Company Profile
At the Rainforest Alliance, we are building an alliance to create a better future for people and nature by making responsible business the new normal. To advance our mission, we focus on amplifying our impact on the ground through systemic transformation: change across the entire supply chain, the relationship between people and nature, and change within our organisation. We achieve this transformation by collaborating with various stakeholders to create a stronger Alliance.
Together, we amplify the voices of farmers and forest communities, improve livelihoods, protect biodiversity, and help people adapt to climate change in bold and effective ways. We embrace transparency because we believe the best way to build trust across our alliance is through openness about our tactics, impact, and partners on the ground. Together, we can achieve our vision of a harmonious world where people and nature thrive.
For more information, please visit http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/about.
Job Description
Request for Proposals
Project Annual Outcome Survey and Smallholder Data Collection for Rainforest Alliance
Rainforest Alliance is seeking a consultant to submit proposals to conduct Project Annual Outcome Survey and Smallholder famers data collection across three Landscape in Ghana
Summary Information
- Project name: Landscape Environmental Agility across the Nation (LEAN)
- Location/s: High Forest Landscape (Western North), Transition Landscape (Bono East and Ashanti) and Savannah Landscape (Savannah and Upper East)
- Assignment: To conduct Project Annual Outcome Survey and to use Kobocollect to collect smallholder data across the three Landscapes.
- Period: Expected start date 16th September 2024 and expected end date 22nd October 2024:
- Work closely with Senior Associate Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL).
Main Objective
LEAN´s overall objective is to support national efforts to conserve biodiversity, improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers, build climate resilience, and reduce emissions from land-use change across Ghana´s high forest, savannah, and transition zones.
The project´s specific aims are as follows:
- Support the establishment of strong, long-lasting and socially inclusive landscape governance structures in three priority landscapes.
- Reduce land degradation, prevent forest loss, increase productivity, build climate resilience, and promote natural resource conservation training for smallholder farmers within the project landscapes.
- Improve market incentives for smallholder farmers to access diversified income streams.
- Support the design and implementation of a LandScale-based Landscape Performance Management Framework.
Objectives of the Annual Outcome Survey and the Smallholder Data Collection
There are 2 main objectives of the assignment:
- to conduct Annual outcome survey
- to conduct an electronic data collection on smallholder farmers across the three Landscapes to establish progress made as against targets and build database of smallholder beneficiaries.
The specific objectives of this survey are as follows:
- Indicate the level of progress made towards the project’s main outcome indicators as of 2024 as indicated in the project’s logical framework.
- Identify the issues/risks, strength, and opportunities, for project interventions.
- Establish a database for smallholder farmers across the 3 landscapes
- Map out spatial distribution of project interventions such as additional livelihood, restoration sites, FMNR sites, demonstration farms/plots, Nurseries sites etc.
The consultant is required to measure the following outcome indicators:
- SOI.1 Number of priority landscapes with landscape-based governance structures that operate in a financially sustainable manner.
- SOI.2 Number of priority landscapes where landscape-based governance structures are implementing a Landscape Performance Management Framework
- SOI.5 Percentage of project-supported smallholders that have uptaken key CSA, FMNR and SFM practices (gender- and age-disaggregated)
- SOI.7 Percentage of smallholders that are receiving market incentives (e.g. price premiums) (gender- and age-disaggregated)
- SOI.8 Percentage of individuals (smallholders and/or their household members) employed in alternative income-generating enterprises as a result of LMB entrepreneurship and business plan development (gender- and age-disaggregated)
- SOI.8 Number of individuals (smallholders and/or their household members) employed in alternative income-generating enterprises as a result of entrepreneurship and business plan development (gender- and age-disaggregated)
- Percent of key stakeholders participating in each of the three project-supported landscape governance structures who consider it to be an effective mechanism to promote participative sustainable landscape management (gender- and age-disaggregated) and
- Establish aa database of smallholder beneficiaries across the 3 landscapes.
Assignment Locations
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No
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Project Landscape
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Municipality/ District
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Region
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1
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High Forest Zone (Western Zone B Hotspot Intervention Area)
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- Bibiani-Anhwiaso Bekwai
- Sefwi Wiawso
- Bodi
- Akontombra
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Western North
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2
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Savannah Landscape (Guinea and Sudan Ecological Zones)
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- West Gonja
- Kassena-Nankana West
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Savannah Upper East
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3
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Transition landscape (Forest-Savannah Zone)
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- Offinso Municipal
- Offinso North
- Techiman Municipal
- Techiman North
- Nkoranza North
- Nkoranza South
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Ashanti
Bono East
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Deliverables
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Deliverables
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Deliverable Details
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Timeline for delivery (number of calendar days after the contract is signed)
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1. Inception Meeting
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Presentation on proposed Methodology for both annual outcome survey and smallholder data collection, general schedule of activities to be carried out (and documents required from LEAN).
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16th September 2024
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2. Inception Meeting & Report
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Should incorporate input provided during inception meeting and describe final methodology, data collection tools and plan, and information and tools obtained from LEAN.
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23rd September 2024
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3. Delivery of Progress Report
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Produce a summary report smallholder data collection and share data collected so far with project team. Indicate challenges faced if any.
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2nd October 2024
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4. Delivery of Final Report and dataset
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Produce report on smallholder data collection indicating number of smallholders covered by Landscape in datapoints such as:
- Sex
- Age group
- Smallholder category
- Trainings received.
- Tree seedling received, etc
Handover Smallholder Database system.
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7th October 2024
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5. Draft Report
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Produce a draft report on annual outcome survey using the format below:
- Executive Summary
- Background
- Methodology
- Findings respond to the indicators indicated in the RFP:
- Composite (LEAN Project as a whole)
- By Landscapes
- Conclusions and
- Recommendations.
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7th October 2024
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6. Delivery of Final Report and dataset
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Produce a final report on annual outcome survey using the format below:
- Executive Summary
- Background
- Methodology
- Findings respond to the indicators indicated in the RFP:
a. Composite (LEAN Project as a whole)
b. By Landscapes
- Conclusions and
- Recommendations.
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22nd October 2024
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Required Skills or Experience
Contractor Services at a minimum, must include:
The Consultant or Consultant Firm should have the following qualifications and credentials:
- The lead consultant must have at least a master’s degree in M&E, statistics, environmental science, or social science.
- Electronic data collection and analysis expertise, including social, environmental. Thus, the team/individual must have the capacity to identify data sources, assess data quality/integrity.
- Good understanding and knowledge of the project Landscapes, speak the local language of the target populations and stakeholders and have excellent fluency in written and oral English.
- Experience with delivering high-quality products and respecting budgets and timelines.
How To Apply
General terms and conditions for Request for proposal
- Proposals and/or any additional information received after the submission time and date are subject to rejection by The Rainforest Alliance. Incomplete proposals may be rejected by RA at its discretion.
- Rainforest Alliance reserves the right to request additional information at any time during the procurement process.
- RA is at liberty to make multiple or no selections as part of the proposal process. RA also reserves the right to cancel the procurement.
- All proposal costs shall be borne by the applicant and will not be reimbursed by RA.
Selection Criteria
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Criteria
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Maximum Value (%)
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The lead consultant must have at least a master’s degree in M&E, statistics, environmental science or social science with data collection and analysis expertise, including social, environmental, data and analysis. Thus, the team/individual must have the capacity to identify data sources, assess data quality/integrity.
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25
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Experience in conducting surveys at a large scale.
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25
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Good understanding and knowledge of the project Landscapes, speak the local language of the target populations and stakeholders and have excellent fluency in written and oral English.
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25
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Cost of executing the assessment
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25
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Total
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100
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Proposal Process and Format
- The letter of interest, technical, and financial proposal should be sent by email to ghanaoffice@ra.org latest September 13, 2024.
- A letter of interest summarizing the reason why you should be selected for this consultancy.
- A Technical proposal not more than 15 pages detailing the consultant(s) understanding and interpretation of the ToR, expertise and record of accomplishment, proposed methodology/ approach to carry out this assignment, Assignment plan, abridged CVs of proposed personnel you intend to use for this assessment excluding enumerators.
- A Financial proposal. Detailed budget that indicates the professional fees and any other related costs to be incurred by the consultant(s) while conducting this assignment. Please note that the contract price will be fixed regardless of changes in the cost components. The proposed budget should detail all relevant costs, such as transportation, professional fees, accommodation, stationery etc. An additional column could be added to the budget to help the evaluation team understand what each item will be used for.
- The financial proposal should be calculated in US dollars ($), including all taxes and duties.
- Contact details of recent references (at least 2), including email, contact person’s name and phone number.
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