Thanks to his knowledge on food security and resilience of food systems and on the basis of the appointments to be made, the assistant mission coordinator will have the following specific objectives:

Specific Objective 1: Support to identify and define the needs of public and private actors involved in food security

In order to achieve this objective, on a documentary basis provided by Expertise France and in close collaboration with the Expertise France project managers, the assistant mission coordinator must:

• Support to Identify and meet all actors likely to be involved in the project as partners, service providers or direct and indirect beneficiaries of the project;
• Support to Clarify and confirm the objectives, the content of the activities, the modus operandi and the stakeholders proposed by the EUD and compare them with the issues and constraints identified during the discussions with the target stakeholders met;
• Support to Measure the implementation capacities of pre-identified partners. Depending on the situation, propose mitigation measures to their possible weaknesses (Grant, Technical Assistance, etc.);
• Support to Identify programmes/projects in the region with which synergies are possible or at least lessons learned.

Specific Objective 2: Propose an operational action plan and an intervention methodology that meets the challenges identified

In order to achieve this objective, on the basis of exchanges with Technical and Financial Partners and in support to the mission coordinator and the Expertise France project managers, the assistant mission coordinator will:

• Define the scope of action (Geographical, thematic,...)
• Define actions, particularly with regard to partnerships to be built with Ghanaian stakeholders
• Detail and budget the activities to be implemented in the defined scope
• Develop some Monitoring and Evaluation tools: Theory of Change and Logical Framework.
• Design a project team architecture and define the profiles necessary for the operational phase.
• Take into consideration the gender dimension and propose specific actions to improve the place of women in the impacts of project activities.

Specific Objective 3: Support consensus-building of Technical and Financial Partners on the scope of the project

• Support to Define, propose, and discuss the involvement of Ghanaian partners (Modality of involvement, Dedicated Budget ...) with them and the EUD.
• In connection with EF headquarters, support to carry out negotiation work with Ghanaian and European partners in order to obtain their agreement on the entire proposed project.

Specific Objective 4: Support the Mission coordination

I - Preparation of the mission:

• Support the mission coordinator and the EF Project Manager to introduce the mission and make appointments.

II - Positioning Expertise France

• If Applicable, Representing and positioning Expertise France for key meetings, institutional relations, international partners and Ghanaian partners

Schedule and mission

The mission should start before the end of February 2023 and will take place in Accra and in the area targeted but the project (North of Ghana).

The duration of the mission is estimated at a maximum of 16 man-days, spread over a period of 3 months, including at least one 10-day mission to Ghana.

Below is a proposed timetable:

The contract will take the form of a purchase order service contract.

Deliverables

The expected deliverables for this assignment – same as for the mission coordinator – are:

1. Report on regular scoping discussions with Expertise France;
2. A summary diagnosis of the current state of food security in North Ghana and its stakeholders and definition of the associated needs;
3. A diagnosis of the capacities of potential project partners and associated needs;
4. Summary reports of various meetings;
5. A final Description of Action (DOA) of the project:
   1. Justification and description of the activities to be carried out;
   2. Definition of the roles of Ghanaian stakeholders and partnership modality;
   3. Project budget in EU format;
   4. Provisional operational budget of the project;
   5. Detailed composition of the team + Job description + Definition of the desired profiles;
   6. Logical framework + Theory of change;
6. Overall project implementation timeline;
7. A handover plan with the project team;

The timetable for the delivery of deliverables will be defined jointly with Expertise France at the beginning of the mission.