Strengthening the Resilience of Smallholder farmers, Micro and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Local Communities

Client: 
GIZ
Position: 
Expert for development of cooperatives / informal agricultural networks / cooperation management
Region: 
MENA
Country: 
Lebanon
Languages: 
Arabic; English
Nationality: 
Lebanese
Status: 
Forecast
Deadline: 
Friday, September 30, 2022
Description: 

The transitional development assistance measure is aimed at vulnerable farmers, agricultural associations and cooperatives, vulnerable MSMEs involved in food processing, and other value chains downstream of agriculture that can no longer sustain their production due to the crisis or do not adapt their production methods and products to the changed market conditions In Mount Lebanon. 

The tendered work package aims to support selected agricultural associations to adapt their production systems to market conditions that have changed as a result of crisis.

 

TASKS OF THE EXPERT

  • Capacity and performance analysis of cooperatives
  • Development of cooperatives
  • Building of informal agricultural networks
  • Cooperation management (including the Ministry for agriculture and the Ministry for trade)
  • Close coordination and cooperation with expert 3 and development of joint training approaches for farmers and cooperatives/ lose farmers networks
Qualifications: 
  • Education/training: University degree (master’s) in agriculture, economics, or social science 
  • Languages: knowledge of Arabic (C2), knowledge of English (C1) in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
  • General professional experience : 10 years of professional experience in the agriculture, economics, or development studies
  • Specific professional experience : 7 years of professional experience in networking and cooperation management in the field of agriculture
  • Development cooperation (DC) experience : 5 years of experience working on development cooperation projects
Start / Duration: 

The envisaged start date is from January or February 2023 over two and half years to three years

Contact: 

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