Requests for proposals

The consultant will work with GAIN to:

•  Conduct preliminary consultations with GAIN’s involved team members and understand how this work fits within their existing activities, as well as learn from prior approaches implemented by the GAIN environment and research teams.
• Perform a desk review and/or key informant interviews to identify which food value chains should be prioritized as the most impactful in terms of combined nutritional value & environmental impacts in the three regions. Reach agreement with GAIN on these value chains.
• Provide detailed recommendations on the prioritized value chains, emphasizing their environmental and nutritional impact, and DFI investment potential. The study should employ well-defined criteria for selecting value chains in the regions where a large number of SMEs operate within nutritious value chains, with potential for being invested in by DFIs. 
• Perform an environmental and nutritional impact analysis highlighting the sustainability of practices and the contributions of these value chains to improved nutritional outcomes at various stages of the value chain.
• Identify specific SMEs within each value chain to showcase as case studies. The identified SMEs should have a sufficient scale and financial viability to attract investment from DFIs.