The purpose of this RFP is to engage services of a qualified organisation or individual to support GAIN in designing a set of innovative financing solutions across selected nutritious food value chains. The assignment will take a system-level view, diagnosing financing needs of actors along nutritious foods value chains, and recommending digital and non-digital financial solutions that can be implemented through partnerships and existing market mechanisms. The work will focus on four priority nutritious value chains: Vegetables, Poultry, Fish and Dairy, primarily for domestic and regional markets. Across these value chains, the consultant will identify clear and actionable financing architecture including:
- Microloans for smallholder farmers
- Early-stage financing for SMEs aggregating, producing, and processing nutritious foods. Please note that GAIN is implementing the Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F) that supports growth-stage SMEs in nutritious food value chains across Sub Saharan Africa.
- Working capital and asset finance for micro- and small-scale distributors
- Micro loans for last-mile vendors