Friday, April 19, 2013

Uganda - Gender Market Analysis Intern (Summer)

Tracking Code
218540-927
Job Description
INTERN WORKSITE LOCATION: Kitgum with frequent trips to the field.

DATES OF INTERNSHIP:  Summer 2013

LENGTH OF INTERNSHIP: 3 months

INTERNS SUPERVISOR & CONTACT INFORMATION: Melaku Yirga, Program Director (RAIN/HPSC),myirga@ug.mercycorps.org with support from Emmy Moorhouse, Gender Advisor (SUSTAIN), emoorhouse@ug.mercycorps.org

FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR THE INTERNSHIP:
  • Mercy Corps responsibilities
For the duration of this internship assignment the intern will receive:
  • Accommodation in Kitgum
  • Communications (cellphone)
  • Reimbursement for 3-month visa
  • In-country transportation between Kitgum and Kampala
  • Accommodation while in Kampala and any other field offices
  • ISOS Emergency Med-Evac Coverage

  • Intern responsibilities
Intern will remain responsible for all costs associated with:
  • International travel to/from Uganda
  • Living expenses and food
  • Medical Insurance
  • All other costs associated with this internship

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Mercy Corps implements high-quality, analytical work in the world’s toughest places. Within Uganda, Mercy Corps works principally in post-conflict or transitional areas, including the Karamoja and Acholi sub-regions, integrating targeted assistance for the immediate needs of critically vulnerable populations with a larger strategic focus on market facilitation that promotes long-term systemic change. By addressing a number of overlapping and associated needs within a wide range of activities (market development in support of agriculture/livestock, energy, water and sanitation, and health and nutrition; conflict mitigation and governance).

In partnership with TechnoServe, Mercy Corps is implementing Revitalizing Agricultural Incomes and New markets (RAIN), a three-year, USDA-funded agriculture development program in Lamwo District, northern Uganda. Now in its second year of operation, RAIN is well on the way to its goal of stimulating economic prosperity and food security in the northern Uganda by enhancing agricultural productivity and profitability, improving trade performance of key input and output markets, and expanding access to quality, locally-available financial services. We want to understand the impact of our programming more deeply: Who is benefiting exactly? Where are the poor men AND poor women? How is the program impacting power relations, access to resources and decision making between men and women? How can we ensure that more marginalized groups are accounted for and integrated into our programming well?

The purpose of the internship is to get at these questions from a gendered perspective. To do this, the intern will examine gendered distribution of labor, breaking down labor between women, men, girls and boys. This involves examining all facets of production, marketing and sales, including who does what, when and where as well as “value” breakdown across each facet. In addition, the intern will examine gender differentials in access to and control over resources and benefits. Further, key practical and strategic gender needs will be identified and opportunities and constraints profiled. 

Working in close collaboration with the RAIN team, the intern will further examine program impact from a gender lens and explore opportunities to best target both males and females across agricultural, market linkage and financial services sectors. The intern will also provide recommendations on which groups to target with what activities and how to “upgrade” low value activities that may be the domain of less powerful groups. The intern will also work with the team to refine sector intervention strategies to fully encompass gender considerations and recommendations.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: The intern will gain an in-depth understanding of the constraints to productivity and growth facing smallholder farming households in a post-conflict setting, opportunities for microeconomic development that present themselves in such underdeveloped environments, and opportunities to tailor work to specific and key market segments. The intern will also develop greater skills in market analysis and increased field-based experience.


DELIVERABLES: There are two deliverables:
  1. A comprehensive gender analysis report on the gendered disaggregation of labor including an activities’ profile by women, men, girls and boys. This will further encompass access to and control over resources and benefits, decision making between men and women, as well as constraints and opportunities profiling within Lamwo District. This will consist of desk research and field interviews.
  2. Recommendations for gendered targeting across all sector interventions, developed in close collaboration with the RAIN team.

IDEAL CANDIDATE SHOULD POSSESS THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS:
  1. Experience in business and research
  2. A Bachelor’s degree in business/agribusiness, economics, public policy, gender studies or a related field
  3. Pursuing a graduate degree in business/agribusiness, economics, public policy, gender studies or a related field
  4. Enthusiasm, creativity, and a tremendous amount of flexibility
  5. Willingness to work under minimal direction in difficult and inconvenient circumstances
  6. A sense of humor on par with one’s level of curiosity


LIVING CONDITIONS:

The intern will reside primarily in Mercy Corps’ Kitgum guesthouse, sharing the residence with other team members and interns. Facilities are clean and sufficient, but basic. Internet is readily available in all Mercy Corps offices.  Access to water in Kitgum is problematic, with occasional shortages. Security in Acholi is good.

Mercy Corps interns and volunteers represent the agency both during and outside of work hours and are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in-country venues.
Job Location
Kitgum, , Uganda
Position Type
Full-Time/Regular

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