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The Rainforest Alliance is a growing network of people who are inspired and committed to working together to achieve our mission of conserving biodiversity and ensuring sustainable livelihoods. Through creative, pragmatic collaboration, we aim to rebalance the planet by building strong forests and healthy communities around the world.
Objective of the study:
The study will carry out customer journey mapping[1] to capture the current way in which farmers and technical assistants (TAs) experience access to valuable market and production related information, the ability to share this information, current practices used to receive or share information, as well as, thoughts on how this may affects sustainable productivity or other aspects of sustainable farming (particularly to the following thematic areas of the Sector Partnerships program: Farmer Group Strengthening, Gender Equality, Climate Change Adaptation and Water Management)
This will provide RA with the farmers’ and technical assistants valuable perspective, shedding light on the challenges they experience as well as what changes they would like to see in the future. The study will also explore the farmers’ current access to mobile technology (and describe the relevant technical specifications) or use thereof and will provide a brief overview of existing mobile platforms. This information will be used to inform the ideation phase which will produce recommendations for using mobile technology to address the challenges raised.
The objective of this study is therefore to provide RA with a clear understanding of:
Approach:
We foresee the following activities:
Interviews with UTZ Academy didactic team, Utz regional team in Kenya, Technical Assistants (differentiating between independent TAs and TAs that are employed by a company or trader), UTZ certified farmers (including females, males and youth) and RA tech department.
Desk research of existing mobile technology services and their capabilities.
Expected Expertise:
We seek the following qualification and knowledge:
Deliverables:
We expect the following deliverables:
Report (max. 20 pages excluding annexes) in English including
UTZ will provide:
Budget and time allocation:
Please send your applications to sarah.reckson@utz.org and mark.muriithi@utz.org by February 12th, 2018.
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