Direct Implementation of Horticulture/Crop Value Chain Activities<ul><li>Lead the operationalization of horticulture/crop value chain and market system activities at the cluster level, ensuring interventions are tailored to the local context and effectively address constraints identified through earlier market analyses.</li><li>Lead local assessments and analyses of the horticulture/crop sector to identify agribusiness opportunities tailored to rural young women. Design and execute market-based intervention strategies that address identified constraints and leverage opportunities specific to the cluster context.</li><li>Implement core value chain and market system activities—including market development, market intelligence, facilitation of local input/output market linkages, and business development services—ensuring this leads to increased production, income, and jobs.</li></ul>Enterprise growth &amp; Market Linkages<ul><li>Map existing youth-led MSEs in horticulture/crop and design tailored approaches to help them expand, diversify, and employ more young women.</li><li>Facilitate direct business linkages for young women-led enterprises with input suppliers, buyers, processors, cooperatives, unions, and service providers.</li><li>Introduce and promote appropriate new technologies, productivity-enhancing practices, and value addition opportunities to strengthen horticulture and crop enterprises.</li></ul>Capacity Building &amp; Field-level Support<ul><li>Provide coaching, mentoring, and hands-on technical support to rural young women, youth groups, and MSEs engaged in horticulture/crop enterprises.</li><li>Organize and deliver practical demonstrations, productivity training sessions, post-harvest handling workshops, and exposure visits to build capacity and encourage adoption of improved practices.</li></ul>Stakeholder Coordination &amp; Multi-Stakeholder Platforms<ul><li>Organize and facilitate cluster-level multi-stakeholder meetings on selected value chains to identify systemic challenges and build collective solutions in input and output markets.</li><li>Prepare, document, and share proceedings of these forums, ensuring local stakeholders are actively engaged and driving problem-solving.</li><li>Build and maintain strong operational relationships with private sector actors, cooperatives, local government offices, farmer organizations, and other relevant stakeholders in the horticulture and crop sectors within the cluster.</li></ul>Monitoring, Learning &amp; Adaptive Management<ul><li>Regularly monitor and track implementation progress against work plans, ensuring activities meet quality standards and contribute to cluster-level income and employment targets.</li><li>Document lessons learned, success stories, and innovations from field implementation, sharing these insights with the wider program team to inform adaptive learning.</li><li>Support cluster-level contributions to annual reviews, midterm assessments, final evaluations, and routine progress reporting. Ensure all horticulture/crop interventions are designed and implemented in ways that intentionally address gender disparities and enhance climate resilience</li></ul>

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Agribusiness Advisor - Horticulture/Crops (Contingent to Donor Funding)

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