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Design M&E tools for the FRA pilots in Africa and Asia
Procurement Process
RFP - Request for proposal
Office
UNDP-HQ - SWITZERLAND
Deadline
17-Jan-25 @ 10:00 AM (New York time)
Published on
13-Dec-24 @ 12:00 AM (New York time)
Reference Number
UNDP-HQ-01432
Contact
Irina Grozick - irina.grozick@undp.org
Introduction
Design and pilot-test Monitoring & Evaluation and Impact Assessment tools for the FRA pilots 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.
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.
The overall objective of this assignment is to develop Monitoring & Evaluation tools for the FRA pilots based on the understanding of how agriculture insurance fits within formal and informal climate risk management strategies undertaken by smallholder farmers and value chain players before, during, and after a climate event occurs.
The specific objectives are to:
1. Develop a global (theoretical) framework that integrates agriculture insurance into formal and informal climate risk management strategies undertaken by smallholder farmers and value chain players, with the aim to financially protect their business models and incentivize adaptation to climate change. The framework should include a strong gender approach.
2. Pilot-test the framework in the context of five interventions implemented by UNDP in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Tanzania and/or Uganda. An intervention refers to a model that integrates agriculture insurance into a climate-adaptation service or product offered by a service provider (input provider, financial institution, digital platform, value chain players, etc,).
3. Design Monitoring and Evaluation and/or Impact Assessment tools to gather insights on the role of agriculture insurance in protecting business models across the value chain.
4. Strengthen the collaboration with research and academia, especially within CGIAR network in HQ and field offices.
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