ABOUT WFP
The World Food Programme (WFP) is a United Nations frontline agency in the fight against hunger, continually responding to emergencies. Assisting 91.4 million people in around 83 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. On any given day, WFP has 5,000 trucks, 20 ships and 92 planes on the move, delivering food and other assistance to those in most need. Every year, we distribute more than 15 billion rations at an estimated average cost per ration of US$ 0.31. These numbers lie at the roots of WFP’s unparalleled reputation as an emergency responder, one that gets the job done quickly at scale in the most difficult environments. WFP’s efforts focus on emergency assistance, relief and rehabilitation, development aid and special operations.
WFP Ethiopia is working with the government and other humanitarian partners to strengthen the resilience of Ethiopia’s most vulnerable population and to chart a more prosperous and sustainable future for the next generation. The Country Office also supports programmes that use food assistance to empower women, transform areas affected by climate change and keep children in school. It aims to contribute to Ethiopia’s five-year development agenda, the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP), through which the Government combats food insecurity.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
For the 1.3 billion people worldwide living on less than a dollar a day and depending on agriculture for their livelihoods, vulnerability to climate-related shocks is a constant threat to their food security and well-being. As effects of climate change increase the frequency and intensity of natural hazards rise, with pastoralists facing a growing risk that these climate-related shocks will destroy their livelihoods. Understanding how to help communities confront and manage this risk, so they can be resilient to climate-related shocks, is critical for addressing global poverty.
WFP Climate Solutions programmes enable communities to build resilience and improve their food security in the face of increasingly frequent climate-related disasters and shocks.
Index Insurance for Pastoralist in Ethiopia (SIIPE): works with 7816 pastoralist HHs in the Somali region. In exchange for working on natural resource management activities to complement their livelihoods (soil and water conservation), pastoralists receive insurance cover for their livestock. In severe drought years insurance pay-outs are made during and at the end of drought seasons. Rather than ensuring against the loss of livestock, this enables pastoralists to keep their core breeding animals a live and maintain their food security. SIIPE plans to reach up to 20,000 households by 2022.
WFP’s climate solutions team is partnering with Mercy Corps to implement a complementary livelihood project in SIIPE woredas. This climate information and market strengthening (CIMS) programme are designed to help vulnerable pastoral HHs enrolled into SIIPE access additional livelihood support activities, including climate information and livelihood diversification activities (climate-smart agriculture, water pilots in chronically water insecure area, introduction of hydroponics to produce fodder, market system linkages etc).
Moreover, WFP is partnering with FAO in Somali region to introduce farmer field schools in SIIPE woredas; this will help to combine indigenous knowledge with new technologies to combat the impact of climate change.
JOB PURPOSE
Under the general supervision and guidance of the sub-office head and functional guidance from the Climate Solutions Team in Jijiga and Addis Ababa, the field monitor assistant will support the implementation of the Satellite Index Insurance for Pastoralist in Ethiopia (SIIPE) Project in Somali region.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE:
Knowledge & Skills:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Economics, Social science or another related field;
Experience: At least three years relevant working experience of working in DRR/NRM programmes, livelihoods or experience working with microinsurance work, either from a field perspective or from a more marketing or operational management level perspective. Experience in working with pastoral livelihoods.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English. Knowledge of the local language is added advantage.
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