Provision of Midterm Review of Adaptation of Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP)

Item Description:

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialised agency of the United Nations dedicated to eradicating poverty and hunger in rural areas of developing countries. It was established as an international financial institution in 1977 through United Nations General Assembly Resolution 32/107 (15 December 1977) as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. Seventy-five percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas in developing countries, yet only 4% of official development assistance goes to agriculture.

Tender Notice

The Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) was launched by IFAD in 2012. It is a climate change adaptation programme with a specific focus on smallholder farmers, aiming to increase the capacity of 8 million smallholder’s farmers to build their resilience to climate-related shocks and stresses in over forty countries in Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe, South Asia, and Latin America.

IFAD is looking for a company who can provide services for Midterm Review of the first phase of ASAP which will assess the classical criteria of evaluation such as relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the projects. This review aims to enable learning and analysis of the first phase of ASAP’s initial 7 years of operation, including the lessons learnt from the first ASAP-supported projects that have reached completion. The review will also include recommendations for future improvements for climate mainstreaming in IFAD investments, in line with IFAD’s new strategy on climate change.

IFAD 2019 010 RFP Instructions.pdf