Back Consultant for Firm/Org. to conduct desk review and expert survey for pilot-testing of the Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood System Governance Index

Background

Under One CGIAR, the Harnessing Equality for Resilience in the Agrifood System (HER+) initiative’s Work Package on VOICE aims to strengthen women’s voice and agency in climate-related agrifood systems governance at the community level and beyond. One of the work package’s activities is the development of a Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Systems Governance Index (WEAGI), which is ongoing. This WEAGI is being led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The scope of this assignment is to lead the pilot-testing of WEAGI in Nigeria. Specifically, this assignment is to conduct desk review, expert survey, and stakeholder workshop, analyze data, document lessons, and write country assessment paper for the pilot-testing of WEAGI. The focus this year (2022) is to conduct desk review and expert survey and data analysis. The selected firm/organization will likely continue with the remaining activities in 2023/2024.

Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood System Governance Index (WEAGI) is a self-assessment tool to allow national governments to examine whether their agrifood governance process can solve important problems in ways that feature women’s agency in policy development and implementation. Future extensions may focus on different tiers of government (e.g., state, provincial, local).

Rising to the challenge of climate change and gender inequality (which are intertwined) requires transforming AFS and strong & responsive governance and women’s agency. Agrifood governance systems will need to be innovative, responsive to shocks, capable of solving problems that are both technically complex and that span multiple sectors, and, crucially, consider impacts on women, allow for women’s participation, and be led by women. WEAGI will help countries assess their preparedness to solve complex problems across the agrifood sector while featuring voices of women, for example:

• • Where could we be collecting more sex-disaggregated data about the impact of our policies?
  • Are national strategies mentioning gender, but key civil society & private sector actors are not aware of opportunities to participate and give input?

    The focus on understanding women’s roles in each component of governance that we identified in theory diagram—policy planning & design, policy implementation, and learning & evaluation of whether policies are working (Figure 1). Three key measurement steps for WEAI are as follows:

    • • Desk review of objective, quantitative indicators of women’s empowerment in agrifood governance
        • e.g., # women ministers of agrifood agencies
        • Expert survey or expert panels assessing the beliefs of key in-country stakeholders in sector
          • e.g., are opportunities for women’s participation well-known and utilized by key civil society actors
          • Stakeholder validation workshop
            • review & validate results from desk review & expert surveys, identify gaps and opportunities

              Required qualifications

              We are looking for a research organization/network:

              • • with well-established record of good performance and delivery
                • with well-established good record for collecting quality data, data analysis, and publication
                • with expertise or can mobilize experts on gender, governance, and agrifood system
                • with years of leadership and management of stakeholder engagements and AFS policy dialogues

                  Knowledge, skills, and abilities

                  We are looking for an organization/network with a good track record and years of experience in:

                  • Gender, governance, and agrifood system research
                  • Desk review, secondary data collection and analysis
                  • Expert surveys or expert panels
                  • Stakeholder engagements and policy dialogues

                    Timeframe/duration of work: November 21 to December 31, 2022

                    Activity

                    Deliverable

                    📚 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝗯 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯! 🌍🤝 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗡𝗛𝗖𝗥, 𝗪𝗙𝗣, 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗙, 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦𝗦, 𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗣𝗔, 𝗜𝗢𝗠 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀! 🌐

                    ⚠️ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰: 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

                    Submission Date

                    Contracting signing

                    Contract

                    November 21, 2022

                    Desk review, secondary data compilation and analysis

                    Report from Desk review, secondary data compilation, approved by Project Manager

                    December 5, 2022

                    Expert survey design and implementation

                    Expert survey instruments and report, approved by PM

                    December 30, 2022

                    Requirements:

                    • • Detailed budget breakdown / financial statement(s)
                      • capacity statement/company brochure/profile