GAIN
Relevent Country: Nigeria
Type of work: Project and Program Management
Last Date: 20-03-2023
Applicants are now invited to submit their applications to assess capacities required to implement nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions and develop a strategy for building identified capacities.
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) with support from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) therefore developed the Nigerian Agricultural Sector Food Security and Nutrition Strategy (AFSNS) 2016-2025. The purpose of the AFSNS is to guide the activities of FMARD, States’ Ministries of Agriculture (SMA) and the wider agricultural sector in Nigeria, to improve nutrition, and to support effective advocacy for mobilization and allocation of resources required for the agriculture sector nutrition interventions. The AFSNS has been domesticated in three states – Kaduna, Kano, and Lagos, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF).
Key steps, agreed after consultations, for developing the Workforce Strategy include:
GAIN Nigeria seeks an implementing partner (an organization) who will work closely with GAIN and its partners to assess capacities needed to implement nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions and develop a strategy for building identified capacities (Workforce Strategy), vis-à-vis the background to the Workforce Strategy development. As part of the steps for the development of the Workforce Strategy, a stakeholder consultation was held in January to compile lessons from ongoing agricultural interventions and consolidate priorities of the agriculture sector at federal level and for Kaduna, Kano, and Lagos States. The outputs of the workshop include:
Building on these outputs, the implementing partner will carry out the following tasks:
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