A Consultancy – Household survey at CIFOR | August 2024

Overview

The International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) in cooperation with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT) is implementing a research project on the adoption of innovative agroforestry approaches for holistic climate-resilience in the regions of Morogoro and Dodoma in Tanzania. A household survey will be implemented to cover 910 households in 12 villages in Morogoro and Dodoma from September 2024 to January 2025. The goal of the SCARF project is to identify, pilot and improve innovative agroforestry approaches to accelerate the long-term uptake of farm-level adaptation practices in the agricultural sector. Many good agricultural practices that are implemented to support households vulnerable to climate change challenges fail because their design did either not consider the specific socio-economic conditions, gender-aspects and differing realities of the targeted groups or the biophysical conditions in the specific area of implementation and how climate change may alter those.

Duties and responsibilities

1. Objectives of the assignment

The objective of this assignment is to examine the effects of agroforestry implementation by conducting a household survey. This survey will build upon four waves of existing panel data from the Tanzania Socioeconomic Panel (TaSEP) and a baseline survey conducted as part of the SCARF Project in Dodoma and Morogoro, Tanzania. 

2. Tasks and Deliverables

The following indicative task and associated deliverables are expected at the end of this assignment:

• Collect information from farmers using the approved data tools and methodology as per the submitted proposal. (Deliverable 2:Progress report on household survey )                                                                                           
• Document the survey process and manage data collected. This include but not limited to processing and cleaning data collected by checking for inconsistencies and inaccuracies in raw data, accuracy in the household ID assigned to respondents. (Deliverable 3: Final report on household survey)

• At least MSc. in a discipline relevant to Agricultural and Forest Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Sciences, or related fields. PhD in related fields is an added advantage.
• At least 3 years’ experience in conducting socio-economic surveys in Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources.
• Experience with the German research infrastructure an asset to facilitate integration of Master and/or PhD students based in Germany
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with people in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural environment.
• Experience working with a wide and diverse network of groups, individuals, and farmers.

•At least MSc. in a discipline relevant to Agricultural and Forest Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Sciences, or related fields. PhD in related fields is an added advantage.
•At least 3 years’ experience in conducting socio-economic surveys in Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources.
•Experience with the German research infrastructure an asset to facilitate integration of Master and/or PhD students based in Germany
•Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with people in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural environment.
•Experience working with a wide and diverse network of groups, individuals, and farmers.

Terms and conditions

ICRAF shall advertise the consultancy for competitive bidding. Interested individuals are requested to submit the following.
•A Technical and Financial proposal which should include a description of the methodology to be used, data to be collected, and a schedule of planned activities.
•CV(s) of the professional(s) with suitable references to undertake the consultancy.
•Two (2) samples of previous work related to this assignment.

Application process

The application deadline is 26 Aug 2024
We will acknowledge all applications, but will contact only short-listed candidates.