Programme Policy Officer SSA 10 ( Private Sector Assessment Consultant)

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  • Added Date: Friday, 30 May 2025
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ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the worldโ€™s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.


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WHY JOIN WFP?

  • WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

  • WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

  • WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

  • A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

  • We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

    BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

    The WFPโ€™s Country Strategy Plan (CSP) 2022-2026 has been defined to support the Government of Mozambique on its fight towards poverty and hunger eradication. This four-year plan, which is aligned with national and UN priorities (e.g., SDG2), aims to revert the current trends on deteriorating food security caused by a complex set of environmental (including climate), social, economic, and political factors, by applying appropriate and risk-informed resilience approaches.

    Within the WFP Mozambique CSP (2022-2026), Strategic Outcome 3 โ€œVulnerable and shock-affected communities, households, women and young people in targeted areas have more equitable, resilient, sustainable and climate-smart livelihoods through enhanced adaptive and productive capacities that enable them to meet their food and nutrition needs by 2030โ€ is expected to be achieved through an integrated package of climate risk management, livelihood support, adaptive agriculture and smallholder agricultural market support interventions that strengthen the resilience of households, communities and food systems to climate shocks and stressors and ensure sustainable access to income opportunities and adequate and nutritious food for poor and marginalized people and communities. This support is also extended to conflict affected communities in Cabo-Delgado province, where WFP has been providing humanitarian assistance. This assistance is complemented by gradual recovery initiatives, a more systematic and strategic approach is required to build long-term resilience. In addition, WFP has developed a strategy for โ€œTransition from Emergency Support to Resilience Building in Cabo Delgado Provinceโ€ which aims to establish a comprehensive framework to assist crisis-affected populations in meeting their food and nutrition needs, while strengthening their resilience through climate-adaptive livelihoods.

    The overarching goal will be achieved through four key areas of intervention:

    Capacity Building: Empowering government and communities to adopt scientific, participatory approaches for designing climate change-adaptive socio-economic plans at the local level. Inclusive Socio-Economic Development: Assisting government and communities in designing and implementing socially inclusive and climate-adaptive socio-economic plans. Agriculture and Non-Agriculture Development: Enhancing the environment for sustainable growth in both agriculture and non-agriculture sectors. Private Sector Investment: Facilitating private sector investments to create employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for youth, women, and smallholder farmers through Public-Private-Producer Partnerships (PPPP).

    Within this framework, WFP is implementing multiple projects in Cabo Delgado, particularly in the districts of Mocรญmboa da Praia, Palma, Macomia and Ancuabe. These initiatives focus on strengthening agricultural production, enhancing food security, and improving social and economic inclusion, with a particular emphasis on women, youth, and vulnerable populations.

    To support these efforts, WFP is contracting three assessments:

    1. Conflict-sensitive analysis (by WFP).

    2. Ecosystem services analysis (By WFP)

    3. Private sector assessment (focus of this ToR).

    KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority):

    To identify entry points and develop models for Public-Private-Producer Partnerships (PPPPs) that create sustainable employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for youth, women, and smallholder farmers in Cabo Delgado, particularly in Palma and Mocรญmboa da Praia. This will contribute to WFPโ€™s broader goal of building resilient, climate-adaptive food systems.

    For this assessment, the private sector includes both for-profit enterprises and business associations/coalitions, defined as โ€œeither for-profit, commercial enterprises or businesses; or business associations and coalitions.โ€

    Geographic Focus

    Cabo Delgado Province, with emphasis on Palma and Mocรญmboa da Praia districts.

    Key Tasks

    1. Develop Assessment Methodology

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