Published date: 24 September 2024
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Closing date: 7 October 2024
Contract summary
Industry
Foreign economic-aid-related services - 75211200
Location of contract
Any region
Procurement reference
tender_465128/1407922
Published date
24 September 2024
Closing date
7 October 2024
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
An EME event is scheduled for this Programme, outline details are below,
Please note to register for this event please complete the registration form at https://forms.office.com/e/20hK7KRm6h
This programme is at Business Case development stage and the purpose of this EME is to inform the market about this programme and get views on the TOC and feasibility from a supply base perspective.
Key Details
- Name: Zambia Rural Climate Resilience Program
- Location: Zambia
- Value: £70,000,000
- Duration: 7 years
Intended Impact
[Tentative] A more sustainable agri-food system and improved natural resources base contributing to poverty reduction and climate resilience
Through: better policy frameworks, markets, and access to finance to increase smallholder farmers' productivity, incomes, and resilience, while reducing pressure on natural resources and biodiversity
Programme Summary
Despite its economic potential, Zambia has stubbornly high poverty rates. Weak macroeconomic performance, policy failures, and successive negative shocks, including climate, have increased poverty rates and reduced incomes. Climate change, nature loss, and low agricultural productivity have created a negative feedback loop which is whitling down people's resilience and preventing escapes from poverty:
- Climate change is ramping up the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, with smallholder farmers relying on rainfed agriculture being the most vulnerable
- Nature Loss is driven by farmland expansion in response to declining yields and increasing rural population
- Agricultural productivity is well below its potential and is declining. Crop yields are either stagnant or decreasing, despite widespread and increasing use of fertilizers and improved seeds.
Taking a systems approach, the Rural Climate Resilience Program will focus on two impact areas: agri-food systems and natural resources management, delivered through three action areas:
- Improved policy enabling environment
- Improved market systems
- Improved access to finance and information
TOC: Increased investment in resilient agri-food systems and natural resources management, leads to increased productivity generating lasting livelihood benefits, thereby alleviating poverty, increasing resilience to climate change and shocks, and decreasing nature and biodiversity loss.
Outcome 1: Strengthened policy environment to enable better natural resources management and more productive, diversified, sustainable and climate resilient agriculture
Outcome 2: Improved climate resilient SME growth that enables greater participation of smallholder farmers in value chain
Outcome 3: Improved access and use of climate finance and information to adapt to climate change and enable more resilient agricultural production systems
Programme Activities
Potential activities under consideration include:
- Enabling Environment: Technical assistance and evidence support to gov
How to apply
Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.
About the buyer
Address
FCDO King Charles Street
London
SW1A 2AH
England
Telephone
+447788307786
Email
George.Sked@fcdo.gov.uk
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