Food Security and Livelihoods Intern - Beirut

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Who we are 

Save the Children's work saves and improves children's lives around the world. We work to ensure children have healthcare, food and shelter, as well as learning and child protection services when children need it most. We are committed to helping all children achieve their full potential by ensuring they grow up healthy, receive a good education, and stay safe.

Securing children's rights is the foundation of our work. Millions of children around the world are denied their rights, simply because of who they are or where they are from. We know that to ensure every child has the chance for a future their rights must be upheld.

Through our programming, emergency responses and advocacy, we put the most vulnerable children first, tackling the barriers to survival, learning and protection.

Project/department background

The explosion in Beirut has a devastating impact on communities in Beirut, Mount Lebanon and across Lebanon, and children as well as adolescent girls, female-headed households, elderly people and people with disabilities will be particularly affected. Ensuring immediate and safe shelter for families and those who are most vulnerable, is essential.

The immediate and long-term food insecurity resulting from the pre-existing economic crisis will worsen as value chains, import routes and local markets are severely disrupted. SC’s recent Household Economy Analysis showed that more than half a million children in Greater Beirut are living under the survival threshold and severely food insecure. This was as a consequence of the economic turmoil, and before the added impact of the explosion.

Multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) will be sufficient for a family to cover their basic needs including food and essential non-food items, based on coordination with the national Basic Assistance working group, the Ministry of Social Affairs, and tailored specifically for the emergency response.

What you will do

1. Conduct household vulnerability assessment with beneficiaries through phone calls or door to door visits
2. Support FSL in keeping the databases of beneficiaries and updating them on a regular basis
3. Safely collect and store relevant beneficiary data and support the FSL team in data validation
4. Provide relevant information to beneficiaries about SCI’s programmes and services
5. Contribute to the outreach and referrals of beneficiaries to relevant SCI programmes
6. Attend relevant training and inductions when needed
7. Contribute to the verification of beneficiaries by collecting appropriate data.
8. Provide information and advice beneficiaries on existing programmes, referring them to services when required.
9. Help with the distribution of kits as needed with the FSL team.
10. Facilitate the implementation of the Food security and Livelihood under the supervision of the FSL Officer.
11. Completes other tasks as requested by the Project focal point.
12. Comply with SCI’s code of conduct and Child safeguarding and Fraud policies.

Learning opportunities for the Intern

• Gain understanding of the food security and livelihood sector
• Gain knowledge on humanitarian interventions
• Gain knowledge on Safe Identification and Early referral
   

Minimum qualification and experience:

Experience in database management and basic computer skills.

Good communication skills