Subregional Food Security analyst

Details

Mission and objectives

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Our goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With 195 members - 194 countries and the European Union, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide.

Context

The Sub-regional office for Resilience West Africa/Sahel (REOWA) enables FAO to liaise and coordinate with the large humanitarian and resilience community based in Dakar. It also provides FAO Representation in the sub-region with Strategic support on resilience issue. REOWA covers the 15 ECOWAS countries plus Mauritania and Chad. REOWA facilitates the contribution of FAO Cameroon to the Sahel humanitarian Appeal (HRP) consolidated in Dakar. Despite this considerable support provided with some tangible positive results, the situation of food and nutrition security remains precarious in the region due to many reasons including the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of crop pests such as fall army warms and the threat of desert locust invasion It's worth to mention that n FAO/REOWA is one of the pioneering organizations behind the development and dissemination of the cadre harmonise (CH) tool in West Africa and the Sahel and at the global level. FAO, took over the chairman of the technical committee for the Cadre harmonise since January 2019. as t the demand of CH is constantly increasing and currently is implemented in 18 countries within West Africa and Sahel plus Cameroon. Consequently, REOWA will contribute to the improvement of the tool and the quality of information provided for decision-making. Given the rapid uptake and wide use of CH in the region , the UN volunteer will support: • Adequate CH manual 3.0 capacity support to countries for trainings and analyses • Ownership of country offices through providing support for CH certification of country ana-lysts.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of The Senior Food Security Expert, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: Under the supervision of the Senior Food Security Expert, the UN Volunteer will • Provide support to Support REOWA and FAORs (remotely or through in-country mission) in analysing the food security, nutrition and livelihoods situation. • Contribute to the roll out of the DIEM and take part in the DIEM surveys. • Contribute to the Design of the technical component of project proposals and appeals; • Participate in the development of the livelihoods assessments adapted to the context of countries in crisis, including in the data management, analysis and reporting; • Support REOWA in the surveillance and monitoring of the food and nutrition situation in the Sahel and West Africa, • Contribute to agricultural emergency and rehabilitation needs identification in the affected countries; • Take part in joint missions to assess the agricultural campaign, food security and markets; • Contribute to the development of CH documents and its implementation. • Facilitate the CH analysis within countries and participate in the CH regional consolidation and technical committee meetings. • Support the implementation of the CT-CH operational plan including the capacity building of CH facilitators • In collaboration with other members of REOWA team, contribute to the development and dissemination of clear and concise progress reports and, situation analyses adapted to var-ious audiences (experts, donors, politics etc.); • Execute any other task under his/her competencies as requested. Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day); • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities; • Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publica-tions/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers; • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.