AFRICAN UNION – INTERAFRICAN BUREAU FOR ANIMAL RESOURCES TENDER AUGUST 2025
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KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT CONSULTANT- RAFFS PROJECT.
Closing date: 2 Sep 2025
Background
The Resilient African Feed and Fodder Systems (RAFFS) Project is an emergency response initiative jointly implemented by AU-IBAR and the Gates Foundation, designed to address short- and medium-term feed and fodder shortages that have severely impacted Africa’s livestock production, food systems, and nutrition security. The project responds to multiple converging crises, including COVID-19, climate change, and global conflict, that have exposed the structural weaknesses of Africa’s feed and fodder sector.
In its first two years of implementation, RAFFS has delivered foundational technical assessments, developed national feed inventories and feed balance estimates, initiated policy reforms, supported investment dialogues, and operationalized multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs) across six core countries: Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Cameroon.
Through its continental survey and country assessments, RAFFS has produced a unique body of evidence. This includes:
- The articulation of feed and fodder as a multi-billion-dollar unstructured subsector of critical importance to delivering better human nutrition outcomes, livestock sector productivity and production, youth employment and agricultural sector stability and resilience.
- The development of national investment profiles.
- Mapping viable business models and private sector engagement and investment opportunities.
- Policy and regulatory diagnostics and reforms.
- Design of emerging Feed and Fodder Early Warning Systems (FFEWS).
- Gender-focused empowerment programs through AWARFA-N.
- Development of integrated data management frameworks and draft CAADP indicators for feed and fodder.
- Multi-stakeholder mobilization and organization.
- Communication behavior change.
Given this rich evidence base, AU-IBAR now seeks to consolidate, synthesize, and translate these outputs into strategic knowledge products that serve both technical and policy audiences at national, regional, and continental levels. These knowledge products will contribute directly to:
- i)Strengthening AU-IBAR’s policy advocacy efforts and enhancing visibility on political and public policy agendas.
- ii)Inform industry practices.
iii) The CAADP Biennial Review Process.
- iv)Investment resource mobilization.
- v)Peer-reviewed scientific literature.
- vi)Strategic guidance for Member States and Regional Economic Communities.
vii) Promoting behavior and attitudinal change.
Objectives of the Assignment
The objective of this assignment is to develop, synthesize, and publish a suite of high-quality knowledge products that document, analyze, and disseminate the RAFFS Project’s emerging body of evidence, experiences, and policy innovations; and to provide technical support in finalizing strategic CAADP indicators for feed and fodder.
Specific Objectives
The specific objectives will be:
- Synthesize RAFFS outputs and translate them into peer-reviewed publications, policy briefs, and discussion papers.
- Provide technical support to finalize feed and fodder CAADP indicators aligned with AU frameworks.
- Facilitate stakeholder engagement, validation workshops, and dissemination of outputs.
How to apply
Submission of Applications
Applications should be submitted through email to: procurement@au-ibar.org with a copy to albert.obiero@au-ibar.org and should include the title “Knowledge Products for the RAFFS Project” in the subject of the email.
Applications should include the following:
- A Letter of Interest elaborating the firm’s capability statement, understanding of the TORs, methodology and approach to the assignment and draft work plan.
- A detailed CV of the Team Leader highlighting expertise and experience, and Resumes of the facilitators.
- Names and contact details (including e-mail addresses) of three referees to affirm the capacities of the Firm.
- Signing the declaration on exclusion criteria.
- A Personal Data Protection and Privacy Statement is attached as information for the applicants.
Application Deadline
