Requests for Proposals

Background

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is issuing this Request for Proposal (RFP) and will be the administrative lead organisation for this RFP.
The purpose of this RFP is to engage services of a Central IT Service Provider to host and maintain the software solution (a Global Good), known as the “Digital Fortification Quality Traceability (DFQT+) System” and advance the platform via a narrowly defined feature roadmap in support of the go-to-market (GTM) strategy. The contract is approximately 18 months.

Update 

The proposal submission deadline has been extended. See updated timeline below:

Proposal submission January 31, 2026
Shortlisted Candidates Interviewed Feb 5 - 10 2026
Proposal Revision Period Feb 10 - 14, 2026
Chosen Candidate Notified February 18, 2026
Contracting process finalized February 27, 2026
Inception Meeting March 2, 2026

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Background

Nutrition is a national priority in Rwanda’s development agenda. Our Combatting Malnutrition through Sustainable Food Systems (CMRFS) program supports this by strengthening supply chains for nutritious foods like beans. The purpose of this RFP is to engage the services of a qualified organisation in Rwanda to implement a market-based system that increases high iron bean (HIB) production by smallholder farmers and farmer cooperatives in Western Province. This includes, but is not limited to, increasing the acceptability/uptake of improved HIB seeds obtained by farmers through the formal seed system, and strengthening the formal seed system supply chain to ensure consistent farmers’ access to these improved seeds.
The opportunity for this partnership will
•Work with 50 farmer cooperatives to increase adoption of HIB seeds and see the ROI from increased yields
•Establish and strengthen local multiplication of HIB seeds
•Improve last-mile availability of HIB seed varieties.
•Build farmer capacity on best farming practices for HIB seed varieties to improve yields
•Ultimately increase the supply and affordability of HIB seeds within Western Province.
 

Deliverables

The consultant shall complete the FSPC diagnostic tool in Rwanda by providing the following specific services:

• Identify the relevant stakeholders, government and other, that need to be engaged in the process and
  organise an initial kick-off call or workshop to explain the work to them and obtain their participation.
• Identify all documents that need to be reviewed to complete the FSPC diagnostic tool in Rwanda.
• Obtain copies of these and translate them as needed.
• Review the documents to obtain the needed information.
• Identify the relevant key informants that will need to be interviewed to complete the FSPC diagnostic
  tool in Rwanda. Schedule interviews with all identified parties and conduct these interviews, taking notes or creating recordings and transcripts to document them.
• Use this information to respond to all questions in the FSPC diagnostic tool, documenting the sources and reasons behind each answer.
• Provide GAIN with a report on the process of applying the tool and the results.
• Respond to any GAIN feedback on the report and the results of applying the tool and revise accordingly.
• Organise and facilitate a validation workshop – prepare workshop documentation, provide technical support, serve as pen-holder and consolidate and revise outputs – among key stakeholders, validating the results of the tool application.
• Provide a final report, including the outcomes of the validation workshop.

BACKGROUND
Climate change impacts nutrients in crops. The years with the largest annual carbon dioxide growth tend to be associated with the strongest El Niño (the warm phase of a natural climate pattern) causing increased land and ocean temperatures and an expansion of global drought areas (NOAA, 2025).
There are two main pathways through which climate change affects nutrition. The first is due to elevated CO2 and the second is due to climate variability and its impacts such as increased temperatures, altered rainfall patterns, droughts, and floods.

Background

GAIN is developing a dedicated approach to job creation and improved livelihoods because transforming food systems for nutrition requires more than increasing the supply of nutritious foods—it also requires improving people’s ability to afford them. Millions of people remain unable to access healthy diets due to low and insecure incomes. Nutritious food value chains already
employ large numbers of people, particularly through small and medium enterprises (SMEs), yet opportunities to intentionally improve job quality, incomes, and livelihoods within these systems are often underutilised. At the same time, the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report highlights agriculture as one of the top-growing industries globally, with the potential to create an estimated 35 million new jobs by 2030. This presents a significant opportunity to shape how these jobs are created and who benefits from them

Scope

The objective of this assignment is to procure, supply, and install fortification equipment and accessories to enable selected small-scale maize millers to fortify maize flour in compliance with Malawi Maize flour Standard, MS34:2011.

Background 
 

The purpose of this RFP is to engage services of a qualified organisation or individual to provide technical support to the Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN) in Tanzania. Specifically, the selected partner will work will GAIN to provide inputs into key government policies currently under review, ensuring that nutrition and climate feature prominently and in an integrated fashion.

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
   

BACKGROUND
The purpose of this RFP is to engage services of a qualified organisation with strong expertise in evaluative research in the food systems space to: (1) design the methodology for an eventual evaluation of I-CAN progress and achievements, to be used in the future, and (2) undertake a ‘light touch’ interim assessment of I-CAN progress to date.
Set out below is the proposed timescale for this procurement. It is a guide and whilst the GAIN does not intend to depart from the timetable, it reserves the right to do so at any stage. For all dates, the deadline is 23:59 CET.