Business Development Advisor/Cluster focal (BDA/CF), as a new member in the AgroBIG Programme Technical assistance team, will be responsible for facilitating technical support and capacity building for small-scale entrepreneurs, farmers, farmer groups and primary cooperatives in agribusiness development, business planning and management. Particularly women and youth are targeted. Moreover, the advisor will support sector offices in three woredas to coordinate and supervise AgroBIG activity implementation and reporting. AgroBIG targets eight woredas in total, located east and south of Lake Tana.
Programme for Agro-Business Induced Growth in Amhara National Regional State ‘AgroBIG’ is a bilateral initiative, funded jointly by the governments of Ethiopia and Finland. AgroBIG targets eight woredas: North and South Achefer, North and South Mecha, Bahir Dar Zuria, Dera, Fogera and Libokemkem. The second phase of the Programme is on-going, to run till the end of 2021.
AgroBIG supports value addition in selected agricultural and horticulture value chains to increase incomes and create jobs for farming households and other value chain actors, particularly for women and youth. The Programme supports local governments, individual entrepreneurs and companies, farmers and their cooperatives through grants, loans, market system development, capacity building and technical assistance (TA). Business Development Advisor will complement the Programme TA team that currently consists of five national and two international experts. The TA team is employed by NIRAS (www.niras.com).
A. Specific responsibility areas and duties of Business Development Advisor/ Cluster Focal (3/4 of work time):
Coordination and management support in N/Achefer, S/Achefer and S/Mecha woredas (1/4 of work time)
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