E T Consultant

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd Chad is a landlocked country in Central Africa facing acute development challenges, including persistently high levels of poverty, food insecurity, and limited access to basic social services. Approximately 42.3 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, and the country continues to rank among the lowest globally on human development indicators. In the 2020 Human Development Index, Chad ranked 187th out of 189 countries. Extreme poverty has also increased in recent years, rising from 30.9 percent in 2018 to 34.8 percent in 2020 and reaching an estimated 39 percent in 2022. The country continues to experience chronic food insecurity and recurrent crises that require timely anticipation and coordinated responses. Between February and May 2025, an estimated 1.5 to 1.99 million people are expected to require food assistance, with needs particularly acute among Sudanese refugees, Chadian returnees in the eastern provinces, and internally displaced persons in the Lake Province. While food assistance is expected to remain available to refugees, it is unlikely to fully cover beneficiaries’ food consumption gaps given the continued increase in needs and the sustained influx of refugees. Crisis-level food insecurity outcomes (IPC Phase 3) are also expected in the Lake Province, where insecurity linked to terrorist attacks and recurrent floods continues to disrupt livelihoods, population movements, and market supplies. The 2024–2025 agricultural campaign has been severely affected by flooding, which has displaced communities, damaged infrastructure, destroyed an estimated 432,000 hectares of crops, and caused the loss of approximately 70,000 heads of livestock, in addition to human casualties. These shocks have further constrained the functioning and supply of local markets across the country. In support of the Government of Chad’s development agenda, the current World Bank agriculture portfolio in Chad comprises three operations: (i) the Sahel Pastoralism Support Project – Phase 2; (ii) the Food Systems Resilience Program, Phase 2 (FSRP 2) and its Additional Financing under Emergency Response Facility (ERF); and (iii) the Chad Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project (ProAGRI), for a total commitment of US$405 million. These operations aim to support the long-term development of Chad’s agriculture sector by strengthening food security, promoting agricultural and livestock value chains, and enhancing the resilience of crop and livestock production systems to climate change. Additionally, the Government of Chad submitted a proposal on September 15, 2026, in response to the ninth9th call for proposals under the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP),) with the World Bank serving as Supervising Entity. The Government has also requested an IDA guarantee to establish support for a sustainable mechanism for improving smallholder farmers’ access to fertilizers. Duties and Responsibilities The World Bank is providing expedited technical assistance to the Government of Chad and the Project Implementation Units (PIUs) to support the timely implementation and effective management of an expanding agriculture portfolio.

• Given the operational complexity and field-based nature of these projects, continuous monitoring, hands-on implementation support, and regular coordination with government counterparts and development partners are essential.
• Under the guidance of the World Bank Task Team Leaders (TTLs), the ETC will support field supervision, review requests and documentation submitted by PIUs, and facilitate the organization of virtual and in-person technical meetings with the Government, PIUs, donors, and World Bank teams on matters related to the supervision and implementation of agriculture-sector projects in Chad.
• The consultant will also provide dedicated support to the Government in preparing Chad’s proposal for the GAFSP call for projects.