Consultancy to assess landscape stakeholder capacity needs

Background:

The CGIAR Multifunctional Landscapes (MFL) Science Program is part of the CGIAR 2025–2030 Research and Innovation Portfolio. It advances integrated management of food, land, water, and ecosystems across scales. While implementation takes place at plot and farm level, where farmers make daily production decisions, these actions are designed to connect to landscape-level processes, where environmental systems, governance, markets, and social dynamics interact. By linking farm-level practice with landscape transformation, MFL supports coherent, system-wide change. Within the MFL Science Program, Area of Work (AoW) 4 on Governance, Policy, Institutions, and Inclusion, works to enable equitable and inclusive landscape transformation through effective governance, policy alignment, institutional mechanisms, and GEYSI strategies. It employs a transdisciplinary approach to strengthen landscape governance and create enabling policies and structural conditions for equitable and inclusive landscape transformation and invests in three mutually reinforcing pillars: research-based evidence and tools, capacity sharing, and engagement.

The collaborator’s main activities include:

• Support a collaborative study on landscape stakeholder capacity needs assessment in Ethiopia, Peru and Tunisia

• Contribute to the development of the assessment methodology

• Coordinate the data collection through key informant interviews (KIIs) and conduct the KIIs as needed

• Analyze the data and draft a report

Deliverables:

1. Methodology for the landscape stakeholder capacity needs assessment
2. Data collected through key informant interviews (KIIs)
3. Qualitative data analysis and report

Required qualifications and skills:

• Master’s degree in agricultural or environmental sciences, policy or management or a related field from a recognized university. An interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary background is an asset.

• +7 years of demonstrated experience using participatory and qualitative research methodologies for sustainability, or environmentally related topics. Peer-reviewed publications will be an advantage.

• +5 years of demonstrated experience coordinating projects and research processes in the Global South. Participation in international conferences will be an advantage.

• Demonstrated experience to work collaboratively with an international and intercultural team. Experience working in diverse Global South settings will be highly valued.

• Demonstrated experience working with the public sector and international organizations. Experience working with agri-food research for development organizations or the CGIAR is strongly preferred.

• Excellent command of written and spoken English, Spanish and French. Good command of other languages is an asset.

• Experience working with private, academic, and NGO actors will be an asset.

• Experience with systems thinking or landscape analysis approaches will be preferred.

Duration

August – December 2026

Level of effort

22 – 28 days

Application Deadline

July 24, 2026

Please include the following with your application:

• Cover letter detailing experience

• Resume or Curriculum Vitae

• Writing sample

• Proposed daily rate