Location: Turkana, Isiolo, Marsabit, Garissa, Wajir Counties
Program: USAID Livestock Market Systems Activity
Recruiting Organisation: Smart Regional Consultants Limited
Area of Expertise: Various in the Livestock Value Chains
Program Background: The USAID Kenya Feed the Future Livestock Market Systems (LMS) Leader with Associates (LWA) program is focused on strengthening community resilience and overcoming poverty, household hunger and chronic undernutrition through: expanded and viable economic opportunities; improved systems, institutions, governance; and human capital.
The Program comprises of Leader and Associate Awards with the objective to maximize local capacity to plan and manage integrated resilience programming and foster collaboration with other implementers to achieve significant and lasting social change.
The Expanding and Diversifying Viable Economic Opportunities in Northern Kenya (AA1) project provides market-based pull by facilitating a more competitive, commercialized livestock value chain for pastoralists that are moving up in the livestock market system and, by creating viable, diversified livelihoods opportunities for those that are moving up or moving out of the sector.
The AA1 design builds vibrant market systems in livestock and other viable industries, enabling households to generate more income within the sector and to diversify into other income sources. By increasing and diversifying income sources, households –with a focus on youth and women– build resilience and create sustained pathways out of poverty.
The three objectives that comprise the pull structure of AA1 are:
expanded and diversified viable economic opportunities;
strengthened institutions, systems and governance; and
collaborative action and learning for market systems change.
Prequalification for Consultants
SRC is offering business support services to livestock value-chain SME’s supported under LMS Activity located in Turkana, Marsabit, Isiolo, Garissa and Wajir counties and we are building onto our existing pool of consultants to support this function.
The following section indicates the pool of consultants that SRC would like to engage with who will be expected to offer technical assistance on the ground to the respective SME’s supported under LMS Activity located in these five counties.
For the full description of the different roles, visit the SRC website: http://srctech.co.ke/home/doc/index.html