Tenders Are Invited For Consultant To Conduct Capacity Building On Climate Smart Agriculture And Sustainable Rural Livelihoods

Tenders are invited for Consultant to Conduct Capacity Building on Climate Smart Agriculture and Sustainable Rural Livelihoods. Closing Date: 24 Jul 2025 Type: Consultancy Themes: Agriculture/Climate Change and Environment The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is a global humanitarian organization with a mission to work with people in poverty and distress to create just and positive change. ADRA Somalia belongs to the worldwide network, comprised of more than 130 supporting and implementing country offices. ADRA Somalia is seeking to recruit a consultant to conduct a capacity building on climate smart agriculture and sustainable rural livelihoods Kismayu District Jubbaland state of Somalia. Background Climate change is inevitable, and its impact is most visible in the agricultural sector affecting crop production and productivity, leading to increased food and nutritional insecurity. Smallholder farmers are the most vulnerable and affected due to their low adaptive capacity. The effects of climate change vary by region, country and location and will affect people differently depending on their vulnerability and capacity to adapt. Some areas are expected to become drier and drought-prone, while others experience more intense rains or altered rainfall patterns. Increasing temperatures will change the length of the growing seasons and affect yield in some areas, while at the same time modifying the distribution of livelihood resources in water bodies like rivers. This added variability changes the conditions in which agriculture is practiced and requires context and site-specific strategies and responses. In overall, climate change continues to increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, including floods, droughts and heatwaves. These events threaten food production and the livelihoods of food producers, particularly those with the weakest adaptation capacity who are too often located in areas exposed to the most severe changes. The climate in the Horn of Africa is projected to become even drier, warmer, more erratic, and more extreme than in recent decades and thus less favorable to crops, livestock, fisheries, and forestry-based livelihood systems. While most climate models predict higher rainfall, the expectation of a drier climate is supported by the stronger historical evidence. Somalia has a predominantly agrarian economy, with agriculture accounting for about 60% of the countrys GDP. However, the pre-existing vulnerabilities of decades of conflict, climate change, drought, flooding, and insecurity have had a significant impact on the agricultural sector in Somalia. A warmer future, with increased variability and frequency of extreme rainfall events is predicted. The consequences of such changes are dire for Somalias agriculture. Higher air temperatures will increase transpiration from soil, tree canopies, and water bodies. More variable and extreme rainfall on already barren soils will result in more run-off and erosion, less groundwater recharge, and less water availability in the surface layers for plant growth. Other likely impacts include reduction of vegetation for grazing and more variable water availability, with grave impacts on livestock herding and related livelihoods. Rising sea temperatures and acidification will also reduce fish stocks and change their distribution. ADRA is intent on promoting climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices that sustainably increase agricultural productivity and incomes (assets) and also adapt and build resilience to climate change by addressing vulnerability, adaptation and resilience. The intended agricultural practices should seek to increase gender equality within households and communities; provide nutrition and health benefits (nutrition-sensitive agriculture) despite anticipated climatic changes; build, or prevent the decline of, soil fertility; protect and conserve the environment, biodiversity, ecosystems and hydrology; adds value to pastoralist communities and indigenous communities who share common resources; do not create a monopoly for the owners of the technology; do not displace or exclude other technologies that would score higher on the CSA scale through alternatives analysis, by addressing synergies between the three pillars of productivity, adaptation, and mitigation. Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4165515/consultant-conduct-capacity-buidling-climate-smart-agriculture-and-sustainable-rural-livelihoods

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