Terms of reference for the mapping of hydraulic structures and the participatory identification of priority needs in border areas.
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UNICEF - Request for proposal
This is a services contract in the infrastructure, water and sanitation and transport and logistics sectors. Located in Senegal, Africa, this opportunity is open to firms and consortiums. Proposals must be submitted before June 22, 2026.
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Auto-translated from FrenchAgency: UNICEF | Reference: 9204171 | Type: Request for proposal
The border areas of Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal face multiple structural vulnerabilities, including water stress, environmental degradation, climate variability, population pressure, and limited local governance capacities.
These combined factors weaken people's livelihoods and exacerbate tensions over access to natural resources. In Mauritania, irregular and often insufficient rainfall regularly leads to the drying up of surface water and the gradual depletion of wells, dams, and boreholes.
Access to drinking water services remains a major challenge: in 2018, nearly 23% of the population did not have access, a proportion that reaches about 50% in rural areas.
According to the Children's Climate Risk Index (CCRI) published by UNICEF[1], Mauritania ranks 40th globally with a score of 6.7[2], indicating a high exposure of children to climate and environmental shocks. In Mali, climate projections indicate that by 2100, humid regions could experience a 10% to 40% increase in flood risk, while dry regions could suffer a 10% to 30% decrease in water availability.
The country ranks 29th in the CCRI with a score of 7.3, confirming significant vulnerability to the effects of climate change. Senegal, already facing growing water stress, is expected to face a 30% to 60% increase in water withdrawals by 2035[3], according to the World Bank.
With a score of 7.5 on the Children's Climate Risk Index, the country ranks 22nd out of 163 countries and territories. In these three countries, rural populations depend heavily on agro-pastoral systems and natural resources – particularly water, soil, and pastures – as well as climate cycles.
The gradual decrease in water availability, combined with the modification of transhumance routes due to climate change, intensifies tensions between sedentary communities, transhumant populations, displaced persons, or migrants. In this context, the sustainable and concerted management of water resources is a central issue for peace, human security, and sustainable development.
Water scarcity, combined with ecosystem degradation and increasing needs, intensifies competition around water points and pastures.
This pressure weakens livelihoods, exacerbates food insecurity, and can fuel inter-community tensions in a regional environment already marked by instability and forced displacement. Human mobility dynamics – particularly cross-border transhumance, seasonal migration, and displacement due to climate and security shocks – strongly influence access to, use of, and pressure on water resources in border areas.
These mobilities, when not taken into account in the planning and governance of hydraulic infrastructure, are an aggravating factor of tensions and conflicts. The closure of the Mauritania-Mali and Mali-Senegal borders to transhumance has led to a blockage of domestic herds and an exceptional influx of animals in a context where the Mauritania-Senegal border areas concentrate more than 11 million head of Senegalese cattle, particularly in Tambacounda and Matam. Added to this structural pressure is the relocation of Mauritanian herds, in a context where nearly 55% of the Mauritanian livestock normally transhumes to Mali and is now forced to redeploy.
A recent note on transhumance in the eastern regions of Senegal reports additional flows of 20,000 to 60,000 cattle, likely to transit or stay in the Senegalese border areas, strongly increasing pressure on pastoral and water resources, the risks of conflicts between uses and users, and the destabilization of territorial and socio-economic balances. The overall objective is to produce an exhaustive, georeferenced, and analytical mapping of hydraulic structures in the project intervention areas to support planning, decision-making, and peaceful water resource management.
DOCUMENTS AND LINKS: This notice is sourced from UNGM - United Nations Global Marketplace and was originally published on May 22, 2026. Last refreshed today. Original language: French. BidsFactory mirrors official procurement notices and links back to the source for full legal text.
• ANNEX C - SUPPLIER FORM.docx: https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/DownloadDocument?noticeId=301876&documentId=2012673
• ANNEX E - Financial Proposal Framework.xlsx: https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/DownloadDocument?noticeId=301876&documentId=2012675
• ANNEX F - CIRCULAR ON PREVENTING SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE.pdf: https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/DownloadDocument?noticeId=301876&documentId=2012676
• ANNEX A - UNICEF GENERAL CONDITIONS - SERVICES.pdf: https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/DownloadDocument?noticeId=301876&documentId=2024245
• ANNEX B - TDR-HYDRAULIC MAPPING SN.pdf: Data provenance
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