GIZ commissioned AgriDev, under the KARM project, to carry out a rapid, conflict-sensitive selection of agricultural value chains and to map the food systems around them, in two regions where security, mobility and market access vary sharply. The assignment covers:
- Value chain selection through the GIZ-ILO eight-step process, scoring each candidate across the economic, environmental, social and institutional dimensions, with a dedicated conflict-sensitivity and social-stability criterion added.
- Food-system mapping around each shortlisted chain — local markets and consumers, the services, storage, transport and processing the chain depends on, community structures and public infrastructure.
- Identification of anchor firms and potential Agribusiness Clusters in neighbouring villages sharing the same value chain.
- Conflict-sensitivity and Do-No-Harm analysis, identifying tensions, exclusion and elite-capture risks, and the connectors through which agricultural work can strengthen social cohesion.
- Field consultation in both regions by local field teams, with remote data-collection fallbacks where access to the South is constrained.
- Two one-day stakeholder validation workshops, one in the North and one in the South, cross-checked with the KARM team and the Ministry of Agriculture.
- GIS visualisations of clusters and strategic infrastructure, and selection matrices and actor maps built for targeting rather than description.
Delivery is sequenced by region — North Lebanon first, where access is more predictable, then Nabatieh and the South — against five milestones: an inception report and preliminary selection matrix in week two, a North Lebanon report in week five, a South Lebanon report in week seven, and the final integrated report in week eight.
Work observes informed consent, confidentiality and Do-No-Harm throughout, with safeguarding and PSEA standards applied in engaging women, persons with disabilities and displaced respondents. AgriDev acts as independent data controller.