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Edgar Vhera
Agriculture Specialist Writer
GOVERNMENT has invited competitive bids for the administration of funds accessed under the four-year Zimbabwe Agricultural Value Chain and Livelihoods Enhancement Project (ZAVaCLEP).
The project, which should be implemented in four years, is targeted at enhancing sustainable crop and livestock production, market access, rural livelihoods as well as food and nutrition security.
In a notice issued recently under project ID: P-ZW-AAG-008, the Government confirmed receipt of a grant from the African Development Bank to finance the ZAVaCLEP.
“The modes of procurement to be used in the project are: open competitive bidding national (OCB-N), request for quotations (RFQ), community-based, quality and cost-based selection (QCBS), least cost selection (LCS) and individual consultants. The project includes four components,” read the notice.
Climate Smart Agricultural Productivity and Value Chain Enhancement towards food and nutrition security is component one.
“This component will support farmers to realise the opportunities to move towards food and nutrition security under three sub-components of sustainable livestock production and productivity, agri-business and crop/livestock value chains enhancement, as well as support to women MSME in agro-processing and market access,” read the notice.
Component 2 (building rural communities’ livelihoods and resilience to climate change) will support integrated land use planning for conservation, sustainable development and building climate resilience introduced and mainstreamed in communities.
Capacity building, social inclusion and knowledge management under component 3 aim to support capacity building, including skills development and social inclusion.
Component 4’s project management entails overall coordination of activities to ensure smooth project implementation, including audits, evaluation and other operational issues, as disclosed in the notice.
“The procurement of goods and services, financed by the bank for the project, will be carried out in accordance with the procurement policy for Bank Group Funded Operations dated October 2015 and in line with the provisions stated in the Protocol of Agreement.
According to the notice, bidding documents were expected to be available in July, while procurement would be carried out using the Bank Procurement Methods and Procedures.
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