Uganda_Support for refugees and receiving communities in northern Uganda

Uganda is the country with the most refugees in Africa. More than 1.4 million people live in the refugee settlements in the north and southwest of the country. The majority of them come from Southern Sudan.

The Ugandan refugee policy allows newly arriving refugees to take up employment and set up businesses. A piece of land is made available to the refugees, but important prerequisites as suitable seed and plant material, knowledge of modern production technology and marketing opportunities are lacking. Not all refugees can or want to farm.

However, there is a lack of opportunities for needs-based qualification for service and craft occupations. In order to improve the inclusive socio-economic development of refugees and residents in the three selected refugee receiving districts of Adjumani, Arua and Moyo, the project "Support for refugees and receiving communities in northern Uganda" was planned with three outputs:

  1. District administrations will receive capacity-building measures to conditions for improved income and employment prospects to make it.
  2. Involving private sector actors, who are training institutes in the qualitative and quantitative expansion of their services of a more demand-oriented orientation, including the requirements of the labour market to advise you.
  3. The measures in Output 3 are aimed in particular at the target groups who income from agricultural activities. They also address women who are bound to their domestic environment by family ties. They will receive professional advice on methods of cultivation, monitoring along the vegetation cycles

To implement this line we are looking for at least 8, at most 12 different national short-term experts for the following specialist topics:

  • Agricultural development
  • Horticulture
  • Small animal husbandry
  • Small-scale irrigation
  • Storage and processing of agricultural products
  • Development and strengthening of agricultural organisations (production, marketing)
  • Development and strengthening of rural savings and credit groups
  • Marketing of agricultural products
Qualifications: 

Qualifications of the experts

  • English; knowledge of the local languages Madi and Lugbara
  • Specific professional experience: At least 10 years' professional experience in one or more of the following fields several of the above-mentioned specialist topics
Start / Duration: 

The contract period is 42 months from the date of conclusion of the contract

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