Assignment overview and scope of work / deliverablesScope of Work       The consultancy will conduct a Market Systems Diagnosis and Intelligence Analysis for the Power for Food Partnership Uganda, focusing on the integration of Regenerative Agriculture (RA) and Productive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) across the programme’s four priority value chains: cereals, legumes, horticulture, and dairy.The assessment will cover all relevant value-chain (nodes/links), inputs and services, production, aggregation/cooperatives, processing, logistics/cold chain, and end markets, as well as transversal actors such as producer organisations (cooperatives, SACOOS, Farmer groups), financial institutions, energy service/product providers (e.g. ESCOs, PURE, PAYGO), local governments , private-sector, partners, development programmes, donors and regulators.The analysis will be undertaken across the programme’s fifteen target districts:<ul><li>Central Region: Masaka, Mpigi, Mubende, Luwero, Nakasongola, Kayunga</li><li>Western Region: Mbarara, Kabarole, Isingiro, Kasese, Ntungamo</li><li>Eastern Region: Mbale, Iganga, Jinja</li><li>Lango Region: Lira, Gulu</li></ul>Using the programme’s agreed definitions of RA and PURE, the consultancy will examine opportunities to strengthen and integrate RA and PURE practices within these chains and geographies, identifying where interactions, dependencies, or gaps shape the potential for RA–PURE integration.The scope will be guided by SNV’s market systems and systems transformation perspectives, including the integration of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) considerations and the six dimensions of systemic change (policies and rules; practices and technologies; relationships and connections; power dynamics and governance; resource flows; and social norms and values). The consultant will propose an appropriate methodology to operationalise these frameworks.The consultant/firm will undertake the following key tasks:Task 1: Desk Review This task will establish the analytical foundation of the assignment by consolidating and interpreting existing evidence on RA, PURE, and RA–PURE integration in Uganda. The desk review will map what is already known, identify gaps in knowledge, and generate an initial system-level understanding that will guide primary data collection and deeper analysis.<ul><li>Compile and analyse existing secondary data related to RA, PURE, and RA–PURE integration across the four priority value chains (cereals, legumes, horticulture, dairy).</li><li>Apply SNV’s six dimensions of systemic change to review policies and regulations, practices and behaviours, relationships and connections, power dynamics, resource flows, and social norms.<ul><li>Policies and Regulations: Map existing, emerging, and missing policies, standards, and regulatory frameworks influencing RA–PURE adoption. Identify alignment gaps, conflicting mandates, and opportunities for policy advocacy, incentives, or harmonization to foster a supportive enabling environment.</li><li>Practices and Behaviours: Assess on-the-ground practices and behaviours of key value chain actors—farmers, cooperatives, SMEs, processors, financial institutions, and service providers—to determine levels of innovation, awareness, and capacity for RA, PURE and RA–PURE uptake. Identify both best practices and behaviour change opportunities to drive adoption.</li><li>Relationships and Connections: Analyse formal and informal relationships among ecosystem actors to reveal collaboration gaps, weak linkages, and potential partnerships for co-investment, knowledge exchange, and joint innovation. This includes mapping trust levels, information flows, and network density across the chain.</li><li>Power Dynamics: Assess how power is distributed and exercised across the system to understand who influences decisions, who benefits, and who is excluded—especially focusing on gender, youth, and marginalized groups. Identify pathways to shift influence toward more inclusive and equitable participation in RA–PURE value chains.</li><li>Resource Flows: Map and analyse the flow of resources, inputs, finance, energy, knowledge, and information, across the value chains. Identify inefficiencies, leakages, or concentration points, and determine where coordination, financial innovation, or investment could catalyse greater productivity and sustainability.</li><li>Social Norms and Values: Examine how prevailing social norms, values, and cultural attitudes shape perceptions and adoption of RA and PURE practices. Identify enabling norms that can be amplified and constrain beliefs that require targeted awareness, training, or role model interventions</li></ul></li><li>Assess documented business models, financing mechanisms, institutional dynamics, and investment trends influencing RA, PURE, and RA–PURE adoption.</li><li>Synthesize evidence gaps and standalone system bottlenecks for RA and PURE, identifying initial opportunities for integration to guide primary research and stakeholder engagement.</li></ul>Task 2: Stakeholder Engagement (Interviews &amp; Focus Group Discussions – Validation &amp; Enrichment)This task will ground the analysis in lived realities by engaging stakeholders across the programme’s value chains and geographies. Through targeted interviews and focus group discussions, the consultant will validate desk review insights, capture practical constraints and incentives, and generate contextual understanding of systemic dynamics affecting RA, PURE, and RA–PURE uptake.<ul><li>Conduct targeted Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with relevant stakeholders including farmers, SMEs, cooperatives, private-sector service providers, government agencies, NGOs, financial institutions, and PURE technology providers.</li><li>Validate and deepen insights obtained through the desk review by capturing stakeholder perspectives on market constraints, incentives, coordination gaps, resource flows, business models, gender and youth inclusion, and day-to-day adoption challenges.</li><li>Use the stakeholder engagement to contextualise the six dimensions of systemic change, as experienced in practice across the four priority value chains.</li><li>Triangulate findings from KIIs and FGDs with the desk review to identify practical leverage points for market transformation, co-investment, improved governance, and more inclusive participation.</li><li>Feed insights directly into the Integrated Value Chain and Market System Maps to be developed under Task 3.</li></ul>Task 3: Value Chain and market system AnalysisBuilding on Tasks 1 and 2, this task will provide an integrated analysis of the four value chains and their wider market systems. The consultant will examine market structures, actor roles, financial and resource flows, enabling and constraining factors, and opportunities for RA, PURE, and RA–PURE integration, generating a comprehensive basis for programme intervention design.<ul><li>Map value chain structures, actor roles, and relationships across key nodes (inputs and services, production, aggregation/cooperatives, processing, logistics/cold chain, and end markets).</li><li>Quantify value and cost distribution across actors to reveal incentives, constraints, power asymmetries, and opportunities for equitable value sharing and co-investment.</li><li>Assess systemic enablers and barriers—policies, practices, relationships, power dynamics, resource flows, and norms—affecting RA adoption, PURE adoption, and RA–PURE integration, drawing on validated evidence from Tasks 1 and 2.</li><li>Identify high-potential business models, partnerships, and co-investment opportunities, including blended finance options that can strengthen RA–PURE viability and inclusiveness for smallholders, women, and youth.</li><li>Identify geographic opportunity hotspots or clusters (e.g., irrigation–horticulture hubs, solar cold-chain corridors, dairy processing nodes) where high-feasibility RA–PURE integration can be prioritised.</li><li>Develop integrated market system maps visualising ecosystem actors, relationships, financial flows, institutional linkages, enabling conditions, systemic constraints, and RA–PURE nexus entry points.</li></ul>Task 4: Regional Validation WorkshopsThis task will ensure that findings are validated, refined, and co-owned by stakeholders in the programme’s target regions. Regional workshops will allow the consultant to test assumptions, incorporate local perspectives, and strengthen the credibility and relevance of the final analysis.<ul><li>Facilitate four regional validation workshops in the Central, Western, Eastern, and Lango regions.</li><li>Present preliminary findings, maps, opportunity hotspots, and emerging recommendations to stakeholders involved in the four value chains.</li><li>Capture local insights, validate assumptions, and identify nuances or implementation considerations specific to each region.</li><li>Integrate stakeholder feedback into the analysis and refine the RA–PURE market system diagnosis and intervention pathways.</li></ul>Task 5: Final Report and Presentation This task involves consolidating all analytical outputs into a final, coherent report supported by maps, datasets, and strategic recommendations. The consultant will deliver evidence-based insights that inform programme actions, partnership development, investment planning, and policy engagement, and will present the final findings to SNV and key partners.<ul><li>Prepare a consolidated analytical report synthesising findings across Tasks 1–4, structured around the assignment’s objectives and expected outputs. Include:<ul><li>Integrated value chain and market system maps</li><li>Business model assessment with basic unit economics</li><li>Market dynamics and enabling environment analysis</li><li>Actor prioritisation profiles</li><li>Geographic opportunity hotspots</li><li>Sequenced recommendations for programming, partnerships, investment, and policy</li></ul></li><li>Provide supporting datasets, stakeholder maps, and system transformation pathway diagrams as annexes or separate files.</li><li>Present key findings and recommendations to SNV and key partners to support strategic uptake and decision-making.</li></ul>Key DeliverablesThe consultant/firm will be expected to produce the deliverables below:Deliverables: Inception Report and workplanList of outputs per deliverable<ul><li>A clear understanding of the assignment, including how RA, PURE and RA–PURE systems will be analysed both independently and through their nexus interactions.</li><li>A refined methodology and analytical framework aligned with SNV’s systems transformation lens and the six dimensions of systemic change (policies, practices, relationships, power, resource flows, and norms).</li><li>Detailed data collection tools and protocols for the desk review, KIIs, FGDs, market mapping, and value-chain analysis.</li><li>A comprehensive work plan including milestones, timelines, district-level field schedule, and key phases of analysis and validation.</li><li>A stakeholder engagement and validation plan detailing the selection, sequencing and approach for KIIs, FGDs, and regional workshops.</li><li>A preliminary list of ecosystem actors and value-chain nodes to be consulted (inputs/services, producers, cooperatives, processors, logistics/cold chain, off-takers, financiers, energy providers, local governments, regulators).</li><li>Ethical considerations, risk management and mitigation measures, and a quality-assurance plan.</li><li>Confirmation of scope, boundaries, and deliverable formats for the assignment</li></ul>Quality expectations<ul><li>Clear, methodologically sound, and fully aligned with the ToR, the programme’s outcomes, and the systems-transformation approach.</li><li>Demonstrates systems thinking and inclusivity (gender, youth, marginalised groups), and incorporates RA, PURE, and RA–PURE perspectives coherently.</li><li>Provides practical and realistic plans for fieldwork, data collection, and validation.</li><li>Must be reviewed and approved by SNV prior to the commencement of field activities</li></ul>Deliverables: Market Systems and Intelligence Analysis ReportList of outputs per deliverable<ul><li>Integrated value chain and market system maps for the four priority chains (cereals, legumes, horticulture, dairy), showing actors, roles, relationships, incentives, capacities, market flows, and systemic enablers/constraints for RA, PURE, and RA–PURE adoption.</li><li>Standalone system assessments of RA and PURE, identifying structural gaps, market failures, incentive patterns, and adoption barriers unique to each system before examining their points of intersection.</li><li>A systems transformation analysis applying SNV’s six dimensions of systemic change (policies, practices, relationships, power dynamics, resource flows, social norms) across all four value chains.</li><li>An analytical assessment of existing and emerging business models, including unit economics (CAPEX/OPEX, pricing, payback), risk allocation, aggregation mechanisms, inclusivity considerations, commercial viability, scalability, and investment readiness for RA, PURE, and RA–PURE integration.</li><li>A comprehensive Market Dynamics Report capturing demand and supply trends, input/service markets, financing mechanisms, institutional dynamics, regulatory pathways, and investment flows shaping RA, PURE and RA–PURE adoption and scaling.</li><li>Triangulated stakeholder perspectives from KIIs, FGDs, and regional engagement exercises validating desk review insights and revealing practical constraints, incentives, and coordination gaps.</li><li>Identification of systemic leverage points, innovation opportunities, high-potential business models, partnership opportunities, and co-investment pathways for RA, PURE and RA–PURE integration.</li><li>Actor prioritization and geographic opportunity hotspots, identifying high-feasibility, high-impact regions, clusters, and corridors (e.g., irrigation–horticulture hubs, dairy processing corridors, cold-chain nodes/links)</li><li>Integration of insights and feedback from four regional validation workshops into the analysis, accompanied by a brief workshop synthesis note for each region summarising participant lists, key discussion points, and validation-driven adjustments to the findings and recommendations.</li></ul>Quality expectations<ul><li>Evidence-based, triangulated across desk review, KIIs, FGDs, market observations, and regional validation workshops.</li><li>Fully reflects SNV’s six dimensions of systemic change, gender and youth inclusion, and aligns with Power for Food Outcomes.</li><li>Demonstrates analytical depth, clarity, and ability to synthesise complex system interactions into actionable insights.</li><li>Provides clear, practical implications for programming, partnerships, investment, and policy engagement.</li><li>Presented in a logical structure that supports use by SNV, partners, and potential investors.</li></ul>Deliverables: Final Report &amp; PresentationList of outputs per deliverable<ul><li>A comprehensive analytical report consolidating validated findings from Tasks 1–4 and from the Market Systems and Intelligence Analysis, presenting a coherent narrative on RA, PURE, and RA–PURE systems across the four priority value chains.</li><li>Clear articulation of standalone RA and PURE system diagnostics and the RA–PURE nexus, including refined system transformation pathways and key leverage points for integration across chains and target geographies.</li><li>Practical, evidence-based recommendations for programming, partnerships, investment, and policy engagement, prioritised by value chain, by node, and, where relevant, by region, and including indicative sequencing (short-, medium- and longer-term actions).</li><li>Actor prioritisation and geographic opportunity profiles, summarising high-feasibility, high-impact actors, clusters, and corridors for RA–PURE integration, with specific attention to opportunities for women, youth, and other marginalised groups.</li><li>Annexes including:</li><li>Datasets and analytical tables (e.g. business model summaries, unit economics, investment readiness).</li><li>Stakeholder maps and market system maps.</li><li>Brief regional workshop synthesis notes (participant overview, key discussion points, validation adjustments).</li><li>System transformation pathway diagrams or models.</li><li>A PowerPoint presentation summarising key findings, market insights, opportunity hotspots, and strategic recommendations for SNV and partners, suitable for use in internal and external engagements.</li></ul>Quality expectations<ul><li>High analytical quality, with clear logic, robust triangulation of evidence, and strong alignment with the ToR, the systems-transformation approach, and the Power for Food Outcomes.</li><li>Concise, practical, and user-friendly for programme teams, partners, and potential investors, with clear visualisations (maps, tables, diagrams) supporting interpretation and uptake.</li><li>Demonstrates integration of gender, youth, and inclusion perspectives throughout the analysis and recommendations.</li><li>Incorporates feedback from SNV and key stakeholders, including inputs from regional validation workshops.</li><li>Delivered on time, in accessible and editable formats (Word, PowerPoint, and data files) to enable dissemination, adaptive learning, and future updates.</li></ul>Copyright and intellectual property rightsThe intellectual property rights of all reports, documents and publicity outputs, product designs, business know-how and confidential information generated pursuant to this consultancy implementation shall be the property of SNV and the respective partnering grantee, unless otherwise agreed in writing and signed by SNV.Reporting linesThe consultant shall be directly supervised by the Project Manager, Power for Food Partnership, Uganda.

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Consultancy for Market Systems Diagnosis and Intelligence Analysis 

Assignment overview and scope of work / deliverablesScope of Work&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The consultancy will conduct a Market Systems Diagnosis and Intelligence Analysis for the Power for Food Partnership Uganda, focusing on the integration of Regenerative Agriculture (RA) and Productive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) across the programme’s four priority value chains: cereals, legumes, horticulture, and dairy.The assessment will cover all relevant value-chain (nodes/links), inputs and services, production, aggregation/cooperatives, processing, logistics/cold chain, and end markets, as well as transversal actors such as producer organisations (cooperatives, SACOOS, Farmer groups), financial institutions, energy service/product providers (e.g. ESCOs, PURE, PAYGO), local governments , private-sector, partners, development programmes, donors and regulators.The analysis will be undertaken across the programme’s fifteen target districts:<ul><li>Central Region: Masaka, Mpigi, Mubende, Luwero, Nakasongola, Kayunga</li><li>Western Region: Mbarara, Kabarole, Isingiro, Kasese, Ntungamo</li><li>Eastern Region: Mbale, Iganga, Jinja</li><li>Lango Region: Lira, Gulu</li></ul>Using the programme’s agreed definitions of RA and PURE, the consultancy will examine opportunities to strengthen and integrate RA and PURE practices within these chains and geographies, identifying where interactions, dependencies, or gaps shape the potential for RA–PURE integration.The scope will be guided by SNV’s market systems and systems transformation perspectives, including the integration of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) considerations and the six dimensions of systemic change (policies and rules; practices and technologies; relationships and connections; power dynamics and governance; resource flows; and social norms and values). The consultant will propose an appropriate methodology to operationalise these frameworks.The consultant/firm will undertake the following key tasks:Task 1: Desk Review This task will establish the analytical foundation of the assignment by consolidating and interpreting existing evidence on RA, PURE, and RA–PURE integration in Uganda. The desk review will map what is already known, identify gaps in knowledge, and generate an initial system-level understanding that will guide primary data collection and deeper analysis.<ul><li>Compile and analyse existing secondary data related to RA, PURE, and RA–PURE integration across the four priority value chains (cereals, legumes, horticulture, dairy).</li><li>Apply SNV’s six dimensions of systemic change to review policies and regulations, practices and behaviours, relationships and connections, power dynamics, resource flows, and social norms.<ul><li>Policies and Regulations: Map existing, emerging, and missing policies, standards, and regulatory frameworks influencing RA–PURE adoption. Identify alignment gaps, conflicting mandates, and opportunities for policy advocacy, incentives, or harmonization to foster a supportive enabling environment.</li><li>Practices and Behaviours: Assess on-the-ground practices and behaviours of key value chain actors—farmers, cooperatives, SMEs, processors, financial institutions, and service providers—to determine levels of innovation, awareness, and capacity for RA, PURE and RA–PURE uptake. Identify both best practices and behaviour change opportunities to drive adoption.</li><li>Relationships and Connections: Analyse formal and informal relationships among ecosystem actors to reveal collaboration gaps, weak linkages, and potential partnerships for co-investment, knowledge exchange, and joint innovation. This includes mapping trust levels, information flows, and network density across the chain.</li><li>Power Dynamics: Assess how power is distributed and exercised across the system to understand who influences decisions, who benefits, and who is excluded—especially focusing on gender, youth, and marginalized groups. Identify pathways to shift influence toward more inclusive and equitable participation in RA–PURE value chains.</li><li>Resource Flows: Map and analyse the flow of resources, inputs, finance, energy, knowledge, and information, across the value chains. Identify inefficiencies, leakages, or concentration points, and determine where coordination, financial innovation, or investment could catalyse greater productivity and sustainability.</li><li>Social Norms and Values: Examine how prevailing social norms, values, and cultural attitudes shape perceptions and adoption of RA and PURE practices. Identify enabling norms that can be amplified and constrain beliefs that require targeted awareness, training, or role model interventions</li></ul></li><li>Assess documented business models, financing mechanisms, institutional dynamics, and investment trends influencing RA, PURE, and RA–PURE adoption.</li><li>Synthesize evidence gaps and standalone system bottlenecks for RA and PURE, identifying initial opportunities for integration to guide primary research and stakeholder engagement.</li></ul>Task 2: Stakeholder Engagement (Interviews &amp; Focus Group Discussions – Validation &amp; Enrichment)This task will ground the analysis in lived realities by engaging stakeholders across the programme’s value chains and geographies. Through targeted interviews and focus group discussions, the consultant will validate desk review insights, capture practical constraints and incentives, and generate contextual understanding of systemic dynamics affecting RA, PURE, and RA–PURE uptake.<ul><li>Conduct targeted Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with relevant stakeholders including farmers, SMEs, cooperatives, private-sector service providers, government agencies, NGOs, financial institutions, and PURE technology providers.</li><li>Validate and deepen insights obtained through the desk review by capturing stakeholder perspectives on market constraints, incentives, coordination gaps, resource flows, business models, gender and youth inclusion, and day-to-day adoption challenges.</li><li>Use the stakeholder engagement to contextualise the six dimensions of systemic change, as experienced in practice across the four priority value chains.</li><li>Triangulate findings from KIIs and FGDs with the desk review to identify practical leverage points for market transformation, co-investment, improved governance, and more inclusive participation.</li><li>Feed insights directly into the Integrated Value Chain and Market System Maps to be developed under Task 3.</li></ul>Task 3: Value Chain and market system AnalysisBuilding on Tasks 1 and 2, this task will provide an integrated analysis of the four value chains and their wider market systems. The consultant will examine market structures, actor roles, financial and resource flows, enabling and constraining factors, and opportunities for RA, PURE, and RA–PURE integration, generating a comprehensive basis for programme intervention design.<ul><li>Map value chain structures, actor roles, and relationships across key nodes (inputs and services, production, aggregation/cooperatives, processing, logistics/cold chain, and end markets).</li><li>Quantify value and cost distribution across actors to reveal incentives, constraints, power asymmetries, and opportunities for equitable value sharing and co-investment.</li><li>Assess systemic enablers and barriers—policies, practices, relationships, power dynamics, resource flows, and norms—affecting RA adoption, PURE adoption, and RA–PURE integration, drawing on validated evidence from Tasks 1 and 2.</li><li>Identify high-potential business models, partnerships, and co-investment opportunities, including blended finance options that can strengthen RA–PURE viability and inclusiveness for smallholders, women, and youth.</li><li>Identify geographic opportunity hotspots or clusters (e.g., irrigation–horticulture hubs, solar cold-chain corridors, dairy processing nodes) where high-feasibility RA–PURE integration can be prioritised.</li><li>Develop integrated market system maps visualising ecosystem actors, relationships, financial flows, institutional linkages, enabling conditions, systemic constraints, and RA–PURE nexus entry points.</li></ul>Task 4: Regional Validation WorkshopsThis task will ensure that findings are validated, refined, and co-owned by stakeholders in the programme’s target regions. Regional workshops will allow the consultant to test assumptions, incorporate local perspectives, and strengthen the credibility and relevance of the final analysis.<ul><li>Facilitate four regional validation workshops in the Central, Western, Eastern, and Lango regions.</li><li>Present preliminary findings, maps, opportunity hotspots, and emerging recommendations to stakeholders involved in the four value chains.</li><li>Capture local insights, validate assumptions, and identify nuances or implementation considerations specific to each region.</li><li>Integrate stakeholder feedback into the analysis and refine the RA–PURE market system diagnosis and intervention pathways.</li></ul>Task 5: Final Report and Presentation This task involves consolidating all analytical outputs into a final, coherent report supported by maps, datasets, and strategic recommendations. The consultant will deliver evidence-based insights that inform programme actions, partnership development, investment planning, and policy engagement, and will present the final findings to SNV and key partners.<ul><li>Prepare a consolidated analytical report synthesising findings across Tasks 1–4, structured around the assignment’s objectives and expected outputs. Include:<ul><li>Integrated value chain and market system maps</li><li>Business model assessment with basic unit economics</li><li>Market dynamics and enabling environment analysis</li><li>Actor prioritisation profiles</li><li>Geographic opportunity hotspots</li><li>Sequenced recommendations for programming, partnerships, investment, and policy</li></ul></li><li>Provide supporting datasets, stakeholder maps, and system transformation pathway diagrams as annexes or separate files.</li><li>Present key findings and recommendations to SNV and key partners to support strategic uptake and decision-making.</li></ul>Key DeliverablesThe consultant/firm will be expected to produce the deliverables below:Deliverables:&nbsp;Inception Report and workplanList of outputs per deliverable<ul><li>A clear understanding of the assignment, including how RA, PURE and RA–PURE systems will be analysed both independently and through their nexus interactions.</li><li>A refined methodology and analytical framework aligned with SNV’s systems transformation lens and the six dimensions of systemic change (policies, practices, relationships, power, resource flows, and norms).</li><li>Detailed data collection tools and protocols for the desk review, KIIs, FGDs, market mapping, and value-chain analysis.</li><li>A comprehensive work plan including milestones, timelines, district-level field schedule, and key phases of analysis and validation.</li><li>A stakeholder engagement and validation plan detailing the selection, sequencing and approach for KIIs, FGDs, and regional workshops.</li><li>A preliminary list of ecosystem actors and value-chain nodes to be consulted (inputs/services, producers, cooperatives, processors, logistics/cold chain, off-takers, financiers, energy providers, local governments, regulators).</li><li>Ethical considerations, risk management and mitigation measures, and a quality-assurance plan.</li><li>Confirmation of scope, boundaries, and deliverable formats for the assignment</li></ul>Quality expectations<ul><li>Clear, methodologically sound, and fully aligned with the ToR, the programme’s outcomes, and the systems-transformation approach.</li><li>Demonstrates systems thinking and inclusivity (gender, youth, marginalised groups), and incorporates RA, PURE, and RA–PURE perspectives coherently.</li><li>Provides practical and realistic plans for fieldwork, data collection, and validation.</li><li>Must be reviewed and approved by SNV prior to the commencement of field activities</li></ul>Deliverables: Market Systems and Intelligence Analysis ReportList of outputs per deliverable<ul><li>Integrated value chain and market system maps for the four priority chains (cereals, legumes, horticulture, dairy), showing actors, roles, relationships, incentives, capacities, market flows, and systemic enablers/constraints for RA, PURE, and RA–PURE adoption.</li><li>Standalone system assessments of RA and PURE, identifying structural gaps, market failures, incentive patterns, and adoption barriers unique to each system before examining their points of intersection.</li><li>A systems transformation analysis applying SNV’s six dimensions of systemic change (policies, practices, relationships, power dynamics, resource flows, social norms) across all four value chains.</li><li>An analytical assessment of existing and emerging business models, including unit economics (CAPEX/OPEX, pricing, payback), risk allocation, aggregation mechanisms, inclusivity considerations, commercial viability, scalability, and investment readiness for RA, PURE, and RA–PURE integration.</li><li>A comprehensive Market Dynamics Report capturing demand and supply trends, input/service markets, financing mechanisms, institutional dynamics, regulatory pathways, and investment flows shaping RA, PURE and RA–PURE adoption and scaling.</li><li>Triangulated stakeholder perspectives from KIIs, FGDs, and regional engagement exercises validating desk review insights and revealing practical constraints, incentives, and coordination gaps.</li><li>Identification of systemic leverage points, innovation opportunities, high-potential business models, partnership opportunities, and co-investment pathways for RA, PURE and RA–PURE integration.</li><li>Actor prioritization and geographic opportunity hotspots, identifying high-feasibility, high-impact regions, clusters, and corridors (e.g., irrigation–horticulture hubs, dairy processing corridors, cold-chain nodes/links)</li><li>Integration of insights and feedback from four regional validation workshops into the analysis, accompanied by a brief workshop synthesis note for each region summarising participant lists, key discussion points, and validation-driven adjustments to the findings and recommendations.</li></ul>Quality expectations<ul><li>Evidence-based, triangulated across desk review, KIIs, FGDs, market observations, and regional validation workshops.</li><li>Fully reflects SNV’s six dimensions of systemic change, gender and youth inclusion, and aligns with Power for Food Outcomes.</li><li>Demonstrates analytical depth, clarity, and ability to synthesise complex system interactions into actionable insights.</li><li>Provides clear, practical implications for programming, partnerships, investment, and policy engagement.</li><li>Presented in a logical structure that supports use by SNV, partners, and potential investors.</li></ul>Deliverables: Final Report &amp; PresentationList of outputs per deliverable<ul><li>A comprehensive analytical report consolidating validated findings from Tasks 1–4 and from the Market Systems and Intelligence Analysis, presenting a coherent narrative on RA, PURE, and RA–PURE systems across the four priority value chains.</li><li>Clear articulation of standalone RA and PURE system diagnostics and the RA–PURE nexus, including refined system transformation pathways and key leverage points for integration across chains and target geographies.</li><li>Practical, evidence-based recommendations for programming, partnerships, investment, and policy engagement, prioritised by value chain, by node, and, where relevant, by region, and including indicative sequencing (short-, medium- and longer-term actions).</li><li>Actor prioritisation and geographic opportunity profiles, summarising high-feasibility, high-impact actors, clusters, and corridors for RA–PURE integration, with specific attention to opportunities for women, youth, and other marginalised groups.</li><li>Annexes including:</li><li>Datasets and analytical tables (e.g. business model summaries, unit economics, investment readiness).</li><li>Stakeholder maps and market system maps.</li><li>Brief regional workshop synthesis notes (participant overview, key discussion points, validation adjustments).</li><li>System transformation pathway diagrams or models.</li><li>A PowerPoint presentation summarising key findings, market insights, opportunity hotspots, and strategic recommendations for SNV and partners, suitable for use in internal and external engagements.</li></ul>Quality expectations<ul><li>High analytical quality, with clear logic, robust triangulation of evidence, and strong alignment with the ToR, the systems-transformation approach, and the Power for Food Outcomes.</li><li>Concise, practical, and user-friendly for programme teams, partners, and potential investors, with clear visualisations (maps, tables, diagrams) supporting interpretation and uptake.</li><li>Demonstrates integration of gender, youth, and inclusion perspectives throughout the analysis and recommendations.</li><li>Incorporates feedback from SNV and key stakeholders, including inputs from regional validation workshops.</li><li>Delivered on time, in accessible and editable formats (Word, PowerPoint, and data files) to enable dissemination, adaptive learning, and future updates.</li></ul>Copyright and intellectual property rightsThe intellectual property rights of all reports, documents and publicity outputs, product designs, business know-how and confidential information generated pursuant to this consultancy implementation shall be the property of SNV and the respective partnering grantee, unless otherwise agreed in writing and signed by SNV.Reporting linesThe consultant shall be directly supervised by the Project Manager, Power for Food Partnership, Uganda.

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