UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
UN Women works to advance gender equality and women’s economic empowerment by strengthening women’s access to productive assets, skills, finance, technology and markets. In Cross River State, the cassava value chain offers significant opportunities for rural women to increase productivity, diversify products, reduce post-harvest losses and build sustainable enterprises. This assignment supports the planned UN Women partnership for rural women in the cassava value chain in Cross River State, including the initiative being developed with the MTN Foundation. The intervention is intended to translate access to processing technologies into measurable improvements in women’s technical competence, product quality, enterprise management, and market readiness.
Women are active across cassava production and processing but may face constraints including limited access to improved processing techniques, inconsistent product quality, weak packaging and branding, occupational health and safety risks, restricted access to finance and markets, and the time burden associated with unpaid care work. UN Women therefore seeks qualified local trainer(s) with practical cassava-processing and adult-learning experience to provide hands-on, gender-responsive training to selected women beneficiaries in Cross River State.
The trainer will work under the overall guidance of the UN Women Nigeria Country Office and the direct supervision of Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme Specialist. The trainer will coordinate with relevant implementing partners, beneficiary groups and local stakeholders in Cross River State. All deliverables must be submitted physical and electronically in editable formats and are subject to review and acceptance by UN Women.
The assignment will be implemented in selected project communities'/processing locations in Cross River State mainly in Obubra. The final training venue, beneficiary numbers and logistics will be confirmed by UN Women. Any authorized travel must follow the contractual arrangement and applicable UN Women procedures. The trainer should not assume that transport, accommodation, training equipment or consumables are reimbursable unless explicitly provided in the contract.
The purpose of the assignment is to strengthen the practical, business and organizational capacities of women cassava processors so that they can operate processing equipment safely and efficiently, improve the quality and value of cassava products, reduce losses and production costs, meet relevant food-safety requirements, and improve their access to markets and income-generating opportunities.
The trainer will use an experiential and participant-centred approach, with approximately 70% of contact time devoted to practical demonstrations, supervised practice and problem solving. Methods should include demonstrations of equipment, small-group exercises, product-quality checks, business simulations, peer learning, question-and-answer sessions and coaching. The approach must be respectful, inclusive and adapted to the local context. Training dates and daily schedules should be agreed with participants to reduce barriers arising from care responsibilities and travel constraints.
Inception package- Rapid needs assessment, participant profile, detailed workplan, training curriculum/modules, training tools and pre-test.
Practical training delivered - Hands-on technical training completed; attendance, photographs with consent, practical exercises and equipment-safety demonstrations documented.
Enterprise and market-readiness training plus coaching - Business, cooperative management and market-linkage modules completed; post-training coaching and participant action plans documented.
Final report - Final report including pre/post results, beneficiary reach, challenges, lessons, recommendations, training materials and supporting evidence.
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