REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: APPOINTMENT OF A SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TWO COURSE MATERIALS FOR DIGITAL EARTH AFRICA
Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) seeks to engage a service provider with expertise in digital educational content design and creation to develop new two (2) online training courses. The development of these two courses is critical to ensuring that DE Africa is well positioned to enable country-led climate action, with end users updated on DE Africa’s products and services, and that capacity is built empowering data-based decision making across Africa. This project will enable DE Africa to deliver online courses that strengthen the capacity of stakeholders—spanning government, academia, civil society, and beyond—to effectively utilise DE Africa’s tools for climate action and sustainable development.
Project Summary
This project aims to develop two DE Africa online training courses. The courses will ensure that DE Africa is demonstrating relevant content that empowers stakeholders to address sustainable development. The new courses will align with current best practices, integrate relevant media and ensure accessibility of content to a wide range of users, while addressing the learning needs of a diverse audience.
Objective
- Develop two courses in English and French with design, structure, and descriptive content that aligns with DE Africa vision, mandate and brand
- Ensure accessibility and engagement for users across varied experience levels.
Scope of Work
The contractor will develop two new courses provided both in English and French, accessible on DE Africa's learning platform, which include:
Climate Toolkit
This module will introduce the DE Africa Climate Toolkit and will build capacity of end users in the use of DE Africa's Earth observation data and Continental Services to address water security, food security and coastal erosion.
This module will introduce the DE Africa Climate Action module, including sub topics showing how Digital Earth Africa products and services are used for multi-scale assessments across Africa namely:
- Mitigation of climate change impacts (covering deforestation and restoration, monitoring mangroves, fire mapping, mapping soil carbon);
- Climate adaptation (covering flood mapping, Agriculture and Ecological drought monitoring, coastal erosion, and sustainable use of water);
- Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting Climate Action ;
- Creating customised outputs using multiple Digital Earth Africa products and services (including vegetation phenology and changes in water extent in an area of interest, monitoring water extent using Sentinel 1/Water Observation from Space, monitoring wetlands, drought monitoring).
At the end of the courses, the end users will gain the knowledge on how to use DE Africa's Earth observation data and Continental Services to address water security, food security, and coastal erosion – all related and relevant to climate action.
Digital Earth Africa Wetland workflow
This module will provide introduction to development of a wetland workflow for a country, describe methodology, validation and its application giving one or two countries the workflow has been implemented.
This module will introduce the DE Africa wetland workflow that produces a wetland inventory for a defined area. This end-to-end workflow consists of several steps – building training data, creating topographic indices, variable exploration, model testing, and model runs and validation. In addition, to mapping wetlands this module will include training for existing DE Africa scientific workflows related to wetland monitoring, such as the Wetland Insight Tool, which provides time series analyses for a specific wetland of interest. The module will describe each step including how field data collection and photo interpretation can be integrated into the workflow. Application of the workflow will be demonstrated by one or two countries where the workflow has been implemented. This module will empower end users to develop a systematic wetland inventory that can be readily updated unlocking the potential of wetland management including guidelines for country level reporting on wetlands and development of national level wetland atlas.
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