WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.
Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
Within the cross-cutting discipline of food and nutrition security and humanitarian response there are increasingly strong calls for improved analysis, for greater comparability of results from one area to another, increased precision and clarity, greater transparency of evidence, increased relevance to strategic decision making, and stronger linkages between information and action. Improving analysis along these lines would enable food and nutrition security and humanitarian interventions to be more needs-based, strategic and timely. In this respect, there is need to consider the capabilities, assets and activities that have supported the communities for survival in the different zones and relate them with the changes that have occurred in the last several years.
Development of Geospatial datasets and GIS products in the update of livelihood zones. World Food Programme (WFP) plans to support the government of Kenya to review the existing livelihood zone profiles, that will be based on the understanding and general definition of a livelihood zone. Livelihood zone profiles are powerful tools in the analysis of the impacts of hazards and shocks on different populations based on their inherent differences on how they meet their basic needs based on access to food, income sources and market opportunities.
The purpose of this assignment is to deliver an updated and comprehensive Kenya Livelihood Zones (KE-LZ) profiles and maps with information that covers from the smallest agreed on administrative units while supporting aggregation to and for wider administrative units.
Under the technical guidance from VAM, the consultant will perform the following tasks;
Academic Qualifications
Experience
Specific professional experience
General professional skills
Deadline for receiving applications: 16 December 2020.
Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply
WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.
Tagged as: Geography, Geology, Meteorology
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