The profiles are detailed below. Each expert will have 45 working days (50 for the team leader). The period for the study is September 2024 – March 2025.
The ToR will be circulated as soon as approved – but this is expected to be a standard study, undertaken by using the VCA4D methodology, as described in the ‘Methodological Brief. Tools and Methods’. https://europa.eu/capacity4dev/value-chain-analysis-for-development-vca4d-/wiki/1-vca4d-methodology
Please send the CVs of candidates to vca4d@agrinatura-eu.eu , by 29th August 2024, CoB, at the latest.
Context
Although its coastline is limited (275 km), Guinea-Bissau’s continental shelf covers an area of 45,000 km2, representing the second largest in the sub-region. This geographical layout and the humid tropical climate are conducive to high fish productivity, with a predominance of demersal species (fish, shrimps, cephalopods) and small coastal pelagics (ethmalosa and golden sardinella).
Guinea-Bissau’s population and economy are based on the primary sector, with fisheries contributing an estimated 3% of the gross domestic product. The fisheries sector is also an important part of Guinea-Bissau’s macroeconomic framework, accounting for between 10 and 15% of the country’s total budget revenue in recent years.
The artisanal sector is the main source of supply for the domestic market. Industrial fishing is barely developed because the majority of fishing catches in Guinea-Bissau’s fishing zone are landed in foreign ports, due to the unattractive business climate and the fact that the country is not authorised to export fishing products to the EU.
The fishing sector is also hampered by other major bottlenecks such as weak fisheries research; inadequate surveillance and vessel repair and maintenance; difficulties in fuelling; lack of cold facility infrastructures and services; shortage of human resources and especially of managers; dissuasive investment code; and fishing input supply shortages (dependency on abroad).
Guinea-Bissau recently adopted a new national sector strategy for the period 2023-2027, aiming to promote a diversified economy, which includes fishery as a main driver, together with agriculture and agro-industry, tourism and mining.
The EU delegation is committed to contributing to these national objectives and in the framework of the Multiannual Indicative Programme 2021-2027 of the EU to Guinea-Bissau, the fishery sector has been identified as a strategic domain for the social and economic development of the country. The EU is in particular preparing to implement the action “Promoting Agriculture and Fisheries Value Chains Development in Guinea-Bissau”. One the priority areas is the development of sustainable and quality fisheries value chains, in coordination with the actions under the Fisheries Protocol of the EU-Guinea Bissau Sustainable Partnership Fishery Agreement.
The EUD to Guinea Bissau has asked the VCA4D study to have a baseline document that can help them better identify the specific actions to be developed under the above-mentioned programme. The study will provide an evidence-based analysis of the current state of the fisheries VC and provide concrete recommendations for the implementation of the programme as well as useful information to feed the EU work and policy dialogue with the government in the framework of the SPFA process.
EXPERTISE REQUIRED
1) Agro-Economist _S/he is a senior expert with deep knowledge and experience in value chain analysis from an economic point of view, possibly with a knowledge of fishery value chains.
S/he will elaborate financial and economic accounts of the VC (and its sub-systems) as a whole and of its actors. He/she will analyse the VC from the different actors’ perspectives, as well as its contribution to the main economic indicators (GDP, the balance of trade, public finance, etc.). He/she will be at ease with the concepts of income distribution, job creation, growth and distributive effects, viability of the VC in the international economy, etc. S/he will undertake a full functional analysis with the support of his/her colleagues.
The economist will coordinate and consolidate the functional analysis, compiling the contributions from all experts. S/he will provide a Functional and Economic Analysis that will be included in the final report.
A collective training or at least an individual introduction to the AFA software will be made before the first mission. In the case the training cannot be done before the first mission, it will be done before the second mission.
S/he will help the team leader (if another member of the team) to (i) define the typology of actors that will be adopted throughout the study; (ii) formulate an executive summary and conclusions that combine the results of the different analyses to answer the framing questions and to finalise the report (reading, formatting of the report…). The expert will collaborate and integrate the analysis of market trends provided by COLEAD, if applicable.
2) Social expert
S/he is a senior expert with deep knowledge of and experience on social issues related to agricultural and fishery value chains in developing countries, particularly on the inclusiveness of the most vulnerable groups.
The expert has experience at least in two of the social domains covered by VCA4D (working conditions, land and water rights, gender equality, food and nutrition security, social capital, and living conditions) and is able to handle and inform on the other ones.
The social expert will provide a social analysis to be included in the report, based on the VCA4D Social Profile. An introduction on how to complete the Social Profile will be made prior to the first mission.
The Social Expert will also support the economist in the analysis of inclusiveness and the LCA expert in dealing with the Biodiversity Analysis.
S/he will help the team leader to: (i) define the typology of actors that will be adopted throughout the study; (ii) formulate an executive summary and conclusions that combine the results of the different analyses in order to answer the framing questions and to finalise the report (reading, formatting of the report…).
3) Environmental/LCA expert
S/he is a senior expert with deep knowledge of and experience in Life Cycle Analysis (LCA).
S/he will preferably use the SimaPro software for LCA.
S/he will provide the part of the report on the Environmental Analysis that will be included in the final report. His/her analysis will focus on the analysis of damages on resources, ecosystems, and human health, as well as on the impacts of climate change.
S/he will help the team leader to: (i) define the typology of actors that will be adopted throughout the study, (ii) formulate an executive summary and conclusions that combine the results of the different analyses in order to answer the framing questions, and to finalise the report (reading, formatting of the report…).
4) National Expert
S/he is a specialist in the fishery value chain in Guinea-Bissau.
Depending on the organization chosen by the team, his/her work can be deployed before the missions (preparation of the mission of the colleagues), during the missions (support of colleagues during missions), between missions (collection of additional information, supervision of data collection, etc.), even after missions (additional information).
