HRASA activity description and objectives of project
The goal of HRASA is to increase individual, household, and communities’ resilience through strengthened, well-functioning and inclusive markets. With a focus on market-based solutions, activities will be centered in two Resilience Focus Zones (RFZ): one in the Southern Les Cayes region and the other in the North-North East-Central Plateau region. These targeted zones are then subdivided at communes and section communal level.
HRASA will pursue three integrated objectives, each linked to outcome indicator(s), to accomplish its goal: 1. Increased market system efficiency; 2. Increased private sector investment and engagement across the market systems; and 3. Increased household and community ability to recover from shocks and stresses. HRASA will build on USAID’s decades of investment in the Haitian agricultural sector and catalyze the resourcefulness and innovation of Haitian market system actors to transform agricultural market systems so that they are more competitive, inclusive, and resilient—ultimately advancing Haiti’s food security, sustainable economic development, and self-reliance.
During the first year, HRASA will work with five commodities issued from four categories, which are: onions and peppers as a group representative of the vegetables category, rice representative of the cereal category, manioc (cassava) representative of the roots and tubers category, and poultry (meat) representative of poultry category.
Haiti’s agricultural market system has been unable to sustainably lift smallholder farmers out of poverty or adequately incorporate youth and women into viable economic activities. Various inter-related root causes contribute to this problem by hindering the competitiveness, inclusivity, and resilience of Haiti’s agricultural market systems.
Baseline diagnostics completed during the beginning of 2022 assessed the constraints and the opportunities of the market system. It revealed that shocks and stresses, like social-political tumult and turbulence, armed violence and gang conflicts in Port-au-Prince, constant threat of hurricanes and earthquakes, the recent COVID-19, and other climate and agricultural shocks, have had a negative impact on Haitian commodities-based market system. These impacts affect largely the production and the availability of the product for consumers.
Project stakeholders
Stakeholders benefiting from USG assistance through HRASA project include smallholder farmers, youth, women and private sectors. Smallholders are ones who hold a limited amount of arable land or units of livestock. Private sector includes any privately led agricultural enterprise managed by a for-profit company.

2. SCOPE OF WORK
Survey objective(s). The main objective of the survey is to establish baseline indicator values for project annual monitoring and inform the management on project performance. HRASA will conduct a baseline study and establish a baseline in all the locations in line with the result framework indicators, focusing on household and community resilience and all HRASA commodities selected for activity implementation: Rice, Poultry (meat), Cassava, and vegetables (onion and peppers). Therefore, the specific objectives of this scope of work are:
? Collect baseline data for indicators in HRASA Activity Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan (AMELP),
? Explore gender issues in relation to indicators,
? Assess farmers baseline resilience capacity to recover from shocks and stresses taking into account adaptive, informative and absorptive capacities,
? Provide recommendations based on findings on refining or setting Activity indicators and targets

Contractor must have in-depth knowledge and experience in carrying out baseline, especially in agriculture sectors, with experience conducting data collection in Haiti.
• Minimum of 5-7 years’ work experience in conducting baselines of agricultural development programs.
• Evidence of success in completing similar assessments in terms of size, design, and rigor;
• Proven record of excellent management, leadership, decision-making and interpersonal skills;
• Experience carrying-out baseline studies and others;
• Strong qualitative and quantitative research and analytical skills; experience collecting quantitative and qualitative data;
• Experience using mobile data collection platforms;
• Knowledge of research design and sampling;
• Knowledge of the context in Haiti and the geographic scope of the study;
• Excellent French and Creole language and writing skills; ability to hire experienced researchers that are fluent in the local languages and experienced in data collection from producers
• Experience in assessing resilience capacities;
• Previous experience in baseline and data collection in USAID programs.
• Good knowledge of Haitian agricultural systems;
• Previous experience in data collection in USAID programs;
• Proven record of excellent management, leadership, decision-making and interpersonal skills;
• High capacity for and preparing quality written products within set timelines.

PREFERRED
• English language skills and writing
• Familiarity with the Market System Development (MSD) Approach;

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Please download attached Request for Proposals (RFP) for all details.
Questions & answers:
1. Dans le cadre de l'appeld'offre peut-on postuler pour une region seulement?

• North East Department : Mont-Organisé, Carice, Vallière, Capotille, Terrier-Rouge, Perches, Fort-Liberté, Ferrier, Ouanaminthe, Sainte-Suzanne, Caracol, Trou-du-Nord,
• North Department : Ranquitte, La Victoire, Pignon, Saint-Raphaël, Plaine-du-Nord, Acul-du-Nord, Limonade, Quartier-Morin,
Réponse 1 : Non. L'offre sera incomplète, et rejetée.
2. Regarding the Gender and Youth inclusion in the baseline survey, do you expect a specific analysis on or a transversal consideration?
Reponse 2: The analysis regarding Gender and Youth inclusion has been done. Transversal consideration and data disaggregation are required.