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Introduction

Providing technical expertise to support an evidence-informed policymaking process to integrate agriculture insurance into existing national programmes in Africa and Asia.

UNDP’s Insurance and Risk Finance Facility is charting new pathways to build resilience, incentivize growth and safeguard development. Housed within UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub, the Facility is using insurance and risk transfer to increase the financial resilience of countries, communities, households, businesses, nature and food systems. Learn more at www.irff.undp.org

To build the resilience of food systems and smallholder farmers, UNDP IRFF is implementing the Financial Resilience in Agriculture Initiative (FRA) in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Working with public and private partners in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, UNDP is bolstering the financial resilience and adaptation capacities of smallholder farmers against climate-related adversities through the design and implementation of innovative agricultural insurance programmes, anchored within a broader development agenda. Through the FRA global platform, which acts as a platform for knowledge and resource mobilization, UNDP offers technical and engagement support to other countries around the world. 

The overall objective of this assignment is to support an evidence-informed policymaking process to integrate agriculture insurance into (4) existing national programmes that can be scaled at the national level and evaluated against predefined outcomes. Every integrated programme will be called herein an ‘’intervention’’. In total, four interventions’ design and monitoring will be supported within this assignment. The four interventions will be implemented in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Tanzania, and/or Uganda.  

Agricultural insurance, while of substantial value in itself, should be an enabler, contributing to development outcomes such as the financial resilience and climate adaptation of smallholder farmers. To ensure that agricultural insurance can fulfil this role, the FRA Theory of Change (TOC) integrates a market systems approach to help build well-functioning agricultural insurance markets. The TOC aims to address the market failures that have prevented agricultural insurance programmes from reaching scale and building sustainable business models for actors from the inclusive insurance ecosystem. To achieve this, FRA is contributing to three outcomes, or building blocks, that are foundational to building well-functioning agricultural insurance markets: Enabling Environment, Innovation Models, and Market Foundations. For more details, please see the FRA Consultation paper. 

Along the evidence-informed policymaking process, the specific objectives are to:

1. Inform the selection of four national programmes that can strategically integrate an agriculture insurance component and be scaled at the national level and create greater impact at farmer level.
2. Provide the technical expertise, in the form of tools and frameworks, to integrate the agriculture insurance to the selected national programmes, from an operational perspective, and inform the policymaking process.
3. Develop Theory of Change (ToC) for each intervention, with defined KPIs and tailor-made monitoring and impact assessment methodologies.
4. Support national technical institutions in implementing the monitoring and impact assessment methodologies of four interventions during two complete agricultural campaigns or the equivalent in twenty-four months and gather insights to inform the scale-up strategy.
5. Redesign the interventions for its nation-wide implementation, including the revision of the initial ToC and monitoring and impact assessment methodologies. 

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