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Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) Officer - International Consultant

Afghanistan

  • Organization: WFP - World Food Programme
  • Location: Afghanistan
  • Grade: Consultancy - International Consultant - Internationally recruited Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Human Rights
    • Humanitarian Aid and Coordination
    • Monitoring and Evaluation
    • Disaster Management (Preparedness, Resilience, Response and Recovery)
    • Population matters (trends and census)
    • Drugs, Anti-Money Laundering, Terrorism and Human Trafficking
  • Closing Date: Closed

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WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis. We are committed to promoting diversity and the principle of equal employment opportunity for all our employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of religion or belief, ethnic or social background, gender, gender identity and disability.

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. More than half the population of Afghanistan – a record 22.8 million people – will face acute food insecurity in 2022. The combined effects of drought, conflict, COVID-19, and the economic crisis, have severely affected lives, livelihoods, and people’s access to food. 

The team of 600 staff, 550 of which are Afghan nationals are working tireless to bring emergency food and nutrition assistance to the millions of people suffering across the country. The assistance provided by WFP includes emergency food assistance, school meals, nutrition programmes and important self-reliance and resilience programmes. The packet of support can include food, cash, or vouchers.

In conflict situations, we bring relief to exhausted populations and use food assistance to build pathways to peace and stability – work for which WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020.

ABOUT WFP AFGHANISTAN

With rich natural resources, and a young and diverse population, Afghanistan has the potential to stabilize and make significant progress on the 2030 Agenda. However, a complex and protracted conflict, combined with challenges related to climate change, demographics, gender inequalities, underemployment, and transparency issues, has dramatically impeded its efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 2 on Zero Hunger. The 2017 Afghanistan Zero Hunger Strategic Review (ZHSR) found that the country suffers from high, and in some cases rapidly rising, levels of food insecurity and undernutrition, and outlines a series of recommendations to address the problem.
The overarching goal of the WFP Afghanistan Country Strategic Plan (CSP) is to support the country to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 in a manner that also contributes, wherever possible, to the broader, longer term transition to peace and development. WFP, through the CSP, is continuing to scale up emergency activities nationwide and mainstreaming the crosscutting issues of gender equality and women’s empowerment, protection, and accountability to affected populations, the CSP focuses on six, highly interrelated outcomes that span both SDG 2 and 17 (partnering for the goals).
 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Position: Accountability to Affected Populations Officer
Contract: International Regular Consultant
Duty Station: Kabul Country Office, Afghanistan
Number required: 1 position
Duration: 6 months (with possibility of extension) 
 

WFP is committed to ensuring that all its workplaces are free from abuse, offensive behaviour, harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. WFP is also committed to promoting a work culture in which every employee understands, and is able to carry out, his/her personal responsibilities for maintaining the dignity of work colleagues. WFP seeks to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women. We believe our mission of fighting global hunger worldwide can only be achieved if women, men, girls and boys are offered equal opportunities in terms of access to resources and services and participation in decision making roles.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

BACKGROUND

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of people affected by disasters, conflict, epidemics/pandemics and more. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their shattered lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 100 million people with food assistance in 83 countries each year. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to nutritious food and contribute to the lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.

In 2022, WFP plans to assist 23 million women, men, and children in Afghanistan with the aim of averting famine and a humanitarian disaster. The hunger crisis is unfolding at a rapid speed, with half of Afghanistan’s population of 40 million now facing food insecurity – the highest number the humanitarian community has ever seen in the country. WFP is uniquely positioned to respond to the crisis, drawing from over 60 years of operational experience in Afghanistan. 

In 2017, WFP re-committed to ensure Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) through adoption of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s (IASC) Commitments to Accountability to Affected Populations (CAAP). Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) entails giving account to, taking account of, and being held accountable by people negatively affected by food and nutrition insecurity, or who face barriers to participation to access in food security interventions. For WFP, systematic engagement with affected populations is essential to meeting WFP’s strategic objectives of people centred humanitarian response. WFP Afghanistan is seeking an Accountability to Affected Populations Officer to support necessary adjustments and innovations required to customise AAP approaches, systems, and products tailored to context and that meets the AAP needs and preferences of affected populations, across all demographics, locations and diversities. 

PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

The Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) Officer will work closely with key stakeholders (internal and external) to establish an AAP strategy and approach that complements existing good practice and addresses current and emerging AAP needs. The work of the AAP Officer will support implementation of the WFP Protection and Accountability Policy (2020), Disability Inclusion Roadmap (2021), Gender Policy (2021) and relevant WFP policies and good practice requirements. The AAP Officer will join the Programme Unit, and report directly to the Protection and Access Adviser. 
 

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Strategy design: In close collaboration with key stakeholders, particularly affected populations across all diversities, establish an Accountability to Affected Populations (or Community Engagement) Strategy. The Strategy will appreciate AAP as both a process and a result in-and-of itself. The Strategy will have a strong focus on programme excellence ensuring that AAP is connected to enabling Zero Hunger goals and centrality of protection. 

Community Feedback and Response Mechanisms (CFRM): In close collaboration with the CFRM Manager, and informed by participatory processes, the AAP Officer will oversee the rollout of expanded feedback and response mechanisms. This will include strengthening existing CFRM systems and introducing new approaches. Interagency collaboration will be essential to ensure that WFP’s CFRM complements existing interagency approaches and efforts. 

Information and Knowledge Management: Working closely with the CFRM Manager, and the CFMR Information Management Officer, establish modern and interactive AAP information management tailored to needs of decision makers and WFP operations. This will include leading the collaboration between Protection and Accountability and VAME Teams to integrate accountability data captured through different data points (i.e., data captured through monitoring, vulnerability assessments, CFMR, others). 

Programme Excellence: Working closely with WFP and Cooperating Partner (CP) staff, community engagement and related data analysis (ad-hoc, regular, and through existing systems such as CFRM) to inform WFP’s design and implementation of activities. This will require ensuring that programmes can evidence how feedback from affected populations has informed decision making throughout the programme cycle. 

Embedding AAP capacity: Through user-focussed learning methodologies, design, and rollout an AAP capacity strengthening agenda for WFP and CP staff. 

Partnerships: Establish partnerships to strengthen AAP for Zero Hunger results including partnerships with donors, interagency forums, UN and I/NGO agencies. Importantly, establish partnerships with affected populations directly, and relevant representative groups, for AAP including with people with disabilities, organisations of disabled people, women, women’s civil society groups, youth, youth representative groups, ethnic and religious minorities and their representative groups, amongst others with a particular focus on ensuring meaningful inclusion of marginalized groups in informing decisions made by WFP throughout its activities. 

Team Leadership: Support the Protection and Access Adviser with day-to-day oversight and supervision of staff working on accountability within the Protection and Accountability team. 

Ad hoc tasks: Undertake ad-hoc tasks as required. This may include, but is not limited to, support with donor reports and engagements, providing AAP / Protection talking points and summaries (internal and external facing).  
 

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Education & Experience:  

University degree in Human Rights, International Relations, Development Studies, Political Science, Sociology, Communications for Development, Humanitarian Affairs, or related topics. 

Minimum of 2 years of relevant professional work experience in Accountability to Affected Populations and/or Protection. Experience in relevant areas of work will be considered. 

Experience in analyzing cross-cutting issues such as protection, gender, migration, conflict sensitivity, data protection and/or complaints and feedback mechanisms, managing complex monitoring and/or evaluation activities spanning a range of policies and programme initiatives in international development or humanitarian contexts is an asset. 

Prior UN cluster or WFP experience or experience with a cooperating partner of WFP is an asset, as is experience in emergencies categorized as Level 2 or Level 3 in the United Nations system.

Skills & Attributes:  

•    Applied experience in Accountability to Affected Populations
•    Applied experience in community engagement and working with diverse populations
•    Excellent research, data analysis and reporting skills;
•    In-depth knowledge of results-based management principles and practices and WFP’s corporate accountability frameworks;
•    Understanding of food security and/or nutrition programming;
•    Understanding of human rights, humanitarian principles, and some grasp of cross-cutting issues and their importance in humanitarian data analysis;
•    Skills in correlating vulnerability data relating to cross-cutting issues such as gender, protection and gender-based violence with food insecurity and related data;
•    Proven ability to develop quality reports and analyses with minimal direction;
•    Ability to present data and content visually including use of software such as InDesign, Illustrator and/or Tableau;
•    Proven ability to network effectively with multiple work units;
•    Willingness to build capacity of others through formal and informal training processes; and
•    Prior experience working in Afghanistan and understanding of the context is highly desirable 

Languages:    Fluency (level C) in written and spoken English. Knowledge of one or more languages spoken in Afghanistan is an advantage. 

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Sunday, 5 June 2022.

This vacancy is now closed.
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