Proposals for coffee component of WB-funded project published

THE call for proposals for the coffee component of the World Bank-funded productive partnership in agriculture project has finally been advertised in the two daily papers.
Chief executive officer of the Coffee Industry Corp Navi Anis, said the invitation for proposals was directed towards coffee growers, traders, processors, exporters, co-operatives, associations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and knowledge (universities) or service providers wishing to enter into productive partnership agreements with smallholder coffee producers in the four highlands provinces of WHP, Jiwaka, Simbu and EHP.
The coffee component provided for by the World Bank was worth K155 million which was launched last April.
The PPAP is an agricultural sector development project designed to improve the livelihoods of smallholder cocoa and coffee producers through the improvement of the performance and the sustainability of value chains in cocoa and coffee-producing areas.
The project was the initiative of the state, supported by the World Bank and its financing agency, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and implemented by CIC and Cocoa Board.
The call for proposals guidelines can be obtained by contacting project manager David Freyne or Component 2 coordinator Paul Pora on phone (675) 531-1284, 5321285 or (675) 532-1266, fax (675) 532 1351.
The guidelines would enable partnerships to determine their eligibility and also provide the format and outline the contents for the proposal.
Anis said that proposals from ineligible partnerships and those not conforming to the guidelines will not be evaluated.
CIS had set the deadline for the proposal on Jan 9, 2012.