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Terms of reference for research, scoping and baseline study consultancy to inform country approach
Deadline: 12-Jun-26 @ 12:00pm (EAT)
FSD Africa, is implementing the Accelerating Financial Resilience and Insurance for Young African Women in Agrifood Systems (AFIYA) Programme. AFIYA is structured around three intervention areas: (i) developing and scaling affordable, gender-intentional insurance solutions through partnerships with insurtechs, insurers and reinsurers; (ii) driving adoption by addressing demand-side barriers and creating incentives, including financial literacy, bundled credit and community engagement; and (iii) contributing to an enabling environment for scale through policy advocacy, regulatory innovation, and improved climate risk and gender-disaggregated data infrastructure.
The overall objective of this assignment is to generate the evidence base required to successfully launch AFIYA in Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal and to establish a robust pre-intervention baseline against AFIYA’s results framework. The consultant will produce country-specific scoping reports, in-depth user research findings on young women SHFs and agri-preneurs, validated stakeholder engagement outputs and baseline study findings that together inform AFIYA’s country-entry strategies, value chain selection, partner selection, product priorities, and monitoring and evaluation system.


Created in 2012, FSD Africa is a £30 million financial sector development programme or ‘FSD’ based in Nairobi. It is funded by UK aid from the UK Government. FSD Africa aims to reduce poverty across sub-Saharan Africa by building financial markets that are efficient, robust and inclusive.
FSD Africa is a market facilitator or catalyst. It applies a combination of resources, expertise and research to address financial market failures and deliver a lasting impact. FSD Africa has a mandate to work across sub-Saharan Africa on issues that relate to both ‘financial inclusion’ and ‘finance for growth.’
FSD Africa is also a regional platform. It fosters collaboration, best practice transfer, economies of scale and coherence between development agencies, donors, financial institutions, practitioners and government entities with a role in financial market development in sub-Saharan Africa.
All FSD Africa opportunities are posted under FCDO
Includes initiatives that promote gender equality, protect human rights, and address discrimination and vulnerability across populations.
Focuses on collecting data, generating new knowledge, and applying it to develop improved methods, technologies, products, and solutions across sectors.