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Organization: DFID Funded West Africa Food Markets Programme,
Location:Ghana - with potential travel to Burkina Faso, Niger and Nigeria
Objectives of Programme:
The focus of the programme is on providing support to the production and trade in staple food markets
between Ghana and Burkina Faso, and between Nigeria and Niger. The programme will work to enable policies that allow for equitable and efficient regional market development and will aim to tackle the cause of multiple market failures by deploying carefully targeted interventions across the region. The anticipated outcomes of the five year project are: better business models for agricultural production; better business models for agricultural marketing and; agriculture and trade policies and regulations rationalised and improved. The programme consists of two main activities; 1) A Challenge fund to provide finance to innovative business models in food production and marketing and; 2) A Policy Facility to provide evidence, analysis and advocacy for policy and regulatory reform.
The Project will be based in Accra, Ghana with travel to Burkina Faso, Niger and Nigeria. Anticipated Start Date – October 2013
Call for Experts (Candidates must be fluent in both French and English)
- Team Leader
- Finance and Fund Management Director
- Challenge Fund Grant Officer
- Policy Facility Grant Officer
- Agriculture Production Specialist
- Agriculture Marketing Specialist
- Knowledge Management and Communications Expert
- M&E Director
- Finance Officer/Accountant
Deadline for Applications:22 nd July 2013
How to Apply
http://unjobs.org/vacancies/1373404959347
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