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Planning and Implementation

• Develop annual, quarterly and monthly work plans with budgets in collaboration with the project team that incorporate interventions and activities to strengthen the selected enterprises' competitiveness.

• Develop tailored business cases to inform partnerships with private sector players.

• Ensure that monthly, quarterly and annual planned targets are achieved.

• Identify and assess the needs of partners and other stakeholders involved in promoting interventions towards improving cocoa and honey market systems.

• Develop strategies for building capacity of SMEs and farmer organizations to improve their performance to related services and market to smallholder cocoa farmers and beekeepers.

• Apply a facilitative approach to managing relationships with partners and meeting deliverables.

• Establish contacts with potential regional enterprises interested in providing business opportunities for target beneficiaries.

• Mobilize and support stakeholders and project partners to participate in sector promotional meetings, workshops and other project activities in targeted project districts and at National level.

• Conduct follow-up of partner activities in project locations.

  
  

• Analyze the social economic and political situations including new business opportunities and partners that have the potential to drive the achievement of project goals.

• Popularize the market systems approach among the public and private sectors players.

• Prepare field visits for the Project Manager, Country Director and consultants.

• Ensure that the project is implemented in line with Swisscontact guidelines and procedures.

• Monitor project implementation with all partner organizations.

• Actively participate in the regional knowledge management activities.

Reporting

• Ensure timely reporting from partners.

• Actively participate in team/stakeholder meetings at the district and sub-counties level and provide feedback on deliberations and actions.

• Document information in the target communities and activities carried out for reporting purposes.

• Prepare and submit monthly and quarterly progress reports (technical, financial).

Finance and Compliance Management

• Develop and support budget for business cases with partners.

• Submit timely requests for planned activities.

• Submit accurate accountabilities for funds expensed by partners.

• Participate in regular financial and strategic planning in line with project documents.

Communication

• Coordinate with local government authorities and other stakeholders in the Districts.

• Represent Swisscontact with public authorities, partner organizations and other stakeholders.

• Develop presentations to local government authorities and other stakeholders.

• Develop knowledge products (case studies, success stories, articles etc.).

Monitoring and Result Measurement (MRM)

• Monitor the implementation of business cases and other activities, and work with the Monitoring and Result Measurement (MRM) Coordinator to facilitate the attainment of required MRM information.

• Support the development of beneficiaries’ database and regular updates.

• Support MRM activities, such as baseline, mid-term evaluation and impact evaluation.

Business Development

• Documentation of success stories, drawing up expressions of interest, concept notes and proposals by providing market development content and documentation of best practices and new approaches.

• Assessment of opportunities for market development in project locations.

• Disseminate information on tenders and other business development opportunities.

• Assessing of such opportunities in collaboration with the Head of enterprise and business development.