Scholarship Call: Expression of Interest for the S-FSRP Long-Term Scholarship

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF SOMALIA

INTRODUCTION

The Government of Somalia has acquired an International Development Association (IDA) credit to finance the Somalia Food Systems Resilience Project (S-FSRP). The FGS intends to utilize part of the credit proceeds to finance the cost of the PhD, MSc/MBA, and Bachelor’s Degrees for the S-FSRP Scholarships Program relevant to the project.

The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to increase preparedness against food insecurity and improve the resilience of food systems in the targeted project areas of Kenya. This objective will be achieved by increasing farm productivity and resilience through the development and dissemination of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies and services to farmers, including climate-smart seed systems and gender-sensitive technologies. The Project activities will be implemented within six components, namely:-

i.         (Re-) Building Resilient Agricultural Production Capacity

ii.         Supporting the Sustainable Development of Natural Resources for Resilient Agricultural Landscapes;

iii.         Getting to Markets;

iv.         Promoting a Greater Focus on Food Systems Resilience in National and Regional Policy Making

v.         Contingency Emergency Response Component

vi.         Project Coordination and Management.

Scholarship Call

Purpose: - The purpose of the S-FSRP Scholarship program is to build human capacity to contribute to increased preparedness against food insecurity and improved resilience of food systems in the five (5) targeted FMS of the S-FSRP.

Areas of focus: The S-FSRP scholarship program aims to build the capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, the Ministry of Livestock, the Forest and Range (MoLFR) FGS and FMS -Line Ministries (MoAI & MoLFR), and the implementing counties in areas relevant to the project.

The programme will support long-term

      I.         CSA Technologies & services,

     II.         Farmers’ Community engagement and agriculture technology transfer,

   III.         Water & Rangeland management for crops and livestock.

   IV.         Strengthening Farmer-Producer Organizations,

    V.         Agricultural markets and Enterprise Development.

   VI.         Creditworthiness of crop and livestock farmers.

 VII.         Prioritization of food systems resilience in public policy and spending.

VIII.    Resilience-enhancing agriculture and livestock policies.