| Overview : Background: The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) with support from the European Union through COMESA and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is implementing the project “Enhancing Resilience of Agricultural Landscapes and Value Chains in Eastern Uganda” in the districts of Kamuli, Kaliro, Buyende, Bugiri, Busia, Budaka, and Namutumba. The overall objective the project is to enhance resilience of agricultural landscapes and value chains through strengthening farmer organizations, systematic gender inclusiveness, management of strategic agricultural value chains, and increased adoption of CSA practices in primary schools and among farmers. The project therefore set out to support adoption of CSA practices and technologies in farmer cooperatives and primary schools, develop enterprise platforms to enhance productivity, value addition and marketing thereby increase profitability across the selected value chains. It is hoped that this project will enhance climate resilience of agriculture production, enhance growth of CSA-supportive institutions and lead to increased investment by private sector actors (particularly the input and marketing dealers that will supply climate smart technology inputs and services). The project has been running for the last 2.5years. As such the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, would like to engage a National Consultant to document the best practices and lessons learned from implementation of project activities in Kamuli, Kaliro, Buyende, Bugiri, Busia, Budaka, and Namutumba Districts. The consultant shall document lessons learned by Project implementers (PMU and Responsible Parties) District Leadership, CSA Task forces, CSA Cooperatives and CSA Schools in each district, but also across each of the 3 project outputs. Objective of the Consultancy The overall objective of the consultancy is to document best practices, capture lessons learned by different stakeholders and draw recommendations to inform future actions during regional and national planning and design of new projects going forward. The documentation will include transformative success stories observed for each of the targeted CSA Cooperatives Application Process Applicants are requested to apply online at https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_jobs.cfm by 12th October 2021. Individual consultants are invited to submit applications together with their CV for these positions. UNDP applies a fair and transparent selection process that will take into account the competencies/skills of the applicants as well as their financial proposals. Qualified women and members of social minorities are encouraged to apply. Interested applicants should send an email to: ug.procurement@undp.org for any inquiries. |
