Historique
- Protecting the public health by reducing risk of food borne illness.
- Protecting consumers from unsanitary, unwholesome, mislabeled or adulterated food from the agricultural industry.
- Contributing to the economic development by maintaining consumer confidence in the food.
- To establish certification and quality control mechanisms for agricultural value-addition activities and strengthen trade competitiveness of locally processed agricultural food items.
- Provide a sound regulatory foundation for domestic food and its trade activities.
- Ensure that Maldivians and those tourist and foreigners who reside in Maldives have access to safe and quality food products.
- Create a model system for quality monitoring during primary production, processing and distribution of Agriculture and Value-Added products in the Maldives.
- Strengthen the capacity of Regulatory Authorities.
Devoirs et responsabilités
- Provide assistance in the strengthening of the registration mechanism of the pesticide and registration of the local agricultural and value added products.
- Provision of technical assistance in data analysis of the pesticides in the local agricultural production.
- Undertake a risk assessment of the pesticides in the local agricultural products and risk assessment of the pesticides used in the Maldives.
- Provide technical assistance in generating the data for setting up of limits and development of maximum allowable the limits of pesticides.
- Provide technical assistance and set up quality control mechanism and establishing a certification system for local and value added products.
- Conduct the final validation workshop with key stakeholders and selected processors and farmers.
- Strengthening the existing pesticide registration mechanism
- Listing of the Local agriculturally produced and value added products
- Output 1: Data analysis and risk assessment of the Pesticides in locally produced food
- Data analysis of the pesticides in the local agricultural production
- Risk assessment of the pesticides in the local agricultural products.
- Development of Shelf Life for locally agricultural product
- Output 2: Technical Assistance for setting up of standards
- Risk assessment, developing and setting up of the maximum allowable the limits for pesticides
- Training of Inspectors and strengthening the testing capacity for quality monitoring
- Training of inspectors on inspection techniques and sample collection based on the protocols, Standard operating procedure
- Training of the value chain staff on quality and safety aspects of the products.
- Training of the Laboratory staff on laboratory techniques used to analyze quality of the products.
- Develop a Quality Control and Certification System
- Set up a quality control and certification mechanism for value added and locally produced agricultural products including producer, farms, processing establishing and distribution centers
- Set up standard operating procedures for monitoring of quality and safety of agricultural
- Gap Identification
- Identification of Gaps/ Intervention and Future area of development
- Conduct a final validation workshop
- Maldives Food and Drug Authority, Male’, Maldives
- 3 Months
Compétences
- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
- Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
Qualifications et expériences requises
- Minimum Postgraduate degree in food Science, food technology, and quality control of food and or in a relevant field
- Minimum 10-15 years of experience in the area of food science, food safety and quality control of food
- Have background in analytical chemistry
- Experience in the area of pesticides risk assessment
- Familiarity with participatory approach to development
- Fluency in both written and spoken English.