Foreign economic-aid-related services

Tender description

This is a prior information notice (PIN) only: publication and call for competition will be conducted once scope of work is fully defined and approved. DFID Rwanda's improving market systems for agriculture in Rwanda programme (IMSAR) is a new 7-year programme that will provide up to 22 500 000 GBP to increase the incomes of poor households in targeted agricultural market systems. IMSAR will help commercialise agriculture by improving the way agricultural market systems function, making them more effective, participatory (by including poor farmers and other disadvantaged groups), and more competitive. IMSAR will adopt a market development approach to increase the income of poor households by supporting market actors (including the poor) to adopt new practices (business models, products, services, rules, behaviours and norms) that improve the way markets work for poor women. Market actors are firms, poor men and women, government agencies, business associations, financial institutions, and NGOs that have a legitimate role in markets. IMSAR will facilitate change through the provision of a flexible package of technical assistance and access to finance which could include provision of grants, loans and equity. The delivery mechanisms for the finance component are to be determined and will be discussed at the EME event. DFID funds will be used to deliver the market development approach, including conducting market analysis, strategy development and support to market actors adopting new practices, and intermediaries/partners addressing constraints in the enabling environment. Support could take the form of ‘non-financial’ technical support and financial support through financing if deemed essential, and in accordance with DFID rules on provision of subsidy to the private sector.