AFRICAN UNION – INTERAFRICAN BUREAU FOR ANIMAL RESOURCES TENDER SEPTEMBER 2025
| REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL |
INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT FOR NATIONAL BE STRATEGIES FOR THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF MAURITANIA
Closing date: 22 Sep 2025
Background
The African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), a specialized technical office of the Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (DREA) of the African Union Commission (AUC), is mandated to support and coordinate the utilization of livestock, fisheries, aquaculture and wildlife as resources for both human wellbeing and economic development in the Member States of the African Union. The Vision of the AU-IBAR Strategic Plan 2024 -2028 is an Africa in which animal resources contribute significantly to governance, coordination, collaboration, partnerships as well as data and information sharing to support animal resources, investments along the value chain, decision making, adaptive management resulting to food and nutrition security, employment and resilience livelihood. AU-IBAR’s intervention in the fisheries and aquaculture sector is guided by the Policy Framework and Reform Strategy for fisheries and aquaculture in Africa (PFRS) which is aimed at improving governance of the sector for increased sustainable contribution to food security, livelihoods and wealth creation. Also, within the framework of the African Union Agenda 2063, the Africa Blue Economy Strategy envisioned an inclusive and sustainable blue economy that significantly contributes to Africa’s transformation and growth.
The first ever Global Conference on Sustainable Blue Economy was organized in Nairobi, Kenya in November 2018. African leaders at the Conference directed the African Union to work with relevant stakeholders to develop a blue print of Africa’s Blue Economy Strategy that will guide sustainable development and utilization of resources of the Oceans, Seas, Lakes and Rivers for blue economy growth and livelihoods.
Accordingly, the African Union Inter-African Bureau Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) was requested by the Commissioner of Rural Economy and Agriculture of the African Union Commission to lead the process of formulation of the Africa Blue Economy Strategy. The Africa Blue Economy Strategy was eventually developed and subsequently endorsed in October 2019 by the African Union Specialized Technical Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environment (STC-ARDWE).
The Africa Blue Economy Strategy is consolidated based on the following five detailed thematic areas considered critical to the Africa blue economy growth:
- Fisheries, aquaculture, conservation and sustainable aquatic ecosystems
- Shipping/transportation, trade, ports, maritime security, safety and enforcement
- Coastal and maritime tourism, climate change, resilience, environment, infrastructure
- Sustainable energy and mineral resources and innovative industries
- Policies, institutional and governance, employment, job creation and poverty eradication, innovative financing
The Africa Blue Economy Strategy and the Annexes can be sourced from the following link: http://repository.au-ibar.org/
The STC-ARDWE in October 2019 made further recommendations as follows:
The African Union Commission to support adequate awareness creation, capacity building and sharing of best practices of the application of the Blue Economy concept.
The African Union Commission to support setting up Blue Governance mechanisms to ensure planning and coordination at continental, regional and national levels.
The African Union Commission to mobilize resources for the implementation of Blue Print for Africa’s Blue Economy Strategy.
In the light of the above recommendations the African Union through AU-IBAR and Sustainable Environment and Blue Economy (SEBE) Directorate, with support from the Kingdom of Norway, is planning to provide technical assistance to 4 (four) African Union Member States (AU MS) towards formulation of their National Blue Economy Strategies, the Implementation Plans and the corresponding framework for setting up National Blue Governance Mechanism in each of the selected AU member states. In this regard individual consultants with relevant qualifications, expertise and experience in blue economy related disciplines, would be required to undertake this technical assistance in each of these countries.
This support for development of National and Regional Blue Economy Strategies for to AU member states and the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) is an ongoing exercise in a systematic fashion; thus, eventually it is anticipated that all AU Member States and RECs that are in need would receive this support from AU-IBAR within the framework of the Kingdom of Norway Support to implementation of Africa Blue Economy Strategy.
AU-IBAR has previously through largely demand driven process supported 15 AU Member States for their development of National and Regional Blue Economy Strategies. They are namely: – Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, Somalia, Libya, Angola, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic (CAR), Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Botswana, Liberia, Lesotho, Tanzania.
The present Technical Assistance for the Development of National Blue Economy Strategies would target the following African Union member states also on demand driven basis.
- No. AU member States for Technical Assistance
- Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Subsequent support will embrace a procedure to include MS in need after determining the status of the Blue Economy Strategies across African Union (AU) Member States.
Objectives of the assignment
The objective of this assignment is to recruit suitably qualified individual consultant for each of the AU member states, with expertise on issues that are critical to Africa blue economy development, to develop national blue economy strategies, implementation plans and corresponding frameworks for blue governance coordination mechanisms for 4 (four) African Union member states.
The specific objectives will be:
- To conduct review of existing instruments, institutions relevant to blue economy in the selected AU member states.
- To develop national blue economy strategies for the selected Africa Union Member States and the implementation plans.
- To design develop framework, specific to each selected AU member states, for setting-up a national blue governance and coordination mechanism.
- Facilitate stakeholders’ consultative workshops, virtual or physical, for validations of the draft national blue economy strategies, implementation plans and the blue governance coordination mechanism in each selected AU member state.
- To prepare report on the consultancy, including lessons and best practices.
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