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Organization: International Livestock Research Institute
Country: Kenya
Closing date: 27 Jun 2016
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a consultant within Accelerated Value Chain Development – Livestock Component (AVCD-LC) project. The consultant will be an individual, consortium or firm with combined experience in rangeland management and ecology, participatory approaches, and capacity building and/or development of training and curriculum materials.
ILRI works with partners worldwide to enhance the roles that livestock play in food security and poverty alleviation, principally in Africa and Asia. The outcomes of these research partnerships help people in developing countries keep their farm animals’ alive and productive, increase and sustain their livestock and farm productivity, find profitable markets for their animal products, and reduce the risk of livestock-related diseases.
ILRI is a not-for-profit institution with a staff of about 700 and in 2016, an operating budget of about USD83 million. A member of the CGIAR Consortium working for a food-secure future, ILRI has its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, a principal campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and offices in other countries in East, West and Southern Africa and in South, Southeast and East Asia. www.cgiar.org
The position:
General background
The AVCD-LC project is led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in five counties in northern Kenya (Garissa, Isiolo, Marsabit, Turkana and Wajir) and is funded by USAID as part of Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative. In AVCD-LC, improved rangeland management is understood as key pillar of improving livestock value chains in these counties. Across northern Kenya various approaches to participatory and community rangeland management are being implemented. Within some of these initiatives, methods for monitoring of rangeland condition are being attempted with varying degrees of success. In most, however, little to no formal monitoring takes place.
As part of this, AVCD-LC is providing technical support to two USAID-funded projects/organisations – Northern Rangelands Trust and The Resilience and Economic Growth in Arid Lands – Improving Resilience (REGAL-IR) – both projects with strong NRM/rangeland management components working in pastoral areas. As part of this AVCD-LC is expected to provide support on rangeland monitoring.
AVCD-LC is developing a toolkit on rangeland management for use by county governments. This toolkit will include a component on rangeland monitoring. The consultant will contribute to the development of the toolkit with methods and tools that are appropriate for county-level monitoring of rangelands including that which draws from the knowledge and experiences of communities.
Objective of the assignment
The goal of this consultancy is to develop methods and an overarching methodological framework for participatory rangeland monitoring for inclusion in the AVCD-LC toolkit on rangeland management. Specific objectives are as follows:
- To review the approaches used by REGAL-IR and NRT for rangeland monitoring, and with them identify bottlenecks/challenges to the implementation of this monitoring, and how it can be improved.
- To review ways in which communities in REGAL-IR and NRT project areas currently monitor rangelands (including rangeland condition and health, and changes in this); as well as what this monitoring means for decisions that they make about rangeland use, what challenges they face in implementing these decisions, why these challenges exist and how could these challenges be overcome.
- To adapt and improve existing tools and methods if necessary develop new simple tools for improved and consistently sustained participatory rangeland monitoring.
- To assist NRT and REGAL-IR to test these improved methods and tools in AVCD-LC project areas.
- To contribute to the county-level Toolkit for Rangeland Management with a section (overarching framework) on participatory rangeland monitoring and practical guiding worksheets (tools, checklists).
Final Products
- A study report on what selected communities (in the project areas) monitor in rangelands, how, when, where and why; and on range monitoring approaches used by NRT, REGAL-IR and county governments, the bottlenecks and challenges that they face in implementing these. The report should include recommendations (based on the review of monitoring approaches used and on experiences from elsewhere, etc.) of how these bottlenecks and challenges can be overcome and the approaches improved. The report should conclude with an outline of the agreed-upon improved approaches, which will then be tested with the relevant organisation(s) involved.
- A draft of the worksheets, checklists and other tools to be included in the toolkit.
- A short final report of the testing of the approaches and tools with final recommendations.
- A final draft of the Toolkit section on rangeland monitoring written for a county-expert level practical toolkit on rangeland management and at least four (4) practical guiding worksheets on different good practice rangeland monitoring processes or tools.
Essential Skills and Qualifications will include:
- PhD in Ecology, rangeland management, or related field, or equivalent long term field experience.
- Experience in rangeland management and ecology, participatory approaches, and capacity building and/or development of training and curriculum materials, evidence having done similar work, practical experience in development/natural resources management (NRM) assignments.
- Fluent spoken and written English. Ki-Swahili and/or northern Kenya languages would be an asset.
Post location: Kenya
Duration: From approximately 27 June 2016 to 31 December 2016 with a maximum number of 40 working days
Expected places of travel: Garissa, Isiolo, Marsabit, Turkana and/or Wajir
How to apply:
How to apply: Applicants should send a cover letter and CV explaining their interest in the position, what they can bring to the job and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to the Director, People and Organizational Development through our recruitment portal http://ilri.simplicant.com/ on or before 27 June 2016. Applicants who have experience developing training and curriculum materials, manuals, etc. may include one sample of these. The position title and reference number C/ AVCD /06/2016 should be clearly marked on the subject line of the online application.
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