Foreign economic-aid-related services

Tender description

DFID is seeking to commission a programme to deliver a suite of Agricultural and Nutritional open data research and capacity-building activities under the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative, which was officially launched by DFID's Secretary of State at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit in October 2013. The successful supplier will be responsible for the delivery of research and technical support on the following themes: — Developing and reconciling international agricultural and nutritional open data standards/interoperability of systems; — Development of new tools and methods to evaluate the impact of open data initiatives and investments; — Building the capacity of potential agricultural and nutritional open data users through research into user demand and the barriers and incentives to greater engagement, training events and mentoring programmes. The research and capacity-building efforts of this programme will produce data which is a global public good accessible to decision and policy makers, GODAN public and private partners, national governments, civil society organisations, DFID advisors, the research community and media. The research will help strengthen user engagement with open data as well as to enhance accessibility and availability to ensure that the ‘digital divide’ between those who do and don't have access to technology doesn't exacerbate inequalities. This is expected to be a 3.5 - 4 year programme, starting in approximately December 2015/January 2016.