| Overview : Training 33 Communities in Mt Elgon Region on Farmer Field Schools for the Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) Project Background: The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) with support from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) is implementing the project "Integrated Landscape Management for Ecosystem Resilience and Improved Livelihoods in the Mt. Elgon Region" in the districts of Mbale, Bulambuli and Manafwa. The overall goal of the project is to empower communities in Mt Elgon to manage their production landscapes in an integrated manner for improved livelihoods and ecosystem resilience. Mt Elgon landscape presents a variety of ecosystems providing services upon which local population heavily depends. A large portion of the landscape is now degraded, considering current changes in land use due to expansion of agriculture fields and human settlements, largely driven by high population growth. There is also increasing pressure on the land to accommodate a population that is still rising in the Mt Elgon region and the inherent danger is that this increasing pressure for land will impact negatively on land use, such as a) causing trees to be cut for fuel wood before maturing and b) increase encroachment into the upper protected watersheds c) increased land fragmentation d) increased soil erosion. As such the Ministry, would like to engage a competent Ugandan firm to build the capacity of 33 FFS, 33 FFS Facilitators, 6 Sub county FFS Facilitators and 6 District Master trainers in the districts of Manafwa, Mbale and Bulambuli and 3 MAAIF staff. The objective of the assignment is to put in place well equipped and skilled facilitators and establish and supervise at least 33 FFS in the 3 districts to scale up sustainable and resilient landscape management approaches to enhance enterprise productivity focusing on coffee, banana, horticulture and livestock. Bid Deadline: | 8th April 2019 at 12:00pm | |
Languages Required: English | 
