Clic Agrifood Investment Connector Consultancy - London, United Kingdom - Climate Policy Initiative

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Terms of Reference (TOR) - CLIC Agrifood Investment Connector Consultancy Support

Mitigation and Adaptation Impact Assessment Guidelines

November 2023

CLIC and Connector Background

CPI is the Secretariat for the ClimateShot Investor Coalition (CLIC), an action-oriented group for leaders in the impact investment community working in agriculture and food systems.

This member-driven coalition aims to collectively scale-up and accelerate finance for agriculture and food systems globally, with the goal of shifting them to a low-carbon and climate-resilient pathway by 2030.

CLIC is funded by the UK FCDO.

The CLIC Agrifood Investment Connector (the Connector) is one of CLIC's workstreams which develops a high-quality pipeline of climate and nature-positive agrifood businesses in developing countries.

The Connector identifies suitable SMEs and works with them to assess their climate and nature risks and impacts in preparation for investor pitching and due diligence.

In parallel, the Connector identifies pools of interested investors and builds a solid understanding of their requirements to facilitate meaningful connections with SMEs.

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The Connector is completing work with its first cohort of 8 SMEs in collaboration with AGRA and CGIAR.

The type of agribusinesses supported are wide ranging and have so far included companies doing one or more of the following activities:

- supplying farm equipment and inputs
- off taking, distributing, processing, and exporting produce
- running digital marketplace/trading platforms
- providing CSA/agronomic advisory, EWS
- facilitating agroforestry and land restoration
- provision of ancillary farmer services (e.g., insurance, finance).

Consultancy Support Sought
The Connector seeks expert input to enhance and further develop The Connector Impact Assessment Guidelines, including methods for climate mitigation and adaptation impact assessment which will be used by CLIC Secretariat analysts (typically with economic, finance or environmental science background) to perform climate impact assessment of agribusinesses activities, which typically includes the following activities:

For each cohort, the CLIC Secretariat's team of analysts typically have a window of 1-2 months to work with each agribusiness on their climate and nature impact assessment (and pitch preparation) ahead of a pitching event.

Analysts work with the business on their impact narrative, identifying key areas of climate and nature impact.

Where possible the team aim to produce quantitative assessments of climate mitigation, adaptation and nature impacts of the agribusiness to date and potential going forward, using existing data from the agribusiness, complemented by evidence from scientific literature.

Where a quantitative impact assessment is not possible, the team seeks to collect and present activity data or statistics on the company activities that help to demonstrate potential impact.

Results are then integrated into PowerPoint pitch deck of each agribusiness and in their talking points.

Following the pitch event, the CLIC Secretariat prepares an Impact Overview document, outlining in more detail the areas of impact assessed, the methods and data used as well as suggested areas for further/deeper assessment going forward, to be used as an internal reference document by the agribusiness to support investor discussions, business planning etc.

The CLIC Secretariat also seeks to provide a small amount of ongoing support to agribusinesses which may focus on enhancing the assessment of certain impacts beyond what was achieved pre-pitch event.

Scope
The existing guidelines include the agribusiness activities listed in the box below. The consultants should work on those highlighted in bold (the CLIC Secretariat will work on the others in parallel).

For climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and organic practices, the consultant should advise on 5 priority practices (based on commonly used definitions and typologies of CSA activities) where methods can be developed and focus on elaborating methods for at least 5 of those practices, including however irrigation/water savings.

Mitigation:

Food loss reduction
Reduced synthetic fertiliser and pesticide use.
Increased organic fertiliser use.
Restoration of degraded land and agroforestry.
Use of solar power for on and off farm operations.
Improved efficiencies in transport of produce.

Adaptation:
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CSA and organic practices
:

Improved incomes and financial access.
Insurance
Early warning systems and CIS.

Tasks

Task 1:
Scoping report.

Brief report (Word or ppt format, up to 5 pages/slides) summarizing feedback on CLIC Secretariat's existing internal draft guidelines for impact assessment.

This report should include initial suggestions for improvements that can be made to the guidelines under this contract as part of Task 2 including suggestions on any additional or alternative areas of impact that s