| Overview : UNDP’s support to sustainable coffee production and trade goes back several decades, and includes early support to major certification organizations, coffee supply-chains, coffee farmers and sustainable productive landscapes. UNDP currently develops and implements a portfolio of projects that support sustainable, green and deforestation free coffee. This commitment makes UNDP one of the major international development agencies which promote sustainable coffee production and consumption. UNDP is particularly focused on the need for systemic change in coffee producing countries dominated by artisanal smallholder family farmers with low technification and productivity, and insufficient sustainability or quality differentiation. These ‘low-efficiency’ origins lack competitive advantage compared with high-efficiency origins which are competitive at a much lower price point, and some of which have and can further increase production and productivity significantly, increasing vulnerability and risk in the sector in terms of future coffee availability, sourcing options, origin diversity and related coffee qualities. Sector transformation is imperative in many of these countries. To build competitiveness, ‘low-efficiency’ producing countries must not only improve farmers’ yields and improve quality to access specialty markets, offer sustainably produced products, strengthen farmer organization etc., but also undertake more complex transition processes to increase farm-size, diversify or phase out coffee farming in lower altitudes with support to conversion into other crops, increase resilience to climate change and reduce carbon emissions to contribute to the countries’ climate change commitments. Overall, they must overcome succession challenges by making coffee production an attractive livelihood option for younger generations of farmers. UNDP remains committed to supporting producer countries in this transition process. UNDP’s Green Commodities Programme (GCP), within UNDP’s Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems (FACS) Practice, supports systemic change in commodity sectors around the world, including, among others, the palm oil sector in Indonesia, the cashmere sector in Mongolia, the soy and cattle sectors in Paraguay, and the coffee sector in Peru, where UNDP has supported a multi-stakeholder dialogue process that led to the formulation of Peru’s National Coffee Action Plan. The GCP works to enable multi-stakeholder processes because the problems facing commodity sectors are too large and complex for any single stakeholder group to address. Systemic change requires the participation and effective collaboration of all actors. UNDP GCP recently launched The Effective Collaborative Action (ECA) guide, which is methodology that builds on the foundation of 10 years’ experience in transforming food and agricultural commodity systems. Over the decade our work has evolved from dialogue and collective action (and our methodology on National Commodity Platforms) to Changing Systems through Collaborative Action. And we are broadening the application from support to commodity production to the transformation of food systems. Given the interest in systemic change in the global coffee sector UNDP’s Green Commodities Programme wishes to strengthen its team with a Commodities Adviser (Coffee). Period of Assignment /Services duration: 10 months. Estimated start date: May 1st, 2022. Proposal should be submitted only at the following email: procurement.rblac.regionalhub@undp.org Your proposal should be submitted under subject/reference: 19514-2022: INDIVIDUAL CONTRACT for “GCP Commodities Adviser (Coffee)”. NO later than Monday, April 25th, 2022, at 18:00 (UTC /GMT -5), time of the Republic of Panama. Any request for clarification must be sent in writing, or by standard electronic communication to the e-mail indicated above NO later than Tuesday, March 29th, 2022, at 15:00 (UTC /GMT-5), time of the Republic of Panama. Procurement Unit RSC LAC will respond by standard electronic mail and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all consultants. The procedures for the acquisition of services will be the ones indicated by the United Nations Development Program. This process is directed only to one individual. Any proposal received by more than two individuals jointly or legal entity will be rejected. Likewise, all the proposals from consultants involved in the elaboration of the present Terms of Reference will be rejected. | 
