DEADLINE: 14TH FEBRUARY, 2025
TECHNOSERVE
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR NIGERIA SMALL-HOLDER DAIRY FARMER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT – DEFORESTATION AND LAND USE CHANGE STUDY IN OGUN, OYO AND OSUN

Background
TechnoServe is an international nonprofit organization that helps people lift themselves out of poverty by harnessing the power of the private sector.

Operating in almost 30 countries, we work with hardworking women and men in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. By linking people to information, capital, and markets, we have helped millions to create lasting prosperity for their families and communities. Danone Ecosystem is developing a project in southwestern Nigeria with small-holder dairy farmers to develop local milk production, together with a coalition of partners involving Gates Foundation, Danone Fanmilk, Technoserve, IFDC and potentially other partners. This would involve the growing of roughage and silage crops such as maize, sorghum, napier grass & others. The objective of the project is not to increase the number of cattle on the land, but to increase the milk yield per animal through improved animal and crop husbandry using feed grown by local farmers in existing cropping lands.

Scope of Work

  • The study should focus on both deforestation and land use change (conversion).
  • The appropriate definitions of forest and land use change are to be determined and recommended by the service provider but would need to align with Danone’s Forest Policy (danone-renew-forest-policy-dec-2022.pdf) as a minimum as well as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
  • The cutoff date for deforestation and land use change would be January 2025 for baseline assessments. The service provider will need to ascertain the relevance of the EUDR cutoff date of 31 December and provide advice and guidance to the project and Danone.

Deliverables

  1. Qualitatively and/or quantitatively describe the current land cover and land use of the project area (i.e. forest, savannah, secondary or primary, degraded or natural, etc), and the trajectory of change over the last ten years
  2. Understand the potential risk of deforestation and land use change because of dairy and related forage and roughage crop farming
    activities.
  3. For key risks to deforestation and land cover change, develop a risk mitigation action plan, with key metrics.
  4. Develop an assessment and monitoring matrix for field staff to track or monitor land use activities at the local village scale to assess risk or land use and cover change.
  5. Develop a train-the-trainer curriculum and deliver training to project technical field staff.
  6. Provide guidance and advice on whether a particular vegetation type should be prioritized in the risk and monitoring design.
  7. Track land use and cover trends at a landscape scale with ground verification over 4 years, and ascertain whether LULCC is attributed to dairy farming and related activities. Submit verification/compliance reports to Danone. Per the Danone Renewed Forest Policy (attached), results will be tracked and reported publicly by Danone annually.

Response Instructions
To ensure consideration, all responses must be submitted no later than 02/14/2025, written in English with prices stated in NGN.

All responses must:

  • Contain a detailed cost with applicable taxes and other charges clearly identified. Provide requested payment terms and conditions.
  • Include a contact name, email address, and telephone number. For quotes from a firm, provide a brief outline of the company and services offered, including the company’s full legal name and address, the jurisdiction of incorporation, the full legal name and country of citizenship of the company’s owners/principal officers, and the year the business was established.
  • If a consortium of firms or a team of consultants submits a quote jointly, the above information should be provided for each member of the team. Only include attached files that are 10 MB or smaller in size. Do not include compressed (ZIP, RAR), executable, or other unusual file formats as these will be rejected.

Submit responses to: buy+RQ6610@tns.org

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