Somalia: Consultancy Services for Somalia Green Climate Fund Funding Proposal Design Package

Feb 3, 2024 | Save the Children
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Save the Children International is inviting submissions of Expression of Interest (EOI) from consultants, firms, or consortiums to undertake the development of the funding proposal package to be submitted to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for a climate change adaptation project in Somalia.

BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE

Save the Children International is working with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) in Somalia to develop a large-scale adaptation project for submission to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The project “Addressing Somali Pastoralists’ Adaptation Needs for Climate Resilient Livelihoods (ASPAN)” will seek to achieve its objective through three outcomes:

• Outcome 1 will strengthen the existing policy and institutional frameworks through capacity building and the creation of multi-stakeholder platforms that will enable better planning, including local landscape-based planning.
• Outcome 2 will channel investments into managing precipitation and run-off, maximizing storage and utilization within the watersheds to promote productive agricultural systems and rangelands using nature-based solutions in managing land and water adapted to the realities of the pastoral and agro-pastoral societies of Somalia.
• Outcome 3 will increase food production through climate-resilient production techniques, and support efforts to diversify production to increase income and reduce vulnerability to food insecurity.

Save the Children is the world's leading international non-governmental organization for children with a presence in over 120 countries. Its vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Its mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Save the Children International’s work brings together partners, communities, civil society and government agencies to develop programs that are sustainable and bring long-term benefit to children and their families. Save the Children Somalia tackles climate change with actions across Health and Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection, Child Poverty Reduction and Child Rights Governance. Save the Children Somalia works in 17 of the 18 regions in Somalia with the country office in Mogadishu in addition to 14 field offices. Since November 2019, Save the Children Australia, representing Save the Children globally, is an Accredited Entity1 to the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

The Green Climate Fund2 is the world’s largest dedicated fund helping developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and enhance their ability to respond to climate change. The GCF aims to catalyse a flow of climate finance to invest in low-emission and climate-resilient development, driving a paradigm shift in the global response to climate change. GCF activities are aligned with the priorities of developing countries through the principle of country ownership. The Fund pays particular attention to the needs of societies that are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, in particular Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and African countries. Somalia is both an African country and an LDC.

Somalia is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world with increased frequency of droughts, making nomadic pastoralism an increasingly vulnerable livelihood option. About 55% of the population in Somalia has frequently been exposed to loss of income, food sources, and assets with very little time for herds to recover. Large proportions of the rural population in Somalia are nutrition and food-insecure due to high vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. Save the Children’s proposed approach seeks to implement a range of activities leading to the delivery of the following three Components:

1. Improved natural resource governance through strengthened institutional capacities. Productive land, water and soil are critical natural capital assets essential for agricultural and livestock productivity, hence the need to conserve biodiversity and manage ecosystems sustainably for continued supply of ecosystem services (provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural aspects) for those communities that depend on the land for their main livelihood strategies - particularly the rural poor whose health and wellbeing are completely reliant on these natural resources. Thus, the vital functions of land, water and soil underpin the nexus of food, renewable energy, and water security.
2. Land and water management is improved to make agriculture and pastoralism climate resilient. Appropriate climate-resilient and sustainable land management can improve water security by increasing the capture and infiltration of rainfall. Increased availability of water in the soil will support climate-resilient agriculture and production of forage for livestock. There will also be greater replenishment of aquifers that can then be utilized sustainably during the dry season to support local communities and livestock. Achieving this outcome will require strengthened governance, regional planning, and land management measures that conserve soil and promote rainfall infiltration.

Agriculture and dairy value chains provide livelihood support to rural communities. Currently, the supply chain of dairy products from nomadic pastoralists to urban consumers leads to significant losses of milk due to spoilage. Improvements in the value chain, through investment in small-scale community and household cooling infrastructure and improved management of the value chain, will reduce spoilage and increase income for farmers and pastoralists.

APPLICATION GUIDANCE (Lot 1 and 2)

The GCF requires a rigorous project design and comprehensive package of documents for the submission of a Funding Proposal (FP). Save the Children (SC) Somalia requires consultancy services to fulfil the following key requirements for this Funding Proposal package. SC has structured the work into key components and prefers contract a single firm, consortium, consultants, or a combination of all that have the relevant skillset and experience to deliver all aspects of the work outlined. However, Save the Children reserves the right to split the work across multiple firms or consortia if it believe that would further its ability to submit a strong proposal package to the GCF.

See original job posting for Deliverables and Scope.

Application Procedure And Requirement

Candidates interested in the position are expected to provide the following documentation:

• A technical proposal with a detailed response to the TOR, with specific focus on the scope of work, methodology to be used and key selection criteria;
• Initial work plan based on the methodology outlined, and indication of availability.
• A financial proposal detailing the daily rate expected including accommodation, transportation, stationary, research assistances/enumerators and all other cost related to this assignment (full package);
• Consultancy firm lead and associated personnel CVs including a minimum of 3 references.
• Samples of relevant completed deliverables for work undertaken in the last five years

Qualified Consultancy Firms are requested to submit their technical and financial proposals and Lead consultant and associated personnel CVs and other relevant documentation.

How to apply

Please send technical and financial proposal through the email below:

• Somalia.sstenderbox3@savethechildren.org on or before the deadline: 15th February 2024.
• in case further CLARIFICATIONS or QUESTIONS needed, please send an email to**:**
• somalia.procurement@savethechildren.org