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CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Recruitment of an individual consultant for capacity building on leadership for women in agriculture and climate research

Opening Date: 22/02/2023

Closing Date: 08/03/2023

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CEI No. 03/2023

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The development objective of Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Project aims to strengthen the capacity of targeted CCAFS (CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security) partners and stakeholders, and to enhance access to climate information services and validated climate-smart agriculture technologies in IDA-eligible countries in Africa.

This project has four components. 1) The first component, Knowledge Generation and Sharing, aims to support generation and sharing of knowledge products and tools designed to address critical gaps in the design and provision of agricultural climate services, enable climate-informed investment planning, and contribute to the design of policies to promote uptake of climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices at the regional, sub-regional and national levels. 2) The second component, Strengthening Partnerships for Delivery, aims to strengthen the capacities of key regional and national institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa along the research-to-development continuum for anticipating climate effects and accelerating identification, prioritization, and uptake of best-bet adaptive measures. 3) The third component, Validating Climate-Smart Agriculture Innovations through Piloting, aims to support testing and validation of CSA technologies in research stations and in farmers’ fields and linking of validated CSA technology packages to technology transfer systems. 4) The fourth component, Project Management, aims to support day-to-day implementation, coordination, supervision and overall communication and management of project activities and results.

Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) works to make climate information services and climate-smart agriculture more accessible to millions of smallholder farmers across Africa. With better access to technology and advisory services, linked to information about effective response measures, farmers can better anticipate climate-related events to take preventative action that helps their communities safeguard livelihoods and the environment. AICCRA is supported by a grant from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank, which is used to enhance research and capacity-building activities of CGIAR centers and initiatives, as well as their African partners. AICCRA had identified two critical gender gaps relevant to the four pillars of the SBG Gender Strategy. One of the gaps is the underrepresentation of women in agricultural research and their low advancement rate in comparison to men researchers in the African continent.

Gender Gap 2 reveals that Women in Agricultural and Climate Research and Decision-Making Women are less represented in agricultural research and advance at lower rates than men. As in other sectors, there is a leaky pipeline effect, where the proportion of women decreases steadily along the progression to senior manager and decision maker (Huyer, 2015). The agricultural research system sees a continuing problem in recruitment, retention, and advancement, and this relates to climate and agriculture research as well. Women make up only 25% of agricultural scientists in Africa, and a much lower proportion of decision makers on agriculture and climate at national and global levels.

The potential of women to contribute to climate change solutions and influence policy extends to the organizations devoted to the generation and diffusion of climate-relevant innovations. While generally the participation of women in agricultural sciences is increasing in most regions of the world (Huyer 2015), women remain the minority in many international and national organizations devoted to agricultural research, including CGIAR Centers, regional and national research institutes, and universities (figure 1 and 2). Furthermore, gender is not well integrated into climate change policy at national or global levels (Gumucio & Rueda, 2015; Huyer et al., 2020; Pham et al., 2016). Driving and supporting women’s participation in higher levels of research and in positions to influence and drive policy are key to sustaining gender-sensitive agricultural and climate policies nationally and globally.

AICCRA commits to promoting women’s entry and advancement in agriculture and climate research, with strategies to support women’s positive career experience and progression in AICCRA implementing countries.

Thus, scientific and leadership capacity development for women in agriculture and climate research becomes crucial to close the gender gaps and to foster inclusive food systems.

It is within this framework that CORAF, approached by AIICRA gender desk to facilitate this workshop, is recruiting a senior consultant to deliver training on leadership for change for women in agriculture and climate research.  

The Executive Director of CORAF invites candidates who meet the qualification criteria, as indicated in the terms of reference, to express their interest in this recruitment.

The tasks to be performed as well as other information relating to the consultancy are detailed in the attached terms of reference.

The consultant will be selected according to the selection method based on the Consultant’s qualification in accordance with the rules contained in the CORAF Administrative, Financial and Accounting procedures manual.

Interested consultants can obtain additional information from the CORAF Executive Secretariat by sending correspondences to [email protected].

Consultants interested in this call must submit an Expression of Interest (EoI) highlighting the execution and experience similar contracts and a detailed CV to [email protected], not later than March 08, 2023, at 5:00 pm GMT.

Dr Abdou TENKOUANO

Executive Director of CORAF