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The incumbent shall be responsible to the Project Coordinator in performing the following duties:

• Advice and support the project management, other members of the PMU and field officers at all levels in the effective mainstreaming of targeting, gender, youth, nutrition in project activities.
• In close collaboration with the PMU, develop youth inclusion and nutrition strategies and fine-tune the project Social Inclusion Action Plan (SIAP) to be updated regularly.
• Work with each specialist in the PMU in critically reviewing project to see how each component or sub¬component addresses youth and nutrition issues and identify opportunities for strengthening implementation from an social inclusive perspective.
• Review basic project implementation processes to provide feedback and suggestions on how to achieve the best possible project outcomes with respect to youth and nutrition.
• Ensure that baseline, mid-line and end-line have the IFAD corporate indicators related to youth employment and nutrition have been assessed at baseline, MTR and completion; and regular annual monitoring reflects data and information on key social inclusion indicators (youth and nutrition);
• Development of detailed TORs and tender documents of service providers for nutrition support services.
• Support development of training on youth and nutrition related issues and provide capacity- building/training with support from nutrition and youth specialists for staff at the field level, PMU, implementing partners and service providers.
• Prepare and organize workshops on youth and nutrition to the target beneficiaries.
• Prepare and implement national nutrition campaign, lease with potential partners for jointly conducting and or supporting campaign
• Develop clear selection criteria and method for linking MCCs with schools
• Contact education system authorities for engaging with school milk programme, including reaching out to partners implementing school milk programmes in the country to establish collaboration.
• Prepare documents for materializing school milk pilot is selected districts
• Reach out to TV, radio station and other potential stakeholders to support national campaign messaging and disseminating.
• Undertake regular field visits to monitor and assess the progress on nutrition
• Serve as a channel of communication between the project and others working on nutrition issues in government, implementing agencies, other development projects and IFAD.
• Be familiar with nutrition policies of the institutions linked to the project, including national policies
• and those of ministries, implementing institutions and financing agencies, including IFAD.
• XVII. Establish linkages with other nutrition programmes implemented by national, international and intergovernmental agencies.
• Support evidence-based information creation on good practices in nutrition.
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the Project Coordinator.