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UNCDF, as part of the South-South engagement, is running an Agritech Challenge that aims to address the problems of smallholder farmers and identify solutions across markets of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi. The Challenge is hosted in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission, the Government of India, Gates Foundation, and RaboBank Foundation. The challenge has two tracks of engagement:
- Main track that is looking at innovations which are mature and can diversify into a new market beyond their home markets.
- Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) track that is looking at innovations which are yet to scale but have the potential to address problems across their home markets.
The Challenge started in June 2021 and has culminated in form of two cohorts representing the two tracks. The details on the Challenge can be found at http://uncdf.org/finlab/agritechchallenge. The focus moving forward is to drive the following:
- Identify the readiness of these innovations to move outside of their home markets.
- Understand the business model, its potential impact to address the barriers related to smallholder farmers in markets beyond their home market and make a business case.
- Identify the potential model to drive engagement beyond the home market and potential associate partner leading to partnership/commercialization.
- Expose the cohort participants with learnings from potential recipient market and learning that can assist with improving their current business potential.
Competencies
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Core Competencies
- Think Innovatively
- Look beyond conventional approaches and established methods
- Propose new ideas, approaches and solutions to problems
- Seek patterns and clarity outside boxes and categories while resisting false certainty and simplistic binary choice
- Learn Continuously
- Actively pursue opportunities for learning and self-development professionally and personally
- Keep abreast of new developments in one’s professional area
- Proactively seek feedback, demonstrates a desire to learn from others as well as from experiences, both positive and negative
- Contribute to the learning of others
Cross-Functional Competencies
- System Thinking
- Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system
- Knowledge Facilitation
- Ability to animate individuals and communities of contributors to participate and share, particularly externally
- Knowledge Generation
- Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need
Technical Competencies
- SDG Finance
- Financial Inclusion
- Innovative Finance
- Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation
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Required Skills and Experience
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Academic Qualification:
- A Master’s degree in business, economics, agriculture, rural management, innovations or a related discipline.
Experience:
- Minimum ten (10) years of experience with progressive responsibilities in the space of digital inclusion specially relating to the agriculture or financial sectors or digital.
- Minimum five (5) years of experience in shaping plans or models for start-up or innovators or businesses that are working in either the agriculture sector or in financial services (microfinance), or smallholder farmers or rural segments.
- Experience working with international organizations, donor agencies and/or other private sector groups involved in various sectors of development is desirable.
- Experience working in the agriculture sector in Asia and Africa would be desirable.
Language:
- Fluent command of written and spoken English is required
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Core Competencies
- Think Innovatively
- Look beyond conventional approaches and established methods
- Propose new ideas, approaches and solutions to problems
- Seek patterns and clarity outside boxes and categories while resisting false certainty and simplistic binary choice
- Learn Continuously
- Actively pursue opportunities for learning and self-development professionally and personally
- Keep abreast of new developments in one’s professional area
- Proactively seek feedback, demonstrates a desire to learn from others as well as from experiences, both positive and negative
- Contribute to the learning of others
Cross-Functional Competencies
- System Thinking
- Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system
- Knowledge Facilitation
- Ability to animate individuals and communities of contributors to participate and share, particularly externally
- Knowledge Generation
- Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need
Technical Competencies
- SDG Finance
- Financial Inclusion
- Innovative Finance
- Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation
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