Experts in Food security & nutrition, Food safety, Extension/Training/Human Resources Development/Institutional development, Rural Infrastructure, Climate Change, Sustainable Natural Resource management, Disaster Risk Reduction

Reference to be quoted in all your communications: FWC SIEA Lot 1 - 68000 General Announcement - Sustainable Management of Natural Ressources and Resilience

Context

Kindly note this announcement is a general call and is not a request for a specific mission / assignment. Experts interested to be included in Transtec roster of consultants are invited to register or update their profile in our database of consultants via our website www.transtec.be.

Title

Lot 1 - Sustainable Management of Natural Ressources and Resilience

REQUIRED EXPERTISE

Transtec provides short-term expertise for the European Union under the SIEA framework contracts, FWC Service for the implementation of External Aid (FWC SIEA 2018) - EuropeAid/138778/DH/SER/Multi.

Under this particular advert we invite experts interested in Lot 1 opportunities (Lot 1 – Sustainable management of natural resources and resilience) and in possession of both the required technical expertise and priority sectors here listed to register or update their profile in our database of consultants.

List of sectors - Technical description

Food security & nutrition

• • Assessment of national stocks
  • National statistics on food production
  • Forecasts of famine and early warning systems
  • Transitory and chronic food insecurity
  • Nutrition

 Food safety

• • Tracing, food control
  • Legal aspects

 Extension/Training/Human Resources Development/Institutional development

• • Extension services
  • Training of personnel
  • Sectoral organisations (farmers, producers, traders)
  • Institutional strengthening

• Rural Infrastructure
  
  • Rural infrastructure planning, development and rehabilitation (Market infrastructure, irrigation and drainage, etc.)

 Climate Change

• • Climate change: resilience, adaptation and mitigation

 Sustainable Natural Resource management

• • Sustainable management and protection of natural resources, biodiversity and ecosystems (soil erosion/salinization/fertility, national parks ecosystem protection, fight against desertification, etc.)
  • Sustainable Water management including planning (e.g. integrated river basin management), supply, waste water treatment (incl. waste water reuse and energy generation)
  • Environmental protection
  • Pollution including chemicals, plastics, waste, air pollution and greenhouse gases emissions
  • Green economy (incl. sustainable and resource efficient production and consumption), Blue Economy
  • Ocean governance including marine/coastal zones protection

 Disaster Risk Reduction

• • Disaster Risk Reduction, including climate and environmental risks/disaster management

 List of Expertise

Each lot is expected to support and advise Commission services (Headquarters and EU Delegations) and/or Partner Countries/Organisations along the entire cycle of operations (from design to implementation and evaluation of EU interventions) by providing technical inputs and by assisting in carrying out analysis, studies and providing opinions and advice. To this end, each lot should incorporate expertise related to a number of horizontal aspects/tasks, such as:

1. Analytical studies (e.g. feasibility studies, institutional/stakeholder analysis, political and economic analysis, strategic environmental assessments, environmental impact assessments, climate risk assessments, intervention logic and logical framework approach/theory of change, economic analysis, data collection and analysis, performance measurement and indicators, monitoring and evaluation systems). This will also include mainstreaming of crosscutting issues (climate change, environment, resilience, youth, gender, disabilities and more broadly rights based approach), analysis of legislation, regulations and law enforcement, legislative gap analysis, etc.
2. Policy-related analysis (e.g. gender analysis, do- no-harm and conflict-sensitivity analysis, religious dynamics assessments) and design. This will also include mainstreaming of crosscutting issues.
3. Technical inputs (e.g. technical annexes for works and supplies)
4. Evaluation of offers; assessment of grant proposals
5. Evaluations (e.g. mid-term, final and ex-post, impact evaluations, including of budget support programmes)
6. Public financial management and domestic revenue mobilisation, including at sector level and at subnational government level
7. Investment financing
8. Capacity development and institutional strengthening
9. Training and research
10. Awareness-raising (incl. information and communication)