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Consultancy for Provision of In-Person Training and Technical Environmental Monitoring under WEKCEA Project (2025)
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Finn Church Aid (FCA) is Finland’s development and humanitarian cooperation non-governmental organization. FCA operates in 12 countries around the world and specializes in three thematic priority areas: Right to Peace, Right to Livelihood, and Right to Quality Education.
In Kenya, Finn Church Aid implements programmes under its Right to Livelihoods (R2L) thematic area aimed at enhancing economic opportunities for vulnerable populations through skills development, entrepreneurship, and access to markets.
The *Women Empowerment in Kenya through Controlled Environment Agriculture (WEKCEA)* project contributes to this objective by strengthening the livelihoods and economic resilience of women through the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices, including shade nets, greenhouse farming and hydroponics.
The project is implemented in Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL) counties of Kajiado, Elgeyo Marakwet, and West Pokot, where agricultural production is constrained by water scarcity, erratic rainfall patterns, and climate variability. These conditions limit the effectiveness of traditional farming systems and disproportionately affect women smallholder farmers, who often have limited access to technology, inputs, and extension services.
To address these challenges, the project promotes controlled environment agriculture (CEA) and efficient water use practices as sustainable approaches to improving productivity, resilience, and income generation among targeted women groups.
The primary target groups for this assignment include:
- **Women agri-preneur groups engaged in agricultural production activities**
- **Village-Based Champions (VBCs), who are selected members within these groups trained to act as peer educators and lead farmers**
- **County Agriculture Officers, who provide technical extension support and institutional linkage**
The inclusion of Village-Based Champions as part of the target groups is central to the project’s sustainability strategy. As embedded members of the women groups, VBCs play a critical role in facilitating knowledge transfer, supporting day-to-day application of technologies, and strengthening peer-to-peer learning systems at the community level.
A key component of the project is therefore to build the technical and facilitation capacity of group members, Village-based Champions (VBCs) and County Agriculture Officers to support the effective adoption, application, and scaling of CEA technologies.
In addition, the project seeks to generate practical, context-specific technical insights on the performance of controlled environment agriculture systems under ASAL conditions. This includes monitoring and documenting key environmental parameters such as **t**emperature, humidity, and water usage across the production value chain to inform adaptive and evidence-based implementation.
The assignment will therefore require an integrated approach that combines capacity building with technical environmental monitoring, ensuring both effective knowledge transfer and the generation of actionable insights to improve system performance and sustainability.
1. **Rational, purpose, and priority objectives of the training**
**Purpose of the Assignment**
The purpose of this consultancy is to deliver services under two integrated components:
1. **Training and Capacity Building** – to strengthen the technical and facilitation capacity of group members, Village-Based Champions (VBCs) and County Agriculture Officers in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) and agribusiness.
2. **Technical Environmental Monitoring and Documentation** – to generate practical evidence on the performance of CEA systems under ASAL conditions through monitoring and documentation of key environmental parameters, including temperature, humidity, and water usage.
The assignment will combine these components to support both capacity development and evidence-based adaptation of project interventions.
**2. Objectives:**
The consultancy aims to
**a. Training and Capacity Building Objectives**
- Strengthen foundational technical knowledge in controlled environment agriculture, including greenhouse, shade nets and hydroponics systems
- Enhance facilitation and extension capacity of VBCs and County Agriculture Officers through a Training of Trainers (TOT) approach
- Improve participants’ ability to support community-level adoption and application of CEA practices
- Promote climate-smart agricultural practices, including efficient water use and crop management
**b. Technical Environmental Monitoring Objectives**
- Monitor and document key environmental parameters influencing CEA systems, including temperature, humidity, and water usage
- Generate practical insights on system performance under ASAL conditions
- Identify constraints and opportunities for improving system efficiency and productivity
- Document lessons learned and best practices to support replication and scale-up
**3. Scope of the assignment**
The c
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