of Veterinary medicine, Livestock production,
			Agriculture and development, or related fields.
			•    At least 3 years with similar experience and engagement on honey value chain
			analysis or undertaking related tasks.
			•    Should have solid experience in both the humanitarian field and in the
			veterinary/livestock public health profession.
			•    High understanding of the honey value chain will be an asset
			•    Sound knowledge context as well as demonstrated ability to manage the available
			time and resources and to work to tight deadlines
			•    Experience working with inclusive business models and partnerships with the
			private sector is an asset;
9	Evaluation Criteria		The consultant must meet the above required qualifications and experience.
10	Application Procedure		Interest applicants who meet the requirements should submit technical and financial
			proposals with detailed work plan and similar contracts -signed and stamped copied and
			the profile of the firm via below email. CSS.LOGISTICS@savethechildren.org.
			All applications MUST be submitted on or before the closing date below to be considered
			for the assignment.
			Only shortlisted Candidates will be contacted.
11	Closing date for Applications		Interested consultants shall submit their applications through the email address
			provided above on		6th November 2021.
			Shortlisted candidates will be requested for an interview.

Consultancy Terms of Reference for Conducting Honey Value Chain/Markey Systems and Train Group of Beekeepers in Beledweyne and Baidoa

Background

For over 90 years, Save the Children has been making a difference in children’s lives in more than 120 countries. We are the world’s largest independent child rights organization, underpinned by a vision in a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

We are an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, and Collaboration. Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behavior towards children both in their private and professional lives. SCI is a member of Building Resilient Communities in Somalia (BRCiS). a Consortium of national and international organizations whose objective is to support and guide vulnerable communities in Somalia in building their resilience capacities in their own way. The Consortium was created in 2013 and is now implementing projects in all Federal Member States of Somalia. BRCiS is committed to adaptive management of its programmes, guided by a strong learning strategy. enforces systematic decentralization of decision making to the field level and the communities, fostering innovation and self-reliance.

Somalia’s livestock sector is recovering from the setback inflicted by the chaos and disruption that resulted from the collapse of the central government of Somalia. The war devastated most of the important infrastructures and resources that could support the sector to flourish. The most affected includes institution that provided extension services, policy and regulatory bodies, and human resources. This capitalized as deterrence to local economic growth, investors, and poor environment to trust with investments.

Besides that, investing the productive sectors requires large capital investments and commitment from the investors as well as healthy and safe environment that can protect the investors assets and interest. However, there are some indicators of systemic recovery in the country, which boost the morale of both the local communities to invest larger productive projects in Somalia. such projects include dairy farming, beekeeping, honey and dairy processing, animal feed industry and modern slaughterhouses.

Besides that, there are constraints and inhibitory factors that straddle women and youth to convert their business and income generating ideas and dreams into reality. Such constraints include lack of capital startups and the inaccessibility to micro-financial institution due to the tough requirements to fulfill before accessing micro-finance institutions, the small amount allowed to finance youth lead business. With such inherent challenges youth and women cannot venture such larger project that require such large capitals.

However, majority of the women and youth resorted to go into the informal business-like Beekeeping and honey trade which does not require much large capital investments but will effectively contribute to their livelihoods as well as the growth of the economy of Somalia and create jobs for youth and women.

Beekeeping is one of the most important activities to strengthen livelihoods. It is the ideal livelihood activities for the poor and in particular, the land less as these requires small capital startups, simple tools and technologies. It uses and creates diverse livelihood asset to poor and vulnerable communities and households. Beekeeping has the potential to contribute directly or indirectly to household income and the general economy of nations. Beekeeping as a new livelihood activities or restoration of livelihoods, fits well in the arid regions like Somalia where there are limited livelihood activities due to scarcity of water resources and fertile land. it also works well alongside other livelihood actives like crop production, environmental conservation, forestry,

and wood farms. Beekeeping contributes to the general wellbeing of poor communities by providing economic, nutritional, and ecological benefit. It is a potential sector to generate income and increase employment specifically to youth and women.

Bee keeping and honey production continues to increase as there is increased consumption of honey for it is medicinal value, cosmetics, and lightening. There is still demand gap for honey waxes and propolis in the world.

A recent value chain analysis conducted by Save the Children through independent consultancy firm on honey value chains has identified the constraints inhibiting the sectors growth and these are: Lack of technical skills, poor branding, and marketing techniques, lack and poor technologies of honey processing, lack of modern beehives, poor association, and cooperatives. Lack of business and entrepreneurship skills and inexistence of saving groups, cooperatives, and associations.

OBJECTIVE OF THE CONSULTANCY.

The objective of this consultancy to support honey producers who lead small business and enterprise and catapult them from the constraints limiting the initiations and development of their business through refresher training for honey producers, Storage facilities, support small scale infrastructures, and create groups, cooperative and association for honey producers. training of selected beekeepers on group formation, Business skills and establishing apiary and it is management, harvesting of honey, packaging and marketing. the consultant will provide sufficient information and knowledge to allow them to run an apiary in a way that can help them decide to make money out of the venture. The objective is to learn about all aspects of establishing and running an apiary. Increase the capacity of the honey producers and provide solution to the challenges by leveraging in order to improve their production capacity and quality products.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

• Encourage existing beekeepers in Beledweyne and Baidoa districts and form Cooperative.
• Support the beekeepers Cooperative in developing Cooperative constitution, policy, establish the governing structure, support them attain licensing and registration of the cooperative by the local administration.
• Create networks for the cooperatives by linking them to financial institutions and input suppliers.
• Support the cooperative with tools and technology specification for equipment purchases.

Scope of work

SCI is seeking a consulting firm to support honey value chain actors improving their small informal businesses through training and group formation in Beledweyne and Baidoa districts respectively.

The consulting firm will be responsible for:

• Organizing the earlier supported Beekeepers and form cooperatives with complete paper works
• Link the cooperatives to the micro financial institutions and prepare them to fit eligibility criteria.
• Supporting them with kit repairing, installation and operationalizing.
• Provide them refresher training and filling knowledge gabs

Consultant role and expecting deliverables

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• Honey producers’ cooperatives established
• Cooperative policies, regulation and constitution developed
• Cooperative registered and licensed.
• Support honey producers with specification, installation of honey storage facilities
• Support honey producers on equipment repair and operationalizing of new tools and equipements
• Beekeepers’ refresher training Report

Reporting

The consultant will be expected to maintain daily contact with the SCI field teams on data collection and the trainings and provide feedback on daily basis during the assignment.

Time Frame

The duration of the assignment will be 25 days.

Code of conduct

Save the Children’s work is based on deeply held values and principles of child safeguarding, and it is essential that our commitment to children’s rights and humanitarian principles is supported and demonstrated by all members of staff and other people working for and with Save the Children. Save the Children’s Code of Conduct sets out the standards which all staff members must adhere to and the consultant is bound to sign and abide to the Save the Children’s Code of Conduct.

A contract will be signed by the consultant before commencement of the action. The contract will detail terms and conditions of service, aspects on inputs and deliverables. The Consultant will be expected to treat as private and confidential any information disclosed to her/him or with which she/he may come into contact during her/his service. The Consultant will not therefore disclose the same or any particulars thereof to any third party or publish it in any paper without the prior written consent of Save the Children. Any sensitive information (particularly concerning individual children) should be treated as confidential.

An agreement with a consultant will be rendered void if Save the Children discovers any corrupt activities have taken place either during the sourcing, preparation and implementation of the consultancy agreement.

Application Procedure & Requirements

Candidates interested in the position are expected to provide the following documentation:

• Technical proposal with a detailed response to the TOR, with specific focus on the scope of work, methodology to be used and key selection criteria.
• Initial work plan based on the methodology outlined, and indication of availability
• Financial proposal detailing the daily rate expected including accommodation, transportation, enumerators, and all other data collection cost related to this assignment.
• Company profile or CV including a minimum of 3 references
• Detailed budget breakdown based on expected daily rates.

Interested applicants should send the specified documents to the following email CSS.LOGISTICS@savethechildren.org with the subject line of the email body, “CONSULTANCY TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR CONDUCTING CAPACITY BUIDLING OF

EXISTING/ESTABLISHED HONEY PRODUCERS IN BELEDWEYNE AND BAIDOA.

Applications will close on 6^th November- 2021.

 

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