Mobile Stack / Back-end & DevOps Stack - Water Energy For Food (WE4F)

• A brief description of the program:

WE4F is a joint international initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the European Union (EU), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Netherlands, Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Announced at World Water Week 2018 and launched at Social Capital Markets 2019 signature event in San Francisco, California, WE4F aims to: 

• Increase food production along the value chain through a more sustainable and efficient usage of water and/or energy. 
• Increase income for base of the pyramid women and men in both rural and urban areas.  
• Sustainably scale innovators’ solutions to meet the challenges in the WE4F nexus. 
• Promote climate and environmental resilience and biodiversity through the sustainable, holistic management of natural resources and ecosystems. 

• A description of the opportunity with a checklist of responsibilities, if applicable:­­

As part of its growth path, one of SOWIT’s goals is to increase customer acquisition and farmer adoption of its technology across Africa. SOWIT's technology and services are provided through mobile and web applications. To achieve this goal, SOWIT aims to enhance the Back-end & DevOps stack of its mobile and web applications. The mobile application of SOWIT helps farmers taking decision on the ground based on insights and plot mapping while the web application plays more like a dashboard enabling most advanced farmers and enterprises to step back on the season. This should enable the backend of the application to run smoothly and effectively and front end to become as easy as possible to use by customers. The ultimate objective is to have an effective on-boarding of new customers as well as high retention of existing ones due to a fast and easy to use application. All work should take into consideration that targeted customers include Base of the Pyramid (BoP) farmers as well as women who might not be at ease with using web or phone-based applications. An optimized architecture will enable SOWIT to serve its customers with near real-time service delivery and provide its services through partners based on APIs.

The above will be achieved through the following

• Optimizing mobile stack (Android/Kotlin, room database, retrofit, map box) and enabling more responsiveness and fluidity;
• Improving back-end & DevOps stack (Django / Django Rest Framework, Postgres SQL, Docker, GIT), implementing architecture improvements and conducting unit testing;
• Supporting SOWIT development team to ensure better code review, unit testing implementation, best practices, app optimization (loading times, caching etc.)

• The duration of the offering:

Deadline to submit Offer is March 11th, 2022.

Deadline to ask questions is on March 4th, 2022.

Activity is expected to be completed between 1st April and July 2022.

• The Scope of Work is included in the RFP.  

• The budget ceiling of the offering is $19,500

• What service categories are eligible for this RFP:

Fil stack developers, programmers , website and application developers, back-end and frond-end developers.

• Relevant links for the applicants to have access to the necessary information:

https://we4f.org/mena

https://www.sowit.fr/