'Coffee Agroforestry and Forest Enhancement for REDD+ in Lam Dong’ (CAFÉ-REDD) Seedling Supplier

TERMS OF REFERENCE:

COFFEE AGROFORESTRY AND FOREST ENHANCEMENT FOR REDD+ IN LAM DONG (CAFÉ-REDD)

SEEDLING SUPPLIER

Agricultural expansion is a major driver of deforestation and associated GHG emissions in the land use change and forest sector across SE Asia. Meanwhile many countries in the region recognize the key climate mitigation role of forests in their NDCs. National REDD+ strategies outline policies and measures to arrest commodity-linked deforestation and promote forest landscape restoration but there is limited experience and guidance on addressing complex challenges on the ground.

Vietnam is a leading producer of many key agricultural commodity crops. The production of many of these commodities for global export markets is a major driver of deforestation and forest degradation. The National REDD+ Action Plan (NRAP) promotes deforestation-free agriculture as a key policy response. The Central Highlands is a priority region for REDD+ due to the area’s remaining natural forests, high forest carbon stocks and important biodiversity but is threatened by coffee expansion.

The project aims to support the implementation of Vietnam’s NDC and NRAP by developing and applying approaches to address agriculture-linked deforestation and promote forest landscape restoration in the Lang Biang Man and Biosphere Reserve in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. It does this by:

1. Strengthening institutional capacity for climate smart landscape governance through a district PPP approach focused on protecting and restoring forests, sustainable production and inclusive economic development
2. Engaging companies to establish monitoring and traceability systems that track deforestation in their supply chains
3. Improving livelihoods of ethnic minority farmers by promoting sustainable coffee agroforestry models connected to higher-value markets
4. Leveraging public and private investment for a deforestation-free and sustainable landscape

Knowledge generated by the project is shared to inform the development of model approaches to tackling commodity-linked deforestation in Vietnam.

Café REDD project has a budget to buy intercropping seedlings that grow well with high yield in the natural conditions of Lac Duong district to develop Coffee Agroforestry model. Therefore, the project is seeking for a seedling supplier with quality assurance and the seedling origins or sources have been recognized by the competent authorities.

OBJECTIVES

The overall objective of the assignment is:

To provide high quality grafted Macadamia seedlings for intercropping with Arabica coffee in 2022 for farmers in Lac Duong district.

TASKS

The individual or company is expected to provide Macadamia seedlings with high quality and must have a seed/seedling certificate issued by the competent authority/ Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD). The tender profile must specify the seedling standards, planting & tending processes.

REQUIRED PROFILE

Capacity profile should include the following documents:

• A valid license for seedling production and business
• A photocopy of the certification for the original ortet and Hedge orchard issued by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development or the competent authority (for grafted trees)
• A photocopy of the notification of seedling quality standards by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development or the Sub-department of Crop Production and Plant Protection
• Technical standards for planting, caring, harvesting and preserving for macadamia nut
• The ability to supply macadamia seedlings in 2022.
• Quotation (including taxes and transportation to communes/town in Lac Duong district, Lam Dong province)
• Self-Declaration Form for firms (in the attached file - annex)

TIMEFRAME

The work specified in this term of reference must be completed by the end of September 2022.

DELIVERABLES

The successful supplier of this tender should provide seedlings to each village/commune specified by Café-REDD project from August to September 2022.

Number of Macadamia seeding: approximately 27.700 seedlings

Please noted that the exact quantity of seedlings will be updated when signing the contract with supplier.

APPLICATION

Please submit the required documents following the link https://smrtr.io/b3BHj by 17.00 pm on 15 August 2022.

The TOR is in the attached file.