GreenCape is looking for a service provider to a conduct a community-led enumeration and service mapping exercise that records the complete demographic and socio-economic profile of the community of Nomzamo Agri Village, Ermelo, Mpumalanga.
PLEASE NOTE: The submission deadline HAS BEEN EXTENDED. The closing date for submission is now FRIDAY 30 June 2023. Access the full RFQ using the link below.
Royal Danish ASDU MPA Enumeration RFQ_FINAL
One of GreenCape’s current Alternative Service Delivery Unit’s (ASDU) projects for the Royal Danish Embassy of South Africa focuses on establishing a service delivery mechanism that promotes the participation of marginalised communities in the green economy while increasing access to basic energy services in underserviced areas in Mpumalanga.
As part of this project, we require a service provider to a conduct a community-led enumeration and service mapping exercise that records the complete demographic and socio-economic profile of the community of Nomzamo Agri Village, Ermelo, Mpumalanga.
Interested organisations are invited to submit quotations to undertake this work.
Background to the Project
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are the blueprint for achieving a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. This project aims to integrate SDG action with investment and job creation in Mpumalanga through a Just Transition. The overall goal of the project is to have an impact on the following SDGs through targeted interventions in the Mpumalanga province:
- Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy
- Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
- Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation
- Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
- Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
- Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
This impact will be achieved by enhancing the lives and livelihoods of the residents of the Mpumalanga Province by creating employment and enhancing basic service delivery through leveraging resilient infrastructure opportunities in the Green Economy. One of the outcomes of this project is a replicable Alternate Service Delivery approach with learnings shared nationally.
Alternative Basic Service Delivery: There are +-150 000 households in informal settlements in Mpumalanga (+-450 000 people). More than 50% of these homes have no basic electricity services. This project promotes a service delivery mechanism’s regulatory environment that drives financially sound, technically sound and socially inclusive energy service models for off-grid communities. This project also directly creates employment and economic activity by designing, facilitating and implementing a service delivery pilot in an informal settlement in Mpumalanga. This work will promote the participation of marginalised communities in the green economy while increasing access to basic energy services in underserviced areas in Mpumalanga. A pilot site will aim to provide basic energy services to 300 homes while capacitating the local municipality to create the framework conditions needed for this approach to service delivery.
Scope of work
The social service provider is required to build and manage the social foundation onto which the Alternative Service Delivery Unit’s project will operate in Nomzamo Agri Village, in Ermelo. This community has an active and engaged leadership structure, and consists of approximately 1100 households. They are currently located on private land that is in the process of being transferred to the community. There are no formal services.
It is envisioned that the service provider will undertake three interrelated phases of work:
- Phase 1: Community engagement
- Phase 2: Enumeration and service mapping
- Phase 3: Community mobilisation
Phase 1: Community engagement
Community engagement is a critical process that can establish trust, foster community ownership, and ensure the sustainability and effectiveness of alternative basic services. This phase consists of engaging with the community leaders, residents and stakeholders to sufficiently introduce the project, assess the appetite for the project and to identify local residents who would be suitable to be trained for data capturing in the rollout of the second phase. The community must need, but also want, what is offered. This process also forms the early foundation for trust and community “buy-in”.
It is expected that the social service provider continues to maintain a presence or be available to the community throughout the duration of the ASDU project to intermediate and gather insights on ongoing community dynamics, as necessary.
Timeline: 1 July 2023 to 30 August 2024
Output/s:
- Enumeration plan and timeline (by 31 July 2023)
- Local risk assessment presented to GreenCape (by 31 August 2023)
Phase 2: Enumeration and service mapping
This phase consists of a community-led enumeration and service mapping exercise to capture the demographic and socio-economic profile of Nomzamo Agri Village, Ermelo.
Enumeration is a community-led process of conducting a census in an area (usually used in informal areas). An enumeration survey consists of interviewing 100% of the households living in an area. It collects socio-economic and demographic information relating to tenure and migration, structure details (how people live), current services (water, sanitation, waste and energy), employment, local skills, training and education needs, income and expenses, grants and subsidies, disasters and death and community structures (community leaders; churches; schools; police station).
Communities are heterogeneous and an enumeration helps to create a rich picture of a community. It is easier to plan developmental interventions if you can see how different parts of a community fit together. This is essentially the purpose of an enumeration. The information gathered allows those facilitating a development process to create an accurate, up-to-date and locally accepted representation of who lives in these areas, and under what conditions. In the context of data as a shared asset, the communities own this data and determine how it is used and distributed.
Timeline: 1 July 2023 to 31 October 2023
Output/s:
- Finalisation of enumeration database – Excel database (by 30 September 2023)
- Enumeration survey data report including physical map and community data (by 30 September 2023)
Phase 3: Community mobilisation
Mobilisation is the process of engaging communities to identify their priorities, resources, needs and solutions in such a way as to promote representative participation, good governance, accountability and peaceful change. At the core of this process of mobilisation is participatory co-design. Communities know their own contexts better than anyone else.
We would like to appoint a service provider that is able to build and maintain these relationships within the community for at least a year post enumeration.
This phase will look to build a strong social fabric in Nomzamo Agri Village, Ermelo using interventions and approaches recommended by the service provider. This can include but is not limited to savings groups, community support groups, community exchange opportunities etc. These interventions should be aimed at addressing wider social challenges identified during the enumeration.
Timeline: September 2023 – October 2024
Output/s:
- Community mobilisation plan
- At least one social mobilisation intervention per quarter a minimum of 4 interventions
- Close out report on social mobilisation process from start to finish (phase 1-3) highlighting lessons learnt and next steps.
Location of services
Nomzamo Agri Village, Ermelo, Mpumalanga
