Procurement of Consultancy services for RISE RAP Regional Geospatial & Data Analytics (Remote Sensing, Hydro Informatics & Dashboard Data Products)
The African Union Development Agency - New Partnership for Africa's Development is seeking consultancy services for the Resilient Irrigation for a Sustainable Economy Project. The project aims to provide geospatial and data analytics services, including remote sensing, hydroinformatics, and dashboard data products. Interested consultants must submit their expressions of interest by September 14th, 2026. The selection process will be based on the Quality and Cost-Based Selection method.
Overview
The African Union Development Agency - New Partnership for Africa's Development is procuring consultancy services for the Resilient Irrigation for a Sustainable Economy Project. The services include geospatial and data analytics, remote sensing, hydroinformatics, and dashboard data products.
Scope of Work
The consulting services (“the Services”) include: Joint Inception, Institutional Readiness and Workplan Confirmation - Participate in a joint inception phase with the Africa RISE Gateway team to prepare a unified delivery schedule, shared data model, API architecture note, staging plan, approval pathway and milestone acceptance process. Where the same firm delivers both workstreams, separate teams, named leads, reporting lines and acceptance checkpoints shall be maintained. . Regional Geospatial Data Products and Benchmarking Inputs - Produce priority regional geospatial layers aligned with the Africa RISE Regional Benchmarking System, including crop and irrigated-area maps, evapotranspiration and water productivity datasets, vegetation and biomass indicators, surface-water extent, groundwater-stress proxies where feasible, drought/flood exposure and climate-variability composites; Analytics Workflows and Decision-Support Outputs - Develop and operationalize an analytics suite comprising: Irrigation Performance Assessment; Water Security analytics; Climate Risk analytics; Digital Field Monitoring Toolkit; Regional Benchmarking analytics; and Decision Dashboard publication package; Data Governance, Interoperability, QA/QC and Publication Controls - Prepare and operationalize a practical Data Governance, QA/QC and Interoperability Pack covering validation rules, uncertainty documentation, metadata standards, dataset lineage, version control, access controls, API/interface specifications and data privacy requirements; Capacity Building, Sustainability and Handover - Design and deliver a tiered capacity-building programme for AUDA-NEPAD technical staff, national data focal points, programme managers, policy users and field teams, including practical exercises and on-the-job support linked to actual analytics products and Gateway staging outputs.
Requirements & Qualifications
The African Union Development Agency , New Partnership for Africa Development (AUDA-NEPAD) now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The shortlisting criteria are:
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