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Individual Consultant to Support the Convening of the Food Systems Summit National Dialogue in Zimbabwe

Harare

  • Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
  • Location: Harare
  • Grade: Consultancy - National Consultant - Locally recruited Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Communication and Public Information
    • Conflict prevention
    • Nutrition
    • Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction
    • Climate & Disaster Resilience
    • Peace and Development
    • Food Security, Livestock and Livelihoods
  • Closing Date: Closed

Background

The Secretary-General of the United Nations will convene a global Food Systems Summit in New York in September 2021 during the High-Level Week of the United Nations General Assembly. This will be preceded by a pre-Summit meeting in Rome in July 2021. The Food Systems Summit is central to the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of which relies to some degree on healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems. Therefore, transforming our food systems is central to efforts to achieve the SDGs.The national Food Systems Dialogues are a critical element of the Summit preparatory process because they encourage analyses, explorations and solutions that are context-specific. Recognizing that the success of the Food Systems Summit depends on the engagement of citizens all over the world, the United Nations has invited Member States to convene a national three-stage dialogue process that involves the participation of a broad base of stakeholders. Zimbabwe has communicated to the United Nations its intention to contribute to the Food Systems Summit by convening Dialogues at national and sub-national levels.The purpose of the assignment is to provide technical support to the National Food System Summit technical team in the planning, execution and documentation of the National Food Systems Summit Dialogues.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the National Convener, the consultant will be expected to:

  • Finalise the mapping of stakeholders to be invited to participate in the three staged dialogues;
  • Facilitate and organise the national and sub national dialogues (all three stages);
  • Develop a technical paper to be presented at the first national dialogue meeting, outlining issues related to food systems in Zimbabwe;
  • Identify issues that are already on the public domain and bringing them out for discussion during the dialogues;
  • Identify emerging issues on which there is consensus as well as those where major disagreements exist during the dialogues;
  • Assist in the preparations of the dialogues (all three stages) including announcing the dialogues via the Summit Dialogues Gateway website and ensuring participants are invited on time;
  • Facilitate and prepare thefeedback reports from the national and sub national dialogues (all three stages). The feedback report from this first stage of Member State Dialogues will summarize what came out of stage 1 and indicate areas that the stakeholder group leaders expect to explore more deeply in the second stage of the Dialogues;  The stage 2 feedback report consolidates outcomes from the provincial consultations; The stage 3 report shapes the national pathway for sustainable food systems and consolidates country level commitments and actions;
  • Facilitate submission of the dialogue feedback forms via the Summit Dialogues Gateway website
  • Record discussions from different stakeholder groups that can be expected to take place in coming years, and how they align to the pathway with the 2030 Agenda;
  • Record commitments pledged by stakeholders to support sustainable national food systems pathways;  
  • Draft an action plan outlining stakeholders’ contributions and how they will maintain their engagement in the implementation of actions as set out;
  • Develop a monitoring and evaluation framework outlining how stakeholders will review and monitor progress and maintain accountability;
  • Publicise official feedback reports on the Food Systems Summit Dialogues website.

Deliverables

  • A technical paper outlining issues related to food systems in Zimbabwe;
  • A single well-organized document with consolidated notes from the different discussion group sessions, multi-stakeholder dialogue session, providing the different perspectives of stakeholders, including key ideas, findings and take-aways. It will serve as inputs for a report on the dialogue process;
  • Food systems dialogue report (for all 3 stages);
  • A roadmap outlining a national pathway to sustainable food systems for the country in which priority actions agreed by stakeholders are expected to take place in coming years and stakeholders’ expressions of intention to support these pathways are documented. The roadmap will include an action plan and monitoring and evaluation framework.

 

Competencies

Corporate Competencies:

  • Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
  • Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

Functional Competencies:

Judgement/Decision-making

  • Strong technical skills and analytical capacities, sound judgment;
  • Strong technical problem-solving skills;
  • Ability to understand and establish priorities and work by objectives.

Teamwork

  • Ability to work in a team and establish effective working relationships with people from different nationalities and cultural backgrounds;
  • Ability to work under stress and work overtime when required;
  • Self-Management and Emotional intelligence;
  • Conflict Management/Negotiating and resolving Disagreements;
  • Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making, builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
  • Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
  • Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:  

  • A Master’s degree or equivalent preferably in food or agriculture-related fields, social sciences or development-related studies from an accredited academic institution is required.

Experience:

  • Minimum of five years of relevant experience in project management, economics/financial and statistical analysis related to food and nutrition security, agricultural and agribusiness development, or related topics;
  • Understanding of Zimbabwean and international food systems;
  • Extensive research experience with an emphasis on food value chains, food production policy;
  • Experience in transdisciplinary work on the sustainability and resilience of food systems;
  • Strong ability to communicate effectively to diverse stakeholder groups.

Language Requirements:

  • Excellent writing and report drafting skills

Applicants are requested to upload copies of:Latest CV highlighting the relevant experience. Prospective candidates could apply either as a team or as individuals. When applying as a team, the CVs of all experts in the team should be provided, along with the application;    Updated P11 Form template of which can be downloaded from this website - http://www.sas.undp.org/Documents/P11_Personal_history_form.doc;    A detailed technical proposal on undertaking the tasks and evidence of previous work;Please group all your documents (CV, P11, Technical Proposal and certificates) into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document. Incomplete applications will not be given consideration.Applicants must reply to the mandatory questions asked by the system when submitting the applicationPlease note that only applicants who are short-listed will be contacted.Evaluation criteria:The Consultant will be evaluated based on qualifications and the years of experience, as outlined in the qualifications/requirements section of the ToR.  In addition, the Consultant will also be evaluated on the following methodology:Technical Criteria weight: 70%;Financial Criteria weight: 30%;The award of the contract shall be made to the Consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as: Responsive/compliant/acceptable; and having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the Terms of Reference.“UNDP is committed to gender equality in its mandate and its staff, and equal opportunities for people with disabilities. Well qualified candidates, particularly women and people with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply”.

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