Enterprise Assessment Assignment Consultant - Expression of Interest at Lutheran World Relief (LWR) Limited / GTE (Ondo, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ekiti & Osun)

Lutheran World Relief (LWR) Nigeria is implementing a food for Progress Program to launch a cocoa productivity and marketing project in Nigeria Known as, the Traceability and Resilience in Agriculture and Cocoa Ecosystems of Nigeria (TRACE) under the sponsorship of USDA. The five-year project is to increases productivity in the cocoa value chain by applying climate smart agriculture and expands the cocoamarket through traceability back to its source.

Lutheran World Relief, Nigeria is executing the TRACE project to a sub-set of Nigeria in six States and therefore invites applications for the position below:

Job Title: Enterprise Assessment Assignment Consultant - Expression of interest

Locations: Akure Abia, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ekiti, Ondo, Osun
Employment Type: Contract

Scope of Work (SOW)
Objectives:

• To support TRACE’s micro, small, and medium enterprise development activities, the LWR team will hire a consulting firm to carry out enterprise assessments to determine the professionalism of enterprises and cooperatives in the cocoa sector in the targeted states of Nigeria.

This assignment will have four principal functions:

• Use an existing and systematic methodology and set of tools to gauge the leadership, governance, financial, operational, marketing, and environmental capacities of an enterprise or cooperative, that can be directly applied to the TRACE cocoa project context. The assessment tool will have the ability to generate reports for the enterprises/cooperatives and TRACE project staff use.
• Provide individual enterprise/cooperative written reports to the TRACE project team. As well as generating a report that summarizes the key findings across the enterprises/cooperatives for adjusting project activities.
• Identify and recommend learnings and/or challenges the TRACE project team needs to be aware of.; and
• Determine additional conditions that will allow LWR to assess the impact of the project after five years.

Indicator Measurements
The capacity building of enterprises and cooperatives is a key function of the TRACE project. This assignment is expected to align with the following indicators:

Table 1: Project Performance Indicators

This assignment will additionally contribute to the TRACE project team’s knowledge of the following key research learning questions.

Table 2: Key Research Learning Questions

Key Audience

• TRACE project staff and partners (Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, C-Lever.org, and Ecometrica).
• TRACE beneficiaries of the assessments including:
  • Cocoa producers in cooperatives, small and medium enterprises, cocoa processors, licensed buying agents (LBA), traders, exporters, and input suppliers.
• USDA officials located in Washington, D.C, and at post.
• The proposed LBA, exporters, and other business respondents include an assessment of approximately 50 LBAs, cooperatives, enterprises, input suppliers, traders and exporters, and other businesses, in each state, critical to sustaining the cocoa supply chain beyond production.

Tasks and Deliverables
The selected consultant and team will implement the following tasks along the proposed timeline and approximate LOE as summarized in the table below:

Table 3: Tasks and Deliverables

Submission to TRACE Team

• Organization and Team Composition: A document that defines institutional roles and responsibilities and key points of contact for leading each of the steps. This will also include an overview of the enterprise / cooperative assessment process, including conducting assessments, staffing teams, and supervision plan of assessors.
• Assumptions and Risks: (½ page) Describe any assumptions and or risks that may affect the implementation of the TOR and the LWR team’s plan to mitigate these risks.
• Summary and Detailed Budget proposal (maximum 2-3 pages; see Table 3), including:
  • Professional: The daily rate of the evaluation team members and the anticipated level of effort (number of days) for each member.
  • Travel and Per diem: Costs associated with fieldwork, inclusive of all in-country travel to six states in Nigeria, any regional or international travel and visa fees (if applicable); in-country accommodation and meals and incidental expenses, as applicable.
  • Cost per Enterprise/Cooperative Assessment (as applicable)
  • Supplies and Equipment
  • General Administrative Costs
  • Total Costs
  • Costs should include cost breakdown and be detailed in NGN with applicable tax identified.
• Assessment Data and reporting including assessment reports per individual enterprise /cooperative, analysis of key performance indicators (Table 1) for the assessments, through a written report and presented on PowerPoint slides every quarter.

Budget
Table 4 below presents the costs items to be involved for the Enterprise Assessment assignment in NGN. Please note that LWR requires the consulting firms to have an established Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number with the U.S. Government, and to submit this number with the application.

Table 4: Budget for Enterprise Assessment Assignment

Application Closing Date
28th June, 2024 Before 5:00 PM.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified consulting firms should submit their completed Applications to: [email protected] using “Enterprise Assessment Assignment” as the subject of the email.

Note

• For inquiries about this assignment, send an email to: [email protected]
• Curriculum Vitae(s) of all key members of the team detailing their relevant experience should be included in the mail.