SNV NGO Food Safety Market Survey Expert Jobs in Kenya

SNV is a not-for-profit international development organization with long-term, local presence in more than 30 of the poorest countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Our team of local and international advisors work with local partners to equip communities, businesses and organisations with the tools, knowledge and connections they need to increase their incomes and gain access to basic services – empowering them to break the cycle of poverty and guide their own development across three sectors: Agriculture, Renewable Energy and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).

The Kenya Market-led Horticulture Programme (KMHP), also known as HortIMPACT, is a 5-year project. The programme is focussing on some selected fresh vegetables and fruits mainly destined for domestic consumer markets or local processors in Kenya, with some exceptions for export.

The HortIMPACT project in conjunction with Kenya Horticulture Council (KHC) and Nairobi County government would like to undertake a baseline study of the City Park Fresh vegetables market - Parklands with main focus on fresh produce value chains and actors at play in this market. Thus we are inviting local consultant(s) to lead in this task.

This is a 12 days assignment spread over 3 month’s period. The selected local consultant will be required to execute the objectives listed in the Terms of Reference below jointly with an international consultant based at Wageningen University.

The baseline study aims at identifying fresh vegetables and fruits value chain actors, map the different supply chains and identify challenges and opportunities to improve food safety at the City Park fresh produce public market.

This study seeks to improve food safety in the local, public fresh produce market through implementation of proven, tested and tried tools, and borrow from the successes of horticultural export market value chains approach and domesticate it in the local market.

The study seeks to: