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Current consulting opportunities

Through the ENGAGE framework we are currently looking for consultants with at least 10 years experience (including overseas experience) to work in Afghanistan (Kabul or Helmand) within the themes of transportation, training and capacity building, energy and electrification, strategy and planning (infrastructure), irrigation and water and sanitation. This consultancy would be for one or more short inputs over the next 2 years. Please contact the UK office for further information. 

We are also currently seeking to recruit consultants with experience in the following areas:

•  Livelihoods & Making Markets Work for the Poor – M4P; analysis and design of frameworks for strategic improvement of key markets; participatory market chain analysis; market mapping; markets and sustainability; value chain performance; capacity-building; monitoring and evaluation.

• Climate Change Adaptation: including impact studies in sectors such as agriculture and food security, energy, water resources, infrastructure provision, education and health and key issues such migration and conflict; adaptation studies; economic analysis; scenario study e.g. population and climate scenarios; programme climate proofing including staff training; capacity building e.g. negotiating skills
• Mitigation: advising on emerging mechanisms such as voluntary carbon markets and CDM; advising on mitigation issues in key emerging and transitional economies, including low carbon development.
• Mainstreaming of Climate Change into development initiatives, strategic country assessment including downscaling, event management / facilitation, desk-based scoping studies, preparation of technical and policy briefing notes, policy analysis, preparation of Terms of Reference, in-country programme scoping service including stakeholder/institutional analysis, independent reviews and programme evaluations, literature reviews and fact-finding, programme design, environmental impact assessment, fund management, baseline surveys, project appraisal, monitoring, evaluation, feasibility studies.
• Water, Sanitation & Environment - environmental engineering; infrastructure & appropriate technology options; strategic & sectoral environmental assessment; planning & coordination; disaster risk reduction; capacity needs assessment; participatory urban approaches; environmental economics; hydrogeology & groundwater protection & management; supply chain & enterprise development; rural water supply
• Livelihoods, Disaster Risk Reduction & Natural Resource Management - rural communities; rural trader support and development; food security; smallholder commodity diversification; small processor development; disaster preparedness; climate change adaption; participatory market chain analysis; market mapping; cash transfers; land reform.

To register as a consultant, fill out our registration form.

Internships & volunteering

Practical Action Consulting is proud to work with Engineers Without Borders UK to offer a rolling internship scheme to graduates interested in starting their career in development. Opportunities will be posted here and on the EWB-UK website as they become available.

New opportunity in to help organise the Practical Action & EWB-UK Small is...Festival 2012

Get stuck in with organising our summer festival with this paid internship opportunity.

Visit:http://www.ewb-uk.org/small-festival-2012-intern-practical-action-0