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Please note that the position presented here below is not a vacancy at Spark itself, but an intern position at the Investment Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy) that is only being promoted by Spark.
Since 1994, FAO has been cooperating actively with the European Bank for Development and Reconstruction (EBRD). In the agricultural sector, the EBRD, which operates in 27 transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), mainly finances the private sector, primarily agrifood processors, retailers and financial intermediaries involved in agricultural commodity financing. Under its cooperation with the EBRD, FAO is supporting the private investments of the EBRD Agribusiness team by providing its expertise at all stages of the investment cycle: identification, preparation and implementation.
The emphasis of the EBRD/FAO cooperation was placed on a new area of cooperation: the coordination of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) efforts in agricultural financing throughout the region.
In 2003, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and FAO decided to launch the EastAgri initiative. EastAgri is a network of International Financing Institutions (IFIs) and private banks, financing agriculture in transition countries. The objective of EastAgri is to better coordinate the interventions of IFIs through (i) sharing of sector and country information and (ii) sharing of lessons learnt and best practices. One of EastAgri’s activities consists of creating and maintaining a website (see http://www.eastagri.org/) containing background information on (i) EastAgri members’ agricultural/agribusiness investment projects and (ii) the agricultural sector of the countries covered by EastAgri.
The Investment Centre is a division of FAO's Technical Cooperation Department. It promotes greater investment in agriculture and rural development by assisting developing countries to identify and formulate effective and sustainable agricultural policies, programmes and projects. It does this with funding from multilateral institutions such as the World Bank, regional development banks and international funds as well as FAO resources.
The Investment Centre is committed to the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals specifically the goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
What will be your main tasks?
(i) Assistant FAO/EBRD core team in carrying out its tasks related to the FAO/EBRD cooperation program;
(ii) Research website content / information management:
· identify information sources; create and present abstracts that relate to the interests of EastAgri members;
· update the economic, demographic, and agricultural profiles of EastAgri countries (Countries area on EastAgri website);
· research of specific agricultural sectors (documents, websites, reports, data, statistics);
· assist in adding projects conducted by EastAgri network members to the website as well as searching for lessons learnt and project reports;
· provide ad-hoc research on technical or economic topics at the request of individual members;
· manage content of the website in close liaison with FAO staff; consult and interact on weekly basis regarding the content update and dissemination of information to network members
Requirements & assets:
· BA or MA student from:
o University of Tuzla, Faculty of Economics (B&H)
o University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economics (Serbia)
o Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration (Belgrade - Serbia)
o University of Bitola, Faculty of Economics (Prilep R. Macedonia)
o University of Pristina, Faculty of Economics (Kosovo)
o University of Montenegro, Faculty of Economics (Podgorica - Montenegro)
· Good English and Russian language skills;
· Flexible, hard-working and enthusiastic student
· Preferably a business, economics or agricultural oriented study background
· Able to work with MS Office (Word, Exel, Powerpoint), Web-based applications, Web-based data management.
· Available for three-months full-time
What does FAO offer?
· An international and dynamic working experience
· (On-the-job) coaching and guidance;
Possibilities to gain practical international (research) experience in the field of International Development Cooperation and Investment in Agricultural/Rural Development Sector
Please note that Spark does not offer remuneration for living costs, travelling costs or any other expenses. Our organisation merely facilitates between the FAO and suitable candidates for the position at hand.
If you are interested, please send your letter of motivation and your CV to vacancy@spark-online.org (Reference: Intern Food and Agricultural Organisation).
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Last Updated ( Monday, 09 February 2009 )
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