eConsultant2:Capacity building training workshop on GLOBALG.A.P. for fruit and vegetables

Deadline: 09-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

IFC is procuring a Consulting Firm to organize and deliver one two-day capacity building Ethiopia agtraining workshop for up to 15 participants about the Standard of Good Agricultural Practice, GLOBALG.A.P. Version 5 for fruit and vegetables in Moldova. The workshop will cover GLOBALG.A.P. General regulations, All farm base, Farm management (soil, water and inputs), Documentation, and Staff Training modules and will be conducted with use of case studies to facilitate the learning. The content of the workshop should reflect the needs of local market participants, which have limited knowledge and experience in GLOBALG.A.P.
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eConsultant2: Texting for Nutrition: Impact evaluation

Deadline: 04-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The Texting for Nutrition is an innovative intervention that uses mobile technology to Rajasthandisseminate tailored messages to promote good nutrition practices among parents in rural and urban mostly poor households in Chimborazo, Ecuador. Caregivers of children between the ages of 0-3 registered for the program in the last quarter of 2014. Throughout 2015, registered caregivers received text messages sharing new information and encouraging behavior change along several key areas.

The Texting for Nutrition project is currently on-going and set to conclude in March 2016. The impact evaluation will estimate the effects of the Texting for Nutrition program on (i) knowledge of good health and nutrition practices, (ii) influencing parental behavior (iii) social customs & descriptive norms towards health/nutrition practices for their children and (iv) the nutritional status of the children.

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eConsultant2:Reducing rural land delimitation costs in Mozambique

Deadline: 28-Feb-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

IFC and its agribusiness client in Mozambique seek a consulting firm with experience in commsenegal_sdgs_blogunity land use planning and land delimitation in rural areas. The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate and document a low cost methodology to delimit community and individual land in rural Mozambique. This methodology should include participatory land use planning, followed by land delimitation.

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eConsultant2:Agribusiness Mapping in Northern Nigeria

Deadline: 18-Feb-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

This assignment constitutes the opening phase of a process to improve the prospects for img_7478Aagribusiness in northern Nigeria. It aims to develop a clear understanding of the value chains in each of maize, rice, tomatoes, poultry and aquaculture as well as an understanding of the binding constraints to growth in those value chains. It will focus on four states in Northern Nigeria: Jigawa, Katsina, Kano and Kaduna.

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Tech 4 Agricultural Development

The article below discusses how technology can help agricultural development.

Tech Meets Agriculture at #Hack4Ag in Uganda

Original article posted January 21, 2016 on the World Bank website.

Kampala, Uganda— Cellphone usage is expanding in Sub-Saharan Africa, and paving the way for information and communication technologies (ICT) to modernize and boost productivity in the region’s agricultural sector.   Apps like Kilimo Salama, which provides farmers with updated climate data, as well as Vet Africa, which helps diagnose livestock diseases, are already transforming farmers’ lives in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Up to 90% of farmers polled by e-Learning Africa credit ICT with improving food security in their region.

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eConsultant2: Agro-logistics in Rajasthan

Deadline: 04-Jan-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The focus of this consultancy is on bottlenecks in agro-logistics. The goal Rajasthanis to identify gaps and develop agro-logistics strategies for specific value chains in Rajasthan.

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eConsultant2: The Animal Feeding Consultant

Deadline: 08-Dec-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Feeding consultants overall responsibility will be to provide strategic support to the Project, from the design to implementation of the pilot dairy supply chain developmLammetjes en schaapent programs in specific regions of both countries (Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan) and provide  recommendations regarding the improvements needed in order to increase the productivity, efficiency and sustainability of milk producers.

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eConsultant2: The Veterinary and Artificial Insemination Consultant

Deadline: 08-Dec-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Veterinary and Artificial Insemination consultants overall responsibility Kalf in stalwill be to provide strategic support to the Project, from the design to implementation of the pilot dairy supply chain development programs in specific regions of both countries (Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan) and provide recommendations regarding the improvements needed in order to increase the productivity, efficiency and sustainability of milk producers.

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eConsultant2: The Dairy Consultant

Deadline: 08-Dec-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

F&M GP is hiring a dairy consultant, whose tasks will be to support theKoeien in de wei Project in the design and implementation stages of dairy supply chain development programs in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. While implementing his/her duties, the consultant will be supported by and report to the Supply Chain Specialist as well as to the Project Manager.

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eConsultant2: Commercial Plantation Forestry Industry Investment Plan

Deadline: 10-Dec-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The objective of each study is to provide recommendations for financially feasible options Forestryfor commercial plantation forestry industry cluster development. This would be for the optimal utilization of existing and potential plantation forestry wood resources in terms of wood product market requirements both domestic and export. Industry cluster development options should consider all possible impacting factors including available suitable wood and land resources, possible outgrowers, markets, infrastructure and workforce, communities, existing businesses, and possible SOE privatization/inclusions.

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