The agency/individual will work closely with the Fellows and Affiliates Manager to support the expert team in the process of identifying, weighting and documenting priorities in food security and nutrition and informing an innovation call on the same.

The Consultant is expected to work with the AAS Finance department to conduct the GFGP Online Portal Desktop Review for the various grantees’ organization. The grantees organization are expected to have already completed and submitted their GFGP Online Assessment. The consultant may request for any additional information from the Grantees organization as they deem fit to help complete the review. The Consultant shall review and produce a report for Individual grantees organization as well as an Overall Report for the Management.

The AAS has awarded a total of USD 107M grants to 210 programmes spread across all the 5frican regions. The programmes are within Research Institutions, and they work with a consortium of other African research Institutions which range from 1 to 8 partners per programme.