The firm would provide overall technical support to WRG in the areas of Direct Seeded Rice (DSR); mechanization and technology promotion & adoption in water use efficiency related technologies and approaches. The firm (TSU) will perform the following activities per the scope. a) Design and undertake baseline assessments; status reviews and critical analyses of the Technical Assistance (UP Accelerator) program to inform WRG about any course corrections required; track; review; update the progress of the Accelerator program targets from time to time and help achieve goals set out by the Governing Council of the Trust Fund.b) Design and develop research pilots for WRG¡¯s understanding of the economics; efficiency; incentives and scale-enabling factors for adoption of Low Emissions Rice cultivation techniques such as Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD); DSR and uberization of farm-technologies to inform WRG¡¯s global flagship program for scaling private sector investments in Low Emissions Rice.c) Provide technical inputs and support WRG to convene and follow up on multi-stakeholder platform discussions on Sustainable Rice periodically in partnership with public; private and civil society stakeholders. Document global and domestic evidence; good practices and knowledge on sustainable rice production; market-linkages; digital technology; and climate financing to create a knowledge repository on low emissions rice supporting World Bank operations.d) Carry out value chain analyses in key agro-climatic regions where WRG TA programs are operational to understand impacts on key sustainability indicators (water savings; emissions reduction); identify climate- smart; farmer-centric; and water-efficient technologies and inform World Bank operations in UP; Bihar and Odisha (UP-AGREES; BWSIMP; REWARD).e) Provide technical inputs to develop a Measurement Reporting and Verification (MRV) system for measurement of emissions and water footprint reduction and its interactions with sustainable/regenerative agricultural practices creating knowledge for use in World Bank operations; employing spatial and field-observation or survey-based data tools and aligned to global and national benchmarks. Also suggest good practices to co-create MRV systems that are accessible and affordable to smallholders and value chain stakeholders.f) Identify opportunities and facilitate convergences with public-and-private funded programs for promotion of mechanization; irrigation technologies and innovations such as community irrigation programs; entrepreneurship and Irrigation as a Service (IaaS) concept along with the DSR initiative.g) Support documentation and convening of workshops and knowledge events bringing together key stakeholders to disseminate knowledge products; lessons in private sector partnerships and showcase the UP Accelerator program. Share updates with relevant stakeholders through newsletters; digital media; annual reports; etc.h) Closely coordinate with the monitoring; evaluation and learnings (MEL) partner/consultant assigned by WRG; to develop and periodically update a Monitoring Information System (MIS) to report outputs of the UP Accelerator program (per Theory of Change).i) Develop IEC material; support WRG to conduct workshops; seminars; and create awareness about the UP-Accelerator Program; including support for formalizing private sector partnerships and support for resource mobilization and co-financing by preparing pitch books/presentations/proposals; funder and partner lists etc.