TERM OF REFERENCE (TOR) QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE SURVEY DATA COLLECTORS For Value Chain Assessment on Papaya – The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Research and Development

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Each day, 795 million people — one in nine — go hungry. Close to 2 billion people survive on diets that lack the vital vitamins and nutrients needed to grow properly, live healthy lives, and raise a healthy family. About 1.4 billion people worldwide struggle with overweight and obesity. That’s more than the number of people who are hungry worldwide.

In total, around 3.5 billion people — half the people on the planet today — are malnourished.

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an international organization that was launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition.

GAIN is driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. We act as a catalyst — building alliances between governments, business and civil society — to find and deliver solutions to the complex problem of malnutrition. Today we are on track to reach over a billion people with improved nutrition – a goal for 2015.

We focus our efforts on children, girls and women because we know that helping them have sustainable, nutritious diets is crucial to ending the cycle of malnutrition and poverty. By building alliances that deliver impact at scale, we believe that we can eliminate malnutrition within our lifetimes.

1.      INTRODUCTION

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) was launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. GAIN is a global, Swiss-based foundation that mobilizes public-private partnerships and provides financial and technical support to deliver nutritious foods to those people most at risk of malnutrition.

2.       OBJECTIVES OF THE WORK

The overall objective is to provide real-time evidence and preliminary data on existing papaya value chain in Jeju woreda, Oromia region to develop a viable and sustainable value-chain model for papaya processing in Ethiopia. 

3.   SCOPE OF THE Work

A tight working relationship with the GAIN team is required for the necessary work. The evaluation will take place in Oromia. In a town called Jeju where the greatest papaya fruit is farmed as well as close to the capital city, which offer prospective processors and processed product marketing opportunities.

Data collector will be responsible to conduct observations, FGD, KII with large scale and small holder farmers, wholesalers, woreda and zone extension officers as per the tool. The data collector will also be responsible to compile data on the farmers profile as per sheet provided.  The Data collector will be responsible to deliver data in a workable format translated to English. The data collector will be responsible for coordinating and facilitate the stake holders involved in the interviews prior to data collection to ease the data collection work.

4. DURATION OF THE SERVICE

 7 days 

Number of Data Collectors required – 2

5. REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

The data collector will, at a minimum, possess the following qualifications, skills, and professional experience:

·       A BA degree in any relevant field

·       At least 2 years of experience managing qualitative and quantitative data collection, with experience in the agriculture or natural resource management sector strongly preferred

·       Experience in Probing and conducting FGD’s

·       Excellent communication skills and experience working with a wide range of individuals in government, private sector, and civil society

·       Demonstrates ability to work with international firms or organizations

·       Proficient in Oromiffa, Amharic and English

·       Familiar with Jeju Woreda and surrounding areas

·       Able to understand the tools developed for data collection

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