Call for bids to conduct Gender Value Chain and Market Analysis for the Scaling-up of the Farmer Field and Business School (SUFFBS) in Uganda

Background

Care International in Uganda is a leading humanitarian organization dedicated to fighting poverty and social injustice. It places special emphasis on investing in women and girls based on six decades of experience that shows that promoting gender equality benefits communities as a whole. Funded by the SALL Foundation and in partnership with CARE USA, CARE International in Uganda implements the 3-year scaling up Farmer Field and Business School (SUFFBS) in the Southwestern Districts of Kyenjojo and Kyegegwa Project (SUFFBS, 2022-2025)/ SUFFBS's overall objective is to increase food, nutrition security, and increased incomes of vulnerable women and girls in Uganda.

This is a follow-on intervention to the SFTW (She Feeds the World) project that was implemented between 2018 and 2022 within some of the sub counties of Kyenjojo and Kyegegwa. SFTW project contributed to the improvement of food and nutrition security of 120,000 vulnerable people and their families directly, with a strong emphasis on women small-scale producers. However, despite the notable significant impact seen by increased women participation in leadership, increased yield and household income, and transformation of men, there is still limited impact compared to the need. The project has also achieved less in targeting new user groups and sectors, limited expansion of markets and leveraging the private sector linkages for the most marketable agricultural value chains. Remarkably limited government engagement and adoption of the FFBS model could be incorporated within the government extension and production delivery mechanisms and its alignment to the PDM.

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Gender Value Chain and Market Analysis

This is described as process for understanding the systemic factors and conditions under which a value chainand its firms can achieve higher levels of performance. When using value chains as a means for fostering growth and reducing poverty, the analysis focuses on identifying ways to contribute to improving the competitiveness of value chains with large numbers of small firms and expanding the depth and breadth of benefits generated. This methodology describes existing gender relations in a particular environment ranging from within households or firms to a large scale of community, ethnic group or nation, organises and interprets in a systematic way, information about gender relations to clarify the importance of gender differences for achieving development

objectives value chain exist and operate within a given social context that affects the distribution of resources, benefits and opportunities. Gender relations affect and are affected by the ways in which value chain's function. Gender is thus an important aspect of value chain analysis and value chain offers tremendous opportunities to men and women through better market linkages and employment opportunities.

Key Research Objectives

To map out existing and new Agricultural (crop and livestock) values chains and assess their potential to promote women economic empowerment, community-based nutrition and household incomes.

To identify challenges, specific entry barriers for women into the VC and opportunities along the Value chains of;1) crops 2) livestock and propose ways of addressing these challenges. To develop an individual VCs, including mapping of actors, actions, supporting functions, institutions, policy issues, along each chain and propose recommendations for specific gender sensitive value chain activities that promote women participation and economic empowerment (employment opportunities, improving nutrition status, as well as increasing their incomes along the chain).

To identify Market actors; Local, regional, and international Market Pull Players (agro-processors, marketoperators, FFSP) in targeted commodity in crop & livestock value chain. To identify Market opportunities, demand & supply, niches & challenges along the Commodity in cropand livestock, while proposing ways of taking advantage and addressing respectively in the region.

Submission of technical and financial proposals

We look forward to receiving your bid by November 30, 2022. Bids should include the Company, Organization or Consultants' profile, experience, writing samples, and references as well as a suggestion of the methodology, time and action plan, a proposed budget and if necessary, suggestions and recommendations to the Terms of References. Please send it to UGA.Procurement@care.org  and obtain the terms of reference from CARE at https://careuganda.org/tendersandbids.php