REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department (AHAI)
Rue Joseph Anoma, 01 BP 1387 Abidjan 01, Cote d’Ivoire
E-mail: P.BOAHEN@AFDB.ORG & D.BENNIRAN@AFDB.ORG

INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANCY
Senior Agriculture & Food Policy Consultant

Brief Description of the Assignment:

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is seeking the services of a highly motivated Monitoring
and Evaluation Specialist to provide technical and operational support to the staff of project
implementation units under Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) by
providing technical assistance to mainstream and the align updated 2022 GAFSP M&E plan
with project M&E plans, enhance data collection instruments and improve reporting on various
indicators.

The objective of the assignment is to provide analytical and technical support the Agriculture
and Agro-industry Department. The M & E Specialist will provide operational support on
specific programs including the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP),
Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation in Savanah (TAAT-S) and relevant
initiatives under the Bank’s Feed Africa Portfolio. He/she will support resource mobilization and
portfolio management for GAFSP as well as to monitor progress towards achieving the
objectives of the Feed Africa Strategy.

Department Issuing the Request: Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department --- AHAI
Place of Assignment: The Consultant will be based at the Bank’s Headquarters in Abidjan,
Cote d’Ivoire for the duration of the contract.
Duration of the Assignment: 08 months
Tentative Date of Commencement: 15 April 2024
Detailed Terms of Reference for the Assignment: [TORs below]
Deadline for Applications: 05 April 2024 at 05:00 PM (Abidjan Time)
Applications to be submitted to: Mr. Philip Boahen ( P.BOAHEN@AFDB.ORG ) & Ms. Dorra
Ben Nirane (D.BENNIRAN@AFDB.ORG).
Annex I:
TERMS OF REFERENCE INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANCY:

MONITORING AND EVALUATION SPECIALIST

TO SUPPORT The GLOBAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY PROGRAM
(GAFSP)

I. Introduction and Objectives

The African Development Bank’s Agriculture and Agro-industry Department (AHAI) primary
role is to contribute to the Bank’s vision of poverty reduction and addressing food security
through a building a sustainable and resilient agricultural system to increase production and
productivity, develop a robust marketing, fostering agricultural research and training and
improve trade in its Regional Member Countries (RMCs) as embedded in its Feed Africa
Strategy.
The Feed Africa Strategy, which currently guides the work of AHAI, serves as the blueprint for
the transformation of African Agriculture into a globally competitive, inclusive, and business-
oriented sector that creates wealth, generates gainful employment, improves quality of life and
secures the environment. The AfDB’s Feed Africa strategy has four specific goals: contribute
to eliminating extreme poverty in Africa by 2025; end hunger and malnutrition in Africa by 2025;
make Africa a net food exporter; and move Africa to the top of export-orientated global value
chains where it has comparative advantage. This will be achieved through 7 mutually
reinforcing enablers (Increased productivity, increased value addition, increased investment in
hard and soft infrastructure, expanded agricultural finance, improved agribusiness
environment, increased inclusivity, sustainability, nutrition). Feed Africa focuses on promoting
selected agricultural commodity value chains along 8 priority investment areas:

• Rice self-sufficiency
• Cassava intensification
• Freshwater resources management in drylands
• Food security in the Sahel
• Transformation of the savannah
• Revitalization of tree plantation
• Promote horticulture Wheat in Africa
• Fish self-sufficiency

The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) was established as a response
to the 2008/09 global food price crisis, following the G8 commitment in September 2009 in
Pittsburgh to mobilize up to USD 20 billion for agricultural development and food security. The
objective of the GAFSP Trust Fund (Grants) is to address the underfunding of country and
regional agriculture and food security strategic investment plans already being developed by
countries thereby contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals to
end poverty and hunger by 2030.
The priority value chains will be rolled through the Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department
flagship programs and initiatives such as The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program
(GAFSP), the Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation in Savanah (TAAT-S)
initiative, the Blue Economy Flagship, the Enable Youth Program and, the Post-Harvest Loss
and Agro-processing (PHAP) flagship .
With an expansion of GAFSP operations in the Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department
programs/initiatives, and given recent weak portfolio ratings resulting from weak project
monitoring and evaluation systems, the Bank wishes to recruit a highly motivated Monitoring
and Evaluation Specialist to to provide technical and operational support to the staff of project
implemeation units under Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) by
providing technical assistance to mainstream and the align updated 2022 GAFSP M&E plan
with project M&E plans, enhance data collection instruments and improve reporting on various
indicators.

The Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E) Specialist shall be responsible for the overall monitoring
of the GAFSP project implementation as well as assessing the development impact of the
project. He/she shall be responsible for guiding the overall M&E strategy and implementation
of the related activities within the project and through partners, as well as ensuring that project
outcomes are reported on.

II. Objectives, major duties, and responsibilities of the Monitoring and

Evaluation (M & E) Specialist (Consultant)

a. Objectives of the assignment

The objective of the assignment is to provide analytical and technical support the Agriculture
and Agro-industry Department. The M & E Specialist will provide operational support on
specific programs including the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP),
Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation in Savanah (TAAT-S) and relevant
initiatives under the Bank’s Feed Africa Portfolio. He/she will support resource mobilization and
portfolio management for GAFSP as well as to monitor progress towards achieving the
objectives of the Feed Africa Strategy.

b. Major Duties and Responsibilities of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E)

Specialist (Consultant)

Planning/Coordination of M & E Systems:

• Lead the development of a monitoring and evaluation strategy that would provide a broader
framework for planning, implementation and reporting on Monitoring and Evaluation
activities of the program- Develop an M&E system for the GAFSP and establish
systematic tracking of inputs and outputs of the program activities. The M&E
framework should describe the minimum M&E requirements for the Project and all
Project-related indicators, as well as other indicators, to be monitored, as aligned with
the 2022 updated GAFSP M&E plan; Plan and define a methodology for monitoring,
evaluating and reporting on the results of the Program taking into account best
practices and requirements in terms of indicators and reports of each donor; Establish
guidelines on monitoring and evaluation for the GAFSP program;
• In liaison with technical teams of Donor organizations, harmonize programme results
frameworks with the results frameworks of the different donors (including indicators for
project success tracking);
• Identify information requirements of components concerning planning, monitoring and
evaluation and define and design data collection tools, by actor and type of information, to
enable consistent and objective inputs to the system.
Resource Mobilization, Programme Design and Implementation:
• Support the implementation of key flagship initiatives under the Feed Africa Strategy including
Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), Technologies for African Agricultural
Transformation (TAAT-S) initiative, AHAI Partnerships, Agricultural Policy and Advocacy Support.
• Contribute to project designing and fundraising activities- generate and guide the use of evidence
in support of the development of proposals for fundraising.

Evidence Generation and Learning:

• Develop a learning action plan to guide evidence dissemination and utilization.
• Identify innovations and lessons learned that may be relevant for the GAFSP program
implementation to enhance program strategy and improve performance.
• Undertake any other assignment as determined by management in conjunction with Task
Managers, to assist with PowerPoint presentations, preparing brief and background
papers.
• Analyze the information generation, transmission, storage, processing analysis,
dissemination and retrieval process, at regional, National and sub national levels;

Technical Backstopping/Capacity Strengthening:

• Provide technical backstopping to partners/PIUs and Bank staff on M & E activities of the
project.
• Develop monitoring and evaluation tools and train partners/PIUs of the GAFSP projects
through workshops and clinics- Facilitate training on the implementation of the monitoring
and evaluation plan and the collection of data as well as reporting;
• Support the Project Implementation Units (PIUs) and national projects on the establishment
and management of their M&E systems and ensure their alignment with the overall M&E
system.
• Support the establishment of an information management system.
• Assess training needs relevant to monitoring, evaluation and management information
systems and provide training and training of trainers to project stakeholders;

Evaluation:
• Identify factors for achieving results, improving performance and having impact at scheme
level or on portfolio performance, based on analysis and assessment of the quantitative
monitoring data, considering effectiveness and costs of outputs (Evaluation component);
• Provide technical backstopping for the conduct of thematic reviews, and assist in the
preparation and analysis of impact evaluations, beneficiary assessments, studies, and
promotion/outreach campaigns;
• Prepare TORs for special studies as necessary (e.g. Impact monitoring and evaluation
studies);
• Laia with the Bank’s technical colleagues on evaluation to ensure alignments with the
Bank’s evaluation requirements and strategies.

Quality Assurance and Compliance:

• Organize and facilitate M&E training for project managers, monitoring and evaluation
experts and other actors involved in M&E;
• Undertake field visits to a sample of micro-projects on a periodic basis to ensure
compliance with operational procedures and assess progress.
• Set up operational arrangements for collecting, analyzing, and reporting project data, and
for investing in capacity building, to sustain the Monitoring and Evaluation function;

Analysis and Reporting:

• Lead the design of project reporting templates and train partners and PIUs on data and
reporting needs.
• Prepare quarterly and annual reports and assist the preparation of annual work plans in
standard reporting format as required by the GAFSP funding.
• Drawing on the analysis of key performance indicators, provide inputs to management
reports;
• Support the preparation and review of donor reports.

General and Additional Responsibilities:

• Perform other duties as assigned by the AHAI Division Managers / AHAI Department
Director ;

c. Deliverables

• A monthly report of activities and achievements.

• A periodic monitoring and evaluation reports on the GAFSP project portfolio including a
general project progress and implementation tracker.
• Review of quarterly and biennial reports submitted by the countries before onward
transmission to GAFSP steering committee.
• Follow up on action plans from GAFSP operations and provide feedback to Management
• Support the preparation and appraisal of grants awarded under GAFSP portfolio.
• Support review of PO proposals and further processing of operations that receive grant
award.
• Follow up on Action Plans from GAFSP Projects, including M&E plans, monitor and report
on the implementation of agreed actions.
• Follow up and support the processing of new Country-led additional funding for Liberia,
Guinea Bissau, Ghana and The Gambia.
• Support AHAI Partnership Initiatives
• Prepare updated GAFSP communication tools including flyers, policy briefs, PowerPoint
presentation, posters.
• At least 2 approved resource mobilization proposals for implementation under the Bank’s
internal trust funds.

III. Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Preferably a master’s degree or equivalent in Agriculture Economics, Agribusiness,

Agriculture Sciences, Development Economics, Rural Development, or a related field.
• A minimum of five (5) years of relevant working experience with demonstrated ability to
work on the design/implementation of agriculture value chain development projects and
programs across African countries.
• Experience working within multicultural teams and international organizations or
companies and proven working knowledgeable/analytical research on Africa’s agricultural
and rural development.
• Experience in resource mobilization within the Multi Development sector
• Having satisfactory analytical skills, working in teams, resourcefulness, and proven
organizational/ planning proficiencies.
• Experience in program portfolio management, monitoring and evaluation.
• Excellent understanding of Bank policies, programs and projects cycle either within AfDB
or with a similar development institution.
• Experience in data collection and analysis tools (ODK, Tableau, Tableau Prep, Power BI,
etc)
• Ability to communicate verbally and write in English and/or French, with a good working
knowledge of the other. A bilingual will be an advantage.

IV. Duration and Location

The duty station of the Consultant with be at the Bank Headquarters in Abidjan. The
Consultancy is for Eight 08 months commencing on 15 April 2024, with possible extension
based on satisfactory performance of incumbent roles. Consultant may also be required to join
missions outside Cote d’Ivoire.
V. Reporting Requirements

The Consultant will report to the Director, Agriculture and Agro-Industry (AHAI). S/he will be
directly supervised by the Lead Partnership and Coordination of the Agriculture and Agro-
Industry department (AHAI).

VI. Remuneration

Remuneration will be commensurate with experience, in line with the AfDB compensation
guidelines. In addition, for candidates who need to travel to take up this assignment, a round
trip economy class air-tickets with the shortest route will be provided. The candidate will be
responsible for obtaining personal health insurance at his or her own cost. The coverage
should include all medical expenses, including those resulting from illness or injury incurred
during the duration of the assignment.

VII. Selection Method

The individual Consultant shall be selected through a competitive process.

 ANNEX II
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