PARM News | Annual report

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to share with you the Platform for Agricultural Risk Management Annual Report for the year 2015. This Annual Report 2015 presents PARM achievements against the 2015 Annual Work Plan and Budget. The Annual Report is available to all partners for transparency and public scrutiny. We are looking forward to constructive suggestions to improve our activities and interactions with partners.

We also like to share with you upcoming job opportunities: the PARM Secretariat is recruiting experts for short term consultancies.

As always, you can reach out to our team at parm@ifad.org, for any question or comment.

Warm Regards,

The PARM Team

PARM Annual Report 2015 is now online!

In 2015 the Platform has been working hard and delivered actions to enhance the capacity to manage agricultural risks in eight African countries. PARM aims to empower farmers, businesses and governments in developing countries to assess and manage their agricultural risks with appropriate access to practices, tools and policies.

JOP OPPORTUNITIES

Consultancies with PARM hosted by IFAD

The PARM Secretariat is looking for one or two experts for short term consultancies, to develop policy briefs on warehouse receipt systems, and agricultural risk country profiles. Find out more below and share the information with interested colleagues.

CONSULTANT PROFILE 1

POLICY LESSONS FOR GRAIN WAREHOUSING AND COLLATERAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

The first mission is to develop policy lessons for Grain Warehousing and Collateral Management Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, drawing from a report commissioned by PARM/IFAD. The consultant will develop clear, concrete and engaging policy briefs on the nine countries covered by the report, as well as a general policy brief on the lessons learned from experience with Warehouse Receipt Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa.

See full Terms of Reference

CONSULTANT PROFILE 2

AGRICULTURAL RISK COUNTRY PROFILES

The second mission is to develop agricultural risk profiles for the countries PARM works in. These profiles will follow an holistic approach, covering weather and climate risks, biological risks, infrastructural and input risks, price risks, and political and global risks. The consultant will develop a set of objective indicators for all countries, find and synthetize the information available to produce profiles that are both technically sound and easy to understand for the general public. She/he will also produce a guide for the quick updating of these agricultural risk profiles.

See full Terms of Reference

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