REGIONAL AGENCY FOR AGRICULTURE AND FOOD
AGENCE RÉGIONALE POUR L'AGRICULTURE ET L'ALIMENTATION
AGÊNCIA REGIONAL DA AGRICULTURA E ALIMENTAÇÃO
The ECOWAS Commission has received funding from the International Development Association (World Bank) to finance the costs of the West Africa Food System Resilience Program (FSRP) and intends to use part of the funding for the payment of the services of an Individual.
The objective of the present notice of expression of interest is to recruit a digital marketing consultant to support the development and management of regional agricultural business platforms.
The Consultant must met the following criteria :
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), one of the regional economic communities of the African Union, was created on May 28, 1975. It comprises the following fifteen (15) member states: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
ECOWAS Commission has received funding from the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), and intends to use part of it to make payments under the Support to the Interim Phase of the West Africa Food Security Storage Project (STOCK II).
The food security situation in West Africa has deteriorated sharply in recent years. Acute food insecurity is on the verge of reaching its highest level for 10 years . Indeed, analysis of the Harmonised Framework shows that over the period March to May 2023, almost 32.5 million people are classified as being in crisis or worse in all 17 countries of West Africa and the Sahel, including almost 17.7 million in Nigeria, over 2.4 million in Niger and almost 2.2 million in Burkina Faso.
The ECOWAS Commission has received funding from the International Development Association (World Bank) to finance the costs of the West Africa Food System Resilience Program (FSRP) and intends to use part of the funding for the payment of the services of an Individual.
The objective of the present notice of expression of interest is to recruit a digital marketing consultant to support the development and management of regional agricultural business platforms.
The Consultant must met the following criteria :
La Communauté Économique des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) bénéficie, aux côtés du CILSS, du CORAF et de sept (7) de ses pays membres (Burkina, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Tchad et Togo), d’un appui technique et financier du Groupe de la Banque mondiale en vue d’accroître la préparation contre l’insécurité alimentaire et améliorer la résilience des acteurs du système alimentaire, des paysages prioritaires et des chaînes de valeur à travers le programme de résilience du système alimentaire en Afrique de l’Ouest (PRSA/FSRP).
The ECOWAP 2021-2023 support program defines the scope and priorities of the ECOWAS Commission for continued USAID institutional and operational support to the Directorate of Agriculture. The Directorate's mandate is to guide policy development and direct regional programming to better enable agricultural development. The operational support is directed primarily toward promoting priority policy measures on intra-regional trade.
The governments of the Republic of Benin and the Republic of Togo have agreed with IFAD to establish a regional framework for reflection aimed at boosting agricultural production by increasing agricultural trade between the two countries. The aim is to intensify intra-community trade within ECOWAS, in accordance with the long-term vision of an African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
The ECOWAS Council of Ministers, at its sixty-sixth ordinary session held in Abuja from 17 to 19 August 2011, decided, by Regulation C/REG.02/08/11 of 19 August 2011, to put in place mechanisms for the implementation of the ECOWAS Agricultural Policy (ECOWAP), in particular the creation of the Regional Agriculture and Food Fund (RAFF).
The ECOWAS Commission has received funding from the Swiss Cooperation and intends to use part of it to make payments under the third phase of the Regional Farmers' Organisations Support Programme in West Africa, (PRAOP3).
The purpose of the Consultant's Services will be to « prepare the baseline study for phase 3 of the regional farmers' organisations support programme ».
Major Portals