Gender Action Learning Systems (GALS) Consultant Level II, Accra, Ghana

🚩 Vacancy Announcement n°: 826771

📢 Job Title: Gender Action Learning Systems (GALS) Consultant, Accra, Ghana

✨ Contract type and Grade: When Actually Employed (WAE) Consultant Level II

📧 Duration: 120 days (WAE)

✅ Unit / Division: Programme Unit (Gender)

📍 Duty Station: Accra, WFP Ghana Country Office

⏰ Closing date: 11 May 2023

WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance. Female Candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a highly prestigious, reputable & world’s largest humanitarian organization, operates in more than 120 countries and territories, bringing life-saving assistance in emergencies, building pathways to peace, stability, and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change and supporting sustainable and resilient livelihoods for a world with zero hunger. At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do, and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high-performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is a leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies, and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. WFP provides assistance to over 86.7 million people in around 83 countries each year aimed at fighting hunger worldwide and working towards the global goal of ending hunger by 2030.

The promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment is intrinsic to WFP’s development and humanitarian approach and a precondition to fulfilling its dual mandate of ending global hunger and saving lives. The WFP Strategic Plan (2022-2025) and Gender Policy (2022) prioritizes gender transformative approaches in its programmes, recognizing Gender Equality and Women Empowerment as an objective and solution to persistent food and nutrition insecurity. Therefore, the focus to invest in enabling young women and men and the most vulnerable people to absorb, adapt and transform in the face of shocks and stressors to achieve sustainable food and nutrition security.

While WFP Ghana is transitioning from implementing to a more facilitating role in support of the government of Ghana achieve its Ghana beyond Aid agenda and maintaining its footprint in the emergencies where applicable, it is implementing a five-year project with funds from the Mastercard Foundation that seeks to create and enhance sustainable, dignified and fulfilling jobs for the youth (18-35 years) in the agriculture value chain. The programme is being implemented in eleven (11) regions of Ghana namely Upper West, Upper East, Northern, Northeast, Savanna, Bono, Bone East, Ashanti, Eastern, Volta, and Oti.

The value chains being considered are Maize, rice, soybean, poultry and vegetables such as onions, tomatoes and pepper.

Despite constituting a greater portion of the labour force in the agricultural sector, women and young people (men and women) are faced with structural and cultural barriers impacting their ability to meaningfully participate and benefit from employment and income opportunities. WFP seek to make agribusiness opportunities more inclusive to young women and men, and PWDs by enhancing their access to agricultural and financial services, increasing awareness of gender dynamics among value chain actors, and building transformative structures to promote more equal gender relations at household and community levels. WFP plan to apply gender-targeted, responsive, and transformative approaches to ensure that social norms as the root causes of inequalities are being addressed. WFP plan to integrate Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Methodology, a community led methodology based on underlying principles of social and gender justice, inclusion and mutual respect and is seeking to engage an individual consultant capable to provide capacity strengthening to government and other partners and provide technical support in implementation of the methodology

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Organize, facilitate GALs consultation and sensitization forums with key stakeholders to ensure ownership and active support of GALS, while also understanding the socio-cultural dynamics shaping gender relation within the context and lay the value proposition of GALS methodology
2. Enhance partners capacity through Training of Trainers on all phases of GALS to ensure quality and correct understanding of the methodology including the tools and how to effectively rollout the methodology at the community level.
3. Capacity-building and gender training for WFP staff and implementing partners to; enhance their demonstrated clear understanding on the nexus of social injustice as a key cause of food insecurity, malnutrition and inequalities and important to the men and women in the communities where they work, thereby fostering their motivation and commitment to the process.
4. Support the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) and other partners to conduct field testing in two youth farmer groups where applicable in selected locations and adaptation of materials in order to establish community ownership from the outset and to develop a core group of men and women in the community who can then be part of the facilitation team for group members and upscaling across the community. The introduction of the tools at community level is expected to equip farmers with analytical tools to map their own household decisions in production, processing, marketing and income use as well as develop action plans for addressing gender barriers. This process should also serve as a baseline for implementation of GALS in the selected communities.
5. Support the Ministry of Gender, children and social protection to train district staff, and field test with community groups in 2 selected locations
6. Identify, recruit, train and certify GALS champions from community/ farmer groups. Champions are those who have felt the value proposition of the transformative approach in shaping the economic and livelihood opportunities in their lives and at household level. The champions are expected to act as peer trainers cascading training and gender information to other community/farmer groups.
7. Revision and adaptation of the GALS “mother” manual to produce locally adapted guidelines for the community facilitators
8. Develop Roadmap for GALS scale up across food systems as an enabling factor for sustainability.
9. Develop Roadmap for GALS mainstreaming in the programmes/activities of MoGCSP as an enabling factor for advancing gender equality and women empowerment

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT

1. Approved inception report with work plan and methodology
2. Consultation and sensitization meeting report submitted
3. Sensitization status brief developed and shared with WFP that includes the post sensitization evaluation
4. All Training reports submitted
5. Community dialogue forums held and GALS tools rolled-out
6. Report of GALS champions, identified, trained and certified
7. Contextualized manual developed and submitted
8. GALS food systems implementation framework developed
9. GALS mainstreaming framework developed for the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection

Education:

You have

Advanced university degree recognized by https://www.whed.net/home.php in rural or social development disciplines or other relevant field, OR a first university degree in the same disciplines with additional years of experience.

Experience:

You have:

At least five (5) years of progressively responsible professional post-graduate experience working in the rural or social development sector related to gender.

• A proven experience of at least ten (10) years in rural development.
• Gender expert with extensive geographical experience in several contexts. Experience in the Ghanaian context is an added advantage.
• Proven experience in Gender Action Learning Systems (GALS)
• Experience in strengthening local partners (government, CSOs, NGOs etc.)

Languages:

Fluency (level C in reading, writing and speaking) in English.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This is a When Actually Employed Contract (WAE). A When Actually Employed (WAE) consultancy is offered for a series of sporadic, non-continuous, assignments within a given period of time (in this case 120 days), whereby the consultant will be engaged when his/her service is required as agreed, and paid at the agreed daily fee.

Deadline for application: 11 May 2023

WFP Value Proposition

• Meaningful and impactful careers – Our day-to-day work makes a difference in the lives of the people we serve.
• Continuous learning and training – We provide learning tools for our staff to continually develop their careers.
• Multicultural and stimulating working environment – We encourage gender and cultural diversity to make our teams stronger.

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU APPLY

• All employment decisions are made based on organisational needs, job requirements, merit and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
• No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Join Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.
• Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply. WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.
• Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance
• WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.
• WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination.
• All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment.

Special recommendation:

Before you apply, please confirm that both (i) your on-line profile and CV are accurate and up to date, (ii) your CV should include your employment history, academic qualifications, and language skills.

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