Milk and Cassava Value Chains Expert-private Sector

**Job Information**:
Date Opened
- 11/14/2024Number of Positions
- 1Project/Activity
- MELSAIndustry
- USAIDJob Type
- Short Term Technical (consultant)City
- BogotaState/Province
- Bogota, D.C.Country
- ColombiaZip/Postal Code
- 110111HIghest Level of Education
- Master's DegreeWork Experience
- 7-10 years- Panagora Group is a U.S. small business that provides technical and advisory services related to monitoring, evaluating, and learning USAID/Colombia's strategy and activities. The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Short-Term Activity (MELSA) provides monitoring support services: designing and implementing performance and impact evaluations, as well as other studies and assessments, supporting their use and dissemination, and developing collaboration, learning, and adapting initiatives.
- MELSA is conducting the performance evaluation of USAID/Colombia’s Private Sector Engagement (PSE). This evaluation aims to gather evidence about the results and lessons of USAID/Colombia's Private Sector Engagement (PSE) and the sustainability of its interventions during the current Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) timeframe. In addition, this evaluation should outline the Mission's PSE approach and provide evidence of good practices, opportunities for improvement, and course correction actions that can inform USAID interventions with a PSE component and the next CDCS (2025- 2030).

Since 2018, the Agency's PSE Policy was launched, USAID/Colombia has prioritized and recognized the importance of aligning with the policy's four principles: 1. Engage early and often; 2. Incentivize and value PSE throughout planning and programming; 3. Expand the use of USAID approaches and tools that unlock the potential of the private sector; and 4. Build and act on the evidence of what works and what does not in PSE. The proposed evaluation would cover USAID/Colombia's alignment with the PSE policy and provide new evidence on the conditions, drivers, results, and sustainability of this approach.

As part of the evaluation team, MELSA seeks an agricultural economist (or related fields) with expertise in the milk and cassava value chains. The following are some of the key responsibilities and requirements for the position.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead the case study of USAID Global Development Alliance (GDA) Bitter Cassava for a Sweet Milk (BCSM) implemented by Colanta for answering questions 3 and 6, following the scope of work guidelines.
- Review primary and secondary information sources related to the milk and cassava value chains, production, processing, commercialization, market systems development, market-based solutions, organic fertilizers for agriculture, promotion of inclusive markets, and related issues.
- Participate in the qualitative instruments coding process and contribute with a thematic revision of the process in creating the codebook.
- Support the qualitative and quantitative data analysis for the reports and presentations mentioned in the deliverables. This covers the data triangulation process and its corresponding qualitative and quantitative analysis to answer each evaluation question as requested by the team leader.
- Support the Team Leader in preparing reports and presentations for USAID and the Implementing Partner. This includes any required participation in the final presentation and report

**Español
Panagora Group es una pequeña empresa estadounidense que proporciona servicios técnicos y de asesoramiento relacionados con el monitoreo, la evaluación y el aprendizaje de la estrategia y actividades de USAID/Colombia. La Actividad a Corto Plazo de Monitoreo, Evaluación y Aprendizaje (MELSA, por sus siglas en inglés) brinda servicios de apoyo al monitoreo: diseño e implementación de evaluaciones de desempeño e impacto, así como otros estudios y evaluaciones, respaldando su uso y difusión, y desarrollando iniciativas de colaboración, aprendizaje y adaptación.
- MELSA está llevando a cabo la evaluación de desempeño de Private Sector Engagement (PSE). Esta evaluación tiene como objetivo recopilar evidencia sobre los resultados y las lecciones de la Participación del Sector Privado de USAID/Colombia y la sostenibilidad de sus intervenciones durante el actual marco temporal de la Estrategia de Cooperación para el Desarrollo del País (CDCS por sus siglas en inglés). Además, esta evaluación debe describir el enfoque de PSE de la Misión y proporcionar evidencia de buenas prácticas, oportunidades de mejora y acciones de mejora que puedan informar la programación de USAID/Colombia con un componente de participación del sector privado y el próximo CDCS (2025- 2030).

Desde 2018 USAID lanzó la Política de PSE de la Agencia y ha priorizado y reconocido la importancia de alinearse con los cuatro principios de la política: 1. Involucrarse de forma temprana y frecuente; 2. Incentivar y valorar la PSE en toda la planeación y programación; 3. Expandir el uso de enfoques y he