Kenya: Feasibility Study, Design and Preparation of Tender Documents for Gikindu Irrigation Scheme

Kenya: Feasibility Study, Design and Preparation of Tender Documents for Gikindu Irrigation Scheme: This 9 months project is for Consultancy Services for Feasibility Study, Design and Preparation of Tender Documents for Gikindu Irrigation Scheme in Muranga District. The main purpose was to reduce poverty and food insecurity among the rural poor households by improving the performance of irrigation and marketing infrastructure, as well as enhanced methods of horticultural productivity.

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Malawi: Feasibility Studies and Detailed Engineering Design of Liwonde-Mangochi Road

The Liwonde – Mangochi-Chiponde road was a bitumen standard road of 6.7m carriageway width with 1.5m shoulders on either side over a distance of 70km.  The overall objective of the Government was to upgrade the Liwonde – Mangochi – Chiponde road to a regional transit route linking Malawi with Mozambique and Tanzania for the facilitation of regional and international trade. The consultant conducted Traffic Studies, Economic evaluation, Cost estimates, Economic Analysis, Economic evaluation and socio economic benefits among others. In order to obtain information required for the economic evaluation, these traffic surveys were undertaken, manual classified traffic count, Origin destination survey, Travel time survey and Axle load survey which was done in World Bank’s HDM4 Model program.

Malawi: Feasibility Study for Lowershire irrigation project

This project was in two phases.  In Phase I the overall objective of the proposed study was to aggregate the engineering and socio-economic data compiled during previous investigations on the Lower Shire Valley and to formulate an irrigation project based on a sound farming system capable of meeting the socio-economic needs of project participants. Agricultural development would involve production of rice, sugarcane, tobacco as the main crops as well as livestock, fish and agro-forestry.   This was a design of an irrigation infrastructure that to irrigate 42,000 hectares of land.   The irrigation structures to be constructed included an intake from Halmiton falls, intake structures, main canals, secondary canals, tertiary canals, drainage and road network.

Malawi: Feasibility Studies, Survey Design Preparation of Bidding Documents and Construction Supervision of 12 New small scale irrigation schemes in the northern region of Malawi

The work entailed site verification, feasibility and detailed design.  The specific objective of the assignment was to assess survey, design and supervise the construction of new irrigation schemes totaling approximately 285 ha in Rumphi and Chitipa districts in the Northern Region of Malawi.  Economic and Financial analysis was carried out for all sites costing more than US100, 000.  The assessment aimed at verifying the gross are, make determination of development options, topographical survey, assessment of land use and capacity, irrigation agronomy and socio-economic issues were addressed.