South Sudan Resilient Livestock Sector Project

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Request for Expressions of Interest (REoI) CONSULTING SERVICE: Management Information (MIS) Specialist PROJECT NAME: South Sudan Resilient Livestock Sector Project (RLSP) PROJECT ID: P500553 GRANT NUMBER: IDA-E4270-SS ACTIVITY REFERENCE: SS-MLF-549481-CS-INDV TYPE OF CONTRACT: Individual Consultant Selection (National) DUTY STATION/COUNTRY: Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, Juba, South Sudan Background: Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (MLF) has received funding from the World Bank towards the cost of implementing the 5-years South Sudan Resilient Livestock Sector Project (RLSP) and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services. The project development objective is to enhance animal health, improve range-land management, and strengthen resilience of livestock production in selected project areas. The project will directly benefit 166,000 households in the targeted eight (8) Counties in the following five (5) States, namely: Jonglei, Warrap, Upper Nile, Central Equatoria and Western Equatoria. The project aims to lay the foundation for a climate-resilient, competitive, and gender sensitive productive livestock sector in South Sudan to enable socioeconomic and inclusive growth. The main components of the project are; (i) strengthening animal health and welfare systems, (ii) sustainable and integrated rangeland development and management for livestock production, with focus on feed and water management, (iii) technical assistance, institutional strengthening, and project management, coordination, monitoring, and communication. Objective: The consulting services (“the Services”) is for Management Information (MIS) Specialist who will work within the Ministry’s PCU and be responsible for conducting maintenance and development of the Management Information Systems (MIS). The objective of the assignment is to effectively and efficiently manage the project management information system which will incorporate elements of the Monitoring and Evaluation framework and the results matrix and that will provide mechanisms and modalities for monitoring the achievement of activities, outputs, outcome and their contribution towards the achievement of each project development objective. The incumbent is expected to work in synergy with other Donor funded projects being coordinated through PCU under MLF. Key Responsibilities: These include but are not limited to the following: Develop and Implement all of the Program Management Information Systems as per each project’s requirements; Manage beneficiary households and monitor the delivery of direct income support using the biometric system and MIS established and enhanced under the World Bank funded project SSSNP; Strengthening existing safety net tools such as (a) MIS and biometric tools; (b) a robust payment mechanism; and (c) an enhanced GRM and implementation capacities which will enable future government-owned; Manage the data collected throughout implementation in order to consolidate government ownership by ensuring safety and security of the data; Advise coach, and mentor the biometric registration and mentoring teams by the project partner; Maintain contact with field teams to ensure the timely flow of the projects’ data using the Geo-Enabled Monitoring System (GEMS) supported by the World Bank to gather data using open-source software that will feed into the overall monitoring system; Measure progress according to monthly timelines, identifying gaps in delivery, proposing solutions in collaboration with the relevant Project Manager; Troubleshoot & solve problems when technical glitches/bottlenecks are encountered to ensure the delivery of quality information; Manage gathering of impact, effect & human-interest data from the field, ensure accuracy and quality assurance of information. Terms of Reference: The detailed Terms of Reference (ToR) containing roles and scope for the assignment as well as the evaluation criteria for this consultancy can be obtained upon writte

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