Tenders are invited for External Project Review of Nacofs Project in Juba & Yei River Counties. Closing Date: 12 Oct 2025 Type: Consultancy Themes: Agriculture/Climate Change and Environment Introduction: Stromme Foundation (SF) is a rights-based development NGO, established in 1976 in Kristiansand, Norway. SF works towards a vision of a world free from poverty. SF values are human dignity, justice, and solidarity. SFs most important interventions in the fight against poverty are education, job creation, and strengthening of the civil society. With regional offices in West Africa, East Africa, and Asia consisting only of local employees, SF works through local partners in 9 countries. SF has also been working in South Sudan for over 20 years, mainly focusing on quality education, income generation, and job creation program interventions. Additionally, SF has worked to strengthen the economic empowerment and resilience of marginalized and vulnerable persons through food security interventions. All activities are implemented through partnerships in close cooperation with local governments and relevant line ministries. Background to the NACOFS Project: Strømme Foundation received 1-year funding from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in South Sudan to implement the National Coalition on Food Security (NACOFS) pilot project through strategic partnerships with South Sudanese national non-governmental organizations. The local partners include the South Sudan Agricultural Producers Union (SSAPU), Organic Farming Advisory Organisation (OFAO), Women for Change (WFC), Premium Agro Consult (PAC), and Yei Teacher Training College (YTTC). The NACOFS Project brought together national NGOs, farmers organizations, academic institutions, and private sector actors to revitalize and increase agricultural production in Yei and Juba counties, Central Equatorial State. SF oversees project management, quality assurance, and capacity building, while the local partners leverage their specialized expertise and community networks to address chronic food insecurity by working closely with in-community farmers. The partners also engaged in joint advocacy and dialogue through the Food Security and Livelihood cluster, prioritizing local leadership to ensure interventions are grounded in context-specific knowledge and scalable solutions. The NACOFS pilot phase aims to build national actors capacity to support resilient and sustainable food production, reduce postharvest loss, and increase market access for in-community smallholder farmers in South Sudan. The project also works to empower smallholder farmers particularly women through climate-smart agriculture training, demonstration farms, and market access support. Through strengthening NACOFS members institutional capacities and promoting sustainable practices, the project will enhance productivity while building resilience on climate shocks. This locally led model combines direct support to farmer groups, advocacy, and using adaptable community-driven technologies to increase farm yields, reduce post-harvest losses, increase incomes, and transform food systems. The initiative positions South Sudanese organizations at the forefront and centre of long-term food security solutions, ensuring interventions are both impactful and sustainable. Rationale for the External Project Review: As the NACOFS Project pilot project enters its final implementation quarter, this project review intends to measure the relevance, effectiveness, and coherence of the NACOFS Pilot. It will assess the project strommefoundation.org design, performance, and lessons learned. The findings will generate actionable insights to inform the design and implementation of a scalable agricultural resilience program. The results will provide baseline data and benchmarks to assess progress and impact of the scaled NACOFS project. The project review will also deliver an independent assessment on what worked and what did not work as envisaged to provide information for the design of the scalable climate-smart farming program while enhancing organizational learning within the partnership model. SSAPU, OFAO, WFC, PAC, YTTC. The primary target participants include in-community small holders farmers, implementing partner staff, and key informants from the county and payams department of agriculture. The consultant is expected to conduct document review, field data collection, FSL cluster, and interviews with partners and local government officials, as well as other organizations doing similar work in Yei and Juba. Follow this link to find the detailed document: https://comms.southsudanngoforum.org/uploads/short-url/m0uEJSW0ASEAhCrMYNJcwnvO57G.pdf How to apply Interested consultants (individual or and firm) with experience in executing similar assignments are invited to submit their proposal by 12 October 2025 with the subject field Proposal for External Review of NACOFS Project to the addresses below. Stromme Foundation will only accept email submissions. Logistics & Procurement Officer
[email protected] copying Justine Guya Simon
[email protected] Strømme Foundation South Sudan 6th Floor Aptech Africa Building, Hai Malakal, Opposite James Hotel P.O Box 143 Juba, South Sudan Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4178706/call-proposal-external-project-review-nacofs-project-juba-yei-river-counties
