GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION (GAIN)
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS ASSESSMENT OF FINANCING OPPORTUNITIES AND TECHNICAL GAPS AMONG SMALL-AND MEDIUM-SCALE ENTERPRISES (SMEs) IN NIGERIA
DEADLINE: 18TH OCTOBER, 2020
Issued by The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), HarvestPlus and The Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN)
The purpose of this RFP is to engage services of a Service Provider to conduct an assessment of financing opportunities for SMEs in the food and agricultural value chain, identify technical gaps and limitations of these SMEs to assess financing, and to what extent those gaps can be bridged, to make these SMEs investment ready.
The specific objectives are to:
1. Conducta Nationwide mapping of the financial institutions and other financiers (including. but limited to, institutions such as domestic banks, savings and credit cooperative organizations, international commercial investors, impact investors, Nigerian government- sponsored programmes, international institution programmes (eg. IFC, and accelerators/ incubators) that are open to funding businesses that operate in the food, agriculture and nutrition value chains;
2. Collect information on the financial institutions’ type of financial instruments offered, stage of business development, interest and terms, relevance to the agri-business sector, size and number of businesses served, technical gaps and other major impediments that limit businesses from accessing finance, the role that gender plays in identified gaps and impediments, and interest in investing in biofortified cassava and maize in select geographies in Nigeria;
3. Determine the readiness and capacity of the financial institutions to collaborate with GAIN, HarvestPlus and SBN to provide financing and technical assistance delivery to businesses
4. Based on the information collected, propose criteria that would facilitate the identification and ranking of financial institutions as potential partners for financing and technical assistance delivery to businesses in collaboration with GAIN, HarvestPlus and SBN;
5. Make recommendations for strategies that would facilitate financial institutions in making businesses investment ready and approaches to adopt while building the capacity of businesses (specific case-studies or examples should be used, among other things).
The results of this assessment will be used by GAIN, HarvestPlus and SBN to identify potential partners and opportunities for funding and technical support to SMEs under their respective programmes as well as understand the strategies to be adopted to build the capacity of businesses and make them investment ready.
Kindly visit the link below for the full terms of reference:
https://www.gainhealth.org/requests-for-proposals
Proposals are submitted as indicated in the RFP documents.
Completed proposals should be submitted to rfp@gainhealth.org, before October 18th 2020, at 5:00 pm West Africa Time.
