Organizational Setting

The Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda by FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022-31 by supporting the transformation to Extra environment friendly, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri- meals programs, for Higher manufacturing, Higher diet, a Higher setting and a Higher life, leaving nobody behind.

The FAO Illustration in Ghana is the physique accountable for making certain liaison between FAO and the Authorities of Ghana and is the primary port of name for analysing and appraising authorities help requests; figuring out, formulating, implementing and monitoring all FAO programmes and initiatives; managing all phases of the venture cycle for nationwide initiatives for which operational and funds holder duties have been assigned by the Technical Cooperation Division; figuring out alternatives for collaboration, and mobilizing technical and operational help from the Regional Workplace, Headquarters and different funding sources as applicable.

International challenges to ending starvation, meals insecurity and all types of malnutrition stay, and have been worsened by local weather change whereas the mixed results of the COVID 19-pandemic, Russia’s battle of aggression in opposition to Ukraine, and different components are deepening the plights of households in lots of international locations, together with West Africa and Ghana. In Ghana, from the November 2022 Built-in Meals Safety Part Classification (IPC), an roughly 19% of the analyzed inhabitants have been discovered to both be underneath stress, in crises or in emergency meals insecurity state of affairs. General, 6.2% of the inhabitants have been recognized to be weak (meals insecure) with smallholder farm households having been the toughest hit given their financial vulnerability.

Local weather change might trigger yield losses to most rainfed cereals, particularly maize, as much as 16 to 21 % in 2050, in comparison with a baseline with out local weather change. Yields lower attributable to local weather change are additionally anticipated different crops like sorgum, millet, groundnut and greens whereas improve within the share of livestock affected by droughts is predicted from 13 to 39 %. Weak resilience to local weather impacts lack of assets to amass productive inputs are a few of the causes of low productiveness, and subsequently low earnings and low availability of nutrient dense various meals on the family stage.

As a response to the present state of affairs and foreseeable future meals safety disaster, The Authorities of Ghana and the Meals and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations with funding help of the European Union (EU) is implementing EU Meals Safety Response in Northern Ghana (GCP/GHA/040/EC) venture (2023-2026) concentrating on at the very least 10000 households. The venture is being carried out over three agricultural seasons to extend crop and livestock manufacturing, together with 6 000 maize farmers who will probably be supported to supply 18 000 Mt of maize over three years in focused districts; 2 400 millet farmers who will probably be supported to supply 5,184 Mt of millet; and 4 200 sorghum farmers to supply 8 517 Mt of sorghum over the three years within the focused districts. As well as, farmers, particularly girls and youth, and worth chain actors will probably be supported with capability and entry to post-harvest applied sciences alongside the groundnut, soybean and vegetable (tomato) worth chains with farmers’ capability on local weather change adaptation amongst others enhanced.

An built-in method to sustainable meals manufacturing and the resilience of meals programs has grow to be all-time necessary than ever. The venture will promote crop-specific, agro-ecological programs and approaches and help the sustainable improvement of maize, millet, sorghum, soyabean, groundnut, greens (tomato), poultry, piggery worth chains. In chosen venture areas, direct agricultural inputs provision, accompanied by help to climate-adapted agricultural practices, provision of improved  grain storage applied sciences, coaching on post-harvest practices, promotion of natural fertilizer use, provision of photo voltaic powered irrigation options and software of different local weather delicate and sustainable agri-techniques, promotion of built-in pests and ailments administration approaches and facilitation of entry to market in addition to worth addition for crops produced will assist in resolving a few of the manufacturing and post-harvest bottlenecks and contribute to reaching meals safety, and enhanced resilience to future shocks and disasters.

Reporting Strains

The incumbent will probably be working underneath the general supervision and steering of the FAO Consultant to Ghana, the technical supervision of the Technical Adviser, the direct supervision of the Assistant FAOR (Head of Programmes) and in shut collaboration with the Nationwide Mission Coordinator and Technical Committee.

 

Technical Focus

Design, implementation help and analysis of agricultural funding operations, in addition to strategic and coverage work, with a give attention to agribusiness improvement and the creation of an enabling setting for environment friendly and inclusive agricultural and meals programs, together with functioning agricultural help companies in addition to rural market and finance establishments.

 

Duties and duties

•    Be primarily chargeable for earnings technology, marketability and profitability of farmers and beneficiaries of the EUD venture.
•    Implement a devoted technique and actions to advertise entry to market and market data of worth chain actors.
•    Design and implement revolving fund schemes and/or village/neighborhood financial savings and mortgage schemes underneath the venture.
•    Examine, suggest and discover to facilitate institution of District-wide Cooperative Unions together with implementing actions to strengthen present Unions.
•    Hyperlink and help farmers and worth chain actors’ participation in greater markets and marketplaces such because the Ghana-EU Agribusiness Platform and the AfCFTA.
•    Design and help to implement a particular enterprise bundle for Folks/Farmers with Particular Wants underneath the venture.
•    Help within the preparation of periodic experiences, assessments, and technical paperwork, together with however not restricted to; venture progress and monitoring experiences, Mission Terminal Report implementation experiences, letters of settlement, phrases of references, and speeches.
•    Plan and execute workshops and different conferences.
•    Carry out every other duties as could also be required.

 

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimal Necessities

•    Advance college diploma in agriculture, agro-industry, enterprise administration, economics, agricultural economics or a intently associated area
•    7 years of expertise in agribusiness, agricultural worth chain promotion s and market improvement, processing, together with expertise within the formulation and/or implementation of agricultural funding operations in growing international locations
•    Expertise working with neighborhood, NGOs and farmer teams is a plus.
•    Working data of English (proficient – stage C).
•    Nationwide of Ghana.

 

FAO Core Competencies

•    Outcomes Focus
•    Teamwork
•    Communication
•    Constructing Efficient Relationships
•    Data Sharing and Steady Enchancment

 

Technical/Purposeful Abilities 

•    Work expertise in a couple of location or space of labor, significantly in area positions.
•    Data of the context in addition to companions and establishments of the particular subregion can be an asset.
•    Extent and relevance of expertise in technical fields associated to agribusiness improvement, value-chain improvement and evaluation, enterprise planning, and agriculture advertising.
•    Extent and relevance of the expertise within the space of the functioning of markets, agri-logistics and meals distribution programs, comparable to the event of agribusiness logistics centres, market infrastructure and the corresponding administration programs can be an asset.
•    Extent and relevance of expertise in taking part in (and presumably main) multidisciplinary groups for the preparation of methods and sector research in addition to formulation, implementation help or analysis of agricultural funding and finance help options, provision of technical help with give attention to worth chain improvement and agribusiness, and expertise in working instantly with the non-public sector.
•    Extent and relevance of expertise in funding design, implementation help and analysis procedures of FAO’s predominant improvement companions, specifically the World Financial institution, the European Financial institution for Reconstruction and Improvement (EBRD), the Worldwide Fund for Agricultural Improvement (IFAD) and different accomplice worldwide monetary establishments (IFIs).
•    Relevance and expertise in analysing meals security and high quality associated points.
•    Demonstrated expertise in coping with authorities officers, the non-public sector, improvement companions and different nation stakeholders.
•    Demonstrated capability to jot down technical experiences in English.

 

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION