2 JOB POSITIONS AT Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) : ( Deadline : 17 July 2019 )

 

 

2 JOB POSITIONS AT Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) : ( Deadline : 17 July 2019 )

 

 

 

JOB AT Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) : Terms of Reference for STTA to Map New and Existing Beneficiaries of Hinga Weze : ( Deadline : 17 July 2019 )

 

 

 

Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Weze

 

Terms of Reference for STTA to Map New and Existing Beneficiaries of Hinga Weze

 

Project Name	Feed the Future Hinga Weze / Contract No. AID-696-C-17-00001
Assignment Details	Recruitment of STTA to map Hinga Weze new/existing beneficiaries
Reports To	Director of Monitoring & Evaluation
Period of Performance	20 working days starting on July 22, 2019
Place of Performance	Hinga Weze targeted districts
Type of Contract	Short term technical assistance (STTA)

About Cultivating New frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA)

 

 

Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture is an international agricultural development organization that specializes in designing sustainable, market-led agricultural, agribusiness and livestock initiatives. CNFA builds strong local and global partnerships, incorporates innovative approaches in its programs, and fosters inclusive development to offer enhanced opportunities to underserved groups. CNFA has managed more than $600 million in donor-funded agriculture development programs, and has worked in 44 countries in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latina America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and South and Central Asia.

 

 

2. About Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Weze Activity

 

The objective of the five-year USAID Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Weze Activity is to sustainably increase smallholder farmers’ income, improve the nutritional status of Rwandan women and children, and increase the resilience of agriculture and food systems to the changing climate.  To achieve the goals of the Hinga Weze Activity, five value chains will be specifically targeted: high-iron beans, orange flesh sweet potato (OFSP), Irish potato, maize and horticulture. The Activity is being implemented in the following ten districts of Rwanda: Gatsibo, Kayonza, Bugesera, Ngoma (Eastern Province); Nyabihu, Rutsiro, Ngororero Nyamasheke, Karongi (Western Province); and Nyamagabe (Southern Province).

 

 

 

 

Assignment Background Information

 

 

Hinga Weze operates and interfaces with beneficiaries from the districts mentioned above, and the monitoring data is often collected through routine project records and beneficiary tracking data, such as attendance lists for training sessions, farmer/producer records, and association records. The selection of these beneficiaries have followed specific criteria tied to the three components of Hinga Weze as designed in the causal model following HW motto: “Produce more, sell more, and eat more nutritiously”.

 

As part of the integration strategy, Hinga Weze intends to recruit an STTA to Map Hinga Weze existing and new beneficiaries across all Hinga Weze districts.  The total number of beneficiaries to map and to categorize is 140,333 beneficiaries who are in the 10 districts of HW as detailed in the table below. The deadline for this assignment to be completed by August 9, 2019.

 

Total beneficiaries reached as of June 30, 2019
District	# Total Beneficiaries	#  Female Beneficiaries	# Beneficiary farmers	# Beneficiary HHs
Karongi	13701	6479	13561	3648
Kayonza	10898	3531	10898	9874
Ngoma	16646	8015	16441	3300
Nyabihu	17876	7330	17876	15909
Nyamagabe	12918	5707	12867	6763
Nyamasheke	15260	8471	15263	13582
Rutsiro	18822	9072	17506	1717
Ngororero	7796	2912	6690	7796
Gatsibo	16275	10924	16275	9775
Bugesera	10141	4881	10141	9846
Total	140,333	67,322	137,518	82,210

 

4. Assignment Objective(s) and Purpose

 

The objective of this assignment is to come up with one beneficiary master list from all components across all the ten districts. This will be done through categorization of all beneficiaries based on those who have been supported or need support in agricultural productivity (Seeds, GAP, ISFM, CSA) and agro-dealership, those who have been supported or need support in nutrition gender and food safety, those who have been supported or need to be linked to market access and to access finance, and those who have been supported or need support in aggregation of produce, to access PHHS technologies and equipment; youth and women supported in different ways through HW interventions.

 

 

5. Period and Place of Performance

 

 This assignment will commence from July 22, 2019, and will be carried out in all ten Hinga Weze districts of intervention.

 

 

Duties and Responsibilities

The post holders will report to the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation.  He/She will work with district teams and Hinga Weze component leads to come up with one beneficiary master list from all Hinga Weze components in all the ten districts of operation.

 

Specifically, the consultant will perform the following duties:

• Come up with one beneficiary master list from all Hinga Weze components in all the ten districts of operation. The master list should clearly show individual names, a household name, age, sex, national identity details, phone contacts, district name, sector name, cell, & village names, type of support/intervention received from Hinga Weze and should be classified in categories based on their needs of support
• Discuss and review the beneficiaries’ selection criteria designed by HW team and adjust where deemed necessary
• Categorization of all beneficiaries based on those who need support in Agricultural productivity, those who need support in nutrition, those who need to be linked to the market. The consultant shall consider all subareas under each component.
• Work closely with the outreach, productivity, market, business & finance and nutrition officers and community volunteers to define geographic sites based on set criteria such as (consolidated land, terraces, potential to access HW grants, potential to access market. High prevalence of malnutrition, presence of current HW beneficiaries).
• Come up with specific recommendations for Hinga Weze Integration to ensure effective causal model implementation across all its beneficiaries

 

7. Deliverables

 

a)    Develop one final beneficiary master list from all components.
b)    Develop a comprehensive categorization of beneficiaries. Emphasis will be put on those who need support in agricultural productivity, those who need support in nutrition, those who need to be linked to market, etc…). Consideration will also be put on defining geographic sites based on set criteria such as consolidated land, terraces, potential to access grants, potential to access markets, prevalence of malnutrition, presence of current HW beneficiaries, among others to be mutually agreed.

 

 

Required Skills and Core Competencies

 

 

• Holding at least a bachelors’ degree in Project Management, Agriculture, computer science, Information Management, Economics, public health, and any other relevant academic background.
• Experience designing and managing beneficiary monitoring and database systems.
• At least 5-years relevant experience in routine monitoring and conducting household surveys.
• Proven success in designing, implementing and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages.
• Strong experience conducting mixed methods in research, including conducting interviews, focus group discussions as well as quantitative methods is highly desired.
• Proven computer skills including Microsoft office Suite, including knowledge of common statistical analytical software packages like E-views, SPSS, R, STATA, NVIVO; and data collection platforms like ODK, ONA, ENA, SurveyCTO and Kobo Toolbox.
• Fluency in Kinyarwanda is mandatory, spoken and strong writing skills in English to prepare reports and oral presentation, excellent communication in English is desired
• Proven experience in working with USAID funded projects in Rwanda is an added advantage

 

Application

 

 

All interested and qualified candidates are invited to send their applications with detailed Curriculum Vitae including names of three referees, a copy of degrees and of certificates and send in PDF or Word format to hingaweze@cnfarwanda.org and copy to jmugisha@cnfarwanda.org with the subject: APPLICATION FOR MAPPING AND CATEGORIZING HINGA WEZE BENEFICIARIES, not later than July 17^th, 2019 at 5:00 pm.

 N.B:

• Only online applications are accepted
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

 

 

 

JOB AT Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) : Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Manager : ( Deadline : 23 July 2019 )

 

 

Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Weze

 

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Manager

 

CNFA

 

CNFA is a US-based nonprofit nongovernmental organization (NGO) that works to stimulate economic growth and improve rural livelihoods by empowering the private sector through five core capabilities: (1) Productivity, Food Security and Nutrition; (2) Input Supply and Farm Services; (3) Economic Resilience and Rapid Recovery; (4) Value Chain Development; and (5) Volunteer Technical Assistance. CNFA assists smallholders in increasing household-level food security and nutrition through improved agricultural practices, the introduction of new varieties, diversification of crop production, food preservation and storage, development of farmer-based organizations (FBOs) and strengthened linkages to markets.

 

 

Program Description Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Weze

 

 

The primary objective of the Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Weze activity is to sustainably increase smallholders farmers income, improve the nutritional status of Rwandan women and children, and increase the resilience of the agriculture and food systems to the changing climate.

 

 

 

 

 

Position Description

 

 

Reporting to the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, the M&E Manager will support all Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) activities. S/he will be responsible for implementing M&E systems including indicators, data collection systems, impact assessments, and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Plan targeting, tracking and reporting according to USAID and CNFA standards. The M&E Manager will serve in the MEL unit as the intermediary between the technical teams and district M&E Coordinators.

 

 

Duties and Responsibilities

 

 

The main duties of the M&E Manager include, but are not limited to:

 

Support the development and implementation a MEL strategy (i.e. MEL Manual) outlining M&E systems for data collection, targeting and tracking custom and USAID/FTF indicators, knowledge management, impact assessments, learning activities and reporting in compliance with the requirements provided in the Activity contract, USAID regulations, and CNFA standards;
Support the Director of M&E in working closely with other technical units in establishing and managing a GIS referencing, cloud-based MEL System and ensure data requirements are integrated into project management processes;
Provide oversight to district Managers and District M&E Officers on data collection and analysis and ensure the completion of M&E activities;
Help facilitate Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) strategies to support the use of data and information from the M&E system for real-time decision-making to improve project implementation
Regularly review monitoring data and help organize periodic learning days and annual learning summits with district staff to help managers identify successes and make decisions about adapting activities and approaches to achieve results.
Collaborate with the Finance, Operations, and Compliance Unit to help develop a system to track and report cost-related data for each program element to reinforce financial and budgetary strategies and allocations during planning periods;
Ensure compliance with all USAID, CNFA, and, if/where applicable, host country government reporting requirements;
Complete other duties as necessary and assigned by the Director of M&E and Chief of Party.

 

 

Qualifications

 

 

Master’s degree required in a relevant field, or equivalent combination of education and work experience in a relevant competency area, including accounting, statistics, international development, economics or other;
Minimum of 10 years’ experience working on the monitoring and evaluation team for donor-funded projects; USAID-funded program(s) is highly desirable;
Experience using monitoring and evaluation systems with USAID-supported indicators, including Women Empowerment in Agriculture (WEIA) Indicators and Feed the Future indicators;
Ability to write concise and clear reports;
Strong communication skills;
Demonstrated ability to collaborate, willingness to innovate and ability to think systematically;
Demonstrated ability to interact and communicate with a wide range of stakeholders both verbally and in writing;
Proven experience in managing multiple and competing tasks while maintaining the quality of deliverables within deadlines;
Advanced oral and written communication skills in English required.

 

Application

 

All interested and qualified candidates are invited to send their applications with detailed Curriculum Vitae including names of three referees, a copy of degrees and of certificates and send in PDF or Word format to hingaweze@cnfarwanda.org and copy to jmugisha@cnfarwanda.org with the subject: APPLICATION FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATION (M&E) MANAGER, not later than July 23rd, 2019 at 5:00 pm.

 

 

N.B:

 

Only online applications are accepted
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.