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The Government’s priority in implementing the National School Feeding Strategy is to promote gender equality by ensuring the equitable participation and benefits of girls and boys, women and men, throughout the programme cycle. On the demand side, school feeding contributes to improved enrolment, attendance, retention, and learning outcomes for girls by reducing household costs and addressing barriers that disproportionately affect their access to education. On the supply side, the programme seeks to increase women’s economic empowerment by promoting their participation in the production, aggregation, processing, and supply of food to schools, strengthening their role in local food systems, shortening supply chains, increasing their bargaining power, and enabling greater direct access to institutional markets through school feeding programmes. By addressing barriers that disproportionately affect girls, school feeding serves as an important tool for promoting gender equality and enhancing educational outcomes for all children.
In this context, WFP seeks a qualified School Feeding and Gender Officer to support WFP and the Government of Cameroon in strengthening the evidence base on the links between school feeding, gender equality, and educational outcomes. Based at WFP and working in close collaboration with MINEDUB and other relevant Government stakeholders, the Officer will lead and support research, analysis, and knowledge generation on barriers affecting girls’ education, as well as the contribution of school feeding programmes to improving enrolment, attendance, retention, learning outcomes, and women’s economic empowerment. The Officer will generate evidence and strategic insights to support resource mobilization efforts, the development of concept notes and funding proposals, and the design of gender-responsive programmes that promote girls’ education and women’s empowerment. The Officer will also support stakeholder coordination, monitoring, documentation of lessons learned, and the integration of evidence into policy dialogue and programme design to advance a gender-responsive national school feeding programme in Cameroon.
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under the supervision of the Head of the Gender, Protection, Social Protection and School Feeding Unit, the School Feeding and Gender Officer will be responsible for supporting the development and implementation of gender-responsive school feeding programmes in Cameroon. Responsibilities and deliverables during the two-month assignment will include:
1.Conduct a desk review and analysis of existing evidence on the linkages between school feeding, gender equality, girls’ education, women’s economic empowerment, and social protection in Cameroon and comparable contexts.
2.Identify key barriers affecting girls’ enrolment, attendance, retention, and learning outcomes, and assess how school feeding interventions can contribute to addressing these barriers.
3.Review existing school feeding programme monitoring frameworks, tools, indicators, and reporting systems, and propose recommendations to strengthen gender-responsive monitoring, accountability, and learning.
4.Analyze available programme data, including sex-disaggregated data, to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improving educational and gender outcomes.
5.Develop evidence-based recommendations to strengthen the integration of gender considerations into the National School Feeding Strategy and related implementation tools, guidelines, and operational frameworks.
6.Support the design and implementation of research, assessments, and data collection activities related to school feeding, gender, and education.
7.Develop training materials, facilitator guides, and practical tools to support the integration of gender equality and girls’ education considerations into school feeding programming.
8.Organize and facilitate training sessions and capacity-strengthening workshops for WFP staff, Government counterparts, and other stakeholders on gender-responsive school feeding approaches.
9.Prepare knowledge products, briefing notes, policy papers, presentations, and advocacy materials highlighting the contribution of school feeding to girls’ education, gender equality, and women’s economic empowerment.
10.Support the development of concept notes, funding proposals, donor briefs, and other resource mobilization materials aimed at expanding investments in gender-responsive school feeding and girls’ education programmes.
11.Contribute to the design of innovative programmes and interventions that leverage school feeding to promote girls’ enrolment, attendance, retention, learning outcomes, and women’s economic empowerment.
12.Perform any other task related to the successful implementation and learning objectives of the school feeding programme as required.
13.Document good practices, lessons learned, and implementation challenges to inform programme improvement and policy dialogue.
Terms & Conditions
Position: Programme Policy Officer (Gender, Protection & School Feeding)
Contract Type: International Consultant-CSTI
Duration: 02 months
Location: Yaounde - Cameroon
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