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JOB SUMMARY
Company	DAI
Industry	International...
Category	Legal
Location	Accra
Job Status	Contractor/Co...
Salary	GH¢
Education	Post-graduate...
Experience	N/A
Job Expires	Oct 04, 2023
Contact	...

Company Profile

DAI is an employee-owned global development company. For 40 years, we have worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter in some 60 countries. Our integrated development solutions turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and innovation across multiple disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS and disease control, water and natural resources management, and energy and climate change. Our clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and national governments.

Job Description

Policy LINK – Drafting Legislation for Regulating the Provision of Climate Information Services

Position:	Consultant-Legal Expert
Location:	Accra
Project name:	Feed the Future Ghana Policy LINK
Status:	Short Term Technical Assistance (Independent Consultant)
Period of Performance	1st November 2023 – 30th September 20241
Supervisor:	Climate Change Lead, Policy LINK

Project Background
Policy LINK is a global USAID program that aims to strengthen the capacity of local actors and institutions to lead and manage the agricultural transformation process and contribute effectively and collectively to improved, broad-based food security policy outcomes.

The program aims to do this by investing in and reinforcing productive human and social capital and developing strategic partnerships that help bring these innovations and capacity investments to scale to achieve a critical mass of local actors with the ability and opportunity to effect positive policy change through collective action.

Policy LINK’s general approach is grounded in facilitative leadership and collaborative governance, which emphasize engaging stakeholders from civil society and public and private sectors in consensus-oriented decision-making, collaborative problem-solving, and adaptive learning.

Policy LINK in Ghana
Ghana Policy LINK is a five-year activity with the overall objective of fostering behavior change that strengthens the capacity and ability of Ghanaian stakeholders to participate in a more transparent, inclusive, and evidence-based agriculture and food security policy process that leads to improved food and nutrition outcomes and broad-based economic growth. Specifically, the activity will facilitate the transition towards a policy development paradigm driven by multiple stakeholders.

This approach to policymaking will strengthen the capacities of Ghana’s main agricultural policy system actors and institutions and support them to engage stakeholders traditionally excluded from decision- making, including academia, financial institutions, the judiciary, civil society organizations (CSOs), non- governmental Organizations (NGOs), and private sector representatives from the national, regional, and local levels.

This approach is underpinned by Policy LINK’s overarching theory of change focused on increasing human and social capital, engaging policy system actors in collaborative processes, and developing mechanisms for collaborative governance and dynamic learning systems and platforms to sustain collective action.

Background

Agriculture in Ghana is mainly rainfed and therefore highly susceptible to climate change and variability. For example, delays in the start and early cessation of seasonal rainfall are leading to a high incidence of crop failure, while high-intensity rains and irregular distribution of rainfall within the season have increased the incidence of droughts and floods, which destroy crops and damage infrastructure. To reduce these impacts, Climate Information Services (CIS)2 are needed to support farmers in making climate-smart decisions. CIS provision involves collating, analyzing, packaging, and distributing climate data on variables such as temperature, rainfall, wind, soil moisture, and extreme weather indicators3.

Location-based, CIS, particularly, enables farmers to make informed decisions on the choice of crop, start of planting, need for supplemental irrigation, diseases/pest management, etc.

The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) is the nationally mandated body to produce and deliver CIS. The Agency does so through traditional (e.g., radio, television) and recently through digital media channels (e.g., Twitter). However, in the last two decades, there has been a gradual increase in the number of private companies providing CIS to farmers in the country. Whereas this development opens up competition and ensures that farmers have multiple options in getting value for their money, concerns about the quality of services delivered by these private service providers (e.g., accuracy, appropriateness, etc.), abound, and therefore, the need for regulation to ensure adherence to set standards. Ghana’s National Framework for Climate Services acknowledges the need for regulating the CIS sector. However, there is currently no legal framework for GMet to set enforceable standards for CIS provision and ensure that these standards are adhered to by all players.

Objectives

The overall objective of this consultancy is to develop the appropriate legislation that empowers the GMet to regulate CIS provision in Ghana by setting and ensuring adherence to standards in the CIS sector. Specific objectives are to:

Draft a Legislative Instrument (LI) for CIS regulation based on existing Acts, other national legal documents, and international (WMO) agreements/conventions.
Integrate the inputs, comments, and suggestions from sector stakeholders into the draft LI.
Integrate the inputs, comments, and suggestions from the Attorney General’s Department and the Ministry of Communication and Digitalization into the draft LI.

Scope of Work

The consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:

Draft an LI to regulate the provision of CIS based on the Ghana Meteorological Act 2004 (Acts 682), Acts of other African countries, and relevant WMO documents, which the consultant will be supplied with.
Participate in stakeholder engagements to receive feedback on the draft and subsequently integrate stakeholder inputs into the draft.
Facilitate interaction with the Attorney General’s Department and the legal representatives of the Ministry of Communications and Digitalization and GMet for their feedback on the draft LI and finalize it for submission to Parliament.
Participate in engagements with the Parliamentary Select Committees on Communication and Environment, Science, and Technology.
Make progress presentations, as and when required, to representatives of the GMet, Policy LINK, AICCRA, and TAHMO.

Reporting

The consultant will report to the Climate Change Lead at Policy LINK and the Ag. Director General of the GMet. Regular progress reports and deliverables shall be submitted to the above-mentioned officials.

Deliverables and Level of Effort (LOE)

Below are the deliverables for this engagement and the total Level Of Effort (LOE) is 22days

Deliverables

Draft LI that sets out regulations on climate data collection, analysis, packaging, and delivery of CIS for various uses.
Revised LI based on the inputs of stakeholders consulted during key informant interviews and stakeholder workshop(s)
Finalized LI integrating inputs from AG’s department, legal office of GMet, and Ministry of Communications and Digitalization
Participation in stakeholder and Parliamentary workshops
Progress reports and presentations

Required Skills or Experience

The ideal consultant should possess the following qualifications and experience:

A postgraduate degree in law, legal studies, or a related field, and be a member of a recognized legal professional society.
Previous experience in developing or supervising the development of legislation.
Strong knowledge of the legal systems of Ghana.
Previous experience or work with the Attorney General’s department will be an advantage.
Knowledge of the requirements or processes for laying an LI in Parliament will be an advantage.
Experience in stakeholder engagement and eliciting public opinions towards formulating laws.
Excellent communication and report-writing skills.

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