Position: Gender, Equity and Social Inclusion/ Indigenous Peoples Specialist – Integrated Land and Resource Governance II
Location: Washington DC Metro Area
Position Status: Proposal, Full-time, Regular
About DAI
DAI works at the cutting edge of international development, combining technical excellence, professional project management, and exceptional customer service to solve the most complex development problems. Since 1970, DAI has worked in 150 developing and transitioning countries, providing comprehensive development solutions in areas including crisis mitigation and stability operations, democratic governance, public sector management, agriculture, private sector development economics and trade, land tenure and property rights, public health, water and natural resources management, and energy and climate change.
About the Project
The purpose of the anticipated USAID-funded Integrated Land and Resource Governance II (ILRG II) Activity is to provide support to the Land and Resource Governance Division in USAID’s Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI) to develop, implement and assess interventions that secure land tenure and resource rights and strengthen land and resource governance systems. The anticipated $25M - $50M, 5-year Activity will help identify constraints and barriers to secure land and resource governance to support multiple development objectives, including combating climate change, promoting food security, supporting biodiversity conservation, enabling gender equality, empowering women, promoting social inclusion, facilitating private sector investment, preventing and mitigating conflict, supporting sustainable urbanization, and enabling localization, among others.
Position Summary
DAI seeks candidates for the Gender, Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI)/Indigenous Peoples Specialist position on the anticipated USAID-funded Integrated Land and Resource Governance II (ILRG II) Activity. The GESI/Indigenous Peoples Specialist will be responsible for providing technical gender and social inclusion input into the ILRG Activity, including supporting efforts to develop inclusive legal and policy frameworks as well as positive social and gender norms and practices related to land tenure, land use, land administration, land management, and resource use. The position will also support efforts related to Indigenous Peoples’ land and territorial claims, which provide opportunities for local people and communities to actively participate in, contribute to and benefit from investments on land over which they hold legitimate rights. This position will be based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
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