Kilimo Trust (KT) is an independent Regional Agricultural Development Organization working on agriculture for development across the EAC Region. It is registered in the Republic of Uganda, and it implements projects across all EAC Partner States. The core business of KT is to support the transformation of food and nutrition security in the EAC Region away from high-risk subsistence farming into lower-risk trade-based systems.
With a grant from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Kilimo Trust is implementing a 3-year project titled Regain Eastern Farmers (REEF). The REEF project aims to improve food security and promote sustainable agriculture in Eastern Uganda by increasing the adoption of food loss reduction solutions and climate-smart practices among smallholder farmers through awareness, financing, market linkages, and business support. The project will be implemented in 9 districts in Eastern Uganda including Kween, Bukwo, Kapchorwa, Bulambuli, Mbale, Manafwa, Namisindwa, Bududa and Sironko
Gender equality and the meaningful inclusion of women and youth are essential to achieving programme outcomes, given their central role in agricultural production, post-harvest handling, and rural enterprise development. This assignment seeks a Gender Specialist to ensure systematic integration of gender and youth inclusion across all project components of demand creation and supply-side strengthening
1. About the Assignment:
Kilimo Trust is seeking to engage a gender specialist to provide strategic and technical leadership to ensure that project activities, outputs and reporting meet the standards of the Gender and Inclusion Action Plan and that women and youth equitably benefit from and participate in FL-RS adoption and related value chain opportunities
2. Scope of work
The Gender Consultant is not a fulltime position but will be responsible for ensuring the following:
· Provide overall technical leadership to integrate gender and youth inclusion across all REEF project activities, including training, demonstrations, financial models and market linkages
· Develop and operationalize practical gender-responsive tools, training content, implementation plans, and guidelines that ensure women and youth equitably participate in and benefit from FL-RS adoption and related value chain opportunities.
· Strengthen capacity of implementing partners, VBAs, MSMEs and extension staff through targeted gender training, coaching, and continuous technical backstopping.
· Lead integration of gender considerations into financial mechanisms and supply-side models, ensuring prioritisation and support for women- and youth-led MSMEs and cooperatives.
· Support gender-responsive monitoring, evaluation, and learning by developing indicators, conducting gender analysis, documenting lessons, and contributing to baseline/midline/endline assessments.
· Deliver quarterly reports and support virtual coordination, with periodic field engagements, over a 3-year period through quarterly contracting.
3. Expected Deliverables
The Gender Specialist will be expected to deliver the following:
- Gender-Responsive Implementation Plan detailing integration steps and timelines.
- Gender-responsive training modules for farmers, VBAs, MSMEs, and partner institutions.
- Guidelines for gender-responsive demonstrations, extension services, and financial models.
- Quarterly gender progress reports aligned with programme reporting cycles.
- Gender analysis and input for baseline/midline/endline assessments.
- Case studies/success stories on women’s and youth participation in FL-RS adoption.
- Capacity building reports from trainings conducted.
4. Duration, Timeline and Reporting
The assignment will run for a total period of three (3) years, with engagement structured through quarterly contracts, during which the consultant is expected to deliver output on a quarterly basis, and each contract renewal will be contingent upon satisfactory performance and alignment with evolving project needs.
The consultant will report to the Kilimo Trust Country Team leader.
5. Location:
The position will be primarily virtual/remote, with periodic field travel to implementation districts for training, assessments, coordination meetings, and monitoring, scheduled as needed and planned in close consultation with the Project Lead.
6. Technical Requirements:
The consultant (individual or firm) must meet the following minimum qualifications:
a) Master’s degree in Gender Studies, development Studies, Sociology, Agricultural Economics, Rural Development, or a related field (PhD an added advantage).
b) Minimum 7 years of experience in gender mainstreaming in agriculture, climate resilience, food systems, or rural development.
c) Proven experience integrating gender into agricultural value chains, technology adoption, MSME development, and financial inclusion.
d) Strong track record in gender analysis, training content development, and MEL frameworks.
e) Demonstrated expertise in gender equality, youth empowerment, social inclusion, and rural livelihoods.
f) Excellent analytical, writing, facilitation, and capacity-building skills.
g) Ability to work independently in a virtual environment and collaborate effectively with government, private sector, NGOs, and development partners.
h) Familiarity with post-harvest loss reduction and climate-smart agriculture (added advantage).
Mode of Application.
All Interested bidders must submit appliactions via email to procurement@kilimotrust.org their Expression of Interest (EoI) in one folder. Financial Proposal and three reference letters from their clients, by Monday 8th December 2025 at 11:59 PM EAT.
The Prospective bidder MUST clearly indicate in the Email subject ‘Gender mainstreaming under REEF in Eastern Uganda’.
For any further clarification, please email: admin@kilimotrust.org Attn to Procurement.
“Only successful bidders shall be contacted. If you do not hear from us within one (1) month after the bid submission deadline, consider your bid unsuccessful. “