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.