Development & Piloting of a South Africa Tender - 149744337

The WORLD BANK(WB) has issued a Tender notice for the procurement of a Development & Piloting of a South Africa Sustainable Agriculture Finance Framework & Toolkit in the South Africa. This Tender notice was published on 24 Sep 2026 and is scheduled to close on 12 Oct 2026, with an estimated Tender value of Refer Document. Interested bidders can access detailed Tender information, eligibility criteria, and complete bidding documents by referencing TOT Ref No. 149744337, while the tender notice number is 0002023769 and Registering on the platform.

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Procurement Summary

Country: South Africa

Summary: Development & Piloting of a South Africa Sustainable Agriculture Finance Framework & Toolkit

Deadline: 12 Oct 2026

Posting Date: 24 Sep 2026

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 149744337

Document Ref. No.: 0002023769

Competition: ICB

Financier: World Bank (WB)

Purchaser Ownership: Public

Tender Value: Refer Document

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Context South African agriculture underpins food security, employment, exports, and rural economies, but is increasingly exposed to climate variability, extreme weather, environmental degradation, social challenges, infrastructure constraints, rising input costs, and trade volatility. After real GDP contractions in 2023 and 2024, the sector began a partial recovery in 2025, underscoring the importance of sustained access to credit and investment in productive and resilient assets. With approximately R257 billion in direct agriculture and agribusiness exposure across the four major commercial banks as of June 2025—nearly 70% concentrated in primary producers—agriculture is also a significant banking portfolio. As banks embed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and climate considerations into credit decisions, pricing, tenor, collateral, and capital allocation, the absence of consistent agriculture-specific guidance on the definitions of sustainability creates material uncertainty. Current approaches vary across institutions, subsectors, and value chains. Producers navigate overlapping finance, certification, market-access, and regulatory requirements related to ESG performance, while banks lack consistent ways to recognize existing sustainability practices and translate sector risks into credit-relevant metrics. This fragmentation increases transaction costs and the risk that viable producers are excluded from finance because expectations are poorly aligned with agricultural realities.PROJECT OBJECTIVEThe project objective is to develop, pilot, and operationalize a shared Sustainable Agriculture Finance Framework (SAFF) and Toolkit for South Africa, jointly anchored by AgriSA and BASA with technical support from IFC. The framework will align agricultural sustainability practices with financial-sector ESG, climate, credit-risk, and product-development processes, while remaining practical and responsive to local production realities.Specifically, the project ai...

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