Myanmar- Institutional Strengthening and Policy Dialogue Support

This assignment will is aiming to enhance the land use management system in Myanmar. The Activity will consist of three main areas of support:

(1) Complete the mapping of land use inventory and land use zonation for all Bago Region. This will strengthen the Bago regional government's capacity to oversee and monitor the current situation from state to village tract level, assess and adjudicate compliance (or not) to policy requirements and evaluate land development alternatives based on sound principles.

(2) Facilitate the design and implementation of an effective and comprehensive consultative process to be held at district and selective village tracts (similar to that held for the draft land policy) that will harvest feedback, opinions and by allowing modifications and adjustments achieve actual consensus among all stakeholders on the structure, terms, and content for the land use zonation.

(3) Capacity building of MOECAF staff on land use inventory and zonation process by replicating the Bago region pilot in another region to be defined with the government. This concrete and specific support will allow building technical to produce land use maps as well as building capacity in dialogue with different government departments as well as with land users.

Qualifications: 

General qualifications and skills

  • Minimum Bachelor’s degree in data management, statistics, agriculture, development studies, and social sciences or any of Information System. Or a related field;
  • 5 years of general professional experience.

Specific professional experience

  • Minimum 5 years of specific professional experience in the areas of data management, statistics, information systems, rural development, and poverty alleviation areas;
  • Extensive experience in collection, analysis and statistical processing, of data, management and  querying of large databases and reporting;
  • Experience in conducting training in relevant areas;
  • Fluent in English and Myanmar languages;
  • Experience in database management and/or any of Information management systems such as GIS, PMIS, MIS, etc.
Start / Duration: 

September 2016 - September 2017, 88 working days

Please send your most recent CV to:

Barbara.Braun [at] afci.de

Thank you!