China - Environmentally-sustainable livestock production and processing

The specialist will have

(i) at least a master’s degree in social sciences, development studies, or a relevant discipline; and

(ii) work experience in social development conducting social analysis, preferably with international development banks.

The specialist will also have extensive experience working with international development partners, preferably in areas of gender analysis, analysis of vulnerability of livelihood, and rural development and agricultural value chain. For project and each subproject, the specialist will:

1. oversee the design, preparation and conduct of surveys, and oversee the collection of secondary data on vulnerability issues, affordability issues, poverty and inequality in the subproject areas and among the project beneficiaries, their livelihood, and decide on which other social and poverty related issues are needed to analyze;
2. conduct a poverty and social analysis following ADB’s Handbook on Poverty and Social Analysis: A Working Document (2012) and other relevant documents, and internationally recognized best practice;
3. prepare poverty and social profiles, and a poverty and social assessment report commensurate with project impact and opportunities;
4. assess how the project canbenefit the people, in particular poor and vulnerable households, prepare a social action plan (SAP) following established formats, establish what baseline data will be collected, and ensure that measures under the SAP are taken into account for project design;
5. plan and oversee the gender analysis and assess how the project can benefit gender equality, including an analysis of gender division of labor in the value chains and ensuring general data on social development is collected as sex-disaggregated data, using ADB’s relevant sector gender checklists and toolkits;
6. assist HPG in preparing a gender action plan (GAP) based on the requirements of ADB’s Guidelines for Gender Mainstreaming Categories of ADB Projects (2012), establish what baseline data will be collected, and ensure that measures under the GAP are taken into account for project design;
7. oversee the revision of land acquisition and land ownership for each sub-project and preparation of a due diligence report meeting ADB requirements, in particular the SPS and its Safeguard Requirement 2 (Manila, 2009);
8. oversee the review of the project’s indigenous peoples (IP) categorization as C;
9. assist HPG in preparing a concise Consultation and Participation Plan and a stakeholder communication strategy for project implementation, following ADB’s Strengthening Participation for Development Results: An Asian Development Bank Guide to Participation(2012); and
10. contribute to developing the design and monitoring framework (DMF) through participatory approach, particularly on identifying proper social indicators for the DMF.