A propos de nous
Nous sommes une organisation internationale de développement qui met en œuvre des idées ingénieuses pour que les personnes en situation de pauvreté puissent changer leur monde. Nous aidons les gens à trouver des solutions à certains des problèmes les plus difficiles au monde. Des défis aggravés par un changement climatique catastrophique et une inégalité persistante entre les sexes. Nous travaillons avec les communautés pour développer des solutions ingénieuses, durables et locales pour l’agriculture, la gestion de l’eau et des déchets, la résilience climatique et les énergies propres. Et nous partageons ce qui fonctionne avec d’autres, afin que les réponses qui commencent petit à petit puissent devenir grandes.
Nous sommes un groupe mondial de changement. Le groupe se compose d’une organisation caritative britannique qui mène des projets communautaires en Afrique, en Asie et en Amérique latine, d’une maison d’édition indépendante spécialisée dans le développement et d’un service de conseil technique. Nous combinons ces spécialisations pour multiplier notre impact et contribuer à façonner un monde qui fonctionne mieux pour tous.
Our aims
We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. Our aims are to:
- Make agriculture work better for smallholder farmers, many of them women, so they can adapt to climate change and achieve a good standard of living
- Help more people harness the transformational effects of clean affordable energy and reduce avoidable deaths caused by smoke from indoor stoves and fires.
- Make cities in poorer countries cleaner, healthier places to live and work.
- Build disaster resilience into the lives of people threatened by hazards – reducing the risk of hazards and minimizing their impact on lives and livelihoods.
How we work
We work on holistic solutions that change systems and have a framework to help us achieve our aims:
- Analyze the root causes of a poverty and vulnerability
- Define the change at scale we need to make
- Develop activities along three complementary paths: Demonstrate, Learn and Inspire.
- Demonstrate that our solutions are sustainable in the real world
- Learn by capturing evidence and adapting our approach
- Inspire wider support to multiply our impact.
Our organisation
Practical Action is an unconventional, multi-disciplinary change making organization
- A highly innovative community development charity operating in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Practical Action community projects use ingenious ideas to design, test, refine and prove new ways to overcome poverty and disadvantage and then ‘open-source’ knowledge of what works so that it can be implemented at a greater scale by others.
- A world-class consulting operation that helps socially responsible business, government policy makers and other development organizations. This draws on learnings from our own development work as well as the combined brainpower of a roster of over 2,000 expert consultants. Practical Action Consulting helps to extend the reach of our influence by providing the best advice to others, whose work can make a bigger difference.
- A well-respected specialist development publisher. Practical Action Publishing brings together development practitioners, researchers and thought leaders to create publications that stimulate discussion, strengthen peoples’ capabilities and inspire sustainable change.
About the role
Practical Action West Africa is working with smallholder farmers and flood prone communities to strengthen their resilience to climate related risks through access to information and adapted knowledge services that effectively reach “the last mile”. We expect to see improvements in the management of agricultural risks and land use planning and in the effectiveness of early warning systems and disaster preparedness. We will also expect to see farmers, livestock owners, fishers and other small business owners have access to sufficient energy to produce, transform and store their products in a way which earns them higher incomes, and improves their living standards.
We deliver impact through consulting and knowledge-based work. This includes signature pieces in Benin, Mali, Togo, Burkina Faso and Senegal focused on the sectors of agriculture, energy access and climate information services.
The job holder will work under the supervision of the Climate resilience Project Manager. S/he work closely with the Global Flood Alliance Program Manager and the Program Officer in ensuring that the Zurich Project Alliance monitoring and evaluation standards are applied. This includes working with the Program Officer to ensure a selection of project monitoring indicators and the best approaches to evaluating these indicators.
Broadly, the MEL officer will work with Practical Action team at the global level on the monitoring and evaluation strategy. S/he will have a central role in ensuring the monitoring and evaluation of the West Africa office and reporting to Practical Action at the global level.
HOW TO APPLY
A detailed Job Profile can be accessed from the supporting documents section.
If you have the experience, skills and the ability we are looking for, please forward your application letter and updated CV by email to: [email protected] with the subject “MEL Officer”, the application deadline is 29th June 2022
We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as disability, race, age, religion, gender, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.
Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further process
