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The overall objective of the project "Strengthening the national regional linkages in SADC (SNRL)" is to support the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in its efforts to promote regional integration in the member states (MS) for the benefit of the population in the SADC region.

The project is aligned with SADC's regional strategy (the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan 2020-30, RISDP) and supports its implementation.

In particular, it supports SADC and its MS on implementing Chapter 5 of the RISDP focusing on the strategic management objectives of the RISDP. By strengthening SADC as a regional organization and by supporting the implementation of the regional agenda RISDP, the SNRL project aims to facilitate the regional integration in the SADC region.

The objective of this contract is the provision of high-quality short-term expert (STE) advice in various topics relevant for enhancing the capacities of national stakeholders to vigorously and effectively pursue in their respective countries the regional integration protocols, policies and strategies of SADC.

The individual consultancy assignments are developed between GIZ and its partners and are based on a joint process and methodology aimed at identifying the needs in the SADC region and within individual member states.

The assignments focus on the scaling-up of best practices and should aim to share experiences and knowledge throughout the region (for example by aiming to standardize products developed as part of the assignment).

The following outputs are expected as a result of project implementation:

• ++Output 1:++ The institutional framework for the implementation of regional integration in the SADC region has improved in the member states;
• ++Output 2:++ Monitoring and evaluation systems for the implementation of regional integration are in place in selected member states;
• ++Output 3:++ The strategic communication capacities of SADC and member states for high profile communication around SADC activities and operations are strengthened.

Implemented projects include the following (project number and title):

• P1/2023 Consultancy to Support the SADC Secretariat to Develop and Pilot the Protocol Compliance Mechanism and Monitoring of the Trade Protocol;
• P2/2023 Perception Survey on the status of SADC regional integration in the Member States;
• P3/2023 Facilitator/Presenter and Group Work Moderators for Two Regional Workshops Supported by SNRL;
• P4/2023 Development of Model Law for the Establishment of SADC National Committees in Member States;
• P5/2023 Consultancy to develop communication products for publication purposes from the deliberations of SADC Member States at the Regional Learning and Exchange Symposium in Lesotho;
• P6/2023 Consultancy to develop presentation on the Status of SADC National Structures and their Financing at the Regional Learning and Exchange Symposium in Lesotho;
• P7/2023 Facilitation Operational Planning SNRL;
• P8/2023 Consultancy Services to Support the Publicity Products of The SADC Summit Public Lecture- Angola;
• P9/2023 Consultancy Services to Provide Rapporteuring of the Proceedings of The SADC Summit Public Lecture- Angola;
• P10/2023 Development of Peer Learning & Review Mechanism for national SADC coordination;
• P11/2023 Shadow monitoring on the extent of implementation of the SADC RAIP 2017 – 2022;
• P12/2023 Editing & Design of Eswatini’s New Industrial Policy;
• P13/2023 Capacity Building on SADC Regional Integration and Project Management for SADC National Contact Points Junior and Middle Staff;
• P14/2023 Updating and Finalising the Status of the SADC National Committees Desk Review Report;
• P15/2023 Consultancy Services to Support the Documentation of Proceedings at the SADC Integrated Regional Electronic Settlement System 10th Anniversary Celebrations;
• P16/2023 Consultancy Services to Support the Publicity Products of the SADC Integrated Regional Electronic Settlement Systems 10-year anniversary;
• P17/2023 Consultancy Services to Support the Rapporteuring of the SADC Integrated Regional Electronic Settlement Systems 10-year anniversary;
• P18/2023 Scoping Studies South Africa and Zimbabwe;
• P19/2023 Scoping Study Madagascar;
• P20/2023 SNRL II Operational Planning Workshop.
• P21 Team Retreat Facilitatior
• P22 Communication Guidelines
• P23 Lesotho National Policy on Regional Economic Integration
• P24 Scoping study and development of SA documentary
• P25 Production of SADC video podcasts
• P27 Development of a Resource Mobilisation Plan for the SNC of the Kingdom of Eswatini
• P28 Ops Manual, OP & Capacity Building Training on RI & PM - Eswatini
• P29 Communications Capacity Building in Botswana
• P30 SNRL II Team Retreat Refresher
• P31 CB& Strengthening Lesotho's SNCs - Project Management
• P33 Establishment of South Africa’s SADC National Committee
• P34 Graphic Design for Promotional Material - SADC Public Lecture in Zimbabwe
• P35 Rapportuering of the SADC Public Lecture Zimbabwe
• P36 Madagascar National Policy on SADC RI
• P37 Capacity Building & Strengthening SNC in Madagascar
• P38 CB & Training on SADC RI & PM for Zambia’s SNC staff
• P39 CB on Resource Mobilisation & Development of Resource Mobilisation Strategy in Zambia
• P40 Regional CB on Resource Mobilisation
• P41 Model Law on the Establishment of SNCs
• P42 Policy briefs on SADC-RTGS; role/significance of the SADC public lectures in promoting regional cooperation and integration in the SADC region.
• P43 Fact Sheets on SADC Protocols
• P44 Communications Strategy and Social Media Dissemination Plan for BGCIS in Botswana
• P46 RI Orientation & Induction for the SNC in Eswatini
• P47 SNRL II Operational Planning Workshop 2025
• P48 Rapporteur for Tanzania Event on SADC RAIP 2017-2022 Shadow Monitoring Report
• P49 Rapporteur for Malawi Event on SADC RAIP 2017-2022 Shadow Monitoring Report
• P50 Policy Brief, Factsheet & Press Release On he AML (Anti-Money Laundering) & CFT
• P51 Madagascar Resource Mobilisation Strategy and Action Plan
• P52 Piloting SNC Peer Learning and Review Mechanism (S-PLRM)
• P53 Establish Baseline Values on SADC Parliamentary Forum’s Operational Efficiency
• P54 Revise SADC Draft Communication, Awareness and Visibility Strategy
• P55 NSA Baseline Indicators
• P56 Interpretation Assignments
• P57 Facilitation of Consultation Workshop SNRL
• P58 Endline Perception Survey
• P60 Piloting M&E Framework for the SADC Protocol on Trade
• P61 SADC Parliamentary Forum M&E on Gender
• P62 Photography, Videography and Livestreaming _ Launch of SA's SNC
• P63 SADC PRU Comms Strategy Launch
• P64 Status of SNCs in the Member States
• P65 Training of Botswana SNC
• P69 Facilitation of SPLRM 1st Cycle
• P70 SPRLM Budget and Finance Plan
• P71 CfP Support
• P72 Facilitation of SNC Guidelines
• P73 SADC PF Publication and Dissemination
• P74 SADC PF Gender Assessment
• P75 SADC PF Mid-Term Evaluation
• P77 Review of Public Hearing
• P81 Communication Documentary Launch

LIFE is the main European Commission funding mechanism for improving the state of the environment in the European Union.

Particip GmbH is responsible for the management of the ELMEN EEIG. Particip provides the Administrative Team, the financial management, and one of the two Managing Directors of ELMEN EEIG, and is therefore responsible for ensuring an effective operation of business activities and the compliance with contractual requirements. The overall management tasks include budgeting, accounting and controlling, as well as guaranteeing high team performance and quality assurance.

The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental and climate policy and legislation by co-financing projects with European added value. The general objectives of LIFE shall be pursued through four sub-programmes:

• Nature and biodiversity
• Circular economy and quality of life
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Clean energy transition

The specific objectives of LIFE are:

• To contribute to the transition towards a resource-efficient, low-carbon and climate resilient economy, to the protection and improvement of the quality of the environment and to halting and reversing biodiversity loss, including the support of the Natura 2000 network and tackling the degradation of ecosystems;
• To improve the development, implementation and enforcement of Union environmental and climate change policy and legislation, and to act as a catalyst for, and promote, the integration and mainstreaming of environmental and climate objectives into other Union policies and public and private sector practice, including by increasing the public and private sector’s capacity;
• To support better environmental and climate governance at all levels, including better involvement of civil society, NGOs and local actors;
• To support the implementation of the 7th Environment Action Programme.

The ELMEN EEIG provides about 130 long-term experts specialised in monitoring and evaluation and in thematic fields related to EU environmental policy. The experts monitor more than 1000 projects that are financed via the LIFE instrument.

The envisaged programme to be designed is foreseen to include:

Component 1: Implementation of on-farm irrigation water management Infrastructure. This component is intended to support on-farm (marwa/mesqa) ++irrigation modernization++ in the Nile Valley (specific areas to be decided).

The component is divided into the following:

1. ++Rehabilitation++ of mesqa (tertiary) system, including pump stations, wherever feasible renewable energy pumps (mainly solar pumps) will be considered, while accounting for feasibility and sustainability measures.

2. Transformation from open marwa canals to a pressurized distribution system composed of buried PVC pipes and hydrants and installing ++modern irrigation system++ (drip or bubblers) in the farms.

3. Establishment of mesqa Water User Associations and ensuring their proper representation.

Component 2: ++Capacity building++ and participation for government staff and farmers in the project area. This component aims to improve stakeholders' knowledge through

1. Building the capacity of Water User Associations, and key farmers on operation and maintenance of modernized irrigations systems, marketing, accounting and management.

2. Building the capacity of Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation officials in the field of design, implementation and operation of modern irrigation schemes, and improving their knowledge in the most recent technologies of water management and irrigation modernization.

• SO1: Support the institutionalisation of a coordinated national governance mechanism for EUDR compliance in the coffee sector.
• SO2: To contribute to Rwanda’s georeferenced data of the coffee sector in the Eastern Province.

The Framework Agreement for Decentralized Evaluations and Reviews (FADER) LOT 1 covers different types of appraisals, evaluations and reviews of development cooperation projects and programmes funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA).

The main users of the FADER are the regional departments of the MFA, which have regional and country specific development cooperation programmes/projects in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The following assignments are implemented by Particip GmbH:

• Project appraisal: Strengthening inclusive education system in support of Ethiopia's general education sectoral programme,
• Appraisal of the Local Adaptation to Climate Change- Project in Nepal,
• Project appraisal: Rural Economic Development (RED) Phase I in Ethiopia,
• Appraisal of the “Forestry, Land Use and Value Chains Development in Tanzania” (FORLAND) programme,
• Appraisal of Tax Sector Support to Tanzania (TAXTAN) programme.

The main purpose of the BSMA is to ensure that funds of the two World Bank-financed projects, namely the Sudan SANAD – Emergency Crisis Response Safety Nets Project and the Sudan Primary Education Emergency Project (P504621), are used for the intended purpose.

The BSMA will carry out its support and monitoring activities consistent with the terms of the grant agreements concluded by the World Bank with WFP and UNICEF, respectively, including the terms of personal data protection. The BSMA consultancy assignment is additional to the normal monitoring and evaluation (M&E) functions that will be carried out by WFP and UNICEF, respectively, and will monitor and review the following:

• Monitor the progress of project activities in accordance with their overall plans. This includes data collection, field visits, and progress reporting.
• Monitor that results are being achieved in accordance with each projects’ results framework. This includes confirmation of the projects targets in the Results Frameworks.
• Monitor the implementation of the environmental and social risk management instruments as set out in the Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP), and provide recommendations to address the challenges, if any. Provide recommendations for continuous improvement, relevance, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of activities.
• Monitor the mitigation and management of risks outlined in the project documents and provide recommendations to reduce or manage potential risks or constraints identified through the BSMA.
• Provide evidence-based, credible, and useful information to enable the incorporation of conclusions, lessons, and recommendations into the future decision-making processes of the World Bank projects.
• The BSMA will utilise the World Bank’s Geo-Enabling Initiative for Monitoring and Supervision (GEMS) to enhance transparency and accountability of the BSMA services, where possible, given the Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) context.

The objective of the FWC is to provide, via individual assignments defined and contracted through Specific Contracts, expertise which can be mobilised at short notice. The expertise may be required at any stage of the project cycle (except financial audits) and may cover the following sectors related to Sustainable management of natural resources and resilience:

Agriculture

1.1. Crop production, storage, conservation, transformation, and marketing /value chains

1.2. Vegetable, fruit and cash crop productio

n storage, conservation, transformation and marketing /value chains

1.3. Legal aspects

1.4. Alternative production systems (organic farming, agroforestry, permaculture)

2. Livestock

2.1. Livestock regeneration plans

2.2. Veterinary, animal health, animal identification, quarantine and border inspection posts

2.3. Trade of animal products

2.4. Production, conservation, storage and marketing of animal products

2.5. Legal aspects

3. Sustainable Forestry management and conservation

3.1. Forest inventories, forest management plans, forest establishment and plantation management

3.2. Agroforestry, community and environmental development programmes

3.3. Strategic and operational resource development and wood supply plans

3.4. Forestry industry development plans

4. Fishery and aquaculture

4.1. Marine and fresh water aquaculture

4.2. Assessment of fish stocks and sustainable fish resources exploitation

4.3. Legal aspects

5. Land management

5.1. Land use planning, Land information systems and applications,

5.2. Land reform policies

5.3. Land registration and cadastre, Land market development, estate economic assessments

6. Food security & nutrition

6.1. Assessment of national stocks

6.2. National statistics on food production

6.3. Forecasts of famine and early warning systems

6.4. Transitory and chronic food insecurity

6.5. Nutrition

7. Food safety

7.1. Tracing, food control

7.2. Legal aspects

8. Extension/Training/Human Resources Development/Institutional development

8.1. Extension services

8.2. Training of personnel

8.3. Sectoral organisations (farmers, producers, traders)

8.4. Institutional strengthening

9. Rural Infrastructure

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

10. Climate Change

10.1. Climate change: resilience, adaptation and mitigation

11. Sustainable Natural Resource management

11.1. Sustainable management and protection of natural resources, biodiversity and ecosystems (soil erosion/salinization/fertility, national parks ecosystem protection, fight against desertification, etc.)

11.2. Sustainable Water management including planning (e.g. integrated river basin management), supply, waste water treatment (incl. waste water reuse and energy generation)

11.3. Environmental protection

11.4. Pollution including chemicals, plastics, waste, air pollution and greenhouse gases emissions

11.5. Green economy (incl. sustainable and resource efficient production and consumption), Blue Economy

11.6. Ocean governance including marine/coastal zones protection

12. Disaster Risk Reduction

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

The expertise may cover any geographic area in the world, either inside or outside the EU.

The Specific Terms of Reference (Specific ToR), which form part of each Specific Contract, shall describe the objectives and required outputs of each individual assignment.

The project will give support IHCAFE and SAG to put in place a data collection campaign protocol and a robust management system to strengthen the existing national coffee farmer registry, with the end goal to support compliance with the EUDR and potential future market regulation, support sustainability and coffee producers livelihoods policies, and prepare avenue for expanding the mechanism to other deforestation risk commodities.

The Somalia Crisis Recovery Project is a flood and disaster recovery, and reconstruction project financed by the World Bank to the Federal Ministry of Finance (MOF). It will support immediate and sustainable flood recovery and finance activities to mitigate against future shocks, by supporting: (a) immediate early floods recovery and service delivery restoration activities; (b) immediate support activities to respond and mitigate COVID 19; (c) medium-term rehabilitation of flood-impacted infrastructure, services and livelihoods; (d) elements of immediate and longer-term crisis preparedness and recovery; (e) detailed flood risk management plans, including both structural and non-structural flood risk management solutions for the country; and (f) support to enhance government performance and accountability and citizen engagement in service delivery.

The overall objective of the assignment is to provide independent review of project implementation and verification of all project results.

The project components include:

• Component 1: Immediate basic services and livelihood support for early recovery
• Component 2: Medium-term flood recovery
• Component 3: Longer-term disaster risk management and preparedness
• Component 4: Project Management
• Component 5: Contingency Emergency Response Component

As part of the Component 2 verification activities, the team is undertaking progress monitoring and assessment of river embankments, health facilities, roads and irrigation canals, through technical assessment of measurements of construction sites and materials, and verification of compliance as per the works contract.

The Project’s early recovery and locust preparedness activities will likely take six to twelve months to complete, while an overall four-year project duration is proposed to: (a) allow the completion of infrastructure activities to building-back-better standards; (b) allow time for the FGS-Federal Member State (FMS) project management arrangements to become functional, and (c) support longer-term resilience building and risk management within Government. The Project will follow a rigorous prioritization and sequencing exercise based on the needs identified in the FINA, to identify state-level annual investment plans.

++Global Objective++

Strengthen the EU’s engagement with Colombia on external impacts of EU Green Deal policies and regulatory frameworks, with emphasis on the regulation on deforestation and forest degradation, through the use of EU’s digital tools.

++Specific Objective(s)++

• Engage with key stakeholders in Colombia to enhance understanding of the objective and content ofthe identified regulations, with emphasis on deforestation and forest degradation. The regulation onCarbon Border Mechanism Adjustment, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), theupcoming Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, etc. could as well be subject of furtherengagement with Colombian stakeholders;
• Identify the necessary steps to either implement or support already existing effective traceability systems for Colombian exports to the EU market, taking into account the deforestation and forest degradation regulation;
• Identify the most relevant and cost-efficient space-based technologies and data, including their combination and taking into account existing traceability systems, to be used to support Colombia’s efforts to comply with the zero-deforestation supply chain regulation in the most affected value chains, especially coffee, palm oil and/or cocoa. Among these, the most
• Promote the use of already available technological tools within the public and private sector alike, in particular Copernicus-based imagery and support the development of ad-hoc services through the Copernicus Regional centres in Chile and Panama or through the JRC and the European Union Space Programme Agency-EUSPA.
• Identify, promote and support pilot projects and use cases to demonstrate the potential of using satellite-based technologies to develop traceability systems facilitating compliance with the Regulation as well as in other areas such as environmental protection and environmental .
• Support outreach efforts towards the main stakeholders to increase awareness among the main private and public stakeholders over the tools offered by the EU in support of Colombia and promote the uptake of EU Space technologies.
• Support the dialogue on space-based services with institutions, companies, academics, and CSOs through the organisation of high-level events, the creation and animation ofcrosssectoralnetworks and promote synergies with similar EU-funded actions. Complement and supporting the uptake of initiatives like Copernicus Academy, Copernicus Relays, EU Global Action on Space, EU-LAC Digital Alliance amongst others.