National Shea Commodity Platform Manager

The forest ecosystems of Ghana’s Northern Savannah Zone (NSZ), an space of 9.7 million hectares with a inhabitants of over 5 million individuals, is characterised by practically 400 million shea and different bushes rising naturally on conventional farming techniques. The bushes are built-in with crops on smallholder farms, creating an agroforestry panorama resilient to local weather change. These lands are dealing with an awesome menace with whole forest cowl having declined by over 77% between 2001-2015, with the conversion of 1,058,492 million hectares (ha) of woodlands to grasslands, croplands and degraded forests. This has resulted in Greenhouse Gas (GhG) emissions of an estimated 3.568 mtCO2e every year. The important drivers of this deforestation and forest degradation are mid to late dry-season fires, conversion to agriculture, and chopping for timber and wooden fuels.

The loss and degradation of woodlands and forests, together with priceless bushes like shea and different species, pose important environmental, social and financial dangers within the NSZ. Shea landscapes are essential sources of carbon storage and sequestration above floor and in soils and roots. Shea is an historic crop, consumed as an edible oil. The lack of shea bushes impacts ladies as a result of it gives a serious supply of financial livelihood to ladies within the area. They accumulate shea fruits and course of them into kernels on the market, rising the family revenue and selling ladies’s involvement within the worldwide market and their empowerment. 

If neighborhood and forest reserves are managed sustainably and shea is restored within the panorama, a bunch of financial, environmental and social advantages will accrue over the long run to the inhabitants within the Northern Savannah Zone.

The challenge has 4 interrelated outputs that might be applied by a cross-sectoral, complete and holistic method, pushed by communities, ladies’s teams, the non-public sector and authorities establishments:

Output 1: Off-reserve, degraded, savannah woodlands and forests restored beneath self-financing neighborhood administration in CREMA.

Output 2: Degraded shea parklands restored by public-private partnerships.

Output 3 Modified Taungya System plantations and hearth administration in forest reserves

Output 4: Integrated monitoring system applied, and REDD+ Systems strengthened

These Terms of Reference focuses on the administration and coordination of the stakeholders concerned within the shea worth chain. The companions on the GSLERP (UNDP, Forestry Commission and Global Shea Alliance) have agreed to arrange a nationwide shea sector multi-stakeholder platform because the mechanism to get a extra concerted method amongst the related stakeholders to growing and sustaining the Shea trade.

This place seeks to make use of knowledgeable to guide the formation and administration of the nationwide shea multi-stakeholder platform.

a. Ensure efficient planning, budgeting, and administration of the platform by the next duties: 

• Prepare and ship challenge work plans, budgets, troubelshoot any points that will come up, and perform monitoring by the implementation of the challenge; 
• Prepare challenge reviews consistent with the usual template in a well timed method;
• Oversee finances utilization, put together and submit monetary reviews to the Forestry Commission and the UNDP; 
• Ensure gender-related financial, environmental public analysis and evaluation, to contribute to the formulation of insurance policies, procedures, tips and instruments that can maintain the platform collectively.

b. Oversee, coordinate, and facilitate the institution and implementation of the National Shea Multi-Stakeholder Platform and guarantee efficient implementation and achievement by the beneath actions:

• Provide technical experience on the day-to-day multi-stakeholder coordination course of and make sure the achievement of targets as outlined within the challenge work plan;
• Deliver conferences and workshops in collaboration with a number of stakeholders;
• Facilitate and put together the content material for the multi-stakeholder course of, conferences, and workshops;
• Lead and supervise all communication with members on the platform;
• Oversee the day-to-day coordination with platform members and make sure the achievement of targets as outlined within the challenge work plan;
• Performs oversight roles for platform compliance towards the related authorities coverage and rules;
• Develop and strengthen relationships with key actors within the shea sector and foster their participation within the nationwide platform;
• Manage the multi-stakeholder dialogue course of to develop, implement and monitor collective motion plans and commitments.

c. Create and nurture strategic partnerships and assist to the implementation of useful resource mobilization:

• Establish and keep good working with the Forestry Commission, the Global Shea Alliance, and different related public and growth companions; 
• Lead efforts to make sure the creation and coordination of partnerships with growth companions, authorities establishments, the non-public sector, civil society and so on., together with efforts to find out programmatic areas of cooperation; 
• Identify alternatives for mobilizing sources for the challenge and put together substantive briefs on doable areas of cooperation; 
• Ensure the visibility of the challenge in coordination with UNDP’s Communication unit and different related counterparts’ communications departments.

d. Facilitate data constructing and administration for and from the platform’s implementation:

• Identify greatest practices and classes learnt from the event and administration of the platform and from different initiatives;
• Lead in producing data merchandise resembling greatest practices and classes learnt for data sharing; 
• Contribute to data networks and communities of follow;
• Manage and supply enter to platform-related studying and analysis actions. 

The incumbent of the place ought to keep away from any form of discriminatory habits together with gender discrimination, and be certain that:

• Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an moral precept inside all actions;
• Activities are designed and applied in accordance with the “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”; 
• Any form of diversities primarily based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, incapacity, faith, class, and gender are revered inside all implementations, together with information manufacturing;
• Differentiated wants of ladies and men are thought of;
• An inclusive method is mirrored inside all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in varied senses resembling incapacity gender language barrier is created;
• Necessary preparations to supply gender parity inside all committees, conferences, trainings and so on.

The incumbent performs different duties inside their practical profile as deemed mandatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.