Consultant(e) National pour la Mise à jour des profils de marché en Mauritanie

The consultant will update market profiles in targeted regions of Mauritania, integrating a systemic analysis of factors influencing market functioning, food access, and household food security and nutrition. The role involves analytical study, field data collection, institutional consultation, and capacity strengthening over an estimated three-month period.

Responsibilities

• Update market profiles in targeted Mauritania regions documenting key consumption, assembly, wholesale, livestock, cereals, horticulture, dairy, imported products and essential non-food items markets.
• Describe supply chains and trade flows including local, interregional and cross-border, and logistical, security, climate and regulatory constraints.
• Analyze price trends, seasonality, trade margins, transport costs, availability patterns and price volatility factors for staple foods.
• Assess market roles in economic and physical food access for households, focusing on poor, pastoralist, agro-pastoralist, female-headed, displaced, refugee and host communities.
• Integrate a systemic approach examining production, processing, storage, transport, distribution, consumption, nutrition, post-harvest losses, food security, sustainability and climate adaptation.
• Identify risks and opportunities for market-based interventions sensitive to nutrition, gender, protection, social cohesion and climate adaptation.
• Propose operational and strategic recommendations to improve market monitoring, early warning, cash programming, local procurement and value chain support.
• Strengthen capacities of national, regional and local actors in market data collection, analysis and use.
• Produce deliverables including inception report, validated data collection tools, literature review note, interim report, cleaned database, maps and flow diagrams, final report, policy note, and training and dissemination workshops.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Agro-economics, Food Security and Nutrition, Statistics or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in market and food security studies in Sahelian or comparable contexts.
• Experience in market analysis, food security, nutrition and livelihoods.
• Experience with quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Experience analyzing prices, seasonality and market response capacity.
• Knowledge of climate, resilience, pastoralism and natural resources.
• Experience with gender, inclusion and protection issues.
• Skills in mapping, data visualization and database management.
• Experience facilitating workshops and capacity building.
• Excellent report writing skills in English.
• Operational capacity to work in Mauritania and targeted regions.
• Knowledge of French, Arabic, Hassanya, Pulaar, Soninké or other local languages is an asset.
• Strong writing skills in French may be required depending on national stakeholder validation.

Skills

• Market Analysis
• Food Security Studies
• Nutrition Analysis
• Quantitative Methods
• Qualitative Methods
• Price Analysis
• Seasonality Analysis
• Market Response Capacity
• Climate Knowledge
• Resilience Analysis
• Pastoralism Knowledge
• Natural Resource Management
• Gender Inclusion
• Protection issues
• Mapping
• Data Visualization
• Database Management
• Workshop Facilitation
• Capacity Building
• Report Writing English
• Field Data Collection

Languages

English, French