Livelihood Assistant

Project implementation and reporting

• Promote the use of modern farming practice and techniques through training, advising farmers, farm visits and demonstrations so as to transform targeted families from subsistence to commercial farmers.
• Promote Resilience and Livelihoods programme model for faster adoption of improved farming technologies towards building secure livelihoods
• Participate in Resilience and Livelihood planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring of progress.
• Mobilize and facilitate the engagements of stakeholders during planning and development meetings, workshops and other fora.

Community engagement and advocacy

• Identify project beneficiaries in collaboration with Local structures and in accordance with the laid down guidelines/rules and timeframe.
• Coordinate project activities with sub-county authorities, government extension agents and other partners at community level.
• Ensure Small holder farmers’ groups are mobilized, organized and strengthened into strong business groups/cooperatives (rural producer cooperatives, marketing cooperatives, Savings groups/Savings and Credit Cooperatives) for bulk purchase of inputs, value addition, bulking and collective marketing of produce
• Develop the farmer's capacity to improve production and productivity of selected enterprises of desired quality by the market through demonstrations to farmer's
• Establish and follow up demonstrations to facilitate production and productivity among the farmers

Documentation, Reporting and knowledge management

• Document and maintain records pertaining to training, production activities forward issues to management for decisions and appropriate action in line with WVU policies.
• Write up accurate and timely reports pertaining to all planned activities in the required format and submit to the Project Coordinator Livelihood
• Ensure Care givers/Foster parents of unaccompanied Refugee children are members of farmer business groups/cooperatives and are accessing business developments services.
• Participate in monthly / quarterly reflection meetings with Child Monitors and guardians/parents and child protection committees to address findings from monitoring.

Child Protection and Wellbeing

• Monitor the wellbeing and child abuse cases and report any incidents in line with child protection policy and guidelines.
• Work with local leaders to protect children from child violations and abuses
• Sensitize children including most vulnerable, guardians/parents and other stakeholders about children’s rights and responsibilities.