CGIAR Challenge Program On Water And Food Recruitment 2011

Challenge Program on Water and Food / Volta Basin Authority
Duty Location: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Duration of Appointment: Two years

Job Purpose:
Working closely with the Challenging Program on Water and Food (CPWF) Volta Basin Leader, the Post-Doctoral Social Anthropologist will provide social science perspectives, methodologies and analysis to the coordination and change project of the Volta Basin Development Challenge (VBDC) Program.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and conduct social process research in the context of the VBDC in Burkina Faso and Ghana and provide social science perspective and analysis to the VBDC projects
• Evaluate the whole spectrum of research and change processes within the BDC for up/out scaling
• Analyze progress along VBDC outcome pathways to test the hypotheses on which they are built so as to provide regular corrective feedback to VBDC projects to enhance the achievement of the overall basin research goal
• Ensure that the monitoring, documentation and hypothesis testing highlighted above is carried out as part of VBDC’S M&E and adaptive management system
• Link up with the Coordination and Change projects in Limpopo and Nile basins for possible comparative analysis (i.e. by conducting ethnographic investigation of the activities in partnership with the VBDC projects) and contribute to the CPWF Learning to innovate (L2i) Topic Working Group
• Document and publish results of these processes in international peer-reviewed journals and at other suitable fora and outlets

Required Skills or Experience