Beyond managing the COFAN studies, this role will support both Partnerships Officers and Senior Advisors on a broad portfolio of ongoing and new projects within the nutrition and human capital development space. Potential projects and topics may include the South Africa Development Community Indigenous Foods Studies, local production of nutritious foods, climate impacts on food and nutrition, financing mechanisms for food and nutrition, and others. In addition to topic-area projects, the Junior Partnerships Officer may also support specific IFI partnerships as needed.
Manage the go-forward process for the COFAN studies pilot process. Task may include but are not limited to:
a. Convening multisectoral stakeholder groups
b. Engaging with country offices and national governments in pilot countries
c. Coordinating a financing roundtable event to secure funding for the COFAN
pilots
d. Drafting budgets, concept notes, timelines, ToRs and other relevant documents for the pilot studies
e. Supporting the refinement of COFAN study methodology
f. Managing timelines and progress-tracking for pilot implementation, including convening working groups, collecting updates, and disseminating reports
2. Support IFI resourcing and engagement with individual IFIs as needed, including the African Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and others.
3. Support ad-hoc projects and engagements on financing for nutrition and human capital development, including funding facilities, research papers, UN reports, forums, project proposals, and others.
4. Support the development of WFP-internal knowledge products and resources on financing nutrition and human capital development, including collaborating with relevant departments on briefing notes, webinars, workshops, and other knowledge dissemination vehicles.
5.Others as required.
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The UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization working towards zero hunger by 2030, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. Powered by the passion, dedication and professionalism of our 20,000 staff worldwide, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) works in over 80 countries to bring life-saving food to people displaced by conflict and made destitute by disasters, and help individuals and communities find life-changing solutions to the multiple challenges they face in building better futures. In 2020, WFP assisted 115.5 million people – the largest number since 2012. On any given day, WFP has 5,600 trucks, 30 ships and nearly 100 planes on the move, delivering food and other assistance to those in most need. Every year, we distribute more than 15 billion rations at an estimated average cost per ration of US$ 0.61. We work to enhance nutrition in women and children, support smallholder farmers in improving productivity and reducing losses, help countries and communities prepare for and cope with climate-related shocks, and boost human capital through school feeding programmes. In conflict situations, we bring relief to exhausted populations and use food assistance to build pathways to peace and stability. For its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict, WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020.
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