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Company | SNV Ghana |
Industry | NGO/IGO/INGO |
Category | Agriculture |
Location | Ghana |
Job Status | Contractor/Co... |
Salary | GH¢ |
Education | Qualified |
Experience | N/A |
Job Expires | Nov 24, 2023 |
Contact | ... |
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Company Profile SNV is a not-for-profit international development organisation that applies practical know-how to make a lasting difference in the lives of people living in poverty. We use our extensive and long-term in-country presence to apply and adapt our top-notch expertise in agriculture, energy, and WASH to local contexts. SNV has an annual turnover of €130 million, over 1,250 staff in more than 25 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We are proud to be a not-for-profit organisation that uses project financing to implement our mission. This requires us to work efficiently and to invest in operational excellence. SNV has worked in Ghana since the 1992 and currently has offices in Accra, Tamale, and Nandom. For more information on SNV, visit our website: www.snv.org Job Description
Terms of Reference. Climate Risk and Vulnerability (CRV) Study. Background Guinness Ghana Breweries PLC (GGB PLC) is one of the largest breweries in Ghana using locally produced and imported grains to produce beverages for the domestic market. GGB PLC requires large quantities of sorghum each year – over 200,000MT to meet their beverage production needs. To improve efficiencies and contribute more fully to the local economy, GGB PLC has decided to focus on local sourcing wherever possible to replace imported grains with locally produced sorghum for the brewing of its beverages. To achieve this aim, GGB PLC has entered a partnership with SNV in Ghana to work with stakeholders along the value chain to support (additional) 12,800 smallholder farmers and 900 commercial farmers to increase the volumes and quality of sorghum produced for sale to GGB PLC through the project “Partnership for Sustainable Sorghum Sourcing in Ghana (SSS). The project is set to be implemented in districts with high potential for sorghum cultivation in the five northern regions of Ghana. GGB PLC is the off-taker - offering a reliable market for sorghum by guaranteeing to buy all the sorghum that farmers will produce if it is of the right quality and meets the standards for their production of beverages. SNV is the lead implementing partner and is responsible for overall facilitation and co-ordination of the activities and results of all other implementing partners. Through these partnerships, SNV will support 30 aggregators with over 12,800 smallholder out-grower farmers and 900 commercial farmers, to produce and deliver 72,375 MT of quality sorghum to GGB PLC over a 5-year project period of 2023 to 2028. Rationale and Objectives for Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Vulnerability Assessment has been recognized worldwide as a critical step in adaptation planning and implementation. Current climate change adaptation measures are usually done by assessing vulnerability. It is one of the most important tools to measure the stability of a particular ecosystem and the vulnerability of human communities and is essential in planning and implementation of the Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) projects. EbA is gaining power as an approach that makes valuable contribution to and fills significant gaps in broader climate change adaptation strategies. EbA approaches help in reducing ecosystem vulnerability, impacts of climate change on biodiversity and increases the capacity of the ecosystem for resilience. Vulnerability of any system depends on the exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Exposure is the nature and degree of a system, or a community being exposed to the natural hazards. Sensitivity is the degree of system or community being affected either directly or indirectly and adversely or beneficially by the climate, and adaptive capacity is the ability or strength of a system or a community to moderate and to deal with the potential climate change impacts based on wise and effective use of available livelihood resources. To obtain reliable information on ecosystem and communities, it is very important to involve local community members, field expert and other stakeholders so that quick and practical adaptation actions can be developed to deal with emerging climatic vulnerabilities. Participatory vulnerability assessment (PVA) helps in understanding vulnerability, its root causes and most vulnerable groups and agrees on activities by, with and to people to reduce their vulnerability with the support of scientific information and technologies. The main objective is to conduct a climate risk and vulnerability assessment in the project catchment area involving key project stakeholders and beneficiary farmers to inform strategies to adapt to climate risks as they relate to and for integrating into the project’s objectives. Specific objectives include:
Specific Terms of Reference These terms of reference seek to guide potential/aspiring consultants to submit technical proposals detailing their understanding of the problem and the expected results, their profiles including relevant past experiences, current capacity to deliver on the desired results, and their strategy for achieving the expected results. The proposal is also expected to detail the level of effort and costs of the activities the consultant plan to carry out activities to achieve the results. Scope of Work Under the guidance of the SSS Project team, the Consultant will deliver the tasks below: Scoping Identify, collect, and compile relevant documents, data, and information (historical and updated), stakeholders, describe the hazards, vulnerabilities and resulting risks to be assessed. These include:
Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
b. Examine how conditions might evolve in the future.
Document key findings and present recommendations
Deliverables The key deliverables include.
Duration The assignment should be executed between February and April 2024. Authority and Responsibility The SSS Project Team.
Required Skills or Experience Qualifying Criteria The consultant (Team or Individual) must have adequate capacity, and relevant experience in climate change impact, livelihoods, Regenerative agriculture/CSA/CA. The Study Team must meet the following more specific criteria:
Desirable Competencies
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