Subsidies & Expert

Agriculture Subsidy Redesign, Targeting, and Impact

Design and implement subsidies and incentive mechanisms that improve productivity, sustainability, and farmerlivelihoods while ensuring
fiscal sustainability, compliance, and measurable impact
. This role is a technical lead within the TMO portfolio and owns the end-to-end subsidy reform workstream.

• Map existing subsidy landscape: eligibility, spend, leakage risks,incentive distortions, overlaps.
• Segment beneficiaries (farm types, size,crop/livestock systems, geography, vulnerability).
• Design alternative subsidy models:
• Targeted input subsidies (seed/feed/fertilizer) with controls
• Outcome/conditionality-linked incentives (water efficiency, compliance, productivity)
• Capital grants/ co-investment schemes for modernization (irrigation, greenhouses, renewables)
• Develop fiscalscenarios and trade-offs for government decision-makers.

• Define eligibility rules, verification methods,and audit trails(registry integration, land/farm , production evidence).
• Design leakageprevention controls (claimsvalidation, supplier vetting,anomaly detection triggers).
• Develop compliance mechanisms and enforcement pathways aligned with regulations.
• Develop cost-benefit scenarios to define and review on an ongoing basis applicability of the subsidies.

• Translate design into executable implementation plan: policy drafts,operating procedures, system requirements, vendor/process changes.
• Work with digital/data teamson:
• Farmer registryintegration
• e-voucher / digital disbursement logic
• Case management workflows for exceptions and appeals
• Support procurement packages (system integrators, payment rails, verification services).

• Define an impact evaluation approach:
• Logic models(inputs outputs outcomes)
• Baselines and measurement methods(surveys, remote sensingproxies, administrative data)
• Quasi-experimental design options were feasible(phased rollout, comparison groups)
• Establish a benefits trackingdiscipline within the TMO (impactreporting cadence, auditability).

• Coordinate with finance/treasury, audit,regulators, farmer associations, suppliers, and service providers.
• Develop communication materials to supportadoption and managepolitical economic risks.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in economics, public policy, agricultural economics, or related.
  
  Advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years in agricultural subsidy/incentives, social supporttargeting, agri-policy implementation, or development programs at leading organization.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing targeting and payment/disbursement mechanisms (public sector preferred).
• Strong quantitative capability: fiscal modeling,program evaluation methods.
• Familiarity with global best practices (FAO, World Bank, IFAD style program disciplines) preferred.