Requests for Proposals

Background

GAIN is developing a focused approach to job creation and improved livelihoods, recognising that transforming food systems for nutrition goes beyond increasing the supply of nutritious food to improving people’s ability to afford it. 

Low and insecure incomes continue to limit access to healthy diets for millions. While nutritious food value chains already employ many people—especially through SMEs—opportunities to intentionally improve job quality and livelihoods remain underused. 

With agriculture projected to create up to 35 million jobs by 2030, there is a clear opportunity to shape more inclusive and impactful employment outcomes.

FAQs Responses 

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.

OBJECTIVES

Conduct a comprehensive review of the Nigerian rice industry across the value chain from production to processing, storage, distribution, and consumption, integrating comprehensive evidence on strategies to promote rice fortification. 

Specific Objectives include

• Access the current industry status in detail vis-à-vis global trends and performance.
  Identify key challenges and opportunities in the sector.
• Examine challenges related to productivity, investment gaps, climate risks, and opportunities for investment.
• Analyse the impact of government policies and programs on rice production and consumption.
• Make recommendations for sustainable growth and development of the rice industry in Nigeria.

Scope of Work and Deliverables

GAIN is commissioning a consultant (ideally based in the Philippines) to develop a structured compendium of food systems indicators and facilitate a stakeholder workshop to prioritize nationally relevant indicators for decision-makers. The work focuses on adapting the global Food Systems Countdown Initiative (FSCI) monitoring framework to the Philippine context, supporting the creation of a subnational Philippines Food Systems Dashboard and a national indicator framework to track food systems transformation and inform policy. The consultant will work closely with the DOST-FNRI team, building on an existing review of ~80 nutrition-, diet-, and health-related indicators (with metadata and scoring) to refine, contextualize, and validate priority indicators through stakeholder engagement.

The Assignment
To support the coordination and operationalisation of the secretariat, a local consultant (SBN Coordinator) is being sought with funding support from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). The position holder would, among other things, lead efforts to align private-sector action with national nutrition priorities, foster partnerships, and ensure that business contributions are integrated into Rwanda’s nutrition agenda, supporting the country’s vision of a healthier, more prosperous future.
 

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.

Background

The purpose of this RFP is to engage services of a qualified organisation with strong expertise in qualitative and quantitative data collection in the food systems space to support development and testing of a set of indicators for understanding youth engagement in food systems in Africa.