Consultancy Opportunity at Rikolto Tanzania

Rikolto, Jobs at Rikolto, Rikolto Jobs 2026, Ajira Mpya Rikolto, Nafasi za Kazi Rikolto 2026, Ajira Mpya 2026, Ajira Tanzania, Jobs Tanzania 2026 Job Overview Terms of Reference for Consultancy Opportunity at Rikolto Consultancy Opportunity at Rikolto Tanzania January 2026 Terms of reference for consultancy promoting safe food, inclusive governance and sustainable business among vendors, farmers and other food system actors in Mbeya General information Rikolto is an international non-governmental network organization with over 50 years of experience in partnering with food system stakeholders in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. We work together with a variety of actors in the food system such as governments, research institutions, financial institutions and farmers’ organizations around one central question: What will we eat tomorrow? ‘By building bridges between these stakeholders, we aim to transform the food system together, unlocking access to healthy, sustainable and nutritious (HSN) food for all while taking care of the environment and securing decent rural livelihoods. Working both in formal and informal sectors, our target beneficiaries include farmers, consumers, traders and other value chain actors, with a focus on youth and women. Since 2016, Rikolto is implementing a global Good food for cities (Previously Food smart city) programme to improve urban food environments and provide good-quality food to a growing urban population. Besides the fact that 80% of all food is expected to be consumed in cities by 2050 (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2019), we also believe that cities have the right scope of governance to bring about change in an action-orientated way to contribute to global sustainability. For this, we foster multi-stakeholder driven processes to develop and implement cooperative strategies that lead to a sustainable urban food system where the security, safety and nutritional value of food is safeguarded for all citizens. In Tanzania, Arusha became Tanzania’s first Good food for city (formally Food Smart City) and become a signatory of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact in 2018. Since 2020, Rikolto has established a Good food for cities City programme in Mbeya and signed Milan Pact in 2025. It is the largest city in Southern Highlands and an important node in the fertile agricultural system of the Southern regions of Tanzania. In both cities, food safety has been a key topic in the established multi-stakeholder platforms and an important challenge for the actors in the food systems. To assure food safety and quality throughout the value chain, a verification or validation system is needed. Rikolto has chosen to pilot a validation system based on Participatory Guarantee Systems and focused on food safety in both cities at the same time to test its potential to address the existing food safety challenges. Since Participatory Food Safety Systems (PFSS) are based on the active participation of stakeholders from within the food e