Research Assistant position: Diagnosis of the research and development actors working on value chains and labour in the agricultural sector in Ghana

Context

CIRAD (https://www.cirad.fr/en) is the French research centre for agricultural development. The ART-Dev joint research unit aims at developing collaborations with national and international research and development organisations in Ghana, including public bodies. In that framework, the organisation will conduct in partnership with the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of University of Ghana, a diagnosis of the research and development actors working on value chains and jobs in the agricultural sector in Ghana. This diagnostic will be conducted by a research assistant, under the supervision of two economists from Cirad and an economist from ISSER.

Goals

The general objective is to conduct a diagnosis of the research and development actors working on value chains and jobs in the agricultural sector in Ghana. The diagnosis will aim at answering the following questions:

What are the main organisations (Ghanaian and foreign research institutions, NGOs, etc.)?
What are their main activities?
Who are the donors?
What are the type of interactions between actors?
Who are the researchers publishing on jobs and value chains in Ghana?
What are the research issues?
What are the partnership opportunities for CIRAD and ISSER?

Duties of the role

The research assistant will support the implementation of the method by performing the following duties:

Literature review on value chains and labour research
Attend / co-facilitate a workshop to identify the main organisations and their interactions
Online research on organizations’ activities and identification of key informants
Development and test of a semi-directed interview guide
Conduct of semi directed interviews with key informants
Actors characterization
Social network analysis
Workshop to discuss results
Report writing
And any other tasks needed to reach the goal