Consultant at Action Africa Help - International

The Kenya programme of Action Africa Help International (AAH-I) is the lead implementing partner in food security and livelihoods under the Support for Protection and Assistance of Refugees in Kenya (SPARK) Programme. SPARK is a DIFID-funded project being implemented in Turkana West Sub-county through a consortium of 5 international NGOs - NRC (lead agency), Film Aid International (FA), Danish Refugee Council (DRC), Handicap International (HI) and AAH-I.

The SPARK livelihoods strategy seeks to promote self-reliance among the target beneficiaries witnessed through training the host community and refugees on production of building material, ceramics, pottery, briquettes and marketing of the products hence increasing their financial income and strengthening their resilience. In this regards, AAH Kenya considers utilizing innovations that better build on existing capacities of its target groups through enhancing the skills of the groups to produce assorted, quality and marketable products from the constructed kilns.

Refugees and host community in Kakuma have a potential of improving and strengthening their value chains, which aims at an overall enhancement of self-reliance and livelihoods. With the availability of raw materials, construction of building material, energy saving jikos, ceramics, pottery and brackets will be achieved. The consultant will be required to provide trainings to 100 persons of concern (PoCs) and ensure they are skilled in assembling, advertising and selling of the products.

Objectives

• The consultant is expected to train 100 refugees and host community on the use of a kiln for production of ceramics, Pottery, briquettes and etc.
• Document and share progress of the consultancy and status of the 100 PoCs (four groups of 25 PoCs each)
• Identify strategies for advertising, selling and establish market linkages for the products developed
• Link up the products to SPARKBay online marketing platform for the consortium