HSI: Consultant for Stakeholder Mapping, Facilitating and Coordinating Local Multi- Stakeholder Forum on Food System in Medan City, North Sumatera Province, Indonesia

Yayasan Humanis dan Inovasi Sosial is an Indonesian organization affiliated with Hivos, born out of an active collaboration between Netherlands based Hivos and several like-minded Indonesian academics and civil society leaders who subscribe to the values and mission of Hivos. The purpose is to promote humanist values in the social, health, and cultural fields which is defined in terms of the ability for each individual to assess and decide independently and responsibly, the right to freedom, dignity and a passion to create a just and tolerant society.

Yayasan Humanis seeks qualified candidates for the position of:

Title :  Consultant for Stakeholder Mapping, Facilitating and Coordinating Local Multi- Stakeholder Forum on Food System in Medan City, North Sumatera Province,  Indonesia

Duty Station :  Medan, Indonesia

Report to :  Project Manager – Local Harvest

Duration :  8 months (maximum 26 days)

Background

The SWITCH Asia Local Harvest project: Promoting sustainable and equitable consumption and local food systems in Indonesia is supported by the European Union and implemented by  partners:the AMAN (Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara), ASPPUK (Asosiasi Pendamping Perempuan Usaha Kecil), NTFP-EP (Non Timber Forest Product-Exchange Program) Indonesia and Yayasan WWF Indonesia.  The project is implemented in 8 provinces (14 districts) and 5 cities in Indonesia over a period of four (4) years commencing March 1, 2018.

The specific objective of the project is to stimulate a significant shift in consumption patterns towards sustainable and ethically sourced food products in Indonesia through increased knowledge and awareness of consumers about the impacts of their food choices; increased capacities of food MSMEs and producers - including women and indigenous people - to penetrate markets; and a favourable policy environment for uptake of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) practices in the food sector. One of the result areas of the project includes support and adoption from national and local governments on policies and guidelines to promote SCP of green, healthy, fair and local food products. 

As part of the project implementation, multi stakeholder forums/platforms on food system will be established in five cities – Jakarta (national level), Bandung, Makassar, Medan and Yogyakarta. The local multi-stakeholder platform will include, but not limited to, government agencies, producer representative, SMEs and retailers, academics, CSOs and consumer representatives, who will share experiences and discuss potential synergy in promoting sustainable consumption and production in the food system.  The local platform will be part of the multi stakeholder platform on food system at thhe national level that initiated by the project in collaboration with BAPPENAS. The key output from the platform is a joint agenda for policies and actions on the promotion of SCP for local food products (strategy paper). 

Scope of work

The consultant is expected to:

1. Study the relevant project documents and other documents related to sustainable consumption and production (SCP) and sustainable food system

2. Conduct stakeholder mapping to identify key actors and stakeholders in the city food system, their vision, role, and willingness to be involved in the multi stakeholder platform on sustainable food system. These actors and stakeholders include government agencies, academics, media, private sector/ MSME, producers, consumers, enablers

3. Identify existing multi-stakeholder platforms/fora/committees related to food system and provide assessment of their members, agenda, processes, function and their potential to be strengthened with issues n SCP in food system.  

4. Identify the cultural context in which Lobby and Advocacy will be conducted in the targeted city for influencing the policy

5. Organize and facilitate a series of workshop/ discussions with key stakeholders for the establishment of the platform in Medan city

6. Develop a strategy paper that consists of issues, strategy and a joint agenda for policy and actions in promoting SCP in local food system based on workshops result and discussion with key stakeholders

7. Provide recommendation on how the platform could be (formally) established/enriched/facilitated effectively, including the necessary steps to be taken.

8. Provides support on the establishment/formalization of the multi-stakeholder platform, including recommendation on how the platform can be managed effectively through:

a. Collaboration with existing city-level multi-stakeholder platforms/fora/committees on SCP of food and urban food system (if any). This includes any Local Food Security Agency and/or Council (Badan Ketahanan Pangan Daerah atau Dewan Ketahanan Pangan Daerah) or similar institution.

b.    Collaboration with existing multi-stakeholder platforms/fora/committees that do not (yet) discuss about SCP of food but could potentially be enriched with SCP agenda, and provide assessment of their members, agenda, processes, functioning and results so far. For example: regional level SDG forums.

Duration

The assignment will be completed within 8 months from the date of the signing of the contract between Yayasan and the consultant with a maximum of 26 working days.

Deliverables 

- Report on stakeholder mapping in food system in Medan City

- A concise report on series of workshop (including milestones) for developing a local multi stakeholder platform on food system in Medan

- A strategy paper consisted of vision, issues mapped, strategy to achieve sustainable food system in Medan city based on the workshops and discussion with the key stakeholders. The strategy paper will be distributed to the relevant government agencies and key stakeholders as one of references in developing relevant policy

All reports (in Bahasa Indonesia and English) should be submitted in electronic version in relevant Microsoft Office format

Key Qualifications

The consultant or team of consultants should:

• Have extensive experience in stakeholder mapping for lobby and advocacy purposes

• Have extensive experience in facilitating local multistakeholder platforms/forums

• Have experience working with CSOs and local governments

• Have familiarity in lobby and advocacy processes and experience in working on lobby and advocacy activities in various levels of policymaking

• Have ample knowledge on issues related to urban food system

• Have the ability to draw upon a range of inputs from existing contacts, managing data and synthesize the findings into a readable and practical narrative.

• Preferably based in Medan and has a relevant and extensive contacts and network

How to apply:

A proposal including the work plan and budget, with CV and cover letter, should be addressed to:

hr@hsi.foundation and jtheresya@hivos.org with email subject “Consultant for Facilitating Local Multi-stakeholder Platform in Medan”

Deadline for submission of proposal is May 9, 2021. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.