Facilitate market and value chain interventions<ul><li>Lead the operationalization of livestock 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>Contribute to annual, quarter and monthly planning, as well as regular reporting related to livestock and horticulture value chain and market system activities of the cluster</li><li>Lead local assessments and analyses of the livestock sector to identify agribusiness opportunities tailored to rural young women.</li><li> Design and execute market-based intervention strategies that address identified constraints and leverage opportunities in the livestock and horticulture value chain, 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 (such as feed/inputs, veterinary services, aggregation, and value addition), and business development services—ensuring this leads to increased livestock productivity, income, and employment.</li></ul>Support youth enterprise growth interventions<ul><li>Map existing youth-led MSEs in livestock and horticulture agribusiness and design strategies to enable them to grow, diversify, and employ more young women.</li><li>Support capacity building of youth groups and enterprises on business skills, value addition, and market requirements to enhance their competitiveness.</li></ul>Strengthen partnerships and systemic change<ul><li>Work closely with local private sector players (aggregators, processors, traders), cooperatives, and unions to identify and develop mutually beneficial business relationships with youth entrepreneurs.</li><li>Facilitate cluster-level multi-stakeholder livestock forums to discuss and address systemic bottlenecks in input and output markets.</li></ul>Capacity building &amp; technical support<ul><li>Provide tailored coaching, mentoring, and hands-on support to cluster technical teams and local stakeholders on livestock market systems, youth enterprise growth, and business development.</li><li>Organize practical demonstrations and exposure visits to stimulate adoption of good practices.</li></ul>Outreach, mobilization and enrolment <ul><li>Implement inclusive community outreach and mobilization strategies that ensure effective targeting, registration, and enrolment of RYW, Persons with Disabilities, returnees, and other marginalized youth into the program, and support their progression into enterprise formation and skill training.</li><li>Play lead role in identification of social, cultural, and systemic barriers for inclusion and develop context-specific strategies to overcome these problems.</li><li>Support the implementation of a comprehensive strategy of YSLA approach including targeting, group formation processes, and guidance on group lifecycle and sustainability.</li></ul>Monitoring, documentation &amp; learning<ul><li>Regularly track implementation progress of livestock and agribusiness activities in the cluster, ensuring they align with approved work plans and contribute to employment and income targets.</li><li>Support documentation of lessons learned, case stories, and innovations from the cluster and share with the national technical team and MEAL staff for broader learning.</li><li>Represent the program in local livestock and agribusiness platforms and forums, building strong networks with other projects, government offices, private sector associations, and community stakeholders.</li><li>Ensure that gender and climate considerations are mainstreamed into livestock value chain interventions at the cluster level.</li><li>Undertake other tasks as assigned to support programme implementation and results.</li></ul>

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Youth Engagement and Livestock/Horticulture Agribusiness Advisor ((Contingent to Donor Funding)

Facilitate market and value chain interventions<ul><li>Lead the operationalization of livestock 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>Contribute to annual, quarter and monthly planning, as well as regular reporting related to livestock and horticulture value chain and market system activities of the cluster</li><li>Lead local assessments and analyses of the livestock sector to identify agribusiness opportunities tailored to rural young women.</li><li>&nbsp;Design and execute market-based intervention strategies that address identified constraints and leverage opportunities in the livestock and horticulture value chain, 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 (such as feed/inputs, veterinary services, aggregation, and value addition), and business development services—ensuring this leads to increased livestock productivity, income, and employment.</li></ul>Support youth enterprise growth interventions<ul><li>Map existing youth-led MSEs in livestock and horticulture agribusiness and design strategies to enable them to grow, diversify, and employ more young women.</li><li>Support capacity building of youth groups and enterprises on business skills, value addition, and market requirements to enhance their competitiveness.</li></ul>Strengthen partnerships and systemic change<ul><li>Work closely with local private sector players (aggregators, processors, traders), cooperatives, and unions to identify and develop mutually beneficial business relationships with youth entrepreneurs.</li><li>Facilitate cluster-level multi-stakeholder livestock forums to discuss and address systemic bottlenecks in input and output markets.</li></ul>Capacity building &amp; technical support<ul><li>Provide tailored coaching, mentoring, and hands-on support to cluster technical teams and local stakeholders on livestock market systems, youth enterprise growth, and business development.</li><li>Organize practical demonstrations and exposure visits to stimulate adoption of good practices.</li></ul>Outreach, mobilization and enrolment <ul><li>Implement inclusive community outreach and mobilization strategies that ensure effective targeting, registration, and enrolment of RYW, Persons with Disabilities, returnees, and other marginalized youth into the program, and support their progression into enterprise formation and skill training.</li><li>Play lead role in identification of social, cultural, and systemic barriers for inclusion and develop context-specific strategies to overcome these problems.</li><li>Support the implementation of a comprehensive strategy of YSLA approach including targeting, group formation processes, and guidance on group lifecycle and sustainability.</li></ul>Monitoring, documentation &amp; learning<ul><li>Regularly track implementation progress of livestock and agribusiness activities in the cluster, ensuring they align with approved work plans and contribute to employment and income targets.</li><li>Support documentation of lessons learned, case stories, and innovations from the cluster and share with the national technical team and MEAL staff for broader learning.</li><li>Represent the program in local livestock and agribusiness platforms and forums, building strong networks with other projects, government offices, private sector associations, and community stakeholders.</li><li>Ensure that gender and climate considerations are mainstreamed into livestock value chain interventions at the cluster level.</li><li>Undertake other tasks as assigned to support programme implementation and results.</li></ul>

Youth Engagement and Livestock/Horticulture Agribusiness Advisor ((Contingent to Donor Funding)

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