Job Description
THE ORGANIZATION
The Alliance of Bioversity International ( www.bioversityinternational.org) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) ( www.ciat.cgiar.org) delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people’s lives. Alliance solutions address the global crises of malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation.
With novel partnerships, the Alliance generates evidence and mainstreams innovations to transform food systems and landscapes so that they sustain the planet, drive prosperity, and nourish people in a climate crisis.
The Alliance is part of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future.
About the position
Background and purpose
Contouring the footprint of regenerative agriculture and agroecology in Africa (CFRA) is an IDRC supported project assessing policy, market and production readiness for scaling agroecology and regenerative agriculture in East and Southern Africa. Work Package 2 (WP2) examines market readiness through the demand, supply and accessibility of relevant foods. It considers dietary gaps, connections between production and consumption areas, institutional markets and opportunities for agroecological transitions.
Among the focus countries of the market system component, the project is seeking a consultant to support country level assessment, for Angola and Burundi, producing a comparable country evidence profile and contributing to the wider WP2 synthesis and evidence gaps for subsequent work.
The consultant will use the existing CFRA market systems review protocol and extraction template.
Objectives
The overall objective is to map and synthesize evidence on market readiness for AE/RA relevant commodities in Angola through desk review, in a format comparable with the other CFRA country reviews. The specific tasks will include:
Identify relevant commodities and food groups produced, traded, procured or consumed, explaining their relevance to agroecological transitions, healthy diets and local food systems.
Describe production and supply dynamics, including practices, available volumes, seasonality, aggregation, storage, processing, quality and food safety, logistics and post-harvest losses.
Assess competing and substitute supply, including food aid, imports and commercial or conventional production, and implications for prices and market opportunities.
Assess demand across households, private markets and institutions. Distinguish normative demand, based on healthy diet requirements; revealed demand, based on observed consumption; and effective demand, based on buyers' ability and willingness to pay, including procurement budgets and menus.
Assess market access, distribution and connectivity between supply and demand areas, including how local deficits are met through production, domestic trade, imports or food assistance.
Describe institutional and public procurement arrangements, including school meals and other relevant institutional markets, procurement rules, budgets, tenders, local sourcing, supplier requirements, payment terms and buyer capacities.
Map market actors, business models and financing mechanisms within relevant commodity value chains.
Identify policy, institutional, infrastructural, financial, gender and social inclusion constraints and enablers, and document evidence gaps and implications for market readiness.
Scope
The assignment is a desk based rapid scoping review of Angola. It will draw on academic publications and grey literature, including government and procurement documents, market assessments, programme reports, datasets and credible institutional sources. Wider African or regional evidence may inform the review where its relevance to Angola is clear and distinguished from direct country evidence.
The primary evidence period is 2015–2026, up to the actual search date. Older sources may be retained where seminal, still relevant to policy, or the only available evidence for a country issue or commodity.
Country specific retrieval should include SciELO, Angolan government and statistics portals and relevant Lusophone sources for Angola.
The task will entail gathering all information available for the country, in all language available (English, French, Portugues, etc). Howevere, the consultant will be expected to write the reports in English.
Deliverables:
Inception workplan
A concise country implementation plan aligned with the existing protocol and extraction workbook, including searches, available records, responsibilities, coordination arrangements and agreed delivery dates. Commitment will be required during the consultancy period to ensure timely achievement of the deliverables.
Search and screening records and populated extraction workbook
A country search log, deduplicated reference inventory, screening decisions and exclusion reasons, relevance tier classifications, flow counts and a populated copy of the existing extraction workbook. Records must support verification and integration with the wider CFRA review.
Draft country report
An English report containing an executive summary; project and country context; review methods and limitations; findings against the objectives; a standard country market readiness profile and synthesis tables; constraints and enablers; evidence gaps; conclusions and practical recommendations; references; and relevant annexes. Findings must distinguish the three demand categories and explicitly address competing supply and accessibility.
Final report and handover
A revised country report in editable Word and PDF formats, final extraction workbook and search and screening records, a brief response to consolidated review comments, and a short findings presentation or team briefing. The package must be suitable for incorporation into the nine country WP2 synthesis.