Role Summary:
Afghanistan faces severe climate vulnerability due to a combination of environmental and socio-political factors. Recurring climate-induced disasters, particularly droughts and floods, have significantly undermined food security and rural livelihoods. Projections point to a future with rising temperatures, declining rainfall, and more frequent extreme weather events. These impacts are compounded by decades of conflict, which have weakened the population's adaptive capacity. The influx of returnees from Pakistan and nowadays from Iran has, and will continue to have further strained natural resources, intensifying conflicts over land and water access and deepening existing social divides
The Community Engagement Coordinator will be responsible for leading community outreach, mobilization, and participation efforts under the PREVALE project. This role ensures that the voices, priorities, and needs of the communities, particularly vulnerable groups—are fully integrated into the planning, implementation, and monitoring of project activities. The position plays a key role in strengthening community ownership, resilience-building, and the sustainability of integrated watershed management (IWM), disaster risk reduction (DRR), and agricultural livelihood interventions.
Responsibilities and Tasks:
- Facilitate community mobilization and engagement across target communities for all phases of the project.
- Organize and lead community meetings, consultations, and awareness sessions related to project objectives, especially in Integrated Watershed Management (IWM), DRR, and climate adaptation.
- Identify, engage, and support Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), CDCs, farmer groups, and other local stakeholders.
- Coordinate the participatory selection of project beneficiaries with transparency and inclusion, ensuring the involvement of women and vulnerable populations.
- Support the development and implementation of community action plans and local adaptation strategies.
- Facilitate establishment and training of Community Based Project monitoring committees (CBPMCs)
- Facilitate establishment and training of Grievance Redressal Mechanism (GRM) committee members
- Facilitate training and capacity-building workshops in coordination with technical teams.
- Act as a liaison between the community and the project team, ensuring consistent feedback loops and accountability mechanisms.
- Document success stories, challenges, and lessons learned from community engagement activities.
- Ensure all community engagement efforts are aligned with safeguarding, Do No Harm, and gender-sensitive approaches.
- Support the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) team in data collection and community feedback processes.
- Perform any other tasks as delegated by the line manager or supervisor, in line with the project’s objectives
