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Company | FHI 360 Ghana |
Industry | NGO/IGO/INGO |
Category | Public Health |
Location | Accra |
Job Status | Full-time |
Salary | Competitive |
Education | Master’... |
Experience | 5 years |
Job Expires | Jan 31, 2025 |
Contact | Kezia Animwaa... |
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Company Profile FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, civil society, gender, youth, research, technology, communication, and social marketing- creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today’s interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 70 countries and all U.S. states and territories. Job Description Food Systems Transformation and Nutrition Security (FSTNS) Agriculture Issues Paper Consultant
About ELEVATE Nutrition ELEVATE Nutrition (Enhancing Local Efforts for Vital, Transformative, and Evidence-Based Nutrition) is the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) flagship multisectoral nutrition activity that advances local implementation of high-quality nutrition programs and policies to improve the nutritional status of women and children, particularly in the first 1,000 days. A five-year activity (2023–2028) led by FHI 360 with a consortium of strategic partners (Action Against Hunger, Bixal, Cultivating New Frontiers in Africa, GEMNet-Health, and Oxford Policy Management), ELEVATE Nutrition takes a multisectoral approach, bridging the gap between global evidence and local implementation.
ELEVATE Nutrition will operate in Ghana through June 2028 to provide technical support to advance the government’s efforts to plan and deliver equitable and quality multisectoral nutrition services that promote household resilience and food security. The activities focus on improving the governance and policy environment, strengthening multisectoral coordination at national and local levels, supporting local governments to increase funding for multisectoral nutrition, supporting social and behavior change through non-health sector partners, and improving knowledge synthesis, documentation, and management.
Scope of Work ELEVATE Nutrition seeks the services of a consultant to support the Ghana National Development Planning Commission’s (NDCP) efforts to address the country’s food security and nutrition target shortfalls. The consultant will prepare a Food Systems Transformation Nutrition Security (FSTNS) linkage issues paper for the agriculture sector identifying the underlying challenges preventing Ghana from attaining its food security and nutrition targets and provide recommendations to overcome these barriers.
The consultancy has the following specific objectives:
Detailed description of tasks to be performed:
Detailed Plan of Assignment (February 2025)
1. Collaborate with the NDCP to develop a detailed plan for this consultancy, including key milestones, timelines, and how the work will be carried out. To do this, the consultant will need to meet with the NDPC to understand the consultancy objectives and expectations. In the detailed plan, the consultant is expected to describe various research methods for the issues paper will be developed. Details about how each of the following tasks will be carried out should be included in the detailed plan:
Linkage Issues Paper: draft and final (February – March 2025)
Additional Tasks
Required Skills or Experience Qualifications
Estimated timeframe: Approximately 25 days between February 3, 2025 – March 7, 2025
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