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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 developingcountries and emerging economies.
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 include developing a detailed workplan, identifying financial intermediaries, designing a mixed-methods research approach, tracing how FIRA's financing reaches the producer, analyzing barriers and opportunities for sustainable practices, developing a typology of financial intermediaries, and consolidating findings into a final diagnostic report.
Deliverables include a workplan, a sample selection report, a document integrating a diagnostic matrix, a comparative analysis report, and an intermediary typology, and a final diagnostic report with supporting datasets and an executive presentation.
Expertise required includes being a Mexican citizen or a foreign resident with a current work visa, a Master's Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Agricultural Economics, Finance, or a related field, at least five (5) years of proven experience in agricultural or development finance, experience with mixed-methods research, fluency in written and spoken English, and excellent skills in data analysis and critical thinking.
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 developingcountries and emerging economies.
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 include developing a detailed workplan, identifying financial intermediaries, designing a mixed-methods research approach, tracing how FIRA's financing reaches the producer, analyzing barriers and opportunities for sustainable practices, developing a typology of financial intermediaries, and consolidating findings into a final diagnostic report.
Deliverables include a workplan, a sample selection report, a document integrating a diagnostic matrix, a comparative analysis report, and an intermediary typology, and a final diagnostic report with supporting datasets and an executive presentation.
Expertise required includes being a Mexican citizen or a foreign resident with a current work visa, a Master's Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Agricultural Economics, Finance, or a related field, at least five (5) years of proven experience in agricultural or development finance, experience with mixed-methods research, fluency in written and spoken English, and excellent skills in data analysis and critical thinking.
