Every year, West Africa sends more than $3.5 billion abroad to buy rice — a staple food that millions of people across the region consume every day. Yet, this is a crop that grows and thrives in the region.
Deadline: 25-Mar-2021 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
The purpose of the Upstream Seed study is to evaluate the value chain with a commercial focus and identify a pipeline of 3-5 projects with company sponsors. The study intends to assess Vietnam horticulture sectors supply-side and demand-side factors from an investment angle. As the existing market players in the horticulture sector are relatively small and immature, IFC can play an important role in building capacity and enabling these companies to accelerate growth, scale their businesses and become more investment-ready.
Deadline: 03-Feb-2021 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
Agriculture is the backbone of the Sudanese economy, generating one-third of GDP and having a labor share of more than 50 percent. Agriculture provides livelihood to approximately two-thirds of the population. Value chains in the agriculture sector, however, remain underdeveloped and fragmented and lack integration. Increased agro-processing and trade, supported by well-directed strategic public sector investments, can unlock much greater value from agriculture. Policy-induced private investment, backed up by public sector financing to facilitate value chain development can set in motion a virtuous cycle of increased productive investment that can in turn boost government revenues from tax collections on corporate profits.
The World Bank is seeking services of a consulting firm to prepare an investment roadmap for two agricultural value chains: Sorghum and Livestock (Small Ruminants).
Deadline: 15-Jun-2020 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The target countries: Uganda, DRC, Madagascar and Cote D Ivoire or Senegal. Covering the following technology groups:
(1) solar pump and drip irrigation;(2) solar refrigeration 3) solar distributed generation and (4) any other investment worthy solar technologies in the sector.
Deadline: 23-Dec-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
(i) Review the existing full package of training materials, upgrade and revise them as needed in order to integrate sustainability into each of the course modules and improve the overall presentation of the materials.
(ii) Design a standalone module on sustainable agricultural lending and lending to climate smart agriculture and integrate this into the course.
There are a fair number of interventions out there that work with an entire value chain with a set of interventions. The first (and second) time I was asked to evaluate one of these, my response was how hard, even impossible, it might be. I have since been enlightened, first with David’s post on Monday and also from reading an exciting new paper by Macchiavello and Miquel-Florensa.
Deadline: 24-Jun-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The proposed Laikipia Integrated Feedlot Scheme (LIFS)initiative seeks to improve the 
quantity and quality of livestock commodities produced in the county by the key value chain actors. More specifically, the LIFS project focuses on improved productivity across the red meat value chain from livestock production to slaughter, processing and access to markets.
The existing value chain in the county is however fragmented and characterized by limited coordination between the value chain activities and players, and disease control thus unable to compete directly in the international market with producers like Australia. For the Scheme to be bankable, preliminary findings inform of the need to focus on a differentiated product and targeting of high-value local and international markets. This assignment, therefore, seeks to engage an experienced consultant firm to develop a brand design and marketing strategy for export promotion of the products that will be produced in the LIFS value chain.
Deadline: 15-Oct-2018 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
Assignment Description: Through this assignment, IFC seeks to create a synergy of all the Banks subsidiary (Banks, Microfinance, Insurance) institutions, to develop an integrated solution for addressing the financing, payment, and insurance needs of value chain actors, especially cooperatives and farmers. The product development firm will be expected to define and lead the entire product(s) development cycle including needs assessment, product(s) concepts design and evaluation, business modelling, actual product(s) development, product(s) documentation, testing, training design, and commercialization strategy framework.
Countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative face a major challenge in 
facilitating trade. While large investments in trade-related infrastructure capture global headlines, transaction costs generated by inefficient border clearance and trade-related regulatory requirements are one of the major policy risks facing the BRI.
Deadline: 15-Jan-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The study will be carried out through a combination of face to face interviews, review of 
reports and literature and survey of selected procuring entities. The scope of work will include:
a) Obtain and review available reports and Procurement Guidelines and Regulations that will include Bank Guidelines, Bank PROCYS reports, Government Procurement Regulations, Independent Procurement reviews, procurement audits by government agencies etc;
b) Conduct interviews with Bank staff, selected government agencies staff, consultants , suppliers and contractors to identify processes that are vulnerable to bottlenecks and/or redundant;
c) Explore the value added to efficiency, transparency and economy resultant from adherence to best practices/government/Bank procedures;
Netherlands for the World Bank 