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With funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Land O`Lakes Venture 37 is leading an innovative, demand-driven Food for Progress Safety and Quality Investment in Livestock (SQIL) project to improve food safety and quality along Georgia`s dairy and beef value chains. Throughout the project, Land O`Lakes is partnering with Michigan State University and the Georgian Farmers` Association, uniting agribusiness know-how with industry leading food safety acumen and deep Georgian agribusiness connections. From farm-to-fork, this project aims to reduce losses, improve food safety and quality, boost competitiveness, productivity and trade within the Georgian dairy and beef market systems.

SQIL will be implemented through targeted facilitative interventions that identify and support entrepreneurs within the dairy and beef market systems with the attitude and willingness to become more competitive. SQIL initiatives also reflect a commitment to increasing opportunities for women and young people and improved resilience to climate change. The project aims to achieve these goals through an integrated approach that has six interlinked components:

1. Expand Market Access​. Strengthen and expand existing dairy and beef industry associations in Georgia to serve as a knowledge and marketing platform for the domestic dairy and beef products. Support the association members to develop industry lead Seal of Quality (SOQ) standards and certification process to represent Georgian measures of excellence and international manufacturing best practices. The effort will be accompanied by a national multimedia campaign to raise domestic consumers` awareness of the SOQ and alert the agribusiness industry to the benefits of achieving higher food safety and quality standards. ​

2. Improve Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards​. Build the capacity of farmers and Georgian dairy and beef business operators with technical assistance, using the successful training model promoted by Michigan State University (MSU) across its global food safety training programs. Work with government institutions to disseminate public extension content and food safety information. Support the National Food Agency (NFA) over the project duration to build the operational infrastructure and human resource capacity within the agency. Refine the food safety training curricula within Georgia`s top universities offering food safety-oriented degree programs. ​

3. Improve Post-Harvest Handling and Storage​. Conduct an analysis of the cold storage, transportation and logistics system across the targeted regions and identify areas for management and infrastructural improvements as they relate to the dairy and beef market systems. Leverage supply chain optimization tools to determine their baseline capacity, logistics and management functionality of operators. Forge linkages between selected firms and commercial banks offering loan products to facilitate lending for infrastructural improvements. ​

4. Improve Productivity​. Use the project innovation fund and technical assistance to incentivize entrepreneurial businesses to scale different models for extension services, increased competitiveness and input provision to dairy and beef farmers. Integrate and embed with input providers and buyers training topics and tools that educate farmers on improved and more productive farm management practices. Organize annual herd and carcass competitions to enable farmers to showcase their livestock and the results of their improved practices, and input providers to highlight the benefits gained from using more productive livestock rearing techniques, technologies and practices.

5. Improve Access to Financial Services​. Use the project innovation fund to focus on increasing product, service and business model innovation for embedded extension services and improved food safety and quality within the dairy and beef market systems. Co-investment partners will be selected using a competitive process. Investments will be coupled with technical assistance to support co-investors to implement their business growth plans. Promote linkages to commercial banks for continued financing. Provide technical support to insurance providers and financial institutions to further the development of livestock insurance products, scale them, and improve linkages between insurance and credit provider`s products that decrease lending risk.

6. Capacity Building to Inform Food Safety Policy Development​. Mobilize policy experts to assess the Government of Georgia`s (GoG) food safety policy and provide technical assistance to GoG on policy and institutional formulation and reform that enables Georgia to meet international standards. Work with industry associations to develop plans and benchmarks for proposed policy reforms impacting food safety. Facilitate Georgian associations` engagement with governmental working groups and civic forums to advocate for dairy and beef industry growth.

Overview of the role of the consultant: The overall role of the STTA will be to support SQIL on development a manual on principles and practices related to manufacture of dairy acidified products.

See full SOW in the attached file.

Closing Date: 4 December 2020, 17:00 Georgian Local Time.

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