National Agriculture Extension Specialis

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF SOMALIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (REOI) Country: Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) Name of the Project: Somalia Food Systems Resilience Project (S-FSRP) Assignment Title: National Agriculture Extension Specialist Project ID : P177816 Deadline Date: 24th July 2026 Ref No. SO-MOAI-552665-CS-INDV 2. BACKGROUND The Somalia Food Systems Resilience Project (S-FSRP) forms part of a regional World Bank-financed initiative aimed at improving food systems resilience and strengthening preparedness against food insecurity in vulnerable and climate-affected areas of Somalia. The Project focuses on rebuilding agricultural production capacity, improving rural livelihoods, strengthening institutional systems, and promoting climate-smart agricultural practices. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MoAI), through the National Project Coordination Unit (NPCU), is responsible for coordinating project implementation in collaboration with Federal Member States, district authorities, development partners, and community institutions. Agricultural extension services remain a critical gap within Somalia’s agriculture sector due to limited technical staffing, weak farmer outreach systems, inadequate training mechanisms, and limited dissemination of improved agricultural technologies and climate advisory services. Strengthening extension systems is essential for improving farmer knowledge, promoting climate-smart agriculture, enhancing productivity, and increasing resilience among smallholder farmers and agro-pastoral communities. The Project therefore seeks to strengthen national agricultural extension systems, farmer advisory services, training and capacity-building programmes, and community-based extension delivery mechanisms. To support these objectives, the NPCU intends to recruit a qualified National Agriculture Extension Specialist (NAES) under the Individual Consultant Selection (INDV) method. 2. Sc