Procurement Notices

UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (RBLAC) is looking for a qualified "Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA) Community Engagement Consultant" to support the implementation of the "Green Commodities Programme Phase II/ COFSA".

Title / Consultancy:          Individual Contract_

                                         Consultancy services of a "Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA) Community Engagement Consultant"

Country:                           Home-based.

Duration of assignment:  7 months.

Estimated Start Date:      June 2024.

Description/background of Assignment:

UNDP´s Vision for its new strategy, Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems, FACS 2030, is through partnerships, to transform food and agricultural commodity systems into resilient, equitable, healthy, inclusive, environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable systems. 

Working on FACS will contribute to not only recovery from the COVID19 crisis, by creating sustainable and resilient livelihoods for many along the FAC supply chains, but also to preventing further zoonoses from emerging in the future. This will require a change in the current paradigm of agricultural production focusing on maximizing productivity to a new paradigm based on diversified agroecological systems which work simultaneously on achieving economic, environmental, social, and health outcomes, with smallholders as a key part of the solution in their role as the engine of economic development. A FACS practice has been established within UNDP’s Nature Hub, which is tasked to support UNDP Country Offices with FACS related challenges in a way that is aligned with UNDP’s FACS strategy.  

As part of its work on systems change, the FACS practice has developed the “Conscious Food Systems Alliance” (CoFSA), a movement of food, agriculture, and consciousness practitioners, convened by UNDP, and united around a common goal: to support people from across food and agriculture systems to cultivate the inner capacities that activate systemic change and regeneration. 

After two years of incubation, the Alliance was launched publicly at the end of 2022 with activities in 2023 focusing on building the CoFSA community, organizing online events, communication, development of trainings and testing implementation through a dedicated call for proposals.

CoFSA seeks the services of a CoFSA Community Engagement Consultant to (i) provide inputs to the development of the CoFSA agenda of work on traditional wisdom and indigenous peoples of specific projects from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and/or North America; (ii) provide inputs to the development of the CoFSA agenda of work on regenerative cultures and mindsets; and (iii) develop the CoFSA online library of resources.

The consultant will work closely with other UNDP CoFSA team members, in particular the CoFSA Indigenous Peoples Engagement Advisor, UNDP FACS team members, other UNDP staff both at global and country office level, partners agencies focal points and donors. The consultant will report to the FACS Global Head.

This specific tender is managed via the new supplier portal system, QUANTUM.  Proposal should be submitted directly in the portal no later than indicated deadline.

Any request for clarification must be sent in writing via messaging functionality in the portal. UNDP will respond in writing including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry.

Please indicate whether you intend to submit a bid by creating a draft response without submitting directly in the system. This will enable the system to send notifications in case of amendments of the tender requirements. 

Should you require further clarifications, kindly communicate using the messaging functionality in the system/portal not later than 
Friday, April 26th, 2024 - at 15:00 hrs. (3:00 p.m.) Eastern Standard Time. 

The procedures for the acquisition of services will be the ones indicated by the United Nations Development Program, UNDP.