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Programme Associate (Food systems -Environment and Safeguarding)


March 23rd, 2022 at 01:24 pm

The office of the United Nations World Food Programme invites applications from suitable candidates to fill the vacancy below. Programme Associate

Job Title: Programme Associate (Food systems -Environment and Safeguarding)

Duty Station: Accra

About

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.  Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Context

Ghana’s CSP is anchored on capacity strengthening, which runs through all the five strategic outcomes with their various activity categories. The priorities of WFP’s first country strategic plan (CSP) covering the period 2019-2023 are in line with the findings of the Ghana zero hunger strategic review; interventions focus on direct food assistance using commodity vouchers and social behaviour change communication (SBCC) to improve the nutritional status of targeted populations, in line with national targets. The country office (CO) also aims to ensure vulnerable communities benefit from: (a) efficient and resilient food systems which support nutritional value chains; (b) capacity strengthening interventions to manage food security, nutrition, and social protection programmes; and (c) advocacy and coherent policy frameworks support to key cooperating partners

The Country Office is planning to implement a project:  Strengthening Food Systems to Empower Smallholder Farmers and Young People project with the goal to contribute to the modernization and transformation of Ghana’s agricultural sector and improved livelihoods of smallholder farmers (SHFs) with deliberate focus on youth. The project is aimed at creating jobs and contributing to reducing unemployment in Ghana among youth especially females through improvement in existing and creation of new opportunities in the agriculture sector. This will be achieved through reduction in post harvest losses, connecting smallholder farmers (SHFs) predominantly the youth, and other agriculture value chain actors to organised value chains and structured markets.

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The project main objectives include.

  • To reduce post harvest loss among smallholders, improve food safety and quality standards of the targeted commodity value chains.
  • To enhance capacity of farmers and provide access to structured and digital markets to Improve Livelihoods.

The project intends to reach 100,000 smallholder farmers (direct beneficiaries-56 percent women) organised in 400 farmers organisations and engaged in production of maize, soybean, rice, sorghum, and millet as the primary target commodities or value chains.  The project will cover 9 regions of Ghana including Ashanti, Bono East, Bono, Upper East, Upper West, Savanna, Eastern region, Northern and North East. Of the 100,000 SHFs, 60 percent of project beneficiaries (60,000) will be youth aged between 18 -35 years, 60 percent of the youth beneficiaries will be young women (36,000). The focus of the project is on creating job opportunities for the youth especially young women and will analyse all bottlenecks that hinder young women from accessing available opportunities and will provide sustainable solutions to those bottlenecks. The project also intends to engage 50 aggregators/SME buyers, 20 agro-processors, commercial, institutional, and regional buyers and will ensure that the targeted youths acquire new work created through wage and self-employment. The project is expected to be implemented in 5 years effective January 2022 to January 2027

The project will adopt an integrated value chain approach to implement context-specific interventions aimed at reaching the following outcomes: 

  • Young people, especially women, have improved employment opportunities along the value chain  
  • Smallholder farmers, especially youth and women, increase the value of their sales, resulting in improved income 
  • Smallholder farmers, especially youth and women, reduce post-harvest losses and improve the quality for targeted crops 
  • Improved inclusiveness of marginalized groups in agricultural value chains 
  • Improved value chain efficiency for young people, in particular women 

In addition, whenever possible the initiative will explore and advance digital solutions to attract young people to the sector and increase value chain efficiencies. 

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JOB PURPOSE:

He / she will support all activities related to sustainable agriculture, environmental management and safeguarding, climate smart agricultural practices in the project activities. Will also actively participate in the designing, executing, monitoring, and reporting on all environment and safeguarding activities implemented in the project  

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the overall supervision of the Head of Programme/DCD, the technical supervision of the Sustainable Food Systems Coordinator in Accra, the Programme Associate will be expected to perform the following duties:

  1. Take lead in promoting activities and programmes aimed at mainstreaming climate smart initiatives and activities in all project activities.
  2. In liaison with Program Policy Officers and partners jointly promote Climate Smart Agriculture Initiatives among Smallholders and Communities and ensure climate practices are integrated into agricultural production practices.
  3. Participate in capacity building activities of WFP staff and partners in areas of sustainable agriculture / climate smart agriculture and risk mitigation measures   
  4. He/she will ensure that efforts will be made to ensure organizational policies and practices related to sustainable agriculture and climate changes are understood and can be effectively implemented through on-going training courses for all such Personnel.
  5. Liaise with M&E Programme officer to ensure all indicators related to environment and climate smart agriculture are captured for reporting in the routine project reports 
  6. Actively Participate in proposal, concept note development, and planning for new interventions or review of existing interventions on climate smart agriculture
  7. Review project and activity plan, budgets, field level agreements (FLAs) documents to ensure environmental factors and mitigations are incorporated, and sub-project documents and environmental documents are in harmony
  8. Provide support regular support for ongoing SO2 documentation and consolidation of various data and reports reporting
  9. In collaboration with the programme policy officers, assist with day-to-day sustainable Food Systems (SFS) programme management affairs, especially Organizing & scheduling SO2 weekly/biweekly meetings and take lead in taking minutes and follow up on action points with the responsible staff in SO2
  10. Actively participate in planning, implementation of all assessments related to SO2 and share results and lessons learnt for purposes of improving approaches and projects implementation strategies in the future.
  11. Will support the Gender and Youth Programme policy officer in promoting climate smart agricultural practices among the youths and women and propose related innovations that will benefit and safeguard the youth and women from environmental related risks.
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STANDARD MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Education

First degree in Environmental studies, Natural Resources Management, Agricultural sciences, Development studies or other related fields. A masters in any of the above fields is an added advantage.

Experience:

Technical skills and knowledge in human rights, Project management, Sustainable Agriculture (Climate smart agriculture), Gender mainstreaming

A minimum of five (5) years of progressive experience in project implementation related to sustainable food systems, agriculture, environment, disaster management and nutrition value chains or other related fields.

Language: Fluency and good command of the English language (oral and written) is essential.  French will be an added value.

Method Of Application

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Closing Date: 06 April 2022

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