Newsletter
NEWSLETTER -
FEBRUARY 2010
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Decentralised Planning &
Capacity Building in The Gambia |
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MASDAR is mobilising a
contract to provide consultancy services in Decentralised
Planning and Capacity Building to the Community Driven
Development Project. This assignment is to increase the
knowledge and understanding of central level stakeholders in
Decentralised Planning Processes and to strengthen the capacity
of key line departments at central and LGA level.
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Social Development Policy
in Botswana |
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MASDAR and DEV (University of East Anglia)
are undertaking a contract with UNICEF in Botswana to
undertake a situation analysis of social development programmes.
They will then review the current rationale for social
development policy in the country and make recommendations based
on international best practice.
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M&E Mobilisation in Ghana |
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MASDAR is now in the data collection phase of
an M&E project for the Millennium Development Authority in
Ghana. Spanning the next 3 years this will collect and
analyse data for this US$430 million programme. Phase 1 of
the assignment lasts until April 2010.
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Smallscale biogas
production in The Gambia |
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In The Gambia MASDAR has established
a demonstration village at Sintet to promote small-scale biogas
and the use of improved stoves and fuel-briquettes made from
waste materials.
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Social Protection in
Southern Africa |
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Reducing poverty, hunger and
malnutrition remains the overriding development challenge across
Africa. MASDAR is proud of the leading role it has in
managing the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP)
funded by DFID and AusAid.
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Solar powered irrigation
in The Gambia |
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In The Gambia a MASDAR irrigation
engineer designed 25 appropriate irrigation schemes for
horticultural production. He evaluated many different
systems and pumps of which solar-powered submersible pumps were
by far the most popular.
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Agricultural Marketing in
Malawi |
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In Malawi MASDAR has commenced
Phase II of our Marketing Assignment with the Smallholder Crop
Production and Marketing Project. This phase covers the
next 15 months and will train farmers in "farming as a business"
and various aspects of improved, irrigated farming.
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A selection of the
projects we are currently conducting include:
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Botswana |
Social Development
Policy Framework |
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Nigeria |
Microprojects
Programme in 6 states in the Delta Region |
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Ghana |
M&E Support to
the eGhana Project |
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Southern
Africa |
Regional
Hunger and Vulnerability Programme |
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The Gambia |
PIWAMP Special
Studies of fuelwood and alternative
cooking energy sources |
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Malawi |
Smallholder
Crop Production and Marketing Project |
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Ghana |
Data Collection
for MiDA |
WORK
OPPORTUNITIES
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MASDAR operates
in Europe, Africa and Asia and has been established for over 30 years.
Please send your CV in electronic
format to Mrs Jennifer Parry, Head of Human Resources, email:
jenny@masdar.com
Environmental Impact Assessment Specialists
and Social Impact Assessment Specialists
required for future possible short term
assignments in Uganda and DRC. These are for a private client
developing large scale, commercial farms. Applicants must have
experience in undertaking EIAs and/or SIAs to IFC/World Bank standards.
If interested please send your cv to:
jenny@masdar.com
Nigerian Specialists - We are seeking
to expand our database of agriculturalists (all sectors) with extensive
Nigerian experience. We are particularly interested in consultants
with experience in Soil Science, Large Scale Commercial Farming; Market Information
Systems and Warehouse Receipt Programmes. Please send your CV's to:
jenny@masdar.com
Biogas Specialists: We are keen
to expand our work with smallscale biogas production, especially in
Africa, and would like to hear from any consultants with recent experience
in this field. Please send your CV to
jenny@masdar.com
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POSITION
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DURATION |
LOCATION |
MINIMUM
QUALIFICATIONS |
FURTHER DETAILS
(click below for link to TOR) |
DATE ENTERED |
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Soil Scientist |
6 months |
Abuja, Nigeria |
MSc plus at least 10 years experience in soil
survey |
click here for TOR |
4 February 2010 |
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If
interested please send your CV to
jenny@masdar.com
or if you wish to register on-line please
click here
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