About CNFA:
CNFA is a global not-for-profit organization with offices in Washington, D.C and Brussels, that is dedicated to stimulating sustainable growth in the agricultural sector. CNFA Europe specializes in fostering private sector investments in training, new technologies and marketing as a means to increase the overall competitiveness of agricultural value chains, expand exports and develop skills in the rural workforce. By generating higher incomes for farmers, processors, entrepreneurs and distributors, CNFA Europe helps improve livelihoods and reduce poverty.
About FSCP-GIAF-Ethiopia:
In September 2015, CNFA signed a grant agreement with the German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), to continue rolling out the Farm Service Center (FSC) network in Ethiopia. The Farm Service Center Project (FSCP) is a 34-month project under GIZ Ethiopia’s Green Innovation Centre for the agriculture and food sector Portfolio (GIC-Ethiopia). Under the FSCP-GIC-Ethiopia program, CNFA will establish five private retail input supply stores (FSCs) that will link targeted smallholder farmers in the Arsi zone of Ethiopia to high-quality agricultural inputs and extension services. The project is strategically aligned to build the role of the private sector and will be connected to CNFA’s other initiatives in Ethiopia, which also work on the development of FSCs. In addition, the project - in line with the larger GIC-Ethiopia initiatives – will establish the FSCs among the five woredas in the Arsi Zone - Hitosa, Lode-Hitosa, Arsi-Robe, Digalu-Tijo and Tiyo. In addition, the project will focus on up-scaling of innovations and best practices for wheat and faba bean production.
Type of Assignment: Short Term Technical Assistance (STTA) to Conduct Two Trainings for Farm Service Center Staff.
The FSCP-GIC-Ethiopia Project will carry out several activities to establish five FSCs in the five project woredas of Arsi zone. Three of the FSCs have already been established and are currently open for business. Two of the FSCs are in the process of being established. The project intends to support the FSC grantees to be aware of agricultural production considerations in the input supply business and ensure that FSC staff are prepared to effectively conduct technical assistance activities relating to agriculture production, such as Pesticide Application and Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring, Veterinary Services, and address gender-based constraints to the agriculture sector.
In view of this, the project plans to conduct two trainings for its FSCs:
The goal of this training is to improve the FSC’s technical capacity to assist smallholder farmers and other clients with regard to a wide-ranging set of agriculture production-related practices.
The objective of this ToR is to recruit an Agriculture Production Training specialist as a short-term technical assistant (consultant) to prepare and conduct the two technical trainings for the FSC grantees. Specifically, the consultant will be responsible for 1) participating in an orientation with Project Team to discuss expectations, review SOW, review project documents; 2) Review and update training modules, presentation materials and pre-post training assessment questionnaire to be reviewed by project team prior to training; 3) Conduct the two trainings; 4) Develop training reports for each training which includes the result of post-training assessment and lessons learned; and 5) Debrief with Project Team.
He/she is responsible to manage the following milestones and activities:
Milestones and Activities
Activity I
Orientation: project objectives, grantee profile review, pervious agricultural training report and other project documents as needed
Duration/No of LOE days for Consultant: Half day, October 24, 2017
Activity II
Review and update training modules, presentation materials and pre- and post- training assessment questionnaire to be reviewed by project team. The modules currently developed are for a five-day training and the project expects update to the existing module. In addition, the consultant is expected to prepare condensed version of these modules for the three-day refresher training.
Modules of the training program shall include:
Duration/No of LOE days for Consultant: Three Days, October 25-27, 2017
Activity III
Conduct trainings and pre-post training assessments
Modules of training program shall include:
Duration/No of LOE days for Consultant: 10 days, Tentatively November 6-15, 2017
Activity IV
Develop a detailed training report which includes the result of pre-post training assessment and lessons learned.
Duration/No of LOE days for Consultant: Three Days, November 17-20, 2017
Activity V
Debrief with Project Team
Duration/No of LOE days for Consultant: Half day, November 24, 2017
Qualifications/Requirements
For this particular opportunity, your submission will be evaluated based on the points below.
Please note that FSCP-GIC-Ethiopia reserves the right to add you to the project database of consultants for future assignments related to Agricultural trainings and activities. If you would like to be considered in the database, it is mandatory to provide your CV and references with this submission.
Kindly note that these dates are a requirement for this opportunity. All final deliverables are expected to CNFA by November 24, 2017.
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