Technical Lead Consultant for Kericho CEP Development and Clean Cooking Knowledge Product Development. at Practical Action Kenya

Consultancy Objective
The main objective of this consultancy is to:
Coordinate the following pending activities:

• Envisioning workshop to understand the priority sectors for the county.
• Key Informant Interviews.
• Focus Group Discussions.
• Community engagement workshops.
• Solution Development.
• Additional cooking market study; and
• CEP write up.

Consultancy scope
The consultant will be assigned to the county to provide technical leadership in the development of a County Energy Plan. The work to be conducted by the consultant is described in five work packages below:
Work package 1:Baseline survey execution
Under this work package, the consultant will:

• Collect primary data through a sample survey in the county to understand the status of energy access for households, community facilities and enterprises. Primary data gathering will be used to fill any data gaps remaining after the literature review, and to help triangulate findings, for example, where secondary data from the literature is less recent.
• Carry out qualitative surveys too get deeper insights on the context opportunities and challenges within the focus sectors through a range of data gathering activities on the ground including Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs).
• Conduct an in depth survey to understand the status on cooking energy in the county focusing on the market for both cooking technologies and fuels
• Support the county to complete baseline analysis and prepare for community needs assessment
• In conducting these activities, the consultant shall pay attention to ensuring inclusivity of minority and marginalised groups(special interest groups) e.g., people with disabilities, youth, religious communities, female headed households.

Work package 2: Stakeholder Engagement and needs identification at community and sector level
Under this work package, the consultant will:

• Work with the county CEP team to assess and establish the true needs and expectations of the local community in terms of development, welfare economic activities, health care, education etc and the role of energy in meeting these needs. This will be done through.
• Key informant interviews with actors from key sectors while taking a value chain wide approach to include producers, aggregators, transporters distributors end users…
• Focus group discussions on specific sectors to further scrutinize the views and priorities from the perspective of energy as an enabler
• Sectoral workshops to further interrogate the priorities derived from KIIs and FGDs linked to wider sectoral priorities and plans
• Develop a long list of priorities based on the baseline survey findings. The long list will be based on the following structure:
• Needs at household level focusing on lighting, cooking, heating, productive use in cottage activities, education for children, security
• Needs at the community level for a range of community services such as health, education, access to credit, or community services related to economic activities (access to water, street or marketplace lighting, storage capacities, to training and sensitisation)
• Needs at the County level focussing on the macro-economic development (e.g agriculture, trade and industry) and the resulting need for development of energy sources. This shall help the counties to develop a vision for the energy plan and priorities to be implemented for the next 10 years. It will also identify the short-term priorities to be developed for the next 3/5 years and the medium-term priorities to be sketched and included in CIDP/ADPs

Work package 3: Development of energy solutions including mainstreaming of clean cooking in the CEPs

• Under this work package, the consultant will guide the county to draft solutions that respond to the priority needs identified particularly those ones to be developed/answered by the first generation of CEPs. Other priorities will be developed in subsequent versions/revisions of the CEP (after 3 years). The process of solutions development will be guided by the INEP Frameworks stages 6-10

The solutions should cover the following aspects:

• Electrification for households, institutions and businesses(Grid and off grid options)
• Clean cooking
• Bioenergy
• Energy efficiency and conservation

Solutions development will further include:

• Identifying policies, programmes, and projects to be implemented in order to achieve the county vision and energy goals
• A financing strategy showing the financial requirements for different types of actions, potential financing sources and mechanism (grants, debt, Results Based Financing.
• Establish operational responsibilities.
• A risk analysis framework
• A plan for performance measurement and reporting.

Work package 4: CEP write up
Under this package the consultant shall;

• Coordinate the write up of the CEP involving compilation of inputs from different work streams and aligning these to the CEP template provided under the INEP framework.
• Present the draft CEP for review and validation by the County CEP Technical committee

Work package 4: CEP write up

• Develop at least three ICS/ sector knowledge products (booklet, audio or video).

Time Frame and Key Deliverables

• Overall, the assignment shall be undertaken and completed within 40 days upon signing of the contract.

Selection process
The bidders shall submit a technical proposal responding on the following:

• The profile and experience of the bidders including demonstration of the eligibility criteria.
• Maximum 15 pages technical concept and approach excluding annexes on how the tasks listed in the section above (section 2) shall be delivered and achieved.
• Consultant’s CV showing relevant experiences.

Requirements Technical Lead Consultant

• Minimum of a master’s degree in a field related to renewable energy, environmental planning, environmental studies, natural resources, social sciences/ development studies.
• At least 7 years’ experience in clean cooking and bioenergy, renewable energy, energy planning, research
• Demonstrate experience in energy planning (demand assessment, solution design, modelling) and research and analysis.
• Experience with energy delivery model approaches(desirable)
• Experience in developing tools and templates.
• Experience engaging with counties governments is an advantage.

Costing requirements

• As the contract to be concluded is a contract for works in line with the deliverables, the bidder should offer a lump sum price that covers all applicable costs but should be provided for each deliverable/milestone as illustrated in the table below. The price bid will be evaluated based on the specified lump sum price per deliverable.