USAID Punjab Enabling Environment Project (PEEP)
Advisory Services for “Development of Android Based Mobile Application for Disease Control & Improvement of Farm Practices in Dairy Animals”
Short Term Consultant – I.T. Consulting Firm
USAID’s Punjab Enabling Environment Project (PEEP) is a five-year effort to support the private and public sector stakeholders in creating a business enabling environment for livestock, dairy, and horticulture sub-sectors in Punjab. PEEP’s initiatives aim to spur private sector investments and employment generation in the three sub-sectors.
1. Objective and Purpose of the Consultancy:
The objective of the proposed activity “Development of Android Based Mobile Application for Disease Control & Improvement of Farm Practices in Dairy Animals” is to empower millions of farmers by increasing their knowledge and skills using ICT tool to use best preventive and curative farm practices to combat diseases of animals effectively and efficiently. Developing the android application, where technical information will be provided by livestock expert. The application will explain the major diseases of the dairy cows and buffalos along with symptoms, effects, preventive and curative measures in Urdu and English with pictures and short video clips for better understanding. The application will have some other features (details given in next section), that will be beneficial for handling of livestock in line with international best practices.
Principal Duties & Responsibilities:
The IT consultant/firm will be hired to develop an android application on data related to the curative and preventive actions of diseases along with best farming practices. The I.T. Consultant/Firm will perform the following functions:
- Understand the data provided by the livestock expert and design an application in Urdu/English which is easy to navigate by the farmers
- The application should be able to display pictures and video clips along with written information on the subject.
- System for sending periodically 400 messages over the year to the farmers.
- Step-wise and easy to understand procedural display for the best farm practices and the disease control of livestock.
- Upgrading the existing website of the association in line with international standards with features that support video clips hosting and display.
For this assignment, the I.T. Firm will work in close coordination with the livestock expert in developing a user-friendly software application for android phones that fulfills the objective of the grant.
1. Specific Tasks of the Consultant:
Under the overall guidance of PEEP and the Livestock Expert from PADFA the consulting firm will accomplish the tasks laid down in the attached document/link.
2. Job Qualifications
The offerors must demonstrate past experience implementing similar activities as those set forth in the SOW for the program area(s) for which they are submitting a proposal. Especially, the experience of developing android cellphone applications must be highlighted.
The offerors shall also provide a minimum of 3 organizational references they worked with for the past 5 years (name and organizational contact information) indicating the relevant services carried out that best illustrate your organization’s qualifications
Duty Station:
The duty station for this consultancy is Lahore. The consultant is supposed to attend PEEP office and UVAS regularly.
4. Reporting:
The consultant will report to the Human and Institutional Capacity Development (HICD) Specialist at USAID PEEP. The daily monitoring and oversight of the consultant’s work will be the responsibility of the HICD Specialist. All the deliverables will be approved by respective professionals of PEEP.
5. Duration of the Assignment:
This assignment is planned to start from May 15, 2016 and end by July 30, 2016.