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Summary
Title of the Assignment Establishment, support and follow-up of farmer savings groups under the FtMA and Smart projects of World Food Program
Contact People
• Umutesi Victoire Annabelle /Project coordinator and Access to Finance Advisor
• BIRASA Patrick /Country Manager
Period 15th July 2022- 31st December 2022
Reporting to MEL Advisor & Project Coordinator
Consultancy positions available 8

Project Background
WFP and Cordaid have an ongoing collaboration since 2016 to link financial service providers to producer organizations for finance in the value chain. Agricultural cooperatives in Rwanda and in other African countries face several challenges including low productivity of members, limited access to markets for their products, lack of adequate management and limited access to finance. Access to a comprehensive range of financial services is a challenge for smallholder members in cooperatives. The collaboration between WFP and CORDAID aimed to overcome these challenges by assisting the farmers to establish farmer savings groups and working with financial service providers. The overall goal of the WFP funded projects to CORDAID is to ensure that smallholder farmers, especially women, have improved access to inputs and markets and equipment including technical support and financial services and loans for pre-and post-harvest equipment for women, allowing them to increase their marketable surplus.

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Consultancy Objectives
The objectives of this consultancy activity are as follows:

Establish/Follow-up the farmer savings groups (FSGs) in the different WFP sites
• Establishing the FSGs within the farming cooperative partners and with the individual farmers
• Capacity building on financial literacy, gender equality etc.
• Financial linkages between the FSGs and the financial institutions
• Establishing a working structure between the Cooperative and the FSGs
• Tracking the FSGs maturity.
• Coaching facilitators in the dissemination of the training to the FSGs members and in the creation of new FSGs
• Developing a sustainable business model with facilitators
• Digitalization follow-up

Reporting and Dissemination
• Provide monthly, quarterly reports and other reports as needed
• Support in outreach data collections and quality check
• Organize and conduct dissemination workshops
• Collect and document interesting human stories

Activity Duration
The consultancy will be carried out for a period of 6 months (15th July-31st December 2022)
Place of Work
• Southern Province: Kamonyi, Muhanga, Ruhango, Huye, Gisangara, Nyamagabe, Nyaruguru
• Western Province: Karongi, Rutsiro, Rubavu, Nyabihu
• Northern Province: Gakenke, Rulindo, Musanze
• Eastern Province: Kirehe, Ngoma, Rwamagana, Kayonza, Gatsibo, Nyagatare
• Kigali: Gasabo

Applicant requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business management, rural development, or any other relevant field. Holding a master’s degree will be an added value.
• capacity building and financial inclusion projects
• Exhibit demonstrated skills in working with farming cooperatives, savings groups, and Microfinance institutions for 3 years.
• Excellent language skills in Kinyarwanda and English in writing and speaking.
• Great report writing and analytical skills
• Training materials development skills
• Great skills to organize and conduct workshops in a result-oriented manner

Submisssion Procedure
• An application letter addressed to the Country Director of Cordaid Rwanda
• A comprehensive CV With three Referees
• Copies of academic and professional certificates
Qualified and Interested Candidates may apply not later than 6th July 2022 at 5 pm. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Only short-listed Candidates will be contacted.
The applications will be sent to charlene.tuyishime@cordaid.org.