Request for tenders for #PEBACC+ project: Provision of Technical Training on Agroforestry/Agroecology for Taveuni Farmers

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) wishes to call for tenders from qualified and experienced #technical #trainers that can offer their expertise and undertake a series of continued capacity building programs to #farmers on #Taveuni Island, #Fiji, for the #PEBACC+ project held under the Kiwa Initiative.

In Fiji, the PEBACC+ project will support the strengthening of Agroforestry initiatives as an option to EBA approaches. The Master Plan document high-lights a few EbA actions critical to Taveuni (some of which are site specific depending on the threat levels encountered) which includes:

1️⃣ Training on agricultural improvement and diversification by conducting science-based field trials for diversified crop systems with goals of improving soil fertility and crop diversification,
2️⃣ Training on the establishment of agroforestry systems and implementation guidance to landowner (including leaseholders in formal and informal settlements),
3️⃣ Implementing diversified long- and short-term income alternatives, food security and land erosion protection,
4️⃣ Rehabilitating of reclaimed leased lands for agroforestry and high-value plantation,
5️⃣ Rehabilitating upper elevation farms with diversified crops (agroforestry plantation),
6️⃣ Develop agroforestry options in lower elevation working farms.

➡️ Information and attachments online: https://lnkd.in/eju2nChA

Qualified consortia and organisations are encouraged to apply.

➡️ The due date for submission of the tender is: 15 March 2024 midnight (Apia, Samoa local time).