Bio slurry Market Assessment Consultant
Background
Yayasan
Rumah Energi received funding from MCA-I through Partnership with HIVOS
to implement GADING Project in four provinces (West Java, Central Java,
NTB, and NTT). The program is designed to enhancing sustainable growth
and low carbon development. Under this program, the GADING project will
blend practical field experience and lab research results into
accessible training modules which are disseminated with modern
(e-learning through podcasts) as well as conventional (classical and
practical) teaching methods. At the same time, the GADING project
supports workforce development by building capacity, including links to
markets, around low-carbon innovative economic activities related to the
use of bio-slurry and Lemna (a common type of duckweed).
The GADING project will build on the
existing Indonesia Domestic Biogas Programme, which currently serves
more than 16,000 biogas users. The GADING project will have the
following objectives, main outcomes and main outputs:
Overall objective: To build local,
provincial and national capacity to drive forward Indonesia’s
nation-wide low carbon development strategy
Specific objective: to
contribute to workforce development, skills acquisition, capacity
building, technical assistance, knowledge gathering and dissemination
and building on a gender-sensitive and low-carbon development strategy.
The expected outcomes related to the project aim and overall objective are as follows:
- The integrated farming and waste management systems based on the optimized use of bio-digestate and high-nutrient Lemna (duckweed) as organic fodder and fertilizer are adopted
- The enabling environment for gender- responsive energy production with sustainable agriculture and aquaculture is established
The main project outputs are as follows :
- Improved human skills and capacity to adop integrated farming and waste management systems
- Results of research on GHG reducing farming area made available
- Enabling policy environment developed for gender responsive green growth sustainable production
- Gold-standard certification is show-case by attaining carbon credit derived from agriculture activities that contributed to carbon sequestration.
Rationale of the Market Assessment
Integrated farming is an adopted
practices when several farming activities conducted simultaneously. A
mix of livestock keeping, aqua culture, food cropping, and sometimes
with agroforestry.
Promoting bio-digester will not
only provide biogas, it will accompany with a byproduct called as
bio-slurry. An organic material with sufficient nutrient content equal
to any commercial organic fertilizer. Cow dung, chicken litter, pig
manure, are all the sources of the bio-slurry, including solid human
waste or HHs organic waste.
Since bio-digester has been
promoted through BIRU project for the last six years, there were various
initiatives promoted by users for using bio-slurry in many different
ways, including earth worm cultivation, solid and fluid organic
fertilizer, fish pellets, etc. Demand start coming from plantation,
small farming or farming industry such as organic fertilizer producers.
The growing biogas sector will also promoting the growing bio-slurry
sector, the energy need is a current main factor for bio-digester
market, however, there are indications, that potential users want to
have a digester because the need for bio-slurry.
Promoting bio-slurry will lead to promotion of
Expected Result from the Bio-slurry Market Assessment
This assesment is aim to derive information on :
- farming practices in a area where project is conducted, gender roles identified
- Main gap identified in farming industry
- Bio-Slurry and lemna used in farming
- Main challenges in using bio-slurry and lemna in farming
- How farmers value bio-slurry and lemna
- Any bio slurry value chains if existing
The assessment will provide
comprehensive analysis on potential bio slurry and lemna market, and
recommendation on value preposition of bio-slurry and lemna.
The assessment may also recommend some potential players in these concerning areas.
Duration of Assessment: 1 month, start immediately
Location: West Java, Central Java, NTB, NTT
Budget :
Will cover: expenditure for travel and accommodation and fee for the consultant.
Qualification criteria :
- Possess a tertiary degree majoring economic, development, or others.
- At least 5 years experience in value chain analysis
- Experience in conducting survey with various tools
- Experience working in community development
Information
Applicants should send their application and CV (including three references) in pdf file to: hrd@rumahenergi.org with position code as email subject. Applications are requested by 11 March 2016 at
the latest; thereafter the position will remain open until filled. Only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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HRD
Yayasan Rumah Energi
Jalan Pejaten Barat 30A Ragunan PAsar Minggu
Jakarta Selatan 12550, Indonesia
Tel. +62-21-782-1086, 782-1090
Fax. +62-21-780 4443
E-mail.hrd@rumahenergi.org
