Background
About the organization
Solidaridad Network is an international solution-oriented civil society organization working through eight regional expertise centres to transform markets to make them more sustainable and inclusive. Our eight regional expertise centres include Asia, Eastern and Central Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, Southern Africa, South America, West Africa and our global Secretariat in the Netherlands. Solidaridad Eastern and Central Africa, one of the regional centres, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with country offices and programmes in Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda. We bring together supply chain players and engage them with innovative solutions to improve production, ensuring the transition to a sustainable and inclusive economy that maximizes the benefit for all. We facilitate strengthening of local capacity in developing countries, support the creation of enabling environments for economies to thrive, and improve market access. Solidaridad embraces the public-private and people partnerships (PPPP) to test innovations, speed up change, and take success to scale. Globally, Solidaridad works around Coffee and other 12 commodities/sectors (http://www.solidaridadnetwork.org)
About the project
The Pathways to Prosperity Gold programme has an overall goal of achieving a thriving ASGM sector that is economically profitable, socially responsible and environmentally sound by 2029. The project aims to achieve this by having an increased number of ASGM with grown, diversified, sustainable and resilient mining businesses with improved working conditions, having a vibrant ASGM sector that has access to mining technologies, equipment and geological data and down and middle stream companies sourcing for sustainable and inclusive gold and investing in responsible mining businesses. Some of the activities that will be undertaken to achieve all of these outcomes include training and provision of products and services (this also include access to finance), tailored to the needs of miners.
The Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) is a 7-years project being implemented by Solidaridad in partnership with Gender Action Tanzania (GATA) in Tanzania and Centre for Environmental Justice and Development(CEJAD) in Kenya. The project will be implemented in Geita and Shinyanga regions in Tanzania and in Migori, Narok, Kakamega and Turkana Counties inKenya.
The project is primarily on creating access to geological data for ASM gold mines, through ‘translating’ mining cadastre information and the availability of (basic) technology for ore analysis. Geological data is crucial for ASM gold mines, for example digging shafts and tunnels in the right places and right directions, to make a reliable estimate of the lifespan of the mine and the quality and quantity of the gold deposits. This is important to work more efficiently, to prevent environmental damage and have access to formal finance.
Project’s objectives:
In this project we aim to develop an approach and tools that ASM can use to ‘read’ the mining cadastre data and perform basic sample analysis of their mining concessions. In addition to this, we will work on the introduction of mercury-management/free technology and build an access to market model that puts emphasis on strong supply chain traceability and due diligence (ICGLR and OECD ) requirements.
Scope of Work
The scope of work are as follows:
- Training ASG miners in Kenya and Tanzania on geo-literacy and including development of geo-data monitoring toolkits and equipment to enable the usage of geological data by ASM mines
- Propose training tools and their costs
- Sample taking and analysis in 8 ASG mines in Tanzania and 8 ASG mines in Kenya. 10 samples to be taken in each target ASG mines, in total leading to 80 samples in each country.
- Roll out geo-data pilot with 16 mines, providing additional geology support and explore the potential of providing access to geo-data services to ASG miners.
- Translation of available and obtained geo-data to respective ASGM miners
- To provide technical advice to Solidaridad whenever required
Suggested Approaches and Methodologies
- The detailed methodology and field work schedule will be worked out in consultation with Solidaridad, partner organisations and the consultants during the inception meeting.
- However, the consultants will ensure the following steps:
- Engage with the Solidaridad Geita office in Tanzania and Kenya, and hold interactions with, Program Manager, M&E & Communication Unit and the core team to be acquainted with the project, its activities and the proposed work.
- Prepare a detailed methodology including training material.
- Prepare a detailed budget
Deliverables
- Development of DIY manual
- Develop geo-data training material
- ASGM Training report
- Geo-data mine improvement monitoring tool
- Sample analysis report
Expertise Required and Qualification
The individual consultant must have the following expertise and qualifications:
- Hold at least a degree in geology, Master’s degree holder in a relevant field will be an added advantage.
- Demonstrate knowledge and experience in the small scale gold mining sector in East Africa;
- Knowledge and experience in Geo-data for Artisanal and Small Scale gold mining in East Africa
- Good communication skills
- Experience in undertaking similar assignments will be an added advantage.
Duration
The assignment is expected to be undertaken not more than 60 days from the date the contract is signed.
Reporting
The Consultant will report directly to the Solidaridad Tanzania and Kenya Country Managers and work closely with the project team to undertake the assignment.
Confidentiality Statement
All data and information received from Solidaridad for the purposes of this assignment are to be treated confidentially and only be used in the execution of this TOR. All intellectual property rights, including all reports, arising from the execution of this TOR shall be assigned to Solidaridad. The contents of written materials obtained and used in this assignment may not be disclosed to any third parties without the expressed advance written authorization of Solidaridad.
How to apply
Solidaridad Eastern and Central Africa (ECA) is looking for a part time individual consultant to undertake this assignment. Interested geologists with good experience in the gold ASM sector should submit their expression of interest which includes CV, approach to the execution of the assignment (including work plan) and a financial proposal by close of business on March 25th, 2024. Only selected candidates will be contacted.
The EOI should be submitted to this email [email protected]