LonAdd HR Consultancy Plc (www.lonadd.com) is a Recruitment & Outsourcing Company based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with branch offices in Dukem and Hawassa. We are looking to recruit a qualified applicant on behalf of our client.
Background
Ethiopia launched the National Food and Nutrition Policy in 2018 and a ten-year costed Food and Nutrition Strategy (2021-2030), a whole-of-government multisectoral program committed by nine ministries and an estimated USD 2.55 billion over ten years. There is also Seqota Declaration Road map to end child stunting among children under the age of 2 by 2030 and the Food System Transformation Roadmap. However, in the current public finance practice, resources are allocated for a particular ministry and/or agency in line with their given mandates, creating a challenge to allocate and track nutrition expenditures across different sectors. Therefore, Client is supporting the government in designing the nutrition budget and expenditure tagging and tracking system to track nutrition-related expenditures, consolidate spending data nationally, strengthen collaboration between planning and budgeting priority interventions, and improve linkages between policy objectives, activities, outputs, and outcomes.
Rational/Justification
Budget tagging and tracking are measures that help national governments improve expenditure information on specific themes, potentially supporting more informed allocation decisions. This means that tagging must be institutionalized in such a manner that it can inform and influence decision-making. The proposed Nutrition Budget and Expenditure Tagging and Tracking (NBETT) for Ethiopia has two objectives: (i) to analyze the level and composition of government and donor spending on Nutrition in any given fiscal year by enabling identification, tracking, and reporting of nutrition-related expenditure; and (ii) provide evidence to strengthen institutions and public financial management arrangements to better serve nutrition needs.
Scope of the Assignment
The Nutrition Specialist is responsible for providing technical assistance to coordinate and provide programmatic support for the implementation of the multisectoral nutrition budget tagging and tracking system to institutionalize a system of tagging public budgets and expenditures to identify nutrition-related expenditures, and to support nutrition-informed planning and financing strategy for the country, to track the amount of public financing spent on nutrition-related interventions to ensure that existing funding is being spent efficiently and in line with the government's defined priority areas as well as advocacy for innovative domestic financing to increase public financing for Nutrition.
Main Job Duties and Responsibilities
Programmatic support on the development of nutrition budget and expenditure tagging and tracking (NBETT) system to federal sectors.
Support customization of nutrition tagging and tracking with the appropriate regional government financial information system.
Deliverables
Deliverables includes report of Methodology designed for federal regional and Aid Training guide, training reports of the sector ministers, report on budget tagging system in place at federal, regional and aid management system, Budget briefs and Advocacy workshop proceedings and Final report.
Reporting: The Senior Advisor will report to the ICT Executive, the Food and Nutrition Office, and the strategic affairs executive of MoA.