Conscious Food Systems Alliance

hace 7 días

Panama United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) A tiempo completo

**Conscious Food Systems Alliance (COFSA) Intern**:
**Location**:

- Panama City, PANAMA**Application Deadline**:

- 31-Aug-23
- **(Midnight New York, USA)**

**Time left**:

- 20d 13h 54m**Type of Contract**:

- Internship**Post Level**:

- Intern**Languages Required**:

- English Spanish**Duration of Initial Contract**:

- 6 months**Expected Duration of Assignment**:

- 6 months full time**Background**:
UNDP has developed its new Strategy for Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems (FACS) to focus its vision and enhance its support to transform FACS.

FACS are fundamental to the sustainable development of the 170 countries UNDP supports. FACS are often the largest contributor to their economies; food and nutrition is fundamental for citizen health; and FACS have a key role to play in achieving the SDGs. Yet, FACS are in crisis and need to be radically transformed to become sustainable. UNDP, building on its experience, has for the first time consolidated its FACS support and vision into this Strategy. The challenges and need for change related to FACS have been highlighted by a suite of reports by many research and international organizations and think tanks. The production practices and consumption patterns of food and agricultural commodities are taking these systems on an unsustainable trajectory with multiple impacts on human development, the environment and economies; from ecosystem degradation, conflicts over land and natural resources, reduced capacity and resilience to climate and other shocks, persistent poverty, food insecurity and related people displacement and migration, to malnutrition including overweight and obesity. There is a clear need to work in a systemic and integrated manner to transform the FACS towards sustainability.

UNDP´s Vision for FACS 2030 is, through partnerships, to transform food and agricultural commodity systems into resilient; equitable; healthy, inclusive; environmentally, socially and economically sustainable systems. Working on FACS will contribute to not only recovery from the COVID19 crisis, by creating sustainable and resilient livelihoods for many along the FAC supply chains, but also to preventing further zoonoses from emerging in the future. This will require a change in the current paradigm of agricultural production focusing on maximizing productivity to a new paradigm based on diversified agroecological systems which work simultaneously on achieving economic, environmental, social, and health outcomes; with smallholders as a key part of the solution in their role as the engine of economic development. A FACS practice has been established within UNDP´s Nature, Climate and Energy team, which is tasked to support UNDP Country Offices with FACS related challenges in a way that is aligned with UNDP´s FACS strategy.

As part of its work on systems change, the FACS practice has developed the “Conscious Food Systems Alliance" (CoFSA), a movement of food, agriculture, and consciousness practitioners, convened by UNDP, and united
around a common goal: to support people from across food and agriculture systems to cultivate the inner capacities that activate systemic change and regeneration.
The conceptual design of the Alliance began in September 2020, including the development of a Concept Note. Partner outreach to key stakeholders, including development agencies, companies, governments, NGOs, donors, academia, grassroots and indigenous networks, and consciousness experts commenced throughout 2020-21. In October 2021, the CoFSA launched the ‘The Breathing Room’; an intentional and transformative space where core partners connect deeply with themselves and one another to co-create and co-implement the Conscious Food Systems Alliance - vision, strategy, portfolio of activities, partnerships, resourcing, global reporting and advocacy.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Tasks / Expected Outcomes**

**Main tasks**:
Support to the CoFSA Team in:
- Support on stakeholders mapping including donors, strategic partners, grassroots networks with data collection, analysis, interpretation and including presentation in flowcharts, tables or slides;
- Preparation and organization of calls, webinars, virtual workshops to support donor and partner outreach;
- Maintain knowledge management tools / virtual collaborative tools for CoFSA working groups (e.g. google docs, Microsoft teams, slack, mural, mentimeter, trello, etc.);
- Drafting, designing, and updating communications content;
- Preparation of presentations, briefing notes, project proposals, meeting minutes and reports;
- Assist in research, including possible donors and fundraising opportunities and on any other key CoFSA issues.
- Maintaining internal filing system up to date; including database management of COFSA Members.
- Other related tasks.

**Competencies**:
**Competencies and Skills**

**Competencies**:

- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
- Promotes the vision, mi

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