Tender Notice: Construction of masonry irrigation canals and gabion lanes in Behin village, Sanaag, Somaliland.

Tender Notice: Construction of masonry irrigation canals and gabion lanes in Behin village, Sanaag, Somaliland.

Project: SOM Joint Response 2024-2026; :

Project code: SOMJR2024-26

Sector: Water Hygiene and Sanitation “WASH”.

1. Organization Background

Taakulo Somaliland Community Commonly known by the acronym “TAAKULO”. Taakulo is a multifaceted non-governmental, non-profit making, non-political and non-partisan development and humanitarian aid organization established in 2007 and headquartered in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Taakulo is a Somali word meaning “helping/aiding”. Working in partnership with UN, international, and National organizations, Taakulo is dedicated to helping the disadvantaged people and communities throughout Somaliland by engaging in development and related activities and providing relief support and assistance, facilitating, and promoting participatory local community activities and programs that emphasize human dignity and self-reliance.

Taakulo Organization was established to assist the Somali community, to whom time has tested their resilience to the tipping point, drought and famine scavenging their livelihood, war and conflict avenging their economy on the other hand. The projects are basically based on the needs of the communities in which they are implemented where the beneficiaries always take part in the planning process. Taakulo engages on a long-term commitment, partnership approach with the beneficiaries in implementing the Projects. The objective is to set up a regional program concentrating on a particular sector, such as Health, education, water and sanitation, Income Generation, Orphan sponsorship program, disability and people with special needs, emergency respond or improving food security in the country among others.

2. Project Background

As recurrent droughts, poor natural resource management, population increase and inadequate early warning systems weaken the livelihoods of pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in Somaliland. Severe droughts in 2011, 2016-18 and 2022 resulted in crop failures and high livestock mortality. In favourable years, flash floods, desert locusts and cyclones damaged the farms and pastureland, destroying livelihood assets beyond a sustainable level. Consequently, herders and farmers have to give up traditional livelihood systems and move to IDP camps in and around the big towns such Burao, Ainabo, and Hargeisa (e.g. Burao town is home to 22 IDP camps). Somalis living in protracted displacement rely mostly on kinship support and relief programs.

Displaced communities (predominantly women and children) live in crowded IDP camps with limited amenities for WASH (water, latrines, sanitation), health, shelter, security and education. Food insecurity and malnutrition are present as a consequence of reduced milk production and consumption, low food stocks, unfavourable economic conditions after successive failed rains; inadequate quality of care for infants and young children, and insufficient health services. Displaced households find it difficult to move out of the IDP camps in the foreseeable future because of uncertainty about access to land/property at the place of origin, access to services incl. education and networks providing a degree of security. To this, TAAKULO will impliment the: Construction of sustainable rainwater-harvesting infrastructure for pastoralists in rural villages in Ceel Afweyn distirct, Sanaag region. To support rural pastoralists to access a sustainable mechanism to restore rainwater effeicient through the construction of two new strategic underground water reservoirs (Barkad) in rural villages in Ceel-afwayn district-Sanaag region, successively in 2024 and 2025.

3. Tender Objective

Improving access to safe drinking water through utalization of rainwater for rural pastoralists in Somaliland.

Advert note:

Taakulo Somali Community is inviting to a bid for the construction of 1000m long sustainable irrigation facilties, masonry canals, and 100m long gabion lanes filled with masonry to support the canals in behin village of Sanaag region in Somaliland as per the below Billing Quantity. The deadline of the submission is the Wednesday, 10th July 2024 to Taakulo office, Buurta Kalajeexan area, behind Ilyes Secondary School, Hargeisa Somaliland. Bid documents should be sealed, and hereinafter submitted as hardcopy.

NB: Documents must be stamped Early submission is highly acknowledged.