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  • SayPro A FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOOD COORDINATOR

     Créée en 1979, Action contre la Faim est une organisation non gouvernementale internationale qui lutte contre la faim dans le monde. Sa charte des principes humanitaires - indépendance, neutralité, non-discrimination, accès libre et direct aux victimes, professionnalisme, transparence - fonde son identité depuis plus de 40 ans. Sa mission est de sauver des vies en éliminant la faim par la prévention, la détection et le traitement de la sous-nutrition, en particulier pendant et après les situations d'urgence liées aux conflits et aux catastrophes naturelles. Action contre la Faim coordonne ses programmes autour de 5 domaines d'activités : Nutrition et Santé - Santé Mentale, Pratiques de Soins, Genre et Protection - Sécurité Alimentaire et Moyens d'Existence - Eau, Assainissement et Hygiène - Plaidoyer. En 2019, Action contre la Faim est venue en aide à plus de 17 millions de personnes dans 49 pays à travers le monde. www.actioncontrelafaim.org VOTRE POSTE ET VOS RESPONSABILITÉS As Food Security and Livelihood (FSL) Coordinator, your role is to ensure the quality, relevance and technical innovation of the FSL strategy and interventions on the mission. You will also contribute to the definition of the country strategy while coordinating the identification of needs and the formulation of project proposals. You will also support the FSL Programme Managers in the implementation of these projects and represent the association in national and international bodies relating to your sector. Your field of intervention will cover the following themes in particular: - Food assistance (provision of in-kind and cash-based transfers, vouchers for food, cash for work, etc.) - Agriculture activities (promote agroeology practices, extension services, farmer field schools, demonstration plots, staple and cash crops production, community and home gardening, low inputs and nutrition sensitive, conservation agriculture, inputs distribution, fish ponds, livestock breeding, irrigation schemes, cereal banks, etc.); - Income generating activities; cash based interventions; nutrition sensitive food security interventions - on farm and off farm; food security surveillance' - Disaster Risk Reduction/ - Food Security, Livelihood and Environmental Assessment Crosscutting areas: protection and gender mainstreaming, partnerships, consortia, cooperation with local NGOs and local authorities VOTRE PROFIL You hold a master's degree in food security, agricultural education and extension, agricultural, applied Economics, agrobusiness management, food policy and applied food science, veterinary sciences, or related courses.You have an experience of minimum 5 years in a similar position (FSL HoD/ Technical Advisor/Technical coordinator), working with NGOs or UN agencies. You are familiar with SAME interventions, coordination mechanisms and the main donors within international NGOs.You are familiar with technical and general needs assessment tools.You have an excellent capacity for analysis and synthesis. Excellent written and verbal English communication skills. VOS CONDITIONS D'EMPLOI - 7 months fixed term contract under French or Burmese law. - Remuneration package and competitive benefits. - Closing date: 12/31/2021 ACF is committed to people with disabilities and actively fights against all forms of discrimination.             How to apply       Pour postuler, cliquez sur ce lien / To apply, please click on this following link : apply here

  • SayPro Food Assistance Project Manager

     TOR – Food Assistance Project Manager, Sudan Position: Food Assistance Project Manager (Consultant) Reports to: Deputy Country Director - Programs Location: El Fasher, North Darfur state (100%) About RI: Relief International is a leading nonprofit organization working in 18 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty. RI has been working in South Sudan since 2005, delivering integrated Health, WASH, and Nutrition projects. Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach — which we call the RI Way—emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them. Position Summary: Provide strategic, operational and technical oversight and management of the food assistance component of the emergency response in El Fasher with supervision to general food distributions, nutrition and food for education (School feeding) projects in compliance with WFP and RI policies plus other relevant standards in the area of operation. Provide leadership that entails planning, supporting and management of the program so that activities and outputs remain on track and the program contributes to its main goal of alleviating suffering among disaster affected and vulnerable communities in North Darfur by improving access to humanitarian assistance. Position Responsibilities and Duties: Project Management: ·Providing supervision and technical support to staff in management of all food resources, ensuring that the reception, handling, storage and documentation of food commodity movements are aligned with WFP and RI standards and guidelines. ·Ensure an effective reporting system to produce timely and accurate commodities reports to WFP, RI and other key stakeholders like the United Nations and Government counterparts. Budget Management: ·Manage all food resources and commodities budgets in conjunction with the DCD Of programs, the Nutrition Technical Coordinator and the Finance Team, and ensure spending and expenditures are within budget and adhere to donor requirements. ·Risk and security management: Actively combat fraud and corruption within the wider program, ensuring projects are ready for Risk Based Audits. Staff Supervision, Management and Capacity Building: ·Develop and maintain an adequate human resource plan consistent with RI policies, donor requirements and local laws and ensure proper technical and operational capacity of staff to manage and implement project initiatives. ·Conduct monthly reviews of staff performance in line with RIs performance management system, ensuring opportunities for staff feedback. ·Monitoring, Reporting, Documentation & Knowledge Management: ·Maintain effective project quality assurance mechanisms, including monitoring system for tracking of project progress against indicators, activities and key project milestones, reporting, evaluation, and communication systems. ·Conduct routine visits to all project sites for purposes of monitoring and operational support. ·Ensure Commodity Tracking System (CTS) support to the food assistance commodity reporting team, including follow. Donor and Stakeholder Engagement: ·Participate in inter-agency coordination meetings, assessments, task force teams and workshops/conferences, representing RI in engagement opportunities to local government officials, UN/NGO agencies, religious institutions and community in a positive and professional manner. Other ·Other relevant duties as assigned by supervisor to further RI programs. Qualifications & Requirements This position demands a dynamic individual with a demonstrated ability to achieve results in a demanding and fast paced environment. ·Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition, or Social sciences, or business administration or a related field including grant management. ·At least 10 years of experience of experience in Food Assistance. ·Excellent understanding of WFP programmes design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. ·Excellent computer skills, familiarity with MS Word, Lotus Notes, MS Excel and Power Point would be an added advantage. ·Field-based international NGO work experience in Food Assistance program leadership, with a minimum of 5 years total development and emergency experience in food logistics (warehousing, transportation, distributions) in a fragile or challenging and complex context with responsibility of overseeing comprehensive food security programs at a senior level. ·Sound knowledge of humanitarian international standards, policies and procedures including the Red Cross and Red Crescent Code of Conduct, HAP-I Standard, ECB Good Enough Guide, Sphere Standard (Humanitarian Charter and Participation Standard), donor requirements. ·Relevant professional experience managing and implementing large emergency response projects in Africa (assessment, proposal development, report writing and evaluation, etc.) ·Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments, and physical hardship conditions with limited resources. ·Ability to work in high tension and high security risk situations and be able to adapt to rapidly changing contexts. ·Strong English communication skills (both oral and written). ·Positive collaboration and facilitation skills including the ability to train and supervise a multi-cultural team. ·Proven ability to manage complex partnership relationships including effective coordination with host country government. ·Good cross-cultural communication skills. ·Willingness to spend at least 30% of the time in the field visiting projects sometimes under difficult living conditions. RI Values: We uphold the Humanitarian Principles: humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence. We affirmatively engage the most vulnerable communities. We value: ·Inclusiveness ·Transparency and Accountability ·Agility and Innovation ·Collaboration ·Sustainability             How to apply       To apply click on the link below; https://phg.tbe.taleo.net/phg01/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=RI&cws=4&rid=1846

  • SayPro USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) Evidence Aggregation for Programmatic Approaches (REAPER II) Activity – Chief of Party (Contingent

     USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) Evidence Aggregation for Programmatic Approaches (REAPER II) Activity – Chief of Party (Contingent) Background NORC at the University of Chicago is one of the largest and most highly respected social research organizations pursuing high quality social science research both in the U.S. and internationally. NORC is seeking a Chief of Party (COP) for the anticipated USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) Evidence Aggregation for Programmatic Approaches (REAPER II) Activity. The activity will support RFS in strengthening programming effectiveness by aggregating and synthesizing the existing evidence base for resilience and food security programmatic approaches, and creating a range of knowledge products and measures of evidence utilization. The estimated size of the award is USD $10-25M over a 5-year implementation period. The COP is a full-time position based in NORC’s Bethesda location, with the possibility of hybrid or remote working arrangements. This position is contingent on USAID contract award to NORC. Responsibilities Provide overall leadership for all aspects of REAPER II, assuming responsibility for the overall technical, management and financial direction of the activity, and ensuring quality and timeliness of all deliverables and compliance with USAID requirements; Lead and oversee activity planning and implementation; Serve as the primary point of contact with and represent the project to USAID and other activity stakeholders; Build clear channels of communication internally, with USAID and with other activity stakeholders; Oversee work of project teams, strategically deploying staff and consultants; Ensure cost effective management, financial projections and tracking systems to ensure proper use of funds; Other related duties as assigned. Required Qualifications Minimum of a Master’s Degree in a related field (PhD preferred); Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience and at least 5 years of experience leading projects of similar size and scope (large complex projects with multiple concurrent tasks); Experience working on large USAID contracts; Technical expertise in agriculture, food security, nutrition, resilience, or related fields in the context of international development; Familiarity with a range of evidence generation approaches and their associated levels of rigor, including systematic evidence review and synthesis, and dissemination formats to facilitate knowledge utilization; Excellent team leadership, management, and communication skills. Preferred Qualifications Familiarity with evidence gap maps and innovative approaches to systematic evidence review, aggregation and dissemination; Previous Chief of Party experience or similar (e.g., Deputy Chief of Party, Team Leader, Country or Technical Director) on a USAID-funded award.              How to apply       How to Apply Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to reaper2@norc.org by 5pm EST on November 30, 2022. Please use the following subject line in your email: “REAPER II COP – Last Name” in the subject line.

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  • SayPro Conducting a Citizen Survey on Food and Agriculture Policy System Reform

     Background USAID/Ghana’s Feed the Future (FTF) Ghana Policy LINK Buy-In Activity aims to foster behavior change to strengthen the capacity and ability of Ghanaian stakeholders to participate in a more transparent, inclusive, and evidence-based agriculture and food security policy process—which, in turn, will lead to improved food and nutrition outcomes and broad-based economic growth. In support of this Buy-In Activity, the Policy LINK team is mapping the landscape of institutional actors currently involved in the food and agricultural policy system and engage these actors—as well as additional Ghanaian stakeholders who potentially have not previously participated in the policy process (i.e., smallholder farmers, civil society, media), Ghanaian citizenry)—to better understand the challenges and opportunities associated with five priority policy areas in order to design future Policy LINK’s interventions. USAID’s five priority areas include (1) agricultural inputs/seeds; (2) agricultural inputs/fertilizer; (3) agricultural trade/facilitation; (4) enabling environment for private sector investment/credit; and (5) resilience and risk management policy/climate-smart agriculture. This landscape exercise has several benefits for Policy LINK. First, the work will provide the Activity with a solid overview of the actors (government, academics/researchers, civil society, private sector, donors/implementing partners [IPs], media) currently engaged in policy formulation and implementation for food systems in Ghana at both the national and subnational levels, as well as additional stakeholder groups and multi-sectorial actors (i.e., climate change, nutrition) with potential for more principled engagement in food systems policy. Second, the landscape exercise will present an initial stock take of key stakeholders’ (Government of Ghana [GoG], civil society, private sector, and citizens) priorities and willingness to engage on specific issues, which USAID and the GoG can use to inform future programing and focus limited resources. Finally, this exercise will inform Policy LINK workplan activities, including specific sector/issue-based reform efforts. Description of this Assignment/Scope of Work Policy LINK is seeking an international, regional, or local firm to support this landscape exercise by providing short-term technical assistance to design and undertake quantitative and qualitative data collection through mobile phone surveys and live calls to monitor citizen perception of and demand for food and agriculture policy system reform as well as to identify citizen priorities regarding reform. We anticipate using Likert scale and short response questions to explore some or all of the following themes: Citizens’ awareness of existing or planned policies regarding agricultural inputs; trade facilitation (such as tariff and non-tariff barriers and sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures); agricultural lending; ease of doing business; land and natural resource tenure rights; nutrition; and climate risk management. Citizens’ perspectives on who is engaged in the policy development process (i.e., political parties, donors, regional organizations; business, professional and trade associations; media, research organizations, NGOs, women’s groups; and other). Citizens’ opinions on the effectiveness of these policies. Citizens’ opinions on the effectiveness of government and other institutions engaged in agriculture and food systems policy Citizens’ opinions on priority policy areas (such as seeds, fertilizer, other inputs; agricultural trade; climate risk management; nutrition, agricultural lending; land and natural resource tenure rights; etc.) Citizen’s perception on the role of subnational structures for effective service delivery Citizens’ perspectives on what needs to change regarding agriculture and food systems policies In response to this scope of work, the firm will be expected to implement the following activities: Develop questionnaire, with guidance from DAI, to deployed via mobile phone survey and live calls. Design a sampling frame to ensure completion of a total of 1000 surveys from respondents, representing small holder farmers, women, youth, persons with disabilities and other populations in the FTF Zones of Influence (ZOI)—namely the northern, upper east, north-east, and upper west regions—in addition to Accra. Train enumerators and conduct survey. Compile and analyze findings. Deliverables • Inception report detailing updated work plan • Questionnaire designed and finalized • Data collectors recruited and trained • Data collection implementation • Clean dataset and analysis of results • Draft report and preliminary findings shared with Policy LINK team • Other operational and technical reports, to be determined Expected Timeframe 8 weeks Proposal Instructions In response to this Description of the Assignment/Scope of Work, please provide a narrative response (not to exceed 5 pages) containing the following: Proposed methodology for designing and implementing the citizen survey/poll as described above (including the sampling methodology and approach to reaching citizens through mobile phone and other technologies); Institutional capabilities and experience designing and implementing citizen surveys/polls of a similar size and complexity, including experience with such surveys/polls in Ghana or the region; Demonstrated capacity to synthesize and summarize research findings in a succinct manner; and Key qualifications of the proposed Team Leader and any other personnel deemed critical to the successful completion of this assignment. In addition, please provide a budget, outlining the anticipated costs associated with completing the proposed scope of work. Evaluation Criteria Policy LINK will evaluate interested Offerors based on the following criteria, in descending order of importance: • Soundness of proposed methodology, including sampling methodology • Experience conducting opinion and perception polls and related field especially with USAID • Capacity to synthesize and summarize research findings in a report • Qualifications of the Team Leader and any other critical personnel • Cost reasonableness NOTE: Consulting firm must seek and receive prior approval from the USAID Ghana FtF Policy LINK team (supervisor) before sharing any written information with USAID and other partners. Position Supervisor The consultant will work under direct supervision of Program Lead who will provide the overall supervision of this assignment. In ensuring the quality of the work is undertaken, the consultant will continuously consult with the Policy LINK team to agree on expectations, scope of the work, and an updated work plan based on the activity goals and approach. A debrief meeting will be held after each deliverable to discuss any further issues which require further follow-up and reporting. Submission of Proposals Separate financial and technical proposals should be submitted to LINKGhanaSubmissions@dai.com and include the reference “LINK-RFP-GHANA-2022/00010- Company’s name” in the subject line, no later than 28th September 2022. Before submission of proposals, please read through Policy LINK’s standard RFP document which provides guidance on the procedures to follow in sending proposals/bids requested by the Project. Please download the full RFP template from this link policylinkglobal.org/ghanacitizensurvey. Evaluation of Proposals 20 points- Proposed methodology for designing and implementing the citizen survey/poll as described above (including the sampling methodology and approach to reaching citizens through mobile phone and other technologies) 30 points-Institutional capabilities and experience designing and implementing citizen surveys/polls of a similar size and complexity, including past experience with such surveys/polls in Ghana or the region 30 points-Demonstrated capacity to synthesize and summarize research findings in a succinct manner 20 points- Key qualifications of the proposed Team Leader and any other personnel deemed critical to the successful completion of this assignment Payment Schedule 20% Inception report detailing updated work plan. 30% Upon submission of finalized questionnaire, trained data collectors, data collection implementation. 25% Upon submission of clean dataset, draft report and preliminary findings shared with Policy LINK team. 25% Final report.              How to apply       Separate financial and technical proposals should be submitted to LINKGhanaSubmissions@dai.com and include the reference "LINK-RFP-GHANA-2022/00010- Company’s name" in the subject line, no later than September 28th, 2022. Before submission of proposals, please read through Policy LINK’s standard RFP document which provides guidance on the procedures to follow while sending proposals/bids requested by the project.