Provision Of Communications And Media Services – Mercy Corps 2022

MERCY CORPS TENDER FEBRUARY 2022 

Mercy Corpses a non-religious, non-profit and non-governmental international humanitarian organization.

Program Overview

AgriFin Program currently represents a $12 million, four-year AgriFin program working in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, with potential to expand to other markets [Uganda, Zambia+]. In partnership with Bill and Melinda Gates and Bayer Foundations, program seeks to support the expansion of digitally-enabled services to 5 million smallholder farmers, delivered by growing ecosystems of diverse service providers and building farmer income, productivity and resilience across by 50% while reaching 40% women.

The program’s core innovations are: 1] a rapid iteration engagement model to drive innovative, client-centric product development; and 2] our work with partners to develops“bundles” of mobile- enabled services offering farmers affordable access to digital financial and market informational services. Our support programming is focused on enabling the following critical areas of innovation, that will follow an ecosystem and market facilitation approach supported through partnership activities and dissemination of evidence-based learning to ecosystem actors following a Market Systems Development [MSD] approach, with a strong gender focus:

• Climate-Smart approaches to SHF Climate Adaptation & Mitigation
• Agricultural Advisory and Smart Farming Solutions
• Gender Transformative Programming
• Appropriate Digitally-Enabled Financial Services for SHF
• Digital Platform Models Providing Market Access, Financing, Information and Resources
• Digital Channels, Logistics and Mechanization
• Use of Digital Data for Decisioning, Product Development & Risk Management.

Mercy Corps is seeking for interested firms to apply for below Tenders for projects based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Tender packages are available either at Mercy Corps official website [https://www.mercycorps.org/tender]or.

Mercy Corps Agrifin’s website[https://www.mercycorpsagrifin.org/tenders]or “by submitting a request to the following e-mail address: [agrifinprocurement@mercycorps.org]

All questions to be submitted or forwarded to [agrifinprocurement@mercycorps.org].

Tenders must be submitted to [tenders@mercycorps.org] or physically at Mercy Corps Agrifin office located at ABC Place [ Building 2  3rd Floor Nairobi. Kenya by [05.00 PM EAT, 1^st March 2022.

Only tenders submitted in prescribed form and deadlines will be considered. Only legally registered firms will be considered.

All tenders should be submitted in sealed envelopes or via email clearly marked:

“[MC-AG/NB0/049/MSA/ 2022-24 & Communications and Media consultancy]”
[MC-AG/NBO/052/MSA/ 2022-24 & Sprout Platform Product Development] [MC-AG/NB0/050/MSA/ 2022-24 & Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment]