Background

Mercy Corps Indonesia sees an
opportunity to increase Indonesian farming families’ incomes and improve
their lives. Through targeted and well planned programs, Mercy Corps
Indonesia is working to impact farm household incomes by increasing their
access to agricultural inputs including improved seeds, fertilizers,
financial services, and modern tools and equipment.

Mercy
Corps Indonesia also works to change the
income of the farmers by developing the farmer model business. There are some
groups that have run business opportunities in Subang, Banyuwangi and Lombok,
and this can help improve the farmers’ economy.

To
accommodate the project, Mercy Corps Indonesia
 decided to make case study to see how
the  approach and business capacity
building that was developed by POWER (Mercy Corps Indonesia)
impacted FGUs and smallholder farmers (FGU members).

The Case
Study will be to engage FGU members from all three POWER locations to produce
a comprehensive set of learnings from all districts. Mercy Corps Indonesia will also engage in key informant
interviews with private partners to understand their experience collaborating
with POWER and how their engagement has impacted business growth.

Objectives

The Case
Study will explore the challenges, opportunities and lessons learned in
developing FGU capacity and business models to support FGU members and to
contribute to design of future interventions.

Location

Jakarta
travel to Subang, Banyuwangi and Lombok

Responsibilities

1.      Conduct Focus Group discussions
with selected FGUs POWER has partnered with to discuss the impact of the
program and partnerships

2.      Explore learnings, best
practices and challenges encountered in establishing agriculture business
services to benefit FGU members.

Audience :

1.       Mercy
Corps Indonesia
 Local Implementation Partners

2.       Mercy
Corps Indonesia Program and Technical Teams

3.       John
Deere Employees and Leadership

Implementation time                                                                             

2 October – 30 November
2017 (deadline submission for final draft of cases study)

Qualifications:

1.      
Have Experience in Private sector engagement for Agriculture

2.      
Possess strong communications skills

3.      
Possess strong skills for Written report and possibility of
complementary with video and pictures

4.      
Fluency in English verbal and written communication is mandatory.