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Title | Consultant: Trainer and Evaluator: Building Capacity on Gender Issues in ‘Climate Smart Agriculture’ Strategies |
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CCAFS and FAO are each working to merge agricultural development and climate change solutions to achieve climate smart agriculture, i.e. agriculture that sustainably increases productivity, resilience (adaptation), reduces/removes greenhouse gases (mitigation), and enhances achievement of national food security and development goals. Both organizations see a gender-sensitive approach as crucial to achieving climate smart agriculture, however to date attention to women’s and men’s roles, needs and resources are largely lacking. Thus, in the longer term, CCAFS and FAO aim to mainstream gender issues into climate smart agriculture through capacity building and research so that women participate and benefit to the same extent as men. As a first step toward mainstreaming gender issues into climate smart agriculture, CCAFS and FAO are collaborating on the development of capacity building tools and methods. FAO is developing a training manual on mainstreaming gender issues into participatory action research on climate change and agriculture. This training manual will be tested during a 3-day training session at FAO headquarters in September or October 2011. The trainees at this training session will be staff of CCAFS partner organizations who will travel to Rome from Asiaand Africa for the training. The trainees will subsequently test out the knowledge gained in the training session by carrying out short participatory action research studies in their home countries. To benefit from their experience, FAO will host the trainees and invited external experts in Rome for a 2-day workshop during which they will carry out an in-depth evaluation of how the material covered in the training worked in the field. This evaluation will assist FAO and CCAFS in identifying good practices and planning for longer term capacity building activities as well as identifying knowledge gaps. FAO and CCAFS plan to share some of their initial insights gained from this collaboration at the UNFCCC Climate Change Conference inDurban,South Africa(COP17) in early December, 2011. Objective of the Assignment The objective of this assignment is to lead a training session using the gender and climate change training manual developed by FAO and to conduct an evaluation of the training session, training manual and tools contained therein. The Consultant will be responsible for meeting with FAO staff prior to the training and preparing to lead the session, as well as preparing for and facilitating an evaluation discussion, however s/he is not responsible for developing the training manual or designing/organizing the training session. Under the supervision of and in close collaboration with the Senior Officer, Marja-Liisa Tapio-Biström, Climate, Energy and Tenure Division (NRC) and the Senior Officer, Yianna Lambrou and Capacity Development Staff, Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division (ESW) the consultant will carry out the following activities:
At the conclusion of the workshop, the Consultant will carry out an initial evaluation assessment (provided by FAO) with the trainees and will also review with the trainees the steps that will be taken to evaluate the training approach and participatory action research tools during a 2-day workshop in November. In addition, the Consultant will also be responsible for providing feedback to FAO on the experience of carrying out the training, including his/her opinions on the training format and training manual.
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Remuneration The Consultant’s time to carry out this assignment (20 days) will be compensated by FAO. Any reasonable materials or support staff (e.g. note takers) required during the training session or facilitation session will be provided by FAO. FAO will not compensate the trainer for travel to or lodging inRome. How to apply Send CV to Marja-Liisa Tapio-Biström (MarjaLiisa.TapioBistrom@fao.org) and Yianna Lambrou (Yianna.Lambrou@fao.org) with the subject: CCAFS-FAO Gender Trainer, by3 June 2011. |