- Where
- Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
- Level
- Mid
Reports to: Research Team Leader – Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Purpose of the position
This project-based position supports the monitoring and evaluation of project indicators under the country results framework. Reporting to the Research Team Leader – Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, the role ensures effective data collection, quality assurance, analysis, learning and reporting.
About the Project
Rural Employment through Animal Feed production (REAP) is a five-year multi-country initiative intended to advance education and relieve poverty by enabling 1,000,000 financially disadvantaged young women and men, aged 18 to 35 years, to access new work opportunities in sustainable feed and livestock value chains across the seven countries. The Program will equip financially disadvantaged young people with technical, entrepreneurial, financial; digital and workplace skills linked to viable economic opportunities. It will also improve their access to employment, finance, productive assets and markets, creating income-generating opportunities that strengthen household resilience and wellbeing. Among its participants, the Program shall target 70% young women and at least 5% youth with disabilities and 20,000 refugees and displaced young people.
The programme will support youth-led and youth-inclusive enterprises to enter, stabilise and grow in feed and livestock markets; strengthen market systems, services, and commercial relationships; and improve policy, finance, innovation, extension, and other enabling systems required for youth-led enterprises to succeed and generate additional employment opportunities. Across these areas, it applies gender-transformative and inclusive approaches to address restrictive gender and social norms, reduce barriers to young women’s participation, and strengthen their agency, voice, leadership and access to resources and opportunities. Safeguarding measures are embedded throughout the programme to protect young people from harm and support their safe participation.
About ICARDA
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is a treaty-based international non-profit research organization supported by CGIAR.
ICARDA’s mission is to reduce poverty, enhance food, water, and nutritional security, as well as environmental health in the face of global challenges including climate change. We do this through innovative science, strategic partnerships, linking research to development and capacity development that take into account gender equality and the role of youth in transforming the dry areas. ICARDA works in partnership with governments, universities, civil society, national agricultural research organization, other CGIAR Research Centers, and the private sector. With its temporary Headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, ICARDA operates in regional and country offices across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. For more information: www.icarda.org .
Main responsibilities
Monitoring and Evaluation
· Support project activity monitoring by recording the project on the web-based MEL platform ( HTTP://mel.cgiar.org ) and continuously appraise the status of deliverables including through routine field visits and interactions with project staff and stakeholders.
· Track the progress of the project against the country result framework and its performance indicators (Shared and Customized Measures with the required disaggregation by sex, age, disability and displacement status.
· Conduct or manage project evaluation processes at baseline (Year 1), mid-term and endline (Year 5), consistent with ICARDA’s MELIAF Policy.
· Participate in the relevant project research studies through the development of data collection tools and program or provide technical backstopping for their programming in mobile data collection platforms such as ODK, ONA, CSPro, KOBOToolbox, etc.
· Support the project in the development and review of Plans of Work and Budget and periodic reporting…