Call for Proposals for the Multiplication of Improved Fish Fingerlings for Adoption by Farmers at the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP)

Purpose of call: Generation of technologies to increase agricultural productivity, and implementation of actions to improve dissemination and adoption of improved agricultural technologies in Nigeria.

Call for Proposals for the Multiplication of Improved Fish Fingerlings for Adoption by Farmers at the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP)

1. CaII identification number: WAAPP/NG/01/S.10/CARGS/2014
2. Publication date: 21st August, 2014
3. Project period: Maximum 2 years
4. Maximum budget for one project: N15,000,000.00
5. Submission of Proposals: Deadline for submission of Proposals is 19th September 2014 at 1700H GMT.

Ten hard copies and one electronic copy should be submitted. Signed and officially stamped printed hard copies of Proposal, addressed to the National Project Coordinator, WA4PP-Nigeria, could be sent, by post, hand-carried or express courier tothe WAAPP.Nigeria Project Coordination Office (PCO) located at No. 2 Franca Afegbua Crescent, off Samuel Jereton Mariere Road, Apo (after Zone D Apo Legislative Qtrs); and electronic copy should be sent to.
waappnpc@ymail.com. This call is available at www.arcnigeria.org.

Call description
The West Africa Agricultural Productivsty Programme (WAAPP) is a World Bank assisted Programme for members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), designed to make agriculture more productive and sustainable. WAAPP works towards achievement of its objective through four (4) components, namely:

• Enabling conditions for sub-regional cooperation in technology generation, dissemination and adoption;
• National Centre of Specialization in Aquaculture;
• Funding of demand-driven technology generation and adoption;
• Project coordination, management, monitoring and evaluation.

Broad Themes
Agriculture is one of the most important sectors of the Nigeria’s economy. However, in spite of the rich resource endowment, as well as interventions by the government, the sector has been operating far below its potentials. This could be due to a number of factors which include weaknesses in research and extension. Adequate food production cannot be achieved by reliance on low-input in appropriate technologies used by small scale farmers. In order to increase agricultural productivity there is need to consider (i) the benefits of safe and responsible use of cutting-edge science, (ii) advances in technology development, (iii) capacity building, (iv) technology dissemination, (v) policy research and implementation to promote the development, adaptation and dissemination of new technologies (vi) a genuine and deliberate coordination and involvement of all stakeholders concerned at all stages of the “strategic agricultural research to extension” process. Therefore, to achieve food security, there is need to increase productivity of crops, livestock and fisheries using improved technologies. Hence, for rapid agricultural development to take place, inputs such as improved technologies generated on continuous basis must beensured and made to serve as catalysts. This competitive grant scheme, calls for proposals that innovatively link research and development in order to increase agricultural technology generation and accelerate the dissemination and adoption of generated technologies and innovations across Nigeria and countries in West Africa. The Proposals should capture demand-driven research with convincing evidence that outputs would be adopted by known groups of beneficiaries. Gender consideration must be clearly spelt out. The proposals are to be prepared in line with the concept of Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D). The grant is for proposals that will generate quick results within a short period of time and that would lead to increase in agricultural productivity at the level of farmers or other entrepreneurs and end users over the existing technologies by at least thirty percent

Focus of the Research for Developmentcall.
The following Research for Development Themes (RDT) should be considered in developing proposals.

RDT 1: Commercialization and Socio-economic Studies.

1. Promotion of proven technologies and their commercialization;
2. Mechanisms for strengthening rural institutions.

RDT 2: Natural Resource Management and Climate Change

1. Development and application of drought tolerant and early maturing strains/lines of various crops and livestock;
2. Developmentand application of integrated pest management (1PM) technologies— 1PM for various crops farming systems;
3. Developmentand application of soil nutrientand watershed management technologies;
4. Bio-fortification,
5. Technologies for processing and production of bio-pesticides and bio-energy — development of improved varieties of bio-pesticides and biomass producing plants;
6. Striga control on Maize and Sorghum;
7. Climate Change Adaptation in crop and livestock production.

RDT 3: Livestock and Fisheries production

1. Technologies for fish feed production.
2. Development of integrated feeding, health and management systems that could support innovation platforms for profitable fish, poultry and livestock meat and milk production enterprises.
3. Identification and development of strategies for utilizing indigenous resources with potential to reduce the cost of feed concentrates for livestock, poultry and fish.
4. Development and application of strategies for rapid genetic improvement and multiplication of livestock species for meat and milk production.
5. Development of cost effective feeding strategies for poultry, livestock and fisheries.
6. VI. Development of strategies for active surveillance systems for diseases of poultry and livestock diseases, especially those of public health significance.
7. Development of ethno veterinary formulations for diseases of poultry and livestock.

RDT 4: Agricultural Mechanization
Development of prototype units of mechanization machines for production, agro-processing and packaging of crops, livestock and fisheries products.

General and administrative Criteria
Research and development activities must be demand-driven and must be carried out using participatory approach, especially IAR4D. Project Consortia including agricultural research institutions, Universities and/or Faculty and Colleges of Agriculture, Private sector, NGOs, extension services, and consumer groups are encouraged.
The Proposal should comply with the format and content stipulated in the (AnnexA), including (interalia):

• A letter of intent/commitment of collaborators
• A logical framework
• An outline budget.

The parent institution of the applicants should submit an organizational profile following the format in Annex B, and ach consortium partner that will be involved in managing funds at any level should submit a completed financial nd procurement management capacity assessment questionnaire, based on the format in Annex C. The institutions involved in the project should be judged to have the capacity and experience for implementing the roposed work.

Financial criteria
Expenditures should be linked to direct costs of R & D activities and indirect costs should not be more than 10% of the project budget.
The total budget of the project should not exceed the funding ceiling specified above.
The project budget should be clearly presented and the amount justified with respect to the scheduled activities in he technical proposal.
The project budget should indicate the amount requested from WAAPP-Nigeria and the amount contributed by direr partners/stakeholders.

Evaluation criteria
Proposals would be evaluated on the following criteria and sub-criteria:

1. Relevance: general context and rationale, and the general and specific objectives;
2. Scientific and technical quality: state of knowledge, description of project activities, expected results, target groups and methodology;
3. Potential impact mapped out through Impact Pathways: social, economic, environmental and gender issues;
4. Technical implementation plan: logframe and chronogram (Gantt chart);
5. Implementation team: professional and technical experience and competence of the team, publications in the project area, and partnership mechanism;
6. Budget: contribution of partners, use of funds requested from WAAPP-Nigeria; iti.
7. Integrated Agricultural Research for development (IAR4D).

Annex A: Project Proposal

WAAPP-Nigeria Reference: Unique reference number provided by WAAPP-Nigeria

Note: Contact Details in this section are submitted on a separate sheet.

Principal Investigator: This is the person with overall responsibility for the application to WAAPP-Nigeria and the implementation of the Project.
Address: Contact details of the Principal Investigator
Telephone
e-mail
Collaborator(s): Collaborating organisations with which agreements have been made. A letter of intent/ commitment addressed to the lead institution, which demonstrates the collaborators are an active part of the proposal, must be included in the submission.

These following sections are submitted on separate sheets to the Contact Details:

Project Title: The applicant should provide a title, which concisely and accurately describes the scope of the work.
WAAPP-Nigeria Priority Area: This is the specific area (RDT) that the project addresses. Note that proposals which do not address issues defined in the ROTs, will not be processed.
WAAPP-Nigeria Cross-cutting and Core Functions: Which of the key cross -cutting and core functions of WAAPP-Nigeria, are of particular focus in the Proposal.
Project Location: The institution or place for the proposed project, including the address of the location.
Total Cost of the Project: Total budget required to implement the full-term project.
Duration of the Project: How long will the project last? The maximum period is two years and there is no minimum period.
Date of Proposal submission: The date that the Proposal was submitted to the Project Coordination Office, WAAPP-Nigeria.
Introduction (Maximum of 200 words)

Specific Objective of the Project [Guideline 400 words]
What is the justification for the proposed Project? The Specific Objective is the impact or change that the Project hopes to achieve by delivering its Results, and provided certain Assumptions hold, it is also stated in summary form in the logframe. It is the reason for reject and should address an identified constraint to the development of the agricultural sector in the sub-region. It should be demand driven and fall within the regional or country priorities given in the WAAPP-Nigeria Call for Propasals and the Strategic Plan. These are based on some of the key national, sub-regional and regional targets for the agricultural sector and clearly identified demand from end users. Background information should include a description of the importance of the constraint(s) that the project is seeking to address and a very brief summary of any significant work already carded out in this area.

Literature Review (300 words Maximum)
Methodology
-Technical
Application of IAR4D

Project Results [Guideline 300 words]
What will be the Results of the work? This is what the project will deliver. They are the terms of reference for the project. They are the necessary and sufficient conditions, provided Assumptions hold, for the achievement of the Specific Objective. They must be measurable, and deliverable within the time frame of the Project. They should reflect aspects of the WAAPP-Nigeria Results identified in its Strategic Plan, which in summary cover technology/innovation generation [in the widest sense], policy research, capacity strengthening, and knowledge management. They may be seen as, inter alia, manuals, audio-visual products, agricultural products, infrastructure, marketing or information systems, policy options, institutional change, technologies. Promotion pathways to target organizations and beneficiaries should be identified where appropriate. Target organizations are those formal or infomal groups, which will take up the results of the proposed work and engage in the process of further increasing the numbers of users of the knowledge, technology or methodology.

Research and Development Activities (Guideline 300 words)

How will the project be implemented? An online of the studies, surveys, experiments and activities, which are to be designed and implemented in order to deliver the Results of the project. There should be an Activity or group of Activities associated with each Result of the project, the Activities defining the action strategy for Result delivery.

Holistic methodologies that uses novel approaches and combinations of stakeholders in innovative ways are encouraged. 

Target Groups and Beneficiaries
Who are the main targetgroups and beneficiaries of the proposed work? The target groups are those closely involved in the implementation of the project whilst beneficiaries are beyond the immediate project boundary. Both groups will gain social, economic or environmental advantage from the technology/innovation, methodology or knowledge transfer Activities of the work to be supported. Thetorget group immediately and the beneficiaries after further up-scaling of project Results. They may be identified in, for example, the household, the village community or the regional/national community.

Available Facilities for the project
Assumptions
Explain particularly significant Assumptions at each level in tire logframe. Important assumptions are external conditions or are factors over which the project does not have direct, or complete control, but on which the delivery of Results and achievement of objectives depends.

Financial Summary
The financial summary should take into account anticipated inflation, and be kept to a minimum consistent with achievine the project Outputs.

Year 1
Proposed Activities: Activity 1
Year 2: For process projects an estimated expenditure based on projected Activities is required for years after year 1
Proposed Activities: Activity 2

Year 3: For process projects an estimated expenditure based on projected Activities is required for years after year 1
Proposed Activities: Activity…n
Overheads
Contingency
Total

• Rates for travel and subsistence should be according to the Institutional norms of WAAPP-Nigeria.
• A full justification for the purchase of equipment will be required in the proposal.
• The total of Overheads and Contingency should not exceed 10%, and should, in any case, be kept to a realistic minimum. Where private sector organisationshave additional tax Iiabilities the WAAPP-Nigeria Office should be informed

Annex B: Format for Organisational Profiles
Organisational Profile
Organisations wishing to act as the coordinating/lead organisation for a proposal should complete the following form. Additional information can be put on a separate sheet and attached to the form. None of the information given here will be disclosed without your consent. It should be submitted at the same time, but separate from the proposal.
Name of the organisation
Type of the organisation [local, regional, national]
Contact details [address, telephone, fax, e-mail]:
Registration date and serial number with concerned organisation:
Date started to work:
System of book-keeping:
Date of last renewal of the registration:

Description of work:
Type of work:
Region or area:
Household covered/contact person: Total, Female, Male
Working period:
Fund mobilisation:
Source of fund:

Past work:
Extra rows may be addad as required or details attached on a separate sheet

Present work:
Extra rows may be added as required or details attached on a separate sheet

If you have an internal fund, describe briefly how it is generated,
List the major objectives of your organisation mentioned in your organisation’s act.
How have you analysed the local agricultural and social situation of the area?
Is there any community or other, contribution to your programme?
Explain briefly, what kind of relationship/co -ordination your organisation has with other organisation [S]?
Does your organisation give emphasis to gender issues? If yes, at what level [for example, in office staff recruitment, responsibilities of staff, beneficiary’s level in participation/decision making/benefiting from the programmes]?

 Human resource in the organisation
Name of persons
Position in organisation
Education qualification
Area and number of years of experience
Extra rows may be added as required or details attached on a separate sheet

RECENT PUBLICATIONS [titles and references] by the organisation and staff
The size of the boxes on this form has been reduced for presentation purposes.

The West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP) is a World Bank assisted Programme for member-countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), designed to make agriculture more productive and sustainable and also to enhance sub-regional integration. In Nigeria, WAAPP works towards achieving its objective of increasing agricultural productivity while promoting sub-regional integration along the value chains of its targeted commodities (aquaculture, cassava, maize, rice, sorghum, yam, poultry and fruit processing); while assisting in the realization of the Nation’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda, this it does via four (4) components, which are:

1. Enabling conditions for sub-regional cooperation in technology generation, dissemination and adoption;
2. National Centre of Specialization and Excellence in Aquaculture;
3. Funding of demand-driven technology generation and adoption;
4. Project coordination, management, monitoring and evaluation.

Under Component 3 above, WAAPP-Nigeria facilitates access to improved genetic materials; one of the channels for doing this in the aquaculture subsector is to collaborate with registered business enterprises/bodies that carry out fish hatchery operations (fingerlings multiplication). This is to ensure an open and regular flow of high-quality fish seeds for both commercial- and cottage-scale fish farmers across the country.

Proposals Invited
WAAPP-Nigeria hereby invites proposals from qualified entities to Mass- produce fast-growing fish fingerlings of Catfish. WAAPP-Nigeria will provide plans and guidance on what to do with the fingerlings produced.

The proposals should contain the following information:

1. Name and full contact details of the organization;
2. Evidence of incorporation/registration;
3. Evidence of Tax Clearance;
4. Description of the organization’s production infrastructure, machinery, facilities and operational capacity;
5. Names, qualifications (with evidence) and professional experience of at least 2 key technical personnel that will carry out the project activities;
6. Sources of Brood stock;
7. Cost (in Naira) perfingerling or batch of fingerlings;
8. Letters of reference from a specialized agency or a recognized subject-matter specialist. If your organization has previously worked with a donor-sponsored project or specialized agency, documentary evidence of such a relationship should be provided.

Closing Date:
19th September 2014

How to Apply
Proposals (and all accompanying documents) should be addressed to the National Project Coordinator, WAAPP-Nigeria and sent to WAAPP-Nigeria Project Coordination Office (PCO) located at No. 2 Franca Afegbua Cresent, off Samuel Jereton Mariere Road, Apo Legislative Qtrs) via express courier or hand-delivery or electronically to waappnpc@ymail.com on or before Friday, 19th September, 2014.