ABOUT ARK:
ARK is a social enterprise, empowering local communities through the provision of agile and sustainable interventions to create greater stability, opportunity, and hope for the future.
We believe that strong, resilient communities are the foundation of local, national, regional and international development and stability and ultimately a safer, peaceful and more prosperous world. At ARK, we have delivered research and programmatic interventions validating this approach in over twenty countries since 2008. As a social enterprise we work in partnership with communities, our donors, and other implementers to build local capacities, generate opportunity and bring about sustainable change.
Learn more about our impact here: https://www.ark.international/impact
PURPOSE OF POSITION:
Building Peace in Yemen ( BPY ) aims to adopt a People-to-People approach to advance conflict prevention, mitigation, and support to community-level conflict resolution mechanisms in targeted governorates in the South of Yemen (Aden, Abyan and Hadramout). Through a participatory community-engagement model, the program will bring together vulnerable and marginalized groups, including representatives of conflicting groups, on activities that address issues of common concern and that foster engagement, trust, empathy, and interdependency, thus strengthening community cohesion and reducing the likelihood of violence.
BPY will focus on prevention and mitigation of land and water disputes, and promotion of mechanisms for the resolution of such disputes, through the following components: a) technical support to rehabilitation of arable land, access to water and sustainable natural resource management; b) skills provision, capacity-building and economic empowerment activities based on sustainable agriculture, water and natural resource management, and adaptation to climate change; c) support to and coordination with local authorities and community-vetted bodies such as community councils or tribal reconciliation councils focused on management/resolution of land and water disputes/challenges surrounding land tenure; d) empowerment of youth-led volunteer activities around issues related to land and water disputes, natural resource management and other environmental issues, e.g. pollution and waste management; and e) utilization of a tailored social media platform(s)with established reachto amplify the visibility/magnify the impact of the activities and engage members (especially youth and women) of different groups to promote content that fosters tolerance, coexistence and acceptance and that counters hate speech, misinformation, discrimination and patterns of exclusion.
The Project Assistants will play key role in climate change, participate in establishing Community Councils ( CCs ) , sustainable of water resources management ,BPY in Yemen emphasizes on agricultural adaptation, resolve conflict, participate in developing mechanism of resolution conflict water, and land dispute, as well as addressing the impacts caused by climate change. Or through community-based mechanisms, this part aims to improve the management and governance of natural resources and other issues such as water and land dispute. The key players will be involved at various levels of implementation.
Furthermore, Project assistant will collaborate directly with the project coordinator. In order to ensure planning activities such as distributing corps, water and land dispute, technical training, good corps, coordination meetings, addressing climate change, and farmers' practices wether through CCs or Local partner. Additionally, he or she will be monitoring the local partner on the ground to ensure that the project is progressing smoothly in terms of delivery, quality, requirements, sharing challenges and share update on daily basis.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
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