{"id":68084,"date":"2022-06-02T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=68084"},"modified":"2022-06-02T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:07:20","slug":"world-food-programme-jobs-2022-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/world-food-programme-jobs-2022-2.html","title":{"rendered":"World Food Programme Jobs 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world\u2019s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.\u00a0 The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
Ghana\u2019s CSP is anchored on capacity strengthening, which runs through all the five strategic outcomes with their various activity categories. The priorities of WFP\u2019s 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 programs; and (c) advocacy and coherent policy frameworks support to key cooperating partners<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title: National Consultant (Value Chain Analyst)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Country Office is in the process of implementing a project:\u00a0\u00a0Strengthening Food Systems to Empower Smallholder Farmers and Young People projec<\/b>t.<\/p>\n The project goal is to contribute to the modernization and transformation of Ghana\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n The project main objectives include.<\/b><\/p>\n \u2013 To reduce post harvest loss among smallholders, improve food safety and quality standards of the targeted commodity value chains.<\/b><\/p>\n \u2013 To enhance capacity of farmers and provide access to structured and digital markets to Improve Livelihoods.<\/b><\/p>\n 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 as the priority primary value chains and\u00a0 sorghum, and millet as the secondary\u00a0 value chains.\u00a0 The project will cover 9 regions of Ghana including Ashanti, Bono East, Bono, Upper East, Upper West, Savanna, Eastern region, Northern and Northeast. 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<\/p>\n The project will adopt an integrated value chain approach to implement context-specific interventions aimed at reaching the following outcomes:<\/p>\n a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Young people, especially women, have improved employment opportunities along the value chain<\/p>\n b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Smallholder farmers, especially youth and women, increase the value of their sales, resulting in<\/p>\n improved income<\/p>\n c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Smallholder farmers, especially youth and women, reduce post-harvest losses and improve the<\/p>\n quality for targeted crops<\/p>\n d)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Improved inclusiveness of marginalized groups in agricultural value chains<\/p>\n e)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Improved value chain efficiency for young people, in particular women<\/p>\n In addition, whenever possible the initiative will explore and advance digital solutions to attract young people to the sector and increase value chain efficiencies<\/p>\n MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES<\/b><\/p>\n Under the overall supervision of the Head of Programme\/DCD, the technical supervision of the Sustainable Food Systems Coordinator in Accra and the Value chain experts at HQ, the value chain analysis consultant will be expected to perform the following duties:<\/p>\n 10. Other duties as required.<\/p>\n Deliverables of the consultancy<\/b><\/p>\n STANDARD MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION<\/b><\/p>\n Education<\/b><\/p>\n The consultant should have at least a master\u2019s degree in Agricultural Economics or equivalent experience, Agribusiness Management, Business management or marketing<\/p>\n Experience<\/b><\/p>\n The candidate must have at\u00a0least 5 years<\/b>\u00a0of postgraduate professional experience , specifically in agriculture, food value chain analysis, rural development, and development projects in the field of smallholder agricultural market support; with previous experience working with multi-lateral development institutions and the private sector<\/p>\n Knowledge and skills<\/b><\/p>\n Language<\/b>: Excellent written and spoken English. Knowledge of any local languages would be an added advantage<\/p>\n Technical and functional skills<\/b><\/p>\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the world\u2019s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.\u00a0 The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.\u00a0…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[166],"tags":[2027],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-hI8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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