Pool of short-term experts for advisory and training services to the AgSys country measure in KENYA

With its core thematic strategy 'Life without Hunger - Transformation of Agricultural and Food Systems', the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) aims to initiate a transformation of agricultural and food systems globally and in partner countries. The global project Sustainable Agricultural Systems and Policies (AgSys) (duration: 01/2024 to 12/2027) contributes to achieving this target. In line with the strategy, the aim is to transform agricultural systems so that they can guarantee supply with healthy and sufficient food to all people, taking into account planetary boundaries. Increasingly, it is recognized that, in addition to important individual measures, a transformation of agricultural and food systems is necessary. However, neither at the global level nor in most partner countries is there a common understanding of what transformation means in context, what the key levers are and how transformation can be concretely initiated or achieved. The global project contributes to a better understanding of requirements and success factors for transformative processes in agricultural and food systems. The global project will provide impetus for transformation, which will also be placed in regional and global forums via German development cooperation and will contribute to international agenda setting. At present, national policies and programmes are not yet sufficiently suitable for fundamentally transforming agricultural systems. Where they exist at all, approaches to change processes in agricultural systems are mostly sector-related, fragmented, underfunded, with weak interconnectedness and no coherent strategic-policy framework at national level. At the same time, there is a lack of coherent transformation agendas for sustainable agricultural systems based on success stories at the regional and global level. Accordingly, the global project is to strengthen transformation processes towards sustainable agricultural systems in selected partner countries and at regional and global level. The project focuses on the transformation of agricultural systems in the broader context of agricultural and food systems. The focus is on the areas upstream of production (input and knowledge provision), agricultural production, processing and marketing, the related value creation and the influence of and on the environment and ecosystems, such as climate, soil and water. Areas of intervention include (a) transformative agricultural policy, (b) institutional anchoring of proven solutions, (c) advocacy and empowerment, (d) financing of transformation, and (e) linking levels of transformation. The global project is mainly limited to measures at the macro level. In the selected partner countries, this includes the national level and, if applicable, federal states. The target group spectrum is broad. The global project is aimed at all stakeholder groups that are relevant to the national transformation agendas. The global project supports five partner countries (Zambia, Kenya, Nigeria, India, Cameroon) through comprehensive processes and a further four partner countries (Madagascar, Mali, Togo, Burkina Faso) through individual measures to shape global and regional transformation agendas at national level. The tender at hand is for the provision of short-term expertise for advisory and training services to the country measure in Kenya.