DEADLINE: 7TH AUGUST, 2025
KANO STATE SPECIAL AGRO-PROCESSING ZONES PROGRAM (SAPZ),
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (REOΙ) FOR THE ENGAGEMENT OF A CONSULTANT TO CONDUCT BARRIER ANALYSIS FOR BAHAVIOUR CHANGE FOR KANO STATE SAPZ
(INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT SELECTION)
COUNTRY: FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
NAME OF PROJECT: ENGAGEMENT OF A CONSULTANT TO CONDUCT BARRIER ANALYSIS FOR BAHAVIOUR CHANGE FOR KANO STATE SAPZ
REF NO: KN/SAPZ/IFAD/CONS/ICS/036/2025
The Federal Government of Nigeria has received financing from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and on lend to Kano State Government 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:
- Providing a contextual analysis of the state of smallholder households in the selected LGAS.
- Identify the barriers to behavioral change, including knowledge, attitudinal, environmental, skill-based and motivational barriers
- Prioritize the barriers based on their perceived importance and impact on the behavior
- Conducting field visits and interviews with stakeholders, emphasizing women and youth, across different stages of the Agro-processing value chain.
- Utilizing appropriate methods (surveys, focus group discussions, interviews) to collect qualitative and quantitative data.
- Identifying and providing the bio-data of participating farmers, the crops of their interest, the soil characteristics, the size of their holdings, their expected outputs, and hence the Off-take arrangements to be made. The barrier analysis of behavioral change survey exercise will further enhance indirect value chain actors and activities that will be facilitated to ensure productive value chains.
- Reporting: Prepare and submit regular progress reports to IFAD, detailing the activities conducted, challenges encountered, outcomes achieved, and recommendations for the improvement of the methodology.
- Sustainability Planning: Developing gender and age-disaggregated on barrier analysis for behavior change, highlighting their roles, capacities, and constraints.
More details on this consulting services are 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 8 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.
The attention of interested consultants is drawn to IFAD’s Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Policy and the Revised IFAD Policy on Preventing Fraud and Corruption its Activities and Operations. 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.
Interested consultants shall not have any actual, potential or reasonably perceived conflict of interest.
Consultants with an actual, potential or reasonably perceived conflict of interest shall be disqualified unless otherwise explicitly approved by the Fund. Consultants are considered to have a conflict of interest if they 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 be 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 Operations.
The State Programme Implementation Unit 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 a 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 no later than 4.00 pm local time on 23rd July, 2025. The client will provide responses. to all clarification requests by 4.00 pm local time 25th July, 2025.
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 7th August, 2025. Late Submissions will NOT be accepted.
Signed
Aminu Abdullahi Iliyasu
State Program Coordinator
Kano State Program Coordinator, SAPZ
State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources
No. 127T/G Shanu, Beside Arewa Radio (Wazobia Cool FM) Farm Center Kano.
E-mail Address: am.ilyasu@yahoo.co.uk
2348033958399; +2348035949354
