Background
Balochistan remains the most vulnerable province in Pakistan, with the highest levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty. Food insecurity across districts is at a crisis level.i High prices, flooding drought, livestock disease and death, post-harvest loss are straining the food system and impacting livelihood opportunities for the food and agricultural sector. These drivers are adversely affecting food production, food affordability and food availability.
To understand the main challenges to the food system, the Food Department in Balochistan has established a series of technical working groups (TWGs) to address various thematic areas in relation to the food supply chain. These TWGs will focus on identifying and rectifying inefficiencies in the food supply chains through evaluation of existing policies and practices. In addition, a Strategic Advisory Group has been established to assess recommendations provided by technical teams. The objective of these groups is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges, opportunities, and entry points for improvements in the food supply chain in Balochistan.
Considering the complexity of these assessments, the Strategic Advisory Group requires a technical expert or experts with experience and understanding of the intricacies of the food system within Pakistan and more specifically Balochistan. The lead consultant may be supported by a local consultant if required.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is a highly prestigious, reputable and the world's largest humanitarian organization, 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.
In support of the Food Department of Balochistan, WFP Pakistan Country Office is currently seeking a technical consultant to work with the Strategic Advisory Group in strengthening agrifood system transformation, based in Quetta, Balochistan.
The consultant will be responsible to develop a comprehensive document as a roadmap for strategic roadmap for bringing improvement in intended reforms encompassing all primary functions of the Food department, Govt. of Balochistan. Consultant will ensure this Working document is endorsed by the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) of the Food Department of the Government of Balochistan after a thoroughly consultative process. This document will include detail review and gap analysis of the
currently applicable and in practice Policies, Rules of Business and regulations, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) covering all business processes under the Food department, through a careful comparison with the standards of sister provinces as well as best practices from global evidence. This overall secondary assessment including systematic literature review and the consultation with the Technical Working Groups (TWGs) for their specific scopes will provided basis for the recommendations of the suggested reforms in the roadmap.
The TWGs are as follows:
An endorsed Zero Draft of the roadmap document, with the preliminarily proposed title Reform Agenda for the Food department, Balochistan will be the final deliverable of the consultant for which the breakup is provided in the detailed deliverable section below.
Following are the key objectives of the consultancy services required under this assignment:
The following table highlights the key deliverable of the primary consultant:
Deliverable Payment Percentage
1 Workplan with the Inception Report after initial consultation with the Strategic
Advisory Group and all 07 Technical Working Groups i 30%
2 Comprehensive Situation Analysis Report reflecting detailed literature review with references and clearly articulating the Gap analysis in comparison with the
national and global standards.
3 Draft recommendations and way forward Report for each of the 07 Technical Working Group encompassing all the primary functions of the Food department,
Balochistan.
35%
payment
4 Final Revised documents endorsed by the SAG for the Food department (Acts,
Laws, Policies, Standard Operating Procedures, Rules of Business, Regulations) 35% payment
5 Zero, Green and Final Draft of the roadmap, titled as Reforms Agenda for Food department, Balochistan endorsed by the Strategic Advisory Group and
Presentation Workshop
WFP standard payment terms are net 30 days. In case advance payment is required, service provider will be required to submit bank guarantee /insurance from AA+ rating on WFP standard template.
The timeline of this assignment will be a total of 2 months and 29 days. However, as the assignment is interlinked with the working of 07 different Technical Working Groups of separate functions of the Food department where an array of stakeholders will meet on a certain frequency as per the respective technical working groups scope of work, some flexibility in submission of the final deliverables could be considered in such a situation. Besides, the payment against this assignment is based on the endorsement of each deliverable by the Strategic Advisory Group of the Food department, Balochistan.
Description
Name
Nationality
Total years of working experience
Years of experience in policy analysis, policy reform or research related to food systems, procurement, supply chain logistics and value chain development
Years of relevant experience with well reputed government or private organizations
Current employer/ role
Current location, Qualification, Language , Job Titles/ Sector experience Geographical experience
Let our experts design a Professional CV for you.