Recrutement-Call for the installation, calibration, servicing and repair of milk handling and testing equipment.

Recrutement-Call for the installation, calibration, servicing and repair of milk handling and testing equipment.
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Expire le: 23-03-2023

SNV
Mbarara, Uganda
Call for the installation, calibration, servicing and repair of milk handling and testing equipment.

Mbarara, Uganda
Full-time
Contract type: Consultancy contract

Company Description

SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) is an international not-for-profit development organisation founded in 1965. It provides capacity development services to nearly 2,500 organisations in 36 countries worldwide across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. SNV Uganda has been implementing The Inclusive Dairy Enterprise Project (TIDE) since October 2015 and is now in Phase 2 of the project (2020-2023). The TIDE project is funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom in the Netherlands.

The Inclusive Dairy Enterprise Project Phase-2 (TIDE-2)
TIDE -2 has two components The Inclusive Dairy Enterprise (TIDE) and the Integrated Smallholder Dairy Development Program (ISDAP). The two components (TIDE and ISDAP) are under the same contract between SNV and EKN and are merged as one project.


TIDE project focuses on the following 4 sub-components:
Dairy Farm Productivity: deepening knowledge and skills transfer through cooperative training & extension services, private dairy advisory, Practical Dairy Training Farms, and sustainable forage intensification (demos with improved forages and conservation methods, improved pasture and forage crop management, and feed ration formulation)
Milk Quality: deepening by introducing/supporting milk tracking & tracing for various food safety parameters and critical control point analysis in the entire supply chain; up-scaling Quality Based Milk Payment System, using a processor-led model.
Dairy Value Chain: deepening dairy value chain linkages through support to cooperatives and inclusive business models; upscaling by supporting more cooperatives in other districts to lobby for and support the diversification of the domestic market.
Nutrition: deepening the school milk and yoghurt project in SW Uganda by increasing nutritional effects and upscaling the approach outside the project area through e.g., social campaigns and collaboration with processors to enter this market.
ISDAP targets smallholder dairy farmers, including their farm workers in Kigezi, Ankole and Rwenzori sub-regions. In the project definition, a smallholder farmer is one having a maximum of six acres of land, which is used for mixed crop-livestock farming activities, and having between one to five dairy animals, with dairy being one of the livelihoods, in addition, to multiple cash crops like banana, coffee, tea, potatoes, vegetables, and other livestock such as pigs, goats, and chicken.

ISDAP addresses the issues specifically affecting smallholders. This includes developing dairy products within the context of farm systems, cross-utilisation of waste and by-products, access to markets and risk management.

Milk quality
Increased Milk Quality is important for food safety and nutrition for consumers of milk in and outside Uganda, including schoolchildren who consume milk in schools. Especially in export markets where food safety standards (and enforcement) may be higher than in the domestic market, it is expected that milk quality will increasingly become a key factor in successfully maintaining or growing the export-led model that is currently in force. Hence also contributing to the ability of processors to pay good prices to dairy farmers that are part of this export-led value chain and to reward them for quality milk, e.g., through grade or unit payments.

SNV will support initiatives for monitoring, stimulating, and enforcing raw milk quality in the milk supply chain, from the farmer to the consumer. SNV through the TIDE-2 project is working with DDA, processors and cooperatives to improve milk handling practices & raw milk quality and testing for specific milk quality parameters. The project will also support the embedding of basic milk quality control and assurance measures for procuring, storing, and feeding milk, yoghurt, and milk-based meals (porridges) in schools. Furthermore, the project will engage and support the Dairy Development Authority to exercise its role and mandate more effectively as a dairy sector regulator.

The extension of the Quality-Based Milk Payment Pilot
In 2018 a pilot quality-based milk payment system (QBMPS) was started. Three (3) processors and ten milk collection centres were involved. One of the key pilot successes was the equipping of ten milk collection centres with solar-powered milk analysers. Now the QBMPS has been extended to 11 processors and more than 50 milk collection centres.

In addition to more than 100 milk analysers already in the country, TIDE awarded a contract to a supplier to provide additional 30 new milk analysers. Supply of the additional analysers is expected by end of March 2023. The 30 milk analysers are to be placed at additional milk collection centres. Also, the TIDE-2 project is focusing on increased food safety in the school milk program, which will further grow the demand for milk analysers.

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