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| Company | World Univers... |
| Industry | NGO/IGO/INGO |
| Category | Agriculture |
| Location | Ghana |
| Job Status | Fixed Term |
| Salary | GH¢ |
| Education | Master’... |
| Experience | 10 years |
| Job Expires | Mar 31, 2024 |
| Contact | ... |
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Company Profile WUSC (World University Service of Canada) is a Canadian non-profit organization working to create a better world for all young people. We bring together a diverse network of students, volunteers, schools, governments, and businesses who share this vision. Together, we develop solutions in education, economic opportunities, and empowerment to overcome inequality and exclusion for youth around the world, particularly young women and young refugees. WUSC currently works in 25 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, with an annual budget of approximately CAD $40 million. We have over 90 staff in our Ottawa office, and over 200 people overseas implementing 16 development projects in collaboration with donors such as Global Affairs Canada, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Mastercard Foundation and the African Development Bank. Job Description
NbS Guinean Forests Project
Background
Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI)
The Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI) is a leading Canadian organization dedicated to fighting poverty and exclusion by building the developmental capacities of disadvantaged communities. The mission of CECI is to combat poverty, exclusion and inequality. To this end, CECI builds the development capacities of disadvantaged communities. CECI also supports gender equality, violence reduction, food security, resilience and adaptation to climate change. Also, mobilizes resources and promotes knowledge sharing.
The NbS Guinean Forests Project
The NbS Guinean Forests project is funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and is being implemented in Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana by a consortium made up of the World University Service of Canada (EUMC) and the Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI).
To ensure the delivery of the project’s implementation strategy, the Consortium is working closely with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Center for International Forestry Research and the International Center for Research in Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), ABANTU for Development in Ghana and the University of Guelph (through the International BarCode of Life Association).
The project aims to strengthen the uptake of gender-responsive and inclusive climate change adaptation (CCA) solutions among communities residing in the Guinean forests region of Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Guinea. This will be accomplished by improving women's leadership in CCA planning processes, increasing the restoration of degraded forests and key habitats with biodiversity benefits, and increasing gender-sensitive investments that have a strong earning potential for women. The project is engaging with a wide range of stakeholders including women's organizations and local and national organizations to prioritize locally relevant solutions. Six landscapes are targeted by the project with two in each country as shown below.
Assignment Context
The NbS Guinean Forests project under its third component is to deliver ‘’increased and gender responsive investments in nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation with income potential for women and biodiversity benefits in the Guinean forests of the target zones’. As part of the strategy to achieve this, the project plans to conduct a market system analysis to better understand nature-based business models and livelihood opportunities that contribute to biodiversity, climate change adaptation and women’s economic empowerment in Ghana, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire. In Ghana, this assessment will focus on analyzing forest and agricultural sectors value chains within the Ashanti and Western Regions with a special focus on Lake Bosomtwe and Wassa Amenfi Landscapes. The Cocoa value chain which is predominant in the two landscapes will be considered in the market systems analysis from the target landscapes.
Project Implementation Zones
In Ghana, the NbS project is directly working in 15 communities across the Bosomtwe and Wassa Amenfi Landscapes. Five of these communities belong to Achichire-Sureso-Pebaseman Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) in the Wassa Amenfi Landscape and seven also fall within the Otade3-Bosomtwe CREMA in the Bosomtwe Landscape, while three of the communities don't belong to any CREMA. Administratively, there are 5 municipal and district assemblies within the two landscapes where the project falls. Three of these districts are within the Western Region and two are within the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The consultant is expected to collect field data in all the 15 host communities and other communities that the consultant might consider relevant to the assignment within the Ashanti and Western Regions.
Project beneficiaries
This project seeks to enhance the adoption of gender responsive and inclusive nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation among communities residing in the target landscapes mentioned above. As such, the project will contribute to changes that will be experienced by rural populations residing in these target landscapes, particularly women. The project aims to more directly reach a subset of the population through direct action particularly women, as individuals or as a collective. As a project that aims at achieving gender responsive outcomes for the target communities, interventions will need to apply approaches that ensure that women and other vulnerable groups are reached, that they participate and that they benefit directly from these interventions.
The project will also reach and directly benefit a range of intermediary beneficiaries including representatives of local village leadership, women’s organizations, as well as business owners/leaders, policy makers, investors and donors. This is a diverse group of individuals representing a diverse range of organizations or businesses. Women tend to be underrepresented in these leadership positions. The project will work with partners to target female leaders as well as female business owners or leaders of women focused businesses for outreach, and is assuming a minimum of 40% of intermediaries should be female. This may vary across landscapes and regions, with the assumption that a higher percentage of females will be represented among local intermediaries than at the national level.
Nature and Scope of the Assignment
The market assessment will analyze the cocoa value chain for the target project regions mentioned above. The assessment will shed light on areas within the value chain with viable business opportunities that can benefit from project support. Within the context of the project, viable business opportunities refer to those that are profitable (or show potential for profitability) and can generate a positive return on investment (ROI). In addition to generating a positive ROI, the project also deems a business to be viable if it has at least one of the following characteristics a) it benefits the women in the target communities of the project, b) will generate biodiversity co-benefits for the target communities or c) will contribute to climate adaptation for the landscapes where the project operates. The market assessment should therefore shed light on the relevant market linkages that have the potential to improve biodiversity, climate adaptation and women’s economic empowerment within the two project’s landscapes.
The assignment will also establish a list of micro, small and medium sized businesses operating within the identified viable areas of the cocoa market ecosystem. Within the context of the project, micro enterprises are livelihood businesses operated mostly by women groups / associations at the community level. The project will also prioritize small enterprises operated by or led by women entrepreneurs. Medium sized enterprises are much larger and could also operate at different locations including at the community or district levels.
The findings of this market system analysis will help inform the project’s approach to private sector engagements, identify women’s livelihood activities, women’s organizations, co-operatives and enterprises that require support to expand and grow their business operations and design appropriate interventions in the target landscapes and regions. The findings will also identify investments that had already been made by existing businesses to enhance biodiversity, climate change adaptation and women’s economic empowerment.
Among the key stakeholders the consultant is expected to interview include; women, entrepreneurs, smallholder farmers, financial institutions, research institutions, private and public sector actors working in the areas of the cocoa value chain, agriculture and forestry and climate change.
This is an individual consultancy assignment and the total duration is 25 working days. This assignment is expected to be completed not later than Friday, 17th May, 2024.
Main objective
The overall objective of the market systems analysis is to identify viable, innovative and scalable business models within the cocoa value chain and contributing to opportunities to enhance biodiversity, climate change adaptation and women’s economic empowerment in the project’s landscapes and regions.
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