African Development Bank Group Digital Agriculture Expert - Feed Africa and AAAP - AHAI (EOI) Jobs in Nigeria

African Development Bank Group Digital Agriculture Expert - Feed Africa and AAAP - AHAI (EOI) Jobs in Nigeria

Background

The Agriculture and Agro-Industry (AHAI) department of the Bank wishes to recruit Individual Consultant who will be working as a Digital Agriculture Specialist to the Digital Agriculture Flagship and the Climate Smart Digital Agriculture Technologies Pillar of the AAAP in mainstreaming digital innovations into Feed Africa investment projects, building an investment pipeline, generating knowledge products, mobilizing resources and establishing partnerships for the Flagship.

The primary role of Agriculture and Agro-industry Department (AHAI) is to contribute to the Bank’s vision of poverty reduction through increased agricultural production, productivity, marketing and trade in its regional Member Countries (RMCs), thereby increasing farm incomes, the welfare of rural populations in general.

Context

Recognizing that the future of agriculture will data-driven and technology-enabled, the Bank, through its Agriculture and Agro-industry Department (AHAI) has launched the Feed Africa Digital Agriculture Flagship. The Flagship specifically focuses on the role the public sector can play to accelerate the adoption and application of digital solutions.

Its primary objective is to support the growth, outreach and impact of ICT and digital solutions which can:

Enhance yields and scale productivity of smallholder farmers;

Improve efficiency of production systems and farm management;

Facilitate access to markets;

Unlock financing for value chain actors, and;

Inform and optimize decision-making processes for government and other actors in the agriculture ecosystem.

The Bank has also partnered with the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) to co-create the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP) to implement the vision of the Africa Adaptation Initiative to support African countries on key adaptation initiatives.

In parallel, it will implement proof of concepts in several countries to demonstrate how advisories and associated services can be scaled up to benefit millions of farmers as primary users.

Description

The Consultant is expected to support the Bank in its efforts to implement a climate smart digital agriculture approach to be used by operations staff at the division, complex and country levels to promote the adoption of digital solutions in the agriculture sector across the continent.

The Bank invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in providing the above-described services. Interested eligible Individual Consultants shall provide information on their qualifications and experience through an updated CV while demonstrating their ability to successfully provide the services (documentation, references for similar services, experience in similar assignments, etc.)

Objectives of the Assignment

The Objective of This Assignment is to Support the Digital Agriculture Flagship Team in:

Mainstreaming digitalization into the Bank’s agriculture investments across regional member countries (RMCs);

Supporting the resource mobilization drive for the Flagship and CSDAT Pillar;

Supporting partnership building with GCA and other relevant institutions;

Contributing technical advisory and input for knowledge analytics, generation and preparation of knowledge products, and;

Any other relevant activity to support the growth and adoption of digital solutions for Africa’s agriculture sector.

Scope of the Assignment

Liaise with AfDB project teams/task managers and GCA AAAP team to identify Feed Africa programs/projects which can be supported by GCA and other partners.

Prepare and update the AfDB – GCA CSDAT workplan and budget.

Support AHAI in identifying and integrating into Bank operations, digital and frontier technologies which are best placed to be undertaken by the public sector,

either as standalone public goods or in Public-Private-Partnerships (PPPs).

Support the team in engaging with local stakeholders and the digital ecosystem, if required, e.g. innovators (tech solution creators), users (those applying the tech) and enablers (supporting systems which help scale the tech, e.g. government bodies, policies, NGOs, etc.).

Support the team in proposing country-specific approaches to take advantage of technology and data to: address knowledge gaps at farmer level; build the capacity of farmers and farmers organizations; promotion of efficient production systems at smallholder level; better integration between agricultural value chains actors and segments; improve government decision making, etc.

Assist in review of technical documents and papers, including preparing PowerPoint presentations related to the Flagship’s scope of work.

Ensure the successful development and delivery of the international multi-stakeholder projects within the work program to time and maintaining effective value for money.

Support the preparation of analytic papers, media articles, blog posts, and other knowledge material.

Required Experiences and Qualifications

The consultant must have a minimum of a Master's Degree in Agricultural Economics, and Agricultural Technology, Agricultural Innovation, Climate Change, Climate Adaptation ICT or in an equivalent related discipline.

The consultant must have a minimum of 8 years’ proven experience in identifying, designing and implementing solutions for the advancement of digital innovations in African countries.

The consultant must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in addressing social NPC issues in Africa as well as knowledge of MDBs rules and procedures will be added advantages.

Knowledge of and experience in supporting strategic development programmes related to agricultural development and climate change policies, programmes, analyses, etc.

Practical experience in working in Africa accompanied by broad skills in multi-criteria assessments, stakeholder engagement and consultation, community participation, with analytical skills in assessing institutional capacities and designing implementation arrangements for complex projects will be necessary;

Excellent analytical and writing skills, and a proven track record of academic research and publications relevant to the scope of these TORs;
Proven experience in engaging in high level policy discussions with senior government officials and industry stakeholders;

Fluency in English and a good working knowledge of French will be added advantage.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should submit the completed Application Form, Motivation Letter, and CV to "Laouali GARBA" via: l.garba@afdb.org with copy to "Olukemi Afun-Ogidan" via: o.afun-ogidan@afdb.org using “Digital Agriculture Expert - Feed Africa and AAAP” as the subject of the email.

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