Deadline: 12-May-23
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is pleased to announce the Request for Proposals for analysis of animal welfare standards for poultry, cattle and aquaculture value chains in sub saharan africa and development of animal welfare investment policy.
The Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (‘N3F’), comprising Fund and Technical Assistance Facility, is a unique program developed by GAIN that aims to support small-to-medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that provide nutritious safe foods to local consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It thereby supports GAIN’s overall goal to advance nutrition outcomes by improving the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially those most vulnerable to malnutrition. N3F is a pioneering, nutrition-focused investment facility developed to scale up affordable nutritious foods and increase access among vulnerable consumers in SSA.
N3F is an important extension of GAIN’s programs, targeting SMEs throughout SSA that scale up production and distribution of locally produced nutritious foods. Further, the N3F aims to have a demonstration effect showing that nutrition and nutritious foods are an investable and commercially viable investment theme. The N3F will, therefore, play an important part of GAIN’s broader objective to influence other major finance actors to invest in nutrition. The Fund is managed by Incofin Investment Management (Incofin), with GAIN providing nutrition expertise. The two other components, technical assistance and monitoring, assessment, and learning are managed by GAIN.
Scope
- The successful applicant shall provide the following services:
- Produce an in-depth analysis of the animal welfare policy and regulatory framework in Kenya, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Benin, Nigeria, Mali and Guinea for poultry, cattle and aquaculture industries. This will be summarized in a succinct overview and comparison report.
- Develop a poultry, cattle and aquaculture animal welfare policy for N3F, outlining required minimum animal welfare standards that the SME will need to comply with.
Objectives
The consultant will work with GAIN to increase N3F’s understanding of the animal welfare policy and regulatory framework of the poultry, cattle and aquaculture sectors in the 10 countries in SSA. The consultant will write an in-depth report of all applicable national and (if existing) regional policies on animal welfare policies in these sectors. In addition, the consultant will develop an animal welfare policy for N3F, guiding the Fund on general minimum animal welfare standards in the poultry, cattle and aquaculture sectors at different stages in the investment process, plus specific additional standards per individual country if relevant.
Deliverables
- The consultant will work with GAIN to:
- Conduct preliminary consultations with GAIN’s involved team members and understand their activities under N3F.
- Perform a desk review and/or key informant interviews to conduct an in-depth analysis of the animal welfare policy and regulatory framework in poultry, cattle (beef and dairy) and aquaculture value chains in the 10 countries.
- Draft a poultry, cattle and aquaculture animal welfare policy for N3F.The policy will outline the minimum animal welfare standards N3F’s investee firms need to adhere to at three different stages in the investment process:
- During due diligence,
- 12 months after signing of loan agreement and
- At loan maturity stage. This policy will thereby guide the N3F’s team throughout the investment process as well as support investees to strengthen their animal welfare practices. If relevant, the policy will detail specific minimum compliance requirements in the 10 different countries, additional to the baseline policy applicable to all investees.
- Produce a draft report outlining
- the in-depth animal welfare analysis and
- N3F’s animal welfare policy
- Present main findings to the N3F team and revise the draft report to a final report based on N3F’s feedback
Duration: The engagement is expected to commence by early June 2023 and is anticipated to be completed by August 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- The consultant shall be an individual consultant or institution with the following expertise:
- Proven experience in conducting similar consultancy assignments.
- Strong understanding and working knowledge of animal welfare policy and regulation; strong preference for experience and expertise specific to Sub Saharan Africa
- Technical experience in animal welfare analysis and advisory in poultry, cattle and aquaculture value chains in Sub Saharan Africa.
- Excellent communication skills in English, both oral and written
- Good understanding of written French and/or Portuguese is desired
For more information, visit GAIN.