Type de consultant: Firm Consultant

Lieu de la mission: Home based

Date de publication: 01-juil-2026

Date de clôture: 31-juil-2026

Domaine: 

Finance

The Financial Sector Development Department (PIFD) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) seeks to engage a consulting firm to conduct a comprehensive market validation of the potential to introduce and scale Supply Chain Finance (SCF) solutions across Africa. The assignment will provide implementation-ready recommendations to guide AfDB’s SCF product strategy, partnerships, operational model, and pilot interventions.

Africa faces a persistent annual trade finance gap estimated at between US$80 billion and US$130 billion, with SMEs and MSMEs most affected by lack of collateral, limited credit history, high perceived risk, and weak access to tailored working-capital solutions. SCF—including reverse factoring, payables finance, receivables discounting, inventory finance, and technology-enabled platforms—offers an opportunity to unlock liquidity, reduce financing costs, strengthen supplier relationships, and enhance supply chain resilience, including for women-owned and women-led enterprises.

While SCF volumes have grown globally, Africa’s share remains modest despite strong potential across intra-African trade, agriculture, manufacturing, logistics, retail and emerging digital ecosystems. The assignment will assess market demand and supply, enabling conditions, product archetypes, risks, gender and inclusion dimensions, and AfDB’s comparative advantage in supporting SCF in Regional Member Countries.

The assignment will also design two to three implementation-ready pilot interventions, propose an AfDB SCF product blueprint and rollout roadmap, and define a monitoring, evaluation and learning framework aligned with AfDB’s development objectives, including financial inclusion, gender, youth, trade facilitation and private sector development outcomes.