UN WFP Uganda Jobs 2021 – Fresher Intern (Analysis, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning)

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need. In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to food and contribute to lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.

WFP delivers food assistance in emergencies and work with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. WFP provides life-saving food assistance and livelihood opportunities to refugees in Uganda. In addition, WFP assists the most vulnerable people in Karamoja with food and nutrition assistance. Finally, WFP works with smallholder farmers and links them to markets.

As Uganda strives to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and become a middle-income country by 2040, WFP is also assessing its relevance and repositioning its role in Uganda.

Programme Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Documentation and Learning

• Conduct routine monitoring field visits of programme activities, produce and share monitoring reports to inform adjustments and improvement action plans.
• Support the design, update or review and implementation of programme monitoring tools as per AMEL plan and ensure availability of appropriate tools in collection, compilation, analysis and utilisation across the WFP Karamoja programme portfolio to ensure consistency.
• Support development and rollout of programme targets and standards to ensure delivery of quality outputs and outcomes.
• Contribute inputs or ideas to guide development and maintainance of programme M&E data including supporting the continuous update of milestones in the programme performance tracking database.
• Support the consolidation, tracking and sharing of action points agreed upon in the monthly programme review or reflection meetings.
• Regularly track programme progress and update the indicator performance trackers to support reporting obligations to different stakeholders.
• Support documentation of best practices, case studies, lessons learnt, most significant change stories and reflection of the WFP Karamoja programme portfolio to provide evidence of impact.
• Support the review of all programme activity implementation plans including the monthly cooperating partner progress reports to ensure compliance with the WFP corporate results framework.

• Support the monitoring and consolidation of programme implementation findings against approved work plans and budgets to ensure timely and quality implementation.
• Support programme research, evaluations, organisational learning and documentation initiatives within the WFP Karamoja programme portfolio including reviewing and validating reports, and supporting reflectio and dissemination processes within and outside of WFP.
• Contribute to the monthly programme performance reporting requirements by providing timely and quality data.
• Provide the support required to ensure that WFP programming in Karamoja intentionally mainstreams food systems, gender, disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation, accountability to people that WFP serves, protection etc.
• Collaborate with the programme teams to ensure that the risks are regularly tracked, updated and mitigated as required.

Learning and Organisational Culture Change

• Support WFP Karamoja organizational culture shift from a focus on data being primarily for donor reporting or indicator calculation purposes, to a focus on data use for programmatic course correction and other strategic and operational decision making.
• Champion respect for and use of complaints & feedback data, contextual analysis and gender analysis to improve programme design and delivery.
• Support greater sharing and use of gender-sensitive monitoring data, feedback and lessons learned across the WFP Karamoja programme portfolio and ensure that interventions are responsive to the needs of the people that we serve and are informed by sound understanding of Karamoja context.
• Ensure consistency of indicators across programme activities with the goal of supporting improvements of AMEL systems and procedures that measure performance and achievements towards outcomes and impact.

Innovation, Knowledge Management and Capacity Strengthening

• Implement innovative practices, approaches and latest technologies in AMEL that are appropriate for Karamoja sub-region context.
• Engage in evidence generation and research iniatives that may contribute to improved evidence in WFP programme interventions in Karamoja.
• Provide support to institutionalize and share best practices and knowledge learned for AMEL products and services with internal and external stakeholders to strengthen capacity of WFP and cooperating partner staff, communities, DLGs etc. in evidence-based programming.
• Support planning and facilitation of M&E capacity strengthening activities for programme teams and partners to enhance quality data management and reporting.