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| Company | Fairtrade Afr... |
| Industry | Agriculture/A... |
| Category | Agriculture |
| Location | Sierra Leone |
| Job Status | Contractor/Co... |
| Salary | GH¢ |
| Education | Master’... |
| Experience | 5 years |
| Job Expires | Apr 19, 2024 |
| Contact | ... |
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Company Profile Established in 2005, Fairtrade Africa (FTA) is the independent non-profit umbrella organization representing all Fairtrade certified producers in Africa. Fairtrade Africa is owned by its members, who are African producer organizations certified against international Fairtrade standards producing traditional export commodities such as flowers, coffee, cocoa, tea, cotton, bananas, mango, and non-traditional commodities including shea butter and rooibos tea. Currently, the organization represents over 1 million smallholder farmers and workers across 33 countries in Africa.
Our Vision
A world in which all producers can enjoy secure and sustainable livelihoods, fulfill their potential and decide on their future.
Our Mission
WHAT WE DO
Our Strategic Plan 2016-2020 provides a comprehensive long-term outline towards achieving our commitment to smallholder farmers, workers, and artisanal miners. By working within the Fairtrade system and with strategic partnerships through country and producer networks, we will deliver on the following:
WHERE WE OPERATE
We operate four regional networks: Eastern Africa Network (FTA-ECAN) based in Nairobi, Kenya; West Africa Network (FTA-WAN) based in Accra, Ghana and Southern Africa Network (FTA-SAN) based in Cape Town, South Africa. The North Africa & Middle East Network is through partnerships that are coordinated from the secretariat in Nairobi.
Job Description DUE DILIGENCE FUND II (DDF II) TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR BASELINE ASSESSMENT
BACKGROUND
Fairtrade Africa (Commerce Equitable Afrique)
Fairtrade Africa (FTA) is the umbrella network organization representing Fairtrade-certified producers and workers in Africa. It has four (4) regional networks – Eastern Africa; Southern Africa; West Africa; and Middle East and North Africa. Established in 2005, FTA aims to effectively represent producers and workers within the International Fairtrade System and provide services to them that contribute to the improvement of their livelihoods. The FTA Board directs the policy and strategic development of the organization.
This project, Improving the Livelihood and Resilience of Organic Cocoa Producers in Sierra Leone’ is jointly implemented by Fairtrade Africa (Commerce Equitable Afrique) and Fairtrade Germany a National Fairtrade Organization (NFO) within the Fairtrade System.
Dm and Maestrani
The GIZ Due Diligence Fund (DDF) is launched to promote corporate due diligence on human rights and the environment in global agricultural supply chains. Through this initiative, two cooperatives in Sierra Leone (Salmed Cocoa/Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative and Kasiyatama Cocoa Farmers' Cooperative) are benefiting from a two-year project to implement corporate due diligence processes within their supply chains.
Maestrani Schweizer is one of the most traditional Swiss chocolate producers with long-lasting experience in producing sustainable chocolate products. Currently, Maestrani produces the two Sierra Leone chocolate bars on behalf of dm. In this project, Maestrani sources the Fairtrade cocoa from Sierra Leone through Tradin (SL) Ltd.
dm-drogerie markt GmbH + Co. KG is a German drugstore chain based in Karlsruhe with a market presence in 14 European countries. Since 1986, dm has offered private label brands, which also include the private label dmBio (organic food). The two Sierra Leone single-origin chocolates are sold under the dmBio brand. Beyond Fairtrade and organic certification, dm wants to show more commitments in the cocoa supply chain and minimize human rights and environmental risks.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
The Consultant will collect baseline data with special focus and assessment on human rights, women empowerment and environmental risks. The project objectives have been categorized into through broad out put areas that are elaborated below:
i. Improve human rights and environmental risks due diligence mechanisms in dm and Maestrani supply chains in Sierra Leone.
The project will focus on raising awareness of human and environmental risks, capacity building in the areas of child labor, forced labor, labor protection and grievance mechanism set-ups. The project will set up a complaint and grievance mechanism. In the end, dm/Maestrani will use this set-up in their supply chain to address human rights and environmental risks. This grievance mechanism may be adapted in the cocoa sector in Sierra Leone based on the learnings.
ii. Build the capacity of cocoa cooperatives in Sierra Leone to produce and supply deforestation-free cocoa to the EU market
In a bid to comply with the European Union Deforestation Regulations (EUDR), the project is enhancing cocoa farmers to avoid deforestation through sensitization and the implementation of good agricultural practices, enabling them to have higher yields and higher income from existing cocoa farms. Currently, Fairtrade has a revised cocoa standard which requires cooperatives to have geo-location of farms as part of improving their traceability. The capacity of the cooperatives will be enhanced on traceability as a requirement in the Fairtrade cocoa standard and the EU regulation on deforestation-free cocoa. The project seeks to support cooperatives to map their farms. This will help in having a credible database of their members, highlighting the location of the farm, actual farm size and productivity of the farms thereby ensuring that production estimation is seamless within the cooperatives.
iii. Support cocoa farmers in livelihood diversification to increase income for women, youth, and persons with disability.
This component will focus on improving productivity, diversifying their income portfolios, and achieving savings in costs of living. This will be enhanced through own food production, improving producer and cooperative efficiency, and income generating activities to increase resilience.
SCOPE OF THE BASELINE
Cocoa exports from Sierra Leone have not recovered to pre-civil war levels of around 22,000 metric tons (MT) per year. This decline reflects very low productivity resulting from a lack of investment and replanting, and turning this around is the fundamental challenge facing the sector. Farmers have no trouble in selling their cocoa and they generally receive higher prices; four to five US Dollars in comparison to neighboring countries; two to three USD when they sell. Existing exports of around 15,000 Metric Tons still mean that cocoa is a major source of export revenue for the country, according to Invest Salone website, 2019.
Quality of the beans as the main harvesting season falls in the rainy season making it difficult for producers to improve and maintain quality as moisture content can be very high with inadequate equipment to check quality parameters. Low yields are generally, attributed to ageing trees, diseased farms, inadequate knowledge and techniques to maintain crop health. Also, the supply chain is characterized by inadequate labour input to work in the cocoa farms as a result of disinterested youths in agriculture and job prospects for women. Unemployment, child labour, gender inequality is on the rise. Within the cooperatives, internal capacities cannot meet needs such as trainings on topics like child labor and risk assessment or the strengthening of physical traceability and internal controls leading to ineffective control mechanisms. Therefore, the assessment should seek to clearly bring out human rights issues such as child labour and child trafficking, forced labour and gender-based violence for cooperatives and their communities, aligning with state policies and mechanisms of Sierra Leone.
The project will leverage on the expertise of the Sierra Leone Anti-Corruption Commission to create more awareness and strengthen the cooperatives internal mechanisms to fight corruption. The project will also facilitate the development of anti-corruption reporting, whistleblowing and complaint mechanisms by cooperatives. The cooperatives will be supported to develop or revise, where necessary, policies linked to the fight against corruption.
This baseline assessment will seek to look into gender rubrics to understand the current gender dynamics within the cooperatives, the outcome of this assessment will inform the approach to be adopted for gender mainstreaming and empowerment.
Methodology
The consultant will employ both qualitative and quantitative methodologies (mixed) for this baseline assessment.
1. Primary data will be collected from targeted producers and key informants. This will be done through individual interviews, Focus Group Discussions (FGD) and Key Informant Interviews (KII).
2. Secondary data will be gathered from existing data by government or nongovernmental organization (NGOs), private sector linked to the supply chains of Samed Cocoa/Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative and Kasiyatama Cocoa Farmers’ Cooperatives. Deliberate effort should be made to review existing project documents and data. Econometric analysis is also allowed once this is supported by appropriate qualitative discussions.
Sampling design and target beneficiaries
The Due Diligence Fund II Project is intended to directly benefit cocoa producers in the Kono District. The consultant will estimate to survey representative sample of selected cocoa producers by applying sample size calculation formula to be reached for the baseline assessment.
Currently, there are no primary data to measure the DDF II project in order to gauge its planned performance over the two years. Essentially, the analysis of baseline data will provide some guidance in measuring output indicators throughout the different stages of the project implementation. The project focuses on two cooperatives, Kasiyatama (4,915 famers of which 3,665 male and 250 female) and Salmed (2,000 farmers of which 1500 male and 500 female) with a total land size of 6893 hectares (estimated). The two cooperatives are located in Kono District in the Eastern part of Sierra Leone. The region is heterogenous in nature with different ethnic groups and culture.
Language
The Language of reporting must be in English but engaging with project beneficiaries and managing the baseline data collection in local languages is imperative to ensuring greater participation of the direct and indirect project beneficiaries.
CONTRACT DETAILS
Baseline duration
Is estimated that the baseline contract will not last more than two months. It is anticipated that the consultant will start the assignment as soon as the contract is awarded.
The consultant is therefore required to:
Deliverables: A baseline report as well as analysis scripts/processes for replication in subsequent years. The baseline report from the data analysis should provide results for the project indicators and identify, articulate, and document the existing situation of the Sierra Leone Cocoa sector with reference to human rights, women empowerment and environmental risks.
The report will also focus on establishing beneficiary benchmark information compared with sector or national benchmarks. These will aid future project efforts and assessment of impact. The consultant will also provide key information and contexts of the project’s target groups and operational areas for more effective targeting and delivery of program interventions.
The key tasks of the assignment cover the following:
Required Skills or Experience Qualification and Experience of the Consultant
The consultant for the assignment is domiciled in Sierra Leone and must have demonstrated full competence in implementing the scope of work and experience in conducting and completing surveys, and report writing and possesses advanced degrees in development economics, agricultural economics, agribusiness, and relevant industry background. Desired competencies include:
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