Intern for Communication and Data Management
Internal/External Vacancy Announcement #038/2020
SDR- ASAL Programme
As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned ‘Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit’ (GIZ) GmbH supports the German government in achieving its development policy objectives. GIZ promotes complex reforms and change processes.
In Ethiopia, GIZ has been working for more than 40 years in bilateral cooperation on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and on the commission of the Ethiopian government and international donors. The Ethiopian government recognizes the high economic value of the lowland areas and their products. Therefore, the pastoral and agro-pastoral population is supported in strengthening their drought resilience, allowing them to adapt their farming system to a changing natural and economic environment. German development cooperation participates with the programme “Strengthening Drought Resilience of the Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Population in the Lowlands of Ethiopia” (SDR-ASAL) in selected areas in Afar and Somali region. The programme comprises of seven projects. Major activities are participatory land use planning with all stakeholders in selected kebeles, water harvesting, and rehabilitation of degraded dry valleys followed by participatory rangeland management as well as training for pastoralists, administration and service providers.
The Knowledge Management Team of SDR-ASAL programme is currently establishing a new and central Knowledge Management Data System (Knowledge Management Data Station, KMDS) with the purpose of optimizing the knowledge-flow and information access for its offices in Addis Ababa and in Afar and Somali region. During preparation and roll-out of the KMDS, the intern assists the knowledge management team of the programme in implementing an efficient and secure data system in accordance with the rules and regulations of GIZ.
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