Consultant: In Food Security, Aquaculture and Ecotourism

Location                       : Manokwari, West Papua and Jakarta

Application deadline    : 30 November 2018

Type of Contract           : Three Individual Contracts

Post Level                    : National Consultant

Languages Required    : English and Bahasa Indonesia

Expected Duration of Assignment : 3 months

Please send your CV detailing all projects that have been undertaken along with expected salary per month to kantor@econusa.id 

Background

FOLU is a coalition of organisations joining forces to help transform the world’s food and land use systems. We believe that governments, businesses and communities can and will build sustainable, integrated food and land use systems when they are equipped with a better understanding of the goals, the conviction to act quickly, and a clear idea of what to do.

The Consultants will be contacted by Econusa Foundation and directly supervised by the Econusa FOLU team leader. The consultancy will take place for 3 work-months in total and divided into two stages.. The initial work should run for no more than 15 work days, with expected result is initial scoping analysis of Food Security, Aquaculture and Ecotourism. The next stage is the formulation of roadmap of food security and feasibility study for aquaculture and ecotourism. The National Consultants will work together with local consultants (Papua based)

Duties and Responsibilities:

The consultancies will cover the following cluster:

1. Food Security

 Improved food diversity and reduction of post-harvest losses of food security

 Strengthening of food resiliency

 Strengthening food related policies and strategy to possible economic formulating investment calculation

The scope and objectives of the consultancy are enumerated below:

 Developing Term of Reference and workplan of food security roadmap using inclusive approach

 Scan the horizon for and catalogue changes in the current status of food security policy and food movement initiatives in West Papua

 Review the status of the existing projects related to food security in West Papua

 Mapping food system stakeholders and their roles in shaping food security in West Papua

 Identifying and analysing forest food provision current state up to district level

 Recommend and specify action plan for food system stakeholders

The key deliverables are:

 Detailed action plans and roles of food system stakeholders

 Policy gaps in vertical tiers (central, provincial and local governments) and in horizontal tiers (among Dinas or OPD)

 Mapping out stakeholders (public and private sectors, international and national communities, NGOs, local communities)

 Economic analysis (where possible)

2. Aquaculture

 Feasibility study for analysing most suitable aquaculture model for West Papua

 Developing Spatial analysis for location and alternative commodity

 Developing data and information on consumption need and alternative income for West Papuan

The scope and objectives of the consultancy are enumerated below:

 Developing Term of Reference of aquaculture roadmap using inclusive approach

 Scan the horizon for and catalogue changes in the current status of aquaculture policy and food movement initiatives in West Papua

 Review the status of the existing projects related to aquaculture in West Papua

 Mapping aquaculture stakeholders and their roles in West Papua

 Identifying and analysing river-food provision current state

 Recommend and specify action plan for aquaculture stakeholders

The key deliverables are:

 Detailed action plans and roles of aquaculture stakeholders such as technical sustainability, economic sustainability, social sustainability, environmental sustainability and legal sustainability

 Policy gaps in vertical tiers (central, provincial and local governments) and in horizontal tiers (among Dinas or OPD)

 Mapping out stakeholders (public and private sectors, international and national communities, NGOs, local communities)

 Cost structure of economic Aquaculture

3. Ecotourism

 Developing scenario on ecotourism and its supply chain

 Feasibility analysis

The scope and objectives of the consultancy are enumerated below:

 Developing Term of Reference of aquaculture roadmap using inclusive approach

 Scan the horizon for and catalogue changes in the current status of ecotourism policy and food movement initiatives in West Papua

 Review the status of the existing projects related to ecotourism in West Papua

 Mapping ecotourism stakeholders and their roles in West Papua

 Recommend and specify action plan for ecotourism stakeholders

The key deliverables are:

 Detailed action plans and roles of ecotourism stakeholders

 Policy gaps in vertical tiers (central, provincial and local governments) and in horizontal tiers (among Dinas or OPD)

 Mapping out stakeholders (public and private sectors, international and national communities, NGOs, local communities)

 Formulating investment calculation (modelling, if possible)

Competencies

 An ability to work with a variety of people including government officials, international and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs), local stakeholders, experts and consultants.

 Strong leadership, managerial and team-building and motivation skills, committed to knowledge sharing and teamwork.

 Demonstrated experience in working with government

 Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation and facilitation skills.

 Proven experience in facilitating and chairing meetings, workshops and professional exchange activities.

 A proven ability in budget management.

 A proven ability in developing and consolidating financial and technical progress reports in accordance with reporting guidelines.

 Good organisational and planning skills and a proven ability to adhere to guidelines.

Required Skills and Experience

 An advanced university degree in an appropriate discipline related to agriculture, integrated rural development, food management, fisheries management, tourism, economic or other relevant professional fields with minimum experience at least 10 years in consultancy. A PhD degree with minimum experience at least 5 years in consultancy.

 Additional educational certificates related to project management and ecosystem management will be an advantage

 Documented experience in project development and management in agriculture, food security management context, sustainable fisheries and ecotourism for at least 5 years.

 Experience in monitoring and analyzing food security issues, fisheries, ecotourism preferably in the South East Asia region or Indonesia, with emphasis on the establishment food security, aquaculture and ecotourism roadmap and or action plans

 Familiarity and proven knowledge of the food security and agricultural development, fisheries e and Ecotourism situation in Indonesia and eastern Indonesia.

 A thorough understanding of the socio-economic context in Eastern Indonesia (particularly Papua)

 Experience in inclusive approach working with diverse background of stakeholders