Myanmar_Capacity Building and Climate Smart Agriculture Training Consultants

The Climate-Friendly Agribusiness Value Chains Sector Project supports implementing the government’s Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS), 2018-2023 and the National Export Strategy, 2015-2019 by boosting competitiveness in value chains for rice, beans, pulses, and oilseeds in the Magway, Mandalay, and Sagaing regions in the Central Dry Zone (CDZ). The project will increase climate resilience for critical rural infrastructure, promote quality and safety testing capacity, strengthen technical and institutional capacity for climate smart agriculture (CSA), and create an enabling policy environment for climate-friendly agribusinesses. The project will reduce food insecurity and rural poverty, increase smallholders’ incomes and access to markets, and improve resource efficiency and environmental sustainability for agribusinesses.

The project aims to create an enabling environment that reduces the incidence of poverty, malnutrition, and food insecurity among the rural poor. The project is aligned with the following impact: agricultural competitiveness improved. The project will have the following outcome: productive and resource-efficient agribusiness value chains in project areas developed.

Scope of Work.

The specialist will assist the Department of Agriculture Land Management and Statistics (DALMS), in partnership with the Land Use Division of the Department of Agriculture (DOA), to develop a fit for purpose GIS database system covering, inter alia, land resource administrative types, land allocation, related infrastructure (water, roads, settlements, etc.), groundwater information and the administrative classification of farmland.

Detailed Tasks.

The specialist will assist DALMS to:

  • Specify and procure 24,000 km2 of Rapid Eye 5m resolution satellite imagery;
  • Develop participatory land use maps for the 12 project districts;
  • Compile a fit for purpose GIS database;
  • Produce at least 6 Township management plans that identify and program land administration interventions at township level ((identification of available unused and suitable VFV land and state-owned land for possible re-allocation; needs for further land use certification and tenure regularization – grazing lands, fishponds; de-gazetteing of occupied reserved forests; establishment of community forests; etc.);
  • Assist in the development of related staff training products.
Qualifications: 
  • Master’s in information systems management, land management or geography;
  • At least 7 years’ experience, for international, in the development and application of GIS-based planning and management systems in emerging economies. 
Start / Duration: 

The Capacity Building and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) project duration will be 60 months. The experts will be based in Nay Pyi Taw with field visits by its team, as required for the services, to project locations within Myanmar.

Start is open

Please send your most recent CV to: job [at] afci.de