BUSINESS PLAN AND FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
BASED IN DETUSOKO, ENDE, NTT
ASSIGNMENT PERIOD: ONE MONTH
Introduction
The participation
of youth in agriculture is decreasing national wide due to irregular and
unstable income. Likewise, food crop, in coffee commodity, there is limited
number of youth who actively engaged. Indonesia Statistic Board noted that
number of farmer has decreased and 5 million households are no longer farmer.
The age of farmers is getting older. 60.8 % of farmers are at above 45-year-old
with limited education background (basic school only) and lack of new
technology adoption. In contrast, regeneration process particularly on food
related farming is very slow and youth prefer to work in industry sector
instead of farming. Youth viewed agriculture did not provide regular income
since the profit will be received only during harvest session instead of
monthly basis. Moreover, agriculture did not also give stable income during its
harvest due to many factors, such as production failure and market price
fluctuation. Consequently, youth preferred to work in the city for different
types of job, including daily labor. Combined with selling farming land and
convert it to the infrastructure, such as hotel, shops, and tourist facility,
this, furthermore, has caused decreased agriculture productivity. There are
many variables influence youth’s (within farmer families) passion to be
farmers, including sex and main activity/occupation, interest, ambition, and
knowledge on farmer regeneration.
Lutheran World
Relief (here and after refer as LWR) is starting the project in Detusoko, Ende,
Flores to increase youth participation in agriculture by proving that
agriculture is promising income source through creating entrepreneurship opportunities
and improve on-farm practice. Youth will be engaged not only in farming and cultivating
coffee or other crops, but also in building entrepreneurship utilizing value
added from their farming product.
There are two youth
groups in the area who will implement youth group entrepreneur in Detusoko
Barat and Wologai Tengah. In Detusoko Barata, the youth group had established
for more than 5 years with solid group members. While Wologai Tengah group is
relatively new group, management role and responsibility has not been developed
yet. Both groups commit to implement group entrepreneur in café in the
location.
To start the
business, it is obvious that the group need to improve their capacity in
starting up business, including in establishing youth group governance.
Therefore, the project will hire consultant to improve their capacity trough series
of training and coaching so they will able to start their café.
Objective
The objective of
this group capacity building are:
1.
Improve
group capacity in managing the youth group
2.
Improve
group capacity in running group business
Deliverables
At the end of
assignment period, the Consultant is expected to deliver:
· Facilitate one training on group governance so
the group understand a group structure and role for each function
· Finalized group statute
· Facilitate training on business plan for two
groups
· Facilitate training on financial management
· Draft group business plan and financial
management procedures in running their café business
Timeframe of the activity
The Consultant is
expecting to start immediately. S/he will be based in Detusoko sub-district,
Ende. The assignment period is one month (equal to 22 days). To support the
consultant training and assistance, LWR will hire local co-facilitator to
manage day to day assistance to the group.
Consultant criteria
The minimum
requirement for the consultant are:
· Experience in training group on group
governance for more than 3 years
· Skilful in coaching as follow up to
training
· Ready to be based on Detusoko sub-district
during assignment period
· Experience in assisting group financial
management
· Experience in business plan
· Understand local culture
· Experience with youth activities and/or
entrepreneur start up is a plus
Remuneration
The consultant will
get a competitive consultation fee, accommodation in Detusoko and during
travel, local transport and ticket to and from Ende (for consultant who live
outside Ende).
Interested candidate
Interested candidates
need to submit their CV, brief training design and curriculum at the latest on
May 11th to to lwrindonesia1@gmail.com
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