The ECOWAS Commission has obtained funding under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Preparatory Support Programme, and intends to use part of the amount to make payments under the ECOWAS Commission and Member States Institutional Capacity Building Project for Access to Climate Finance to Support the Implementation of the Agricultural Sector Priorities of the Regional Climate Strategy.

The purpose of the Consultant Services will be “Preparation of two (2) regional concept notes on agriculture with prefeasibility studies to be submitted to the Green Climate Fund while training key stakeholders in the ECOWAS region”.

Now, the ECOWAS Commission, represented by the Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food (RAAF) invites Eligible Candidates to express their interest in providing the Services described above.

This call is open to all Individual Consultants (in pairs), having the required qualifications as detailed in the attached Terms of Reference.

The attention of interested candidates is particularly drawn to Article 117 of the revised ECOWAS Procurement Code (“Fraud and Corruption”), which provides information on corrupt and fraudulent practices in the award or execution of a contract. Please also refer to article 118 of the same code, which sets out the ECOWAS policy on conflicts of interest.  

The consultant required is a senior individual consultant. He will be responsible for mobilising an associate consultant as an expert in rural development, and meeting the qualifications below.

The senior consultant will work in tandem with the associate consultant proposed by him and under his supervision.

The qualifications and experience required for the principal consultant and the associate consultant are described below:

• The senior consultant, leader of the project

• The associate consultant:  Rural development expert

The application file is composed of:

• A duly dated and signed letter of expression of interest;
• Recent resumes (including the resume of the associate expert) detailing professional experience and similar assignments;
• Professional references from the contracting authorities with whom the assignments have been carried out (names, e-mail addresses and telephone contacts).

• Deadline for submission of applications: June 7, 2024 at 11 AM GMT.  
• Applications should be submitted electronically at the latest on June 7, 2024 at 11 AM GMT, to the following address : procurement@araa.org  ; with a copy to : ctienon@araa.org ; pbessi@araa.org ; mnakorba@araa.org with the following subject line « SCI011-FVC- Preparation of two (2) regional concept notes on agriculture with prefeasibility studies to be submitted to the Green Climate Fund ( GCF)»
• Application format: applications Should be submitted in one (01) unmodifiable PDF document.

RAAF retains the right not to consider applications that do not comply with the above conditions for submission.

The consultant will be selected according to the individual consultant selection method as defined in the ECOWAS Public Procurement Code.

• General qualifications: 20%.
• Relevance to the assignment: 70%
• Knowledge of language and region: 10%.

Each expert will be assessed according to the scoring grid below and the overall score of the pairing obtained applying the following weighting: senior expert: 70%, associate expert: 30%.

The RAAF retains the right not to follow up on this advice.

Five (05) working days before the deadline for submission of Expressions of Interest, interested applicants can obtain further information by writing to the following e-mail addresses: procurement@araa.org   with a copy to : ctienon@araa.org , pbessi@araa.org mnakorba@araa.org, with the following subject line « SCI011-FVC- Preparation of two concept notes »

• Annex 1. Terms of reference in French;
• Annex 2. Terms of reference in English;