UX/UI app/mobile development for precision agriculture technology - 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:

SOWIT specializes in precision agriculture by leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), agronomy and remote-sensing to empower African farmers with farm-adapted plot-level precise insights, that optimize their most critical operations and sustainably intensify their yields. SOWIT’s technology is a cloud-based, crop-adaptive, non-invasive remote-sensing multi-devices solution that enables farmers to optimize water daily and support young farmers that do not necessarily have the experience or knowledge to face the increasing variability of weather and market, especially women that are already experiencing an information asymmetry.  SOWIT relies on more than 100 satellite-based vegetation indices to estimate the Kcb (Basal crop coefficient) and on historical databases consolidated both from ground truth (+ 12,000 points) and soil databases (Soil grids). SOWIT services are accessed through web-based and mobile phone-based applications. SOWIT expansion plan includes engaging large number of clients particularly at the base of the pyramid (BoP). This would require improvement in current platform user experience and user interface. 

• Details of the organization can be found on: SOWIT | Precision Agriculture.
• For the Web App you may connect to sowit.app and create an account.
• Dedicated Product owner (SaaS) to liaise between SOWIT and the service provider.
• Existing development team with mobile, front-end web and back-end developers.
• Screen shot of the existing Mobile App can be found below.

• The duration of the offering:

                 Deadline to submit Proposal is on November 17th, 2021 – questions can be submitted until November 12th, 2021.

• The Scope of Work is included in the RFP.
• The budget ceiling of the offering: $19,500
• What service categories are eligible for this RFP: UX/UI experts, and Mobile/Web Developers; knowledge in iOS and Android, SaaS solutions, and Figma Web. An understanding of smallholder farmers is a plus.

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

we4f.org

https://sowit.app/login