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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.
Burundi is a land-locked country in the Great Lakes region of East Africa with an estimated population of 12.5 million people, growing annually at 2.7 percent characterized by a young population: children aged 0 to 15 years represent almost 48 percent of the total population and age 15 to 34 years represent 30 percent. The country ranks 187th of 191 countries in the 2021/2022 Human Development Index (HDI).
GDP per capita current prices is 249 US$ and an estimated GDP growth of 3.3 percent in 2023. The year-on-year inflation rate reached double digits since April 2022 and has been steadily increasing to 32.8 percent in March 2023, with food inflation reaching 49 percent, affecting household expenditures, 66 percent of which are related to food and limiting access to other basic needs.
The Country Office (CO) is developing a new Country Strategic Plan (CSP) to cover the period 2024-2027. The major strategic shift of this CSP will be the adoption of a sustainable, nutrition-sensitive and gender-transformative food systems approach for better outcomes. The strategic outcomes will be intrinsically linked, with gender-transformative social protection and safety nets embedded across. If Burundi’s capacity to implement shock-responsive safety nets (outcome 1) is augmented, food systems are improved sustainably, resilience is enhanced (outcome 3) and human capital is developed (outcome 2), then the need for WFP to respond directly to emergencies is expected to decrease over time. Productive safety nets (outcome 3) contributing to enhance the asset and capital base of the most vulnerable will gradually integrate shock-affected food insecure people to strengthen their resilience, become less dependent on unconditional assistance and graduate towards food and nutrition security. A substantial increase in CBTs across all relevant CSP outcomes, accompanied by an integrated resilience and nutrition-sensitive approach that layers and sequences interventions, such as women economic empowerment and social and behaviour change communication (SBCC), will support the shift towards this transformative programming of the WFP Strategic Plan (2024‒2027) and Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 17.
Since 2013, WFP in Burundi has progressively assisted beneficiaries through cash-based transfer (CBT) modalities. The CSP will continue implementing CBT for refugees, lean season response, returnees, FFA, nutrition and school feeding activities. WFP also co-chairs the inter-agency CBT working group (led by OCHA) with the government of Burundi and is implementing a successful CBT capacity building project with the Burundian Red Cross. The World Bank is also implementing a large social safety nets project and there is further scope for WFP to collaborate and create stronger synergies with the World Bank to integrate refugees into the national social protection programmes through the Merankabandi project.
A Cash-Based Transfer Consultant is needed to bring to scale WFP’s CBT portfolio across the activities, with emphasis on resilience-building and on the nexus humanitarian-peace-development.
Under the direct supervision of the Head of Programme, and building on the strategy elaborated by Burundi CO for CBT, the Cash Based Transfer Officer will perform the following responsibilities:
Strategic plans
Coordination with Sectorial Units
Reports/Statistics:
Capacity Development for CPs and Local Authorities.
Partnerships with CPs and Donors:
Innovation on Technologies:
Purpose
People
Performance
Partnership
Education: | University Degree preferably in one or more of the following disciplines: economics, agriculture, international affairs, business administration, social sciences, development studies |
Language: | Fluency in Both French and English |
JOB TITLE: Programme Policy Officer_Cash-Based Transfer
TYPE OF CONTRACT: CSTII
UNIT/DIVISION: Programme
DUTY STATION (City, Country): Bujumbura, Burundi
CONTRACT DURATION: 11 months
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS FIXED ON 28.11.2023
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