Consultant (firm) for solar lantern intervention implementation in northern Uganda

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Job Description To feed its growing population amid climate change and other challenges, the developing world needs a food system, that is nutrition sensitive, efficient, safe, healthy, and environmentally sustainable, as well as promotes economic and human capital development. This requires bringing modern technologies to local communities, helping to acquire the relevant know-how, and building strong partnerships and institutions. Developed countries around the world can play important roles in these efforts and Japan is one of them. We show how Japan can lend its expertise to improve food and nutrition, health, industry and education in the developing world by examining the transferability of Japan’s advanced technologies, know-how and institutional innovations to the developing world. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), under the financial support through the Japanese Government’s FY2025 Supplementary Budget, implements the project “Lighting Up Home to Boost Learning and Livelihoods in Refugee Hosting Communities in Northern Uganda”. Uganda is the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa. The intervention introduces 3,000 off-grid solar lanterns, developed by...