Requests for Proposals

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is in the process of updating its register for suppliers for Goods and Services. Interested and eligible suppliers are invited to apply. The invitation is applicable to both existing and prospective suppliers. Therefore, Suppliers/Service providers who are duly registered with Corporate Affairs Commission or relevant professional bodies in respective merchandise or services are invited to submit their Pre-Qualification documents to the Procurement Committee so that they may be pre-qualified for submission of quotations when required. The prospective suppliers/service providers must provide mandatory information for pre-qualification.
The main objective of the prequalification is to update and maintain a categorised register of vendors under relevant tenders/quotations to GAIN Nigeria as and when required.

The purpose of this RFP is to engage services of a Service Provider and hire a full-time Consultant role for the Country Project Coordinator for end-to-end coordination and management of the ‘Youth Agrifood Innovation Challenge 2026, in Nigeria. For this purpose GAIN is issuing this opportunity whereby we will seek solutions that aim to improve accessibility and demand for fruits and vegetables and increase sustainable youth employment across fruit and vegetable value chains in Nigeria and also West Africa. 

Building on the existing design of the Innovation Challenge, the programme will integrate a gender-responsive and inclusive approach across all stages of the competition to ensure meaningful participation, leadership, and equitable benefits for all, across the food value chain. This platform enables GAIN and partners to highlight the critical linkages between healthier diets and also sports performance, with a finale` culminating at the youth Olympics to be held in 2026 in Dakar (Senegal), while positioning nutritious fruits and vegetables as essential to building healthier, more resilient young people. It also offers an opportunity to elevate youth entrepreneurship in the agrifood sector and underscores the potential for meaningful job creation across fruit and vegetable value chains; from production and processing to distribution and retail, across Nigeria and West Africa. Through showcasing, storytelling, athlete and youth innovator engagement, investor meets and targeted communications, this platform can raise awareness on how youth-led solutions are advancing food systems transformation in west Africa.

The purpose of this RFP is to engage a Service Provider for the end-to-end communications management for the West Africa Youth Agrifood Innovation Challenge 2026, and will cover Benin, Nigeria Senegal, and Cote d’ Ivoire. Benin, Senegal, and Cote d’ Ivoire are French-speaking nations hence communications in these three countries will need to be relayed in French and communications in Nigeria will need to be relayed in English.

Scope of work and deliverables

• Reporting: The agency will be reporting to the Project Manager, Nutrition Connect (Direct Reporting).
• Routine Liaising: The agency will be working closely with officers in the country teams of GAIN in Benin, Nigeria, Senegal, Cote d’ Ivoire and the team of the SUN business network/ SBN.
• Location: The consultant/agency should be based in either of the 4 countries i.e Benin, Nigeria, Senegal, Cote d’ Ivoire. With a preference for agencies based in Benin or Nigeria or Senegal.
• Duration of consultancy: May to November 2026
  Objective: End-to-end communications management for the West Africa Youth Agrifood
  Innovation Challenge for the four countries in Benin, Nigeria, Senegal, and Cote d’ Ivoire.