Request for Expression of Interest: Consultancy for Review of Papua Arabica Marketing Enterprise Project

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Papua Arabica Marketing Enterprise (PAME)

Review and Recommendations

The purpose of this review is to examine the current operation and condition of PAME against what it was established to achieve and to make recommendations on how best to proceed with its future development

Terms of reference

The review will involve a review of all plans, budgets and reports, and field visits to interview female and male coffee farmers, PAME staff, coffee buyers in Nabire and Jakarta and Oxfam staff.

The review will be conducted by an independent Indonesian coffee industry manager with experience in small scale coffee business development. The audiences for this review are the PAME staff and farmers, and Oxfam staff.

Key questions

1. How effective has PAME been in achieving its intended outcomes?

2. What have been the intended and unintended impacts of this project? Describe and provide examples of any tangible benefits to women coffee growers and factory workers as a result of PAME? How many women and men have directly benefited from PAME?

3. To what extent have PAME’s plans and operational systems been effective and appropriate?

· What is the state of PAME’s operational systems, infrastructure and staff?

· What is the relationship between PAME and the farmers?

· Who are the shareholders of PAME and what is the mechanism if any for sharing profits with shareholders?

4. How sustainable and enabling are having PAME’s activities likely to be?

· How suitable and effective is PAME’s structure, planning and market approach in meeting the needs of coffee buyers?

· Does PAME produce a product likely to satisfy consumer expectations?

· To what extent has PAME met the needs and expectations of farmers?

· To what extent are women and men actively involved at any stage in PAME’s business?

· How have women been involved and how does PAME engage with women coffee farmers?

· Is PAME the way it is currently structured a profitable business or likely to become a profitable business?

· Describe the main economic and social risks to PAME.

Recommendations

What should Oxfam’s approach be with PAME to address any of the problems identified in this review? The recommendations arising from this review will be grouped under the following headings:

· Impact

· Effectiveness

· Sustainability

Timeframe

· Preparation – 2 days

· Travel – 3 days

· Time in field – 7 days (Includes 1 day in Jakarta discussion with coffee buyer)

· Report writing – 3 days

· Total days – 15 days.

One of the programmes in Papua is Papua Arabica Marketing Enterprise in Nabire. Currently we are looking for consultant to help the programme, Term of Reference (TOR) as below.

If you are interested, please submit your expression of interest and CV to jayapura@oxfam.org.uk not later than 5 August 2011.