Job Description
Consultant: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Community Forest Business
Fourth Multistakeholder Forestry Program, Indonesia
Background
DFID has appointed Palladium, in collaboration with Systemiq, to deliver the
fourth phase of the Multistakeholder Forestry Programme in Indonesia (MFP4).
MFP4 is supporting Indonesia to achieve its ambitions on sustainable timber and
community forestry. The programme is operating for an initial period of 3
years, with a possible extension to 5 years. MFP4 builds on earlier programme
phases to deliver an ambitious set of results on coverage of timber licences,
export volumes of sustainably sourced timber, area under community forest
management, and number and value of community forest businesses.
To deliver these results, the consortium members have established a joint
technical assistance facility in Jakarta, drawing on their respective
experience in facilitating forest governance reforms, collaborating with
Indonesian ministries on community forestry polices and enabling investments in
forests and sustainable land use. The MFP4 facility directly supports the
Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) to deliver two core
workstreams:
1. Sustainable and legal timber: Ensuring the sustainability of Indonesia's
governance reform in the timber sector through the national timber legality
assurance system 'SVLK', which underpins FLEGT licencing; and
1. Community forest business development: Facilitating the expansion of
community forest businesses through increased access to skills, finance,
knowledge and services for business development and forest stewardship.
Under Workstream B, MFP4 partners with 'Market Access Players': businesses that
buy products from communities and sell them onto the market. Many forest based
communities lack the economies of scale, logistical and processing capacity,
and technical know-how to bring products to market themselves. In these cases,
market access players can bridge the gap - aggregating communities' outputs and
selling them to the market. Importantly, market access players distinguish
themselves from normal intermediaries by integrating the full value chain from
farmer to market. They also uphold social and / or environmental values as core
objectives for their business, as well as commercial profit. This means that
communities gain more returns for their business, as their products do not have
to travel through long value chains with many 'middle men' steps as they try to
access markets.
MFP4 is partnering with five high potential Market Access Players in the
forestry sector. These are players that do business with community-based forest
enterprises to produce and trade forest commodities, in order to support the
restoration of forest ecosystems and provide inclusive benefits for the
communities they work with.
Purpose of the Position
The primary responsibility of the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI)
Consultant is to support MFP4 in delivering specific results related to Gender
Equality and Social Inclusion within Workstream B. In 2020 our two objectives
are:
* Objective 1: To enable one of MFP4's Market Access Player partners to
implement improvements to their business practices that support inclusive
leadership roles for women and / or marginalised group members in forest-based
communities that are operating in their supply chain.
* Objective 2: To develop recommendations to improve the design of one
relevant policy within the MOEF Directorates are tasked with supporting
community forestry. These recommendations should enable these Directorates to
better support women and / or marginalised group members in forest-based
communities to take leading roles in local enterprises.
Travel to remote field sites in Indonesia will be required.
Primary Responsibilities
Specifically, the GESI Consultant will:
Lead on the delivery of Objective 1: Supporting inclusive leadership roles in
business.
* Work with the MFP4 Team to identify Market Access Players in the MFP4
portfolio that present the highest potential for delivering greater social
impact, should specific changes in their business operations be successfully
implemented.
* Visit community-based forest enterprises and processing sites in the
supply chains of one or more Market Access Players, interview stakeholders to
understand the business model and operational procedures. Assess potential to
enhance the delivery of positive social impact.
* Propose clear, costed and actionable recommendations for one or more
Market Access Players to implement changes in their business practices that
would lead to improved impacts for gender equality and / or social inclusion.
Lead on the delivery of Objective 2: Supporting GESI institutionalisation
within the MOEF community forestry support system.
* Assess a selection of relevant MOEF policies among the Directorates that
are responsible for supporting the successful expansion of community forestry
in Indonesia. This is in order to identify the highest potential opportunities
to implement changes that would increase the positive impact of MOEF support in
terms of Gender Equality and / or Social Inclusion for forest dependent
communities.
* Issue clear, action-oriented recommendations to update a specific policy,
regulation or procedure within the MOEF that would increase the positive impact
of MOEF support in terms of Gender Equality and / or Social Inclusion for
forest dependent communities.
* Organise technical working group and / or workshop(s) to discuss the
implementation of GESI recommendations with key stakeholders, including the
MOEF's Gender Working Group (Pojok Gender).
* Organise trainings on the implementation of this policy change, if
successful (potentially in 2021).
Input level
A maximum of 40 input days is allocated for each of these objectives, over the
course of 2020 (total of 80 for both objectives).
Palladium is open to engaging separate consultants for each of the two
objectives listed above. If you would like to apply for a single objective,
please specify this in your covering letter.
Skills required
* Demonstrable experience in supporting private sector companies to adapt
their policies and business practices to enable greater social or environmental
impact.
* Experience in working on Gender Equality and / or Social Inclusion issues
- either in a development setting or from other fields (private sector is of a
particular interest here)
* Experience in supporting the Government of Indonesia to implement
GESI-related policy changes.
* Experience in supporting rural community development in Indonesia
* Fluent Bahasa Indonesia, strong English language skills
* Excellent presentation skills - conciseness and the ability to community
to a business audience will be highly valued
Applying for this role
Applicants are asked to submit the following documents:
1. A short CV (no longer than 2 pages) in English
2. A page covering letter (no longer than 3 pages), detailing:
* What makes you interested in this role
* How you bring the right skillset to help MFP4 deliver its GESI
objective(s)
* Your proposed methodology to deliver Objectives 1 and / or 2.
1. Your daily fee rate (in Indonesian Rupiah, exclusive of tax)
Palladium is open to engaging separate consultants for each of the two
objectives listed above. If you would like to apply for a single objective,
please specify this in your covering letter.
Please submit your applications via email to
Junita.Silalahi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Junita.Silalahi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The deadline for application is Sunday 23rd February 2020.