CONSULTANT IN FACILITATION OF SCOPING EXERCISE FOR TANZANIAN LIVESTOCK AND FISHERIES SECTOR, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

CONSULTANT IN FACILITATION OF SCOPING EXERCISE FOR TANZANIAN LIVESTOCK AND FISHERIES SECTOR

Location : Dar Es Salaam, TANZANIA

Application Deadline : 08-May-14

Additional Category Poverty Reduction

Type of Contract : Individual Contract

Post Level : National Consultant

Languages Required : English

Duration of Initial Contract : 60 working days

Expected Duration of Assignment : 60 working days

Background

Livestock and fisheries production are among the major agricultural activities in Tanzania that is contributing towards achieving development goals of the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP). The livestock sector provides livelihood support to a total of 1,745,776 (37%) households out of 4,901,837 agricultural households while fisheries sector employs more than 180,000 full time fishermen and about 4.0 million people earn livelihoods from fisheries sector related activities. However, numerous challenges to sectoral growth exist due to challenges in livestock resources, productivity, support services delivery, animal disease control, veterinary public health, processing and marketing.

In order to strengthen the ability to address such challenges, the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania has resolved to establish a strong and effective system to oversee, monitor, and evaluate implementation of development priorities. This priority setting and performance tracking methodology is termed ‘Big Results Now!' (BRN). An initial set of priority BRN agricultural initiatives was identified using a lab-based approach in 2013, during which a group of technical experts identified key challenges and associated interventions in an intensive 8-week problem solving setting. The first wave of priority initiatives targeted crops such as rice and maize, which have critical interdependencies with the livestock sector.A rigorous scoping process is seen as integral to the BRN methodology. The scoping will involve prioritization of priority areas/sub-sectors, research of key bottlenecks, consultation with key stakeholders and identification of recommended interventions.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate the identification of priority areas within the livestock and fisheries sectors using a data-driven process. Special effort should be made to link this process to sector development programmes;
• Collect, inventory and analyze published strategies and studies related to the priority areas, as well as existing programs/interventions in those priority areas;
• Conduct targeted interviews with key stakeholders involved in the priority areas;
• Distill a list of recommended interventions from this primary and secondary research;
• Develop criteria for prioritization of these recommendations;
• Prioritize potential interventions and develop a suggested short- and medium-term action plan;
• Facilitate a group brainstorming session with key stakeholders in which priority areas are discussed, research conducted as part of this exercise is presented and feedback on potential interventions is ollected.
• Create a final report integrating the primary and secondary research and outcomes of the group brainstorming session.

Competencies

Functional Competencies for the National consultant

• Ability to work under minimum supervision to meet short deadlines;
• Commitment and drive to achieve challenging goals, and problem solving attitude;
• A team player with strong inter-personal skills and the ability to deal with multiple teams located in multiple institutions;
• Ability to identify client needs and deliver them promptly and accurately;
• Excellent writing and communication skills;
• Strong analytical skills.

Corporate competencies:

• Demonstrates commitment to UNDP's mission, vision and values;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Highest standards of integrity, discretion and loyalty.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• A Master's Degree or higher; a curriculum vitae with educational history should be provided in the bid.

Experience:

• At least five years in livestock and fisheries sector';
• Demonstrated knowledge of global best practices in the livestock or fisheries sectors;
• Exposure to the Tanzanian livestock or fisheries sectors; a curriculum vitae with list of professional experiences should be provided in the bid;
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in multiple priority setting exercises (including strategy development). Experience participating in these exercises across multiple countries is preferred;
• Excellent analytical skills, including experience synthesizing clear, actionable insights from a large volume of documents;
• Experience facilitating/leading brainstorming exercises is preferred.

Language:

• Fluent written and spoken English.

How to submit proposals:

Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address not later than 08 May 2014. icprocurement.tz@undp.org:

• Applicants should download the application documents (presented in compresses file) from UNDP Tanzania website;
• Applicants should separate technical and financial proposals;
• Applications with no financial offer or missing P11 form and CV or the required documents for the technical evaluation will not be considered for evaluation;
• Applications without submitting a financial offer instead of other format will not be considered due to the ease comparison of the received offers;
• All necessary information for this post (TOR, Deliverables, Target dates, etc. are presented in the ICPN) therefore applicant must download it from the website as mentioned above;
• Do not send CV only to the Email account mentioned above without Cover Letter and Methodology (if requested) as it will be considered as incomplete application;
• The documents are available in PDF (the TOR, ICPN and IC guidelines) download them from (http://www.undp.org/content/tanzania), format: this is the only format available and it will not be provided in other formats;
• Each email should be less than 8MB; emails over this size will not be received to the above mentioned account.

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