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Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Lead field level implementation of gender sensitive community-based nutrition interventions, including nutrition education, behaviour change communication and cooking demonstrations targeting women, caregivers, children, pregnant and lactating women.

• Support refugee and host community households to improve dietary diversity through integration of nutrition sensitive agriculture, kitchen gardens and promotion of nutrient rich crops and foods.

• Integrate nutrition objectives within crop, livestock and beneficial insect value chain activities in close coordination with agriculture and livelihoods teams.

• Support community mobilisation processes to ensure inclusive participation in nutrition activities, with particular attention to women, youth and vulnerable groups.

• Train and provide ongoing technical backstopping to community-based facilitators, lead farmers and women’s groups on nutrition sensitive programming and gender responsive approaches.

• Coordinate with district health, agriculture and community development structures, settlement leadership and relevant partners to align nutrition interventions with local systems and services.

• Ensure nutrition activities are implemented in line with Uganda Climate Smart Agricultural Transformation Project environmental and social safeguards, including gender, Gender Based Violence risk mitigation and do no harm principles.

• Support establishment and use of demonstration sites for nutrition sensitive agriculture, including kitchen gardens and household level food production models.