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The Government of the Republic of Zambia, through the Ministry of Agriculture has received funds from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support the implementation of the Chiansi Smallholder Outgrower Support Project (COSP). The Chiansi Smallholder Outgrower Project (COSP) is a four (4) year Project that aims to develop an irrigation scheme covering 600 ha of land in Chiansi area in Kafue District. The Project will directly benefit 600 smallholder outgrower farmers and also support social services and other activities such as health, domestic water supply, sanitation and skills development to directly benefit additional 12,000 people (30% women and youth).

The Project development objective is to increase agricultural income and improve livelihoods of the smallholder farmers by increasing agricultural productivity, and market access. This will contribute to poverty reduction, improved household incomes, food security and nutrition, and also build resilience to climate variability/change.

The Project comprises three (3) components namely; (i) Component 1. Development of Climate Resilient Infrastructure, (ii) Component 2. Social Services and Skills Development, (iii) Component 3. Project Management and Coordination

The Chiansi Smallholder Outgrower Project recognizes the importance of addressing gender disparities and promoting gender equality to increase the project impact and benefits. the engagement of a Gender Specialist is therefore essential to ensure the project is implemented with gender considerations, which will lead to more effective and sustainable outcomes, increased beneficiary participation and enhanced project sustainability.

It is against this background that the Chiansi Smallholder Outgrower Project would like to engage the services of an experienced and competent Socio-Economist/Gender Specialist (individual consultant) to provide technical expertise in integrating gender considerations into the project design, implementation and monitoring.

The consultant’s scope of work will include but not limited to the following:

i. Conducting a social and gender analysis that will assess the gender dynamics and power relations in the project area.
ii. Develop a Social and Gender action plan that addresses social and gender disparities and promote equality of the project.
iii. Develop training materials and provide training and capacity building to both project staff and local communities on social and gender sensitive approaches and practices.
iv. Mainstreaming gender in the project implementation and monitoring activities.
v. Review project monitoring and evaluating system and ensure that it is able to track and generate gender sensitive information on project activities

The evaluation criteria:

i. A Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Sociology, Development Studies or any other relevant Social Sciences (30%);
ii. At least ten years of relevant experience conducting gender mainstreaming and analysis (30%);
iii. Demonstrated knowledge of gender sensitive approaches and practices in rural settings (10%)
iv. Demonstrated knowledge of international development partners and or AfDB gender equality and women economic empowerment is an advantage (10%)
v. Proven experience in conducting and managing similar previous work with development projects in rural settings (10%);
vi. Experience in conducting gender related capacity building and trainings (5%)
vii. Excellent communication and ability to work in rural settings with limited resources (5%)