Opportunità in monitoraggio e valutazione d’impatto in Guatemala (Junior)

Descrizione Valutazione d’impatto in Guatemala

Eligibility and exception criteria Availability for the following activities: • On-site training from 15/02/2020 to 24/02/2020 in Italy; • Pre-deployment induction in AAH HQ, in Madrid, starting March 2020; • Deployment starting from late March 2020 Operational details & security contextHumanitarian Context Due to its geography, poverty level and high exposition to natural disasters, Guatemala remains extremely vulnerable when dealing with volcano eruptions, flooding, landslides, hurricanes, and droughts. To respond to these vulnerabilities, since 1998, Action Against Hunger runs projects both in humanitarian and development contexts. The organisation has developed an indepth knowledge and experience in the area known as the Central American Dry Corridor, a region that stretches from southern Mexico to Costa Rica. In this area, droughts are becoming more frequent and intensified by Climate Change, making about two million vulnerable rural families face a continuous deterioration of their livelihoods. The beneficiaries and preferential beneficiaries of the Action Against Hunger programs are vulnerable families with children under 5 years and smallholder farmers who, paradoxically, are the most food insecure. The mission in Central America put a focus on interventions in four main areas: disaster risk reduction, food security and livelihoods, health and nutrition, migration and development. The main objectives of our projects include addressing the nutritional problems of their children, increasing low agricultural production, reducing their environmental and economic vulnerability, or promoting employment opportunities. Likewise, indigenous groups in the region are particularly affected by hunger and malnutrition. In Guatemala, 58.6% of the indigenous population is malnourished. Action Against Hunger supports indigenous communities to overcome the different causes of hunger, giving special importance to the dialogue and understanding of the culture of these communities as well as of the institutions that support them. We take an integrated approach that combines actions from all our technical fields to fight hunger (both its consequences and its causes): nutrition, health, agriculture and livelihoods, access to employment, disaster risk management, water, sanitation, hygiene, community organization and institutional strengthening. Starting from 2019, the Guatemala mission will open two new bases in the area of the Lago Atitlán to work in WASH and water governance and in the North, the Department Huhuetenango with high migration rates, in order to address conditions for sustainable livelihoods. More information is available here: https://www.accioncontraelhambre.org/es/guatemala Security conditions The region known as the Northern Triangle – El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala – remains among the most violent countries in the world, menaced by corruption, gang violence and drug trafficking, despite tough police and judicial reforms. This situation can be attributed primarily to the legacy of violence left by decades of armed conflict and extreme economic and social inequalities. Tax revenues as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) in the Northern Triangle are among the lowest in Latin America, exacerbating inequality and straining public services. The Security Management is a key issue for the mission. The organisation is putting major efforts in vulnerability and risk assessments and risk reduction measures for its operations, both in Guatemala and Nicaragua, always aimed at keeping staff safe, in particular in those areas where activities take place. These measures are focused primarily on the reduction of vulnerabilities, such as strengthening the physical protection of offices, the strict management of travel times, and refinement of the security analysis. The Action Against Hunger staff is obliged to follow the standard security procedures in a strict manner, in order to avoid incidents. The Security Management is carried out by the Logistics Department of the AAH Central America Mission, in collaboration with logistics officers at base level and the security coordinator at HQ level and is supervised at all times by the mission management. AAH values We are an international non-governmental private organisation that is politically and religiously neutral and non-profit, which was established in 1979 in France to implement interventions worldwide. Our vocation is to fight against hunger, physical suffering and situations of distress that threaten the lives of men, women and children. We uphold the Humanitarian Principles: Independence, Neutrality, Non-Discrimination, Free and direct access to people in need, professionalism and transparency. More information is available here: https://www.accioncontraelhambre.org/en/our-principles