DEADLINE: 31ST OCTOBER, 2024
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (IFAD)
COUNTRY: FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
NAME OF PROJECT: ENGAGEMENT OF A CONSULTANT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTS AND TRAINING FOR NUTRITION AWARENESS AND EDUCATION
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (REOI) ENGAGEMENT OF A CONSULTANT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTS AND TRAINING FOR NUTRITION AWARENESS AND EDUCATION (INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT SELECTION)
REF NO.: NCO/SAPZ-1/IFAD/CS/ICS/003/1
The federal government of Nigeria has received financing from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) towards the cost of the special agro-processing zones program (SAPZ), and intends to apply part of the proceeds for the recruitment of consulting services, for which this REOI is issued.
The use of any IFAD financing shall be subject to IFAD’s approval, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the financing agreement, as well as IFAD’s rules, policies and procedures. IFAD and its officials, agents and employees shall be held harmless from and against all suits, proceedings, claims, demands, losses and liability of any kind or nature brought by any party in connection with special agro-processing zones program.
The consulting services (“the services”) include conducting a needs assessment to understand the key nutrition messages that need to be communicated; identify the target audience’s preference and learning styles; develop accurate and relevant nutrition messages; ensure messages are clear, concise, and culturally appropriate.
Messages should be in English and local languages (hausa and Yoruba); develop visually appealing illustrations; that easy convey the nutrition messages, facilitate easy comprehension and retention of information; use culturally relevant images, symbols, and color schemes; ensure designs are accessible to people of varying literacy level; produce high quality printed versions of the large pictorial charts in sufficient quantities to meet the needs of the SAPZ program; provide digital versions of the pictorial charts for online dissemination, conduct pre-testing of posters with a sample of the target audience to ensure effectiveness; make necessary revisions based on feedback; develop a distribution plan to ensure posters reach the intended audience effectively; coordinate with local partners for dissemination. More details on this consulting services are to contained in the terms of reference (TOR) which can be obtained from the address below between 10am-4pm on working days or obtained from the website: sapz.gov.ng
It is expected that this consultancy service shall be for a period of 4 weeks within which the consultant shall accomplish all the tasks including submission of final report to the client. This request for expressions of interest (REOI) follows the general procurement notice that appeared on the IFAD website on 17th April, 2023, on UNDB on 17th April, 2023 and on thisday and daily trust of 17th April, 2023.
The attention of interested consultants is drawn to IFAD’s anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism policy 1 and revised IFAD policy on preventing fraud and corruption its activities and operations 2. The latter sets forth IFAD’s provisions on prohibited practices. IFAD further strives to ensure a safe working environment free of harassment, including sexual harassment, and free of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in its activities and operations as detailed in its IFAD policy to preventing and responding to sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse. 3 interested consultants shall not have any actual, potential or reasonably perceived conflict or interest shall be disqualified unless otherwise explicitly approved by the fund. Consultants are considered to have a conflict of interest if;
a. Have a relationship that provides them with undue or undisclosed information about or influence over the selection process and the execution of the contract or
b. Have a business or family relationship with a member of the client’s board of directors or its personnel, the fund or its personnel, or any other individual that was, has been or might reasonably directly or indirectly involved in any part of
i. the preparation of the REOI
ii. the selection process for this procurement or
iii. Execution of the contract.
Consultants have an ongoing obligation to disclose any situation of actual, potential or reasonably perceived conflict of interest during preparation of the EOI, the selection process or the contract execution. Failure to properly disclose any of said situations may lead to appropriate actions, including the disqualification of the consultant, the termination of the contract and any other as appropriate under the IFAD policy on preventing fraud and corruption in its projects and operation.
The national coordination office now invites eligible individual consultants (“consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the services in the form of curriculum vitae (CV). A consultant will be selected in accordance with the individual consultant selection (ICS) method set out in IFAD’ project procurement handbook that can be accessed via the IFAD website at www.ifad.org/project-procurement. Interviews will not be conducted as part of the selection process
The shortlisting criteria are: the criteria for shortlisting consultants will be based:
1. General qualification
2. General working experience
3. Adequacy for the assignment
4. Experience in similar assignment in donor funded project
Any request for clarification on this REOI should be sent via e-mail to the address below not later than 4:00pm local time on 27th October, 2024. The client will provide responses to all clarification requests by 4:00pm local time on 29th October, 2024.
Expressions of interest in the form of curriculum vitae (CV) must be delivered in a written form to the address below later than 12:00 noon local time on 31st October, 2024. Late submissions will not be accepted.
SIGNED DR. KABIR YUSUF
National program coordinator, SAPZ
National co-ordination office (NCO)
Federal ministry of agriculture and food security
#3 Aguleri Street, off gimbiya street, Area 11 Abuja,
Admin@sapz.gov.ng; +2348168088308; +2348035949354
