Everyone’s doing stuff but nobody’s accountable – will Grand Bargain 2.0 set us right?
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The international humanitarian community is gearing up for a reset of the Grand Bargain. The review is on cue. Over the past couple of decades, new humanitarian reform initiatives have succeeded one another every five years or so. The challenge for negotiators now is to ensure that Grand Bargain 2.0 breaks out of this relentless boom-to-bust reform dynamic and provides a credible pathway to change.
Putting people at the centre is acknowledged as essential, yet the prevailing approach to accountability to affected people (AAP) cannot deliver this. It is built around mechanisms like helplines, communication projects and other discrete activities loosely overseen by accountability working groups. These mechanisms and activities may add value, although research carried out in the context of the Grand Bargain in 2019 shows comparatively few operational stakeholders believe they are worth
2 May 2021
Are you striving to catalyse positive change for gender equality in humanitarian action? Are you a senior professional with programming expertise and the political acumen to facilitate inter-agency processes and consensus?
The Inter-Agency Standby Committee (IASC) Gender Capacity Stand-by Project (GenCap), a long-standing collaborative partnership between the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), envisions a world in which humanitarian action prioritizes gender equality. To help ensure the centrality of gender in humanitarian response, the project works to strengthen inter-agency leadership, programmes and localization strategies by providing direct support to field operations through the deployment of Senior Gender Advisers who work closely with Resident and Humanitarian Coordinators (RC/HCs), Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTSs), and other stakeholders, including national partners.
Submission deadline by Thursday 15th April, 3pm (Rome time).
The position as consultant will be until end of September 2021 (extendable, depending on funding) and contracted by FAO. Fluency in Spanish is required
CC- Minimum requirement: Minimum 5 years of professional experience in humanitarian response at a mid or senior level. Experience in food security related topics is mandatory; Ability to work and plan at strategic and operational levels; Understanding of the international humanitarian response architecture.
FUNCTION PURPOSE
The Food Security Cluster/Sector Coordinator (CC) is one of the core Food Security Cluster (FSC) Coordination team members and plays a vital role in ensuring timely, coherent and effective food security interventions by mobilizing stakeholders to respond in a coordinated and strategic manner to a humanitarian crisis. The role of the Food Security Cluster Coordinator, as set out in the IASC Generic Terms of Reference and the main core functions, is t
Place of Work: WFP Sub-Office, Pemba, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
Reports to: WFP and FAO Heads of Sub-Offices, Pemba, Cabo Delgado
The position will be for an initial period of 11 months consultancy and contracted by WFP based in Mozambique.
Starting Date: mid-June 2021.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
Mozambique, with an estimated population of 25.8 million people, is classified as a low-income, food-deficit country, ranked 180 out of 188 countries on the Human Development Index. Mozambique is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world; while the southern and central regions regularly experience droughts, floods occur every two to three years along the major river basins and in poorly drained urban settlements. The regularity of these events perpetuate a cycle of vulnerability and emphasize the need for adequate disaster preparedness, prevention and management. Two decades ago, Mozambique was one of the most impoverished and capacity-constrained country in
Aim: The Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG) in Iraq aims to promote a coordinated response to humanitarian operations across sectors to ensure that the humanitarian response is delivered in line with global norms and standards, joint strategic planning, priorities and targets through the Humanitarian Programme Cycle;
Membership: The ICCG is chaired by the OCHA Head of Office/Deputy Head of Office, with OCHA’s Inter-Cluster Coordination Unit serving as its secretariat. Permanent members of the ICCG are the national-level Cluster Coordinators and Co-coordinators of the officially established clusters in Iraq (CCCM, Education, Emergency Livelihoods, Food Security, Health, Protection, Shelter/NFI and WASH); the officially established sub-clusters (Child Protection; Gender-Based Violence; Housing, Land and Properties; and Mine Action); as well as the Coordinator and Co-Coordinator of the Common Coordination Services Sector. NCCI is also a member of the ICCG, representing interna