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Please note that the deadline is based on Korean Standard Time Zone (KST, UTC+9). * Design a mixed-methods (qualitative and quantitative) research approach, including in-depth interviews, questionnaires and working sessions for data collection, with the corresponding instruments. * Develop a typology of financial intermediaries according to their business model, livestock specialization, degree of proximity to producers, information availability and potential role in methane-smart finance. Explicit requirements include Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Agricultural Economics, Finance,.
Last checked: 3 hours ago
Closing date: Tuesday, 7 July 2026
Country: Mexico
Duty station: Mexico City, Mexico
Contract type: Individual Consultant (Deliverable)
Grade: Individual Consultant 3
Applicant eligibility: Not explicit in source
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Please note that the deadline is based on Korean Standard Time Zone (KST, UTC+9)
The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is a treaty-based international, inter-governmental organization dedicated to supporting and promoting strong, inclusive and sustainable economic growth in developing countries and emerging economies. To learn more please visit about GGGI web page.
Livestock production is a pillar of Mexico's rural economy and, at the same time, a major source of greenhouse gases, accounting for close to 13% of the country's national emissions. Methane is the principal greenhouse gas of concern in the sector, released through enteric fermentation, which is especially intense on degraded pastures and with low-quality feed, and through the anaerobic decomposition of manure. Beef and dairy systems concentrate most of this footprint, which places the financing that sustains them at the center of any mitigation effort.
Mexico has committed, under the Global Methane Pledge, to cut 30% of methane emissions by 2030 compared to 2020 levels, and the livestock sub-sector is central to meeting that target. FIRA’s Methane Reduction Strategy responds to this agenda from the financial side, seeking to guide credit and investment toward lower-emission production models across the value chain.
The strategy prioritizes the bovine sector, covering the dairy, beef and dual-purpose chains across their upstream and downstream segments, because it concentrates the largest mitigation potential and represents one of the largest proportions of FIRA's overall financing portfolio. Interventions in this sector therefore deliver the highest methane abatement per unit of financing.
FIRA operates as a second-tier development bank, channeling its financing through accredited financial intermediaries (banking and non-banking) rather than lending directly to producers. This structure limits its traceability over the final use of the funds: institutional reporting remains at a process and administrative level and does not reveal how financing reaches the final borrower or how it is applied. A category such as feeding expenses, for instance, does not distinguish between concentrates, forage, supplements, wet or dry matter, even though that level of detail would be decisive for estimating methane emissions. Financial intermediaries are unlikely to hold that full granularity either, but they do capture information closer to the production reality, such as the production system, herd size and location, which is highly relevant for tracing financing and linking it to mitigation.
Within the design of FIRA’s Methane Reduction Strategy, knowing the intermediaries that stand between FIRA and the producer, the financial products they offer for livestock, and the information they hold along the chain is valuable for refining the analytical frameworks used to estimate financed emissions. This assignment provides a diagnostic by building the evidence base the strategy needs to ground those calculations.
To achieve the project objectives, GGGI seeks to map the financial intermediaries that channel FIRA's financing to bovine livestock (dairy, beef and dual-purpose) and to trace, in detail, how that financing moves through them: the financial products they design around it, how they receive and then disburse the resources, and how it is ultimately used once it reaches the producer. The diagnostic should reveal what production practices and inputs the credit funds, and how far the information these intermediaries hold can support that level of detail.
This evidence will feed the analytical framework GGGI is building to classify FIRA's investment concepts as methane-smart or not, to develop traceability tools for financed methane emissions, and to inform the design of methane-focused financial instruments.
Activities
Deliverables and Payment Schedule
Deliverable 1. Workplan.
Activities, methodology, data sources, the approach strategy for engaging FIRA and the intermediaries, and a timeline. Serves as the operational reference for monitoring progress and coordinating with GGGI.
Deliverable 2. One sample selection report, with an annexed intermediary database and a research design proposal.
The report presents the resulting sample of up to 15 intermediaries and the methodology behind it; the annexed database consolidates the identified intermediaries; and the research design sets out the mixed-methods approach and its instruments, ready for application and approved by GGGI and FIRA before fieldwork begins.
Deliverable 3. One document that integrates a diagnostic matrix, a comparative analysis report, and an intermediary typology.
The matrix will structure data at the intermediary level, capturing institution type; livestock financial products; disbursement and distribution mechanisms; the productive use of credit funds (inputs, practices, infrastructure); data recorded throughout the process; granularity of the credit's end use; and identified traceability gaps. The accompanying report will benchmark intermediaries across these variables, analyzing the barriers, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable practice adoption, alongside the feasibility and anticipated uptake of future methane-smart financial solutions. The document also includes an annexed database typology that classifies the intermediaries by business model, livestock specialization, proximity to producers, information availability and potential role in methane-smart finance.
Deliverable 4. Final diagnostic report, supporting datasets, and executive presentation.
This consolidated report integrates all diagnostic findings regarding the flow of FIRA's financing through intermediaries down to the producer level. Backed by the underlying datasets, the report translates these insights into actionable implications for the strategy's analytical framework, traceability, and instrument design. Specifically, it delivers a proposed minimum data set to enable the estimation of financed methane emissions and feeds the methane-smart classification of FIRA's investment concepts. The deliverable concludes with an executive presentation summarizing the consultancy's key outcomes.
OUTPUT / DELIVERABLE
PERCENTAGE OF MAXIMUM AMOUNT
DUE DATE
Deliverable 1. One workplan developed.
10%
2 weeks after the start date
Deliverable 2. One sample selection report, with an annexed intermediary database and a research design proposal.
30%
6 weeks after the start date
Deliverable 3. One document that integrates a diagnostic matrix, a comparative analysis report, and an intermediary typology.
35%
11 weeks after the start date
Deliverable 4. Final diagnostic report, supporting datasets, and executive presentation.
25%
13 weeks after the start date
All products (databases, documents with their annexes, tables, diagrams, and other graphic materials) will be delivered in digital media, in open and editable files.
The total fee is all-inclusive: it covers all travel, per-diem and working-session expenses required to conduct the assignment; GGGI will not reimburse or cover any cost directly.
The consultant will be supervised by GGGI's Mexico Program Sustainable Production Senior Associate. The consultancy will be monitored and coordinated mainly through periodic review and planning meetings, with details to be agreed in a kick-off meeting once the consultancy starts and the schedule defined in coordination with the same supervisor. These meetings will address the strategic direction of activities, the coordination of actors, and progress reporting on the consultancy's objective and deliverables.
Deliverables may be submitted in Spanish; the final executive presentation, however, must be delivered in English, in accordance with GGGI's formatting requirements. Fieldwork, interviews, and stakeholder consultation will be conducted in Spanish, and all products must be sent in electronic copy together with the detail of the items associated with each deliverable.
Date to close is Korean Standard Time (KST). Applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered. Application, cover letter, and CV must be sent in English. A consortium or a firm may not be engaged for the individual consultant assignment.
Child protection – GGGI is committed to child protection, irrespective of whether any specific area of work involves direct contact with children. GGGI’s Child Protection Policy is written in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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