Note taking and Report Writing Consultant during Mercy Corps Agrifin Annual Learning Event.

Company and Project Background:

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, and in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action—helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future. As a global organization with programs in over 40 countries, we focus much of our advocacy on influencing governments, multi-lateral institutions as well as foundations, and the private sector to improve relevant policies, practices, and decisions to better help vulnerable communities lift themselves out of poverty.

Mercy Corps’ AgriFin Digital Farmer (ADF II) program will work to reach five million smallholder farmers across Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nigeria – 40% of whom are women – living on less than $2.00 per day, who will utilize DFS and/or DIS as a result of this project. In partnership with Bill and Melinda Gates and Bayer Foundations, ADF 2 seeks to support the expansion of digitally enabled services to 5 million smallholder farmers, delivered by growing ecosystems of diverse service providers and building farmer income, productivity, and resilience by 50% while reaching 40% women. ADF II will continue to target farmers who work across a wide variety of crop, livestock, and fish value chains, most of whom have diversified production systems growing multiple crops for both home consumption and sale. The program is expected to positively impact farmers and direct partners providing services to farmers and ecosystem actors adopting learnings from program activities. Results and learning from this body of work can be found on the www.mercycorpsagrifin.org website.

Purpose of the engagement:

The purpose of this engagement is to engage a consulting firm to support the AgriFin program during the 2022 Annual Learning event (ALE 2022) scheduled for 22nd November 2022 (one day) with notetaking and rapporteur services during sessions and the development of the ALE report after the event.

Scope of Work:

The consultant firm will conduct the following activities;

1. Note-taking: Guided by the ALE agenda and the session details work out a possible note-taker distribution, working with 3-4 note takers
2. Brief the note-takers on what is expected of them and how to capture key information during the event
3. Building on the ALE virtual report from last year suggesting structural changes to it given the nature of this year’s physical event
4. Share an editable document (Google Doc) with the ALE report structure to enable review and editing by the AgriFin team
5. Once we have the report structure in place, start slotting in content based on materials/information collected by the firm’s team (note takers) and availed by the AgriFin team
6. Develop and share a draft report for AgriFin’s review and input
7. Finalize and share the final report for dissemination.

Expected Deliverables:

The consultant will be expected to deliver the following:

1. Attend the 2022 Annual Learning Event
2. Act as repertoire and support note-taking during the event
3. Develop a comprehensive report of the 2022 Annual Learning event

Required Qualifications:

The firm must demonstrate significant experience and expertise in:

1. Extensive experience in facilitating and managing high-level events/workshops, both physical and online (provide relevant evidence of similar activity done within last 3 years)
2. Great experience in managing partnerships and working well with media firms on event planning and management
3. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary and multicultural teams to develop learning outputs
4. Experience developing learning outputs on agriculture, technology, gender, digital financial services, and other relevant topics
5. Experience working and having discussions with donors and other key strategic partners including government agencies
6. Demonstrated ability to undertake good-quality workshop notes and develop high-quality learning outputs such as reports (Provide at least one evidence of such reports)
7. Relevant academic qualification of at least a master’s degree in a related subject (communications, public relations, international development, etc), and the rapporteurs to have at least a degree in a similar subject area. Attach CVs of the team that will work on the activity
8. Having previously worked with Mercy Corps AgriFin on a similar assignment is an added advantage

Payment and Schedule:

The firm will submit an offer broken down per deliverable outlined in this SOW and provide the estimated deliverable-based costing. Regular invoicing will be made against contract-agreed deliverables upon satisfactory delivery and acceptance of deliverables by the Task Manager.