Eswatini - Swaziland - Waster harvesting, small and medium dams project

Description

The overall objective of this project is to contribute to alleviating food insecurity while contributing to the sustainable economic growth of Swaziland

The purpose of the project is the sustainable enhancement of smallholder irrigated crops in project areas based on approaches that reduce vulnerability to climate risks, support improved water resource management and promote access to markets.

Activities

• Planning, design and construction of environmentally and economically sustainable new water storage infrastructure
• Rehabilitation of existing schemes that have become dysfunctional or less productive because of siltation or due to less than optimal design
• Assuring quality of construction of water infrastructure through appropriate supervision
• Development of an appropriate water infrastructure maintenance system
• The implementation of roof-top water harvesting methods
• Identification and implementation of appropriate climate change adaptation measures
• Adoption of participatory planning approaches to ensure effective participation of project beneficiaries
• The formation of smallholder producer groups and the provision of group training
• Downstream farm development
• The provision of effective extension services to the farmer groups
• Strengthening of market linkages by adopting a value chain approach to ensure inclusion of analysis of the demand side, market links and private sector participation
• Adoption of land use planning approaches based on community-based Chiefdom Development Planning
• Improving access to and utilisation of available water-related data resources
• Developing capacity and skills to use water resource database and computer-based planning
• Conducting a base-line survey
• Establishment and operationalization of appropriate consultation mechanisms on water resource development
• Technical assistance for project management support and rural engineering
• Development of manuals on design, operation and maintenance of small to medium irrigation schemes and on project management

Contracts

Service: 1,6 M€
Works: 0,3 M€

Opportunity closing date

18 August 2016

Value of contract

£100k-1m