TERMS OF REFERENCE

CONSULTANT OF INTEGRATION PALM
OIL-CATTLE FATTENING

Berbak Green Prosperity Partnership

SNV Netherlands Development
Organization

SNV is an international not-for-profit development organisation,
working in 38 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. SNV specializes in
supporting the resourcefulness of development actors by developing local
capacities, improving performance and services, strengthening governance
systems, helping to create access for excluded groups and by making markets
work for the poor. Our global team of advisors use their specialist sector and
change expertise in Agriculture, Renewable Energy and WASH to facilitate
sustainable change in the livelihoods of millions of people living in poverty.  

SNV is working with a consortium of international and local
partners led by Euro Consult Mott MacDonald to deliver the Berbak Green
Prosperity Partnership (BGPP).

MCA-Berbak Green Prosperity Partnership
Project

The BGPP
will work in Jambi, Sumatra in the 250,000 ha peatland dominated Berbak
landscape. It aims to rehabilitate degraded peatland and provide enhanced and
alternative economic opportunities for communities that derive their
livelihoods from palm oil production and other peatland-based agricultural
activities/enterprises. 

It will
deliver four components:

1. Peatland, Land Use Zoning, Hydrological
Rehabilitation and Water Management to establish the biophysical basis for
GHG emission reductions and land use to enable green prosperity. It involves
canal-blocking to reverse peatland drainage and improve community farm water
management systems.

2. Smallholder Enterprise and Farm Systems
focuses on improving smallholder yields and income from palm oil, rubber, rice
and aquaculture and helping palm oil smallholders on the border of the
landscape to deliver sustainable production in line with emissions reduction
goals.

3. Private Sector Commitment and Action to
ensure that companies operating in the landscape understand the sustainability
context and apply relevant policies and practices. It will focus on oil palm
and HPH concessions and involve the use of palm oil mill effluent (POME) for
renewable energy.

4. Promoting District and Province-wide Green
Prosperity.

SNV on this
project will focus on achieving the training and certification targets as
described on below tasks:

1.      
Develop detailed phase 1 work plan.

2.      
Train 400 rubber smallholders in BMP.

3.      
Train 10.000 smallholder oil palm producers in BMP and Support 2,000
smallholders in achieving ISCC/RSPO certification.

4.      
Secure private sector co-financing to develop and test-pilot finance
replanting for 400 Independent Smallholders.

5.      
Install 15 medium-scale biogas digesters using POME and cattle waste.

6.      
Establish a Green Prosperity Private Sector Forum to promote
public-private dialogue towards achieving sustainability.

7.      
Provide project management support for the overall BGPP project SPO
component.

As to
achieve the task 4, SNV will support the development of business models and
strategy for additional income generating activities, which will be used to
implement a training programme. Furthermore, SNV will develop training material
for additional income generating activities, horticulture and lifestock. Integration
of Palm oil and cattle fattening is an option to generate income. Palm oil
small holders needs a guideline to implement good fattening practice to
optimize the profit.

Scope of
Work

Consultant of Integration Palm Oil-Cattle Fattening

SNV is
looking for a cattle fattening consultant to obtain technical expertise to
develop module on cattle fattening in palm oil smallholders. The consultant
will carry out the following activities and deliver the below services:

Activities

Develop Module for Good Rearing Practice for cattle-palm oil
integration

• how to select calves
• how to process feed from palm oil waste
• pen management
• feeding management
• water supply
• animal health management
• Waste Management for Renewable Energy
  (Biogas)
• economical analysis

Output/deliverables :
Module of Good Rearing Practice

Man days :
20 days

Time Schedule

Start on
August and ended on September 2017.

Duty Station  

The
consultant will be home base working.

Skills and Experience
Required

• Master’s degree in animal science;
• Having experience and knowledge in developing
  module in integration palm oil and cattle fattening is highly preferred;
• Minimum 5 years working experience;
• Having excellent ability in writing scientific
  report, especially in English;
• Having knowledge on recent issues on oil palm sector
  would be encouraged;
• Ability to work independently under minimum
  supervision;
• Indonesian native speaker, fluent in English
  (writing and speaking).

Required Documents to
Apply

1. CV
2. Working plan to develop module
3. Working plan to do field visit in
   order to investigate the potential fodders, water supply.

Structure of The Module

• Title
• List of pages
• List of table
• List of graph
• Glossary
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Topic 1
• Topic 2
• Topic 3
• Topic 4
• Topic 5
• Topic 6
• Topic 7
• Topic 8
• References

Reporting

The consultant will report
directly to the leader of task 4 and project director of BGPP.

Application Process

Applicants should send their resume, CV and expected fee for the assignment mentioned above to SNV Procurement email: procurement.snv@gmail.com by latest August 22^th 2017 with subject “Consultant Module -Cattle Fattening”.

*Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted*