Words Food Learning Forum members used to describe the role of shared learning. Credit: Sustain
Sustain are seeking a consultant to develop a monitoring, evaluation and learning approach for National Lottery funded programme, Bridging the Gap.
Words Food Learning Forum members used to describe the role of shared learning. Credit: Sustain
Food that is good for people and the planet, benefits communities and supports decent livelihoods is currently more expensive than food that is bad for health and produced in ways that damage the planet.
We want to change that by bridging the gap between communities experiencing low incomes and health inequalities, with affordable and planet-friendly food that enables everyone to enjoy a universally healthy, just and sustainable food system.
We want to do that by developing and trialling supply chain interventions, using principles of coproduction to achieve this.
The programme has a spirit of enquiry and is looking to create and test innovative solutions to complex problems, but also to learn from what else is happening across the UK and internationally. We have begun this process by producing a report called ‘Mapping the Landscape’, which provides a brief overview of research and case studies already completed or underway.
We want to involve people in the design, and potentially the delivery, and decision making behind the solutions we test and will do this through co-production of the programme framework with experts from across the food system, as well as local level co-design of pilots within the communities they will serve.
While we want people to design the parameters for success, we also want to ensure that we have a broad framework for capturing learning and building a body of evidence from the start, on all of our outputs including
We would like a consultant to work with the Bridging the Gap Programme Manager to develop an approach to monitoring and evaluation that appreciates the emerging nature of the programme and its pilots and is therefore inherently adaptive.
We have a budget of £6000 available for this and would like the work to start as soon as possible in April 2023. We anticipate this will involve a minimum of 10 days of work over a 4 – 6 month period, with opportunities for follow on after that point.
Please provide a CV or equivalent stating your experience together with a cover letter stating your interest in this work by Monday 27 March to bridgingthegap@sustainweb.org.
Please state your availability for an interview between 29 March and 5 April and what you are able to deliver within the stated budget.
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