USAID Livestock Market Systems Activity Short Term Consultants Jobs in Kenya

Smart Regional Consultants (SRC) is a leading business support and advisory services consulting firm in Kenya with experience working with small holder farmers in various agricultural value chains.

SRC has over the years developed on-ground competency by working closely with SME’s using our heavily engaging and client focused consultancy methodology which involves one on one business coaching and mentoring of SME’s, hand-holding the business owner to profitably run the enterprise so that their businesses can compete in larger commercial markets.

Our suite of services focuses on building the capacity of the SME to concentrate on what they are good at while SRC provides a pool of qualified consultants in various technical areas to support the SME’s growth strategy in order to leave behind a sustainable support platform for the benefit of the SME.

Program Background:

The USAID Kenya Feed the Future Livestock Market Systems (LMS) Leader with Associates (LWA) program is focused on strengthening community resilience and overcoming poverty, household hunger and chronic undernutrition through: expanded and viable economic opportunities; improved systems, institutions, governance; and human capital.

The Program comprises of Leader and Associate Awards with the objective to maximize local capacity to plan and manage integrated resilience programming and foster collaboration with other implementers to achieve significant and lasting social change.

The Expanding and Diversifying Viable Economic Opportunities in Northern Kenya (AA1) project provides market-based pull by facilitating a more competitive, commercialized livestock value chain for pastoralists that are moving up in the livestock market system and, by creating viable, diversified livelihoods opportunities for those that are moving up or moving out of the sector.

The AA1 design builds

By increasing and diversifying income sources, households –with a focus on youth and women– build resilience and create sustained pathways out of poverty.

The three objectives that comprise the pull structure of AA1 are: