Overview
The National Coordinator will coordinate the planning and delivery of project activities in Malawi related to the right to adequate food.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct stakeholder mapping and engagement.
- Organize and facilitate workshops and meetings.
- Lead on logistics, invitations, and mobilization of stakeholders.
- Conduct research on national legal and policy frameworks.
- Develop a national right to food action plan.
- Establish and chair a Right to Food Monitoring Technical Working Group.
- Co-develop a Right to Food Implementation Index.
- Support the development and dissemination of national right to food transparency reports.
- Contribute to the development and setup of an online national dashboard.
- Develop a country profile on right to food legislation, policies, and jurisprudence.
- Map key actors in justice systems and identify mechanisms for access to justice.
- Document landmark cases on the justiciability of the right to food.
- Assess obstacles faced by communities in accessing justice.
- Adapt and co-develop capacity development materials for justice actors.
- Conduct capacity development activities for the Malawi Human Rights Commission and judiciary.
- Facilitate legal literacy sessions and awareness campaigns.
- Support the creation of a multi-stakeholder social accountability mechanism.
- Integrate a right to food module into Malawi’s Farmers Field Schools.
- Conduct training sessions for duty-bearers.
- Promote community-based advocacy and awareness campaigns.
- Translate and adapt the Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Food.
- Promote the use of community scorecards.
- Support the development of a legal aid referral protocol.
- Facilitate Malawi’s participation in international and cross-country workshops.
- Document and disseminate successes, replicable models, and lessons learned.
- Develop and disseminate communication and outreach materials.
- Participate in regular feedback, reporting, and backstopping meetings.
- Convene project coordination meetings with national stakeholders.
- Draft quarterly and annual reports of activities.
- Provide ad hoc inputs to communications materials and FAO reporting requirements.
- Perform other duties as required.
Required Experience
- At least five (5) years of relevant experience in national policy and/or research work in relation to human rights, agriculture, food security and nutrition.
- Previous experience working with FAO Malawi is an asset.
- Previous experience in undertaking similar assignments.
- Relevance and scope of experience in human-rights based approaches.
- Previous experience working with FAO or other international organizations.
Qualifications
• Advanced university degree from an institution recognized by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/UNESCO in a field of Law, Human Rights, Agriculture, Food Security, Nutrition, Social Science, or a closely related field.
