Enhancing Food Security and Water Management through Innovative and Systemic Approaches Tender

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Country : Austria

Summary : Enhancing Food Security and Water Management through Innovative and Systemic Approaches

Deadline : 30 Apr 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 32238517

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Competition : ICB

Financier : Austrian Development Agency (ADA)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Purchaser : AUSTRIAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
Zelinkagasse 2, 1010 Vienna Tel.: + 43 (0)1 90399 - 0 Fax: + 43 (0)1 90399 - 2290
Austria
Email :maputo.application@ada.gv.at / dpo@ada.gv.at / office@ada.gv.at
URL :www.entwicklung.at

Tender Details

Request for proposals are invited for Enhancing Food Security and Water Management through Innovative and Systemic Approaches.

1. Title of Call for Proposals

The Nexus1

Initiative in Sofala, Mozambique - Enhancing Food Security and Water Management through Innovative and Systemic Approaches

2. Introduction and Context

Introduction

ADC aims to improve the livelihoods situation of smallholder farmers (family farms) in Caia, Buzi and Machanga districts of Sofala Province. In this respect, ADC focuses on

• enhanced food security through sustainable climate smart agriculture as well as inclusive and equal access to local and national markets; and

• equal access to water for human consumption and productive use through sustainable infrastructure and integrated water resource management.

Enhanced support at provincial level is a viable solution to achieve these core outcome and outputs. It is at the same time an important entry-point and framework for better integrated, comprehensive and systemic planning (nexus approach). Due its long-time engagement in the agriculture as well as water and sanitation in Sofala province, ADC is well placed for piloting this nexus initiative with integrated water management, food security, energy and climate change adaptation and resilience at its core.

Cooperation with non-state actors (NSA) has a long-standing tradition within ADC-s engagement in Mozambique and a record of many achievements and experiences.

This Call for Proposals (CfP) invites NSAs to present their Nexus initiatives to support sustainable human development in the Caia, Buzi and Machanga districts in Sofala Province. NSAs will coordinate their cooperation with local partner organisations in the selected districts as local anchorage increases the demand-orientation of nexus initiatives.

Proposals will be assessed with respect to the quality of the chosen approach and the appropriateness of the methodology and the proposed activities to achieve the specific outputs and outcomes.

The total available budget for this Call for Proposals is EUR 2, 000, 000.00 with a maximum of EUR 1, 000, 000, 00 for a single application.

Context

ADC aims to improve the livelihood situation of the rural population in Mozambique and particularly in Sofala province. This shall be achieved through enhancing sus-tainable agricultural production and productivity which contributes to income-generation of smallholder farmers (family farms) as well as through improved access to water and sanitation in rural areas. Since late 2017 the World Bank considers Mozambique - which, together with South Suda, registered the sharpest economic fall in Africa -to be a fragile country2 . With population expansion over the past 20 years the number of people in absolute poverty, according to the World Bank methodology, has risen from 14 million to 19 million (66% of population)3 . And this number is set to rise. Within a decade, it is expected to peak at 23 million before gradually retreating back to 19 million by 2040 (35% of population)4 . This is why the World Bank projects that until 2030 Mozambique will be one of four African countries in which 50% of the global poor will be living. Mozambique has one of the world-s highest rates of chronic malnutrition (according to UNICEF, over 43% of all children are stunting and 46.3 percent of all children are multi-dimensionally poor). Major factors are the lack of availability of food as well as poor diet and micronutrient deficiency in some regions. According to FAO, Mozambique is currently the only lusophone country which receives food aid. Access to rural water supply is very low (36%), even more so the access to proper rural sanitation (13%)5 . Of the country-s 26 million people, 70% live in rural settings and life expectancy is just 53 years but high population growth (2.45% annually) and fertility (5.15 children/women), higher than regional peers, threaten to undermine future development efforts. Communicable diseases dominate the disease profile6 while recent results reveal that HIV prevalence has risen overall (11.5% in 2009 to 13% in 2015)7 . The health status of women and girls is particularly poor with low access to contraception and persistently high maternal mortality (489 deaths per 100 000 live births) being facets of this. Inequality in Mozambique has been growing steadily since about 2002 but accelerated in recent years as the Gini coefficient inequality measure rose to 0.47 in 2014/15, up from 0.42 in 2008/9. In Mozambique where women make up 52% of the population, poverty has a woman-s face. The illiteracy rate for men is 30.1% whereas for women the rate is almost double (57.8%); 50% of girls marry before the age of 18 years; 83% of women work on agriculture but only 25% own land; HIV/AIDS prevalence rate is 20.5% among women and 12.3% among men. The credit portfolio is composed of only 29% of women against 79% for men. The health status of women and girls is particularly poor with low access to contraception and persistently high maternal mortality (489 deaths per 100, 000 live births) being facets of this. Therefore, the Gender Inequality Index value of Mozambique is 0.574, ranking it 139 out of 159 countries in 20158 .

Climate change is a fundamental threat to sustainable development and the fight against poverty. It has the potential to block and even reverse human development through its impacts on key development sectors and activities including agriculture and food production, ecosystems, water and other natural resources, disaster risk management and health. Mozambique faces significant environmental and climate change challenges inclusive of disaster risks. Droughts, floods and other such calamities have become an ever-present part of the country context. They threaten the livelihoods of the people and cause impacts to the natural resources and the functioning of a sustainable ecosystem. There is a close association between poverty and climate vulnerability. Policies, plans and national environmental regulations exist but their implementation on the local level is difficult. ADC addresses these challenges with a mainstreaming approach to ensure environment, climate and disaster risk reduction measures are included. The ADC contributes towards driving the necessary paradigm shift to low-carbon and climate resilient development pathways by supporting its partner countries in achieving their plans, goals and strategies regarding climate change adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and to implement measures to reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity and resilience. In order to address the complex challenges of food insecurity and limited water resources, scarce natural resources, climate impacts and lack of assets of the rural population ADC shall address sustainable agricultural development and access to water in an innovative and systemic manner (the nexus approach). ADC has a very strong and reputed presence in the Province of Sofala. Apart from general development needs Sofala has been the epicentre of political and military tensions in the past where the expected peace agreement will require many investments in the previously isolated areas of armed opposition groups. It is generally accepted that the sustainable improvement of livelihood of the most vulnerable population will directly support the political reconciliation efforts. Therefore, ADC shall apply a conflict-sensitivity approach based on the principles of do no harm and human rights-based with its elements of non-discrimination, participation, empowerment and accountability of the State as well as the consideration of gender-responsive project planning and implementation and gender mainstreaming throughout the project.

The programmatic framework for cooperation in Sofala is the Strategic Development Plan of Sofala 2010 - 2020 which was supported by ADC and primarily intends to reduce the poverty rate from 58% to below 40% accompanied by an increase of productivity, improvement of basic social services, public infrastructures and political stability. Sofala has a huge economic potential due to the fact that Beira port and the Beira corridor are important entry and trans-shipment points for goods and thus important generators of revenue (from 2007 to 2014 Sofala has been the third largest national tax contributor with 8 percent, after Maputo City, 74.4 percent, and Maputo province, 16.1. percent9 ). Due to the civil war Sofala was one of the poorest provinces with 87.9% of the population living under the poverty line. These figures improved to 54% in 2008 and the survey 2014/15 shows 44.2% which is slightly below the national average of 46.1%10 . Approximately 97% of the surface used for agriculture is farmed by smallholder farmers who practically provide the entire supply of food crops to the population. In this context agriculture remains the main source of livelihood for the large majority of the rural people. However, chronic malnutrition among children from 0-5 years is extremely high in Sofala with 25%11. As a consequence of the recent political-military conflict some districts of Sofala could hardly receive any support from governmental institutions which increased again the vulnerability of the affected population.

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