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IFAD - Data collection and impact assessments services (Long-term Agreement) - 2019
Countries Involved:
Vietnam, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and 15 other countries.
Project Description:
IFAD awarded MKE a three-year framework contract to develop and administer surveys to collect data needed for impact assessments. The scope of the services include the performance of baselines and/or follow up surveys (at the appropriate level of analysis, namely, the individual, household and community level), that evaluate the impact of a specific project in a specific location, measured through identified outcomes of success, which will be specific to the project’s theory of change, and will have to meet IFAD corporate requirements.
CFM - Tra Vinh Wind Project – Community Needs Assessment - 2019
Project Description:
The client is committed to maximising opportunities for delivering environmental and social benefits through its investments, particularly to the local communities in the area of influence of its project investments. The client has established an impact framework which provides an overarching approach to fulfilling this commitment. MKE was appointed to carry out stakeholder mapping and a needs assessment along with prioritisation and ranking to provide the information necessary for the development of this impact framework in one of the client’s projects.
IFAD - Data collection and impact assessments services (Long-term Agreement) - 2019
Countries involved: Vietnam, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and 15 other countries
Project Description Abstract:
IFAD awarded MKE a three-year framework contract to develop and administer surveys to collect data needed for impact assessments. The scope of the services include the performance of baselines and/or follow up surveys (at the appropriate level of analysis, namely, the individual, household and community level), that evaluate the impact of a specific project in a specific location, measured through identified outcomes of success, which will be specific to the project’s theory of change, and will have to meet IFAD corporate requirements.
Health Poverty Action - HARP Final Evaluation Service - 2018
Project Description:
Mekong Economics was selected to conduct a final evaluation of the HARP – F project. The overall aim of HARP was to improve the quality of life and reduce the vulnerability of households affected by the conflict in Kachin and Northern Shan states, Burma.
Our consultants undertook the following activities: literature reviews, data collection and compilation, data analysis and triangulation, liaising with relevant stakeholders and submitting reports to propose further actions
GERES (Groupe Énergies Renouvalables, Enviroment Et Solidarites) - Impact Study of SCALE Project - 2018
Project Description:
The main aim of the impact study was to assess the impacts of GERES’s SCALE project activities in Myanmar, along with assessing the effectiveness and sustainability of its approach. The impact assessment focused on two key aspects: measuring of impacts (both positive and negative) by the project and identifying unforeseen activities, and finding interventions to mitigate the negative impacts in the future.
Our team designed and conducted quantitative and qualitative data collection including household surveys using CAPI in Plain and Delta Zone with appropriate quality control checks; analysed and prepared the final report for the client.
BKP Development Research & Consulting GmbH - Final Evaluation of the European Trade Policy and Investment Support Project (EU-MUTRAP ASIE/2011/022818) - 2018
Project Description:
The current European Trade Policy and Investment Support Project ("EU-MUTRAP"), has been implemented since 2012 with a total budget of EUR 16.5 million. Its objective is to further Vietnam’s integration into the global, ASEAN and sub-regional trading systems and to enhance EU-Vietnam trade and investment relations. Mekong Economics evaluates two components of the project, two out of the total six EU-MUTRAP grants, assists the PMU in technical aspects and prepares the reports focusing on the evaluated components and grants
ADB - Facilitating SMEs Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study - 2017
Project Description:
The project assessed the likely impact of investment and other FDI-related provisions in the draft Regional Comprehensive Partnership Agreement (RCEP) for enhanced FDI flows in ASEAN+6; identified barriers to enhance SMEs’ FDI flows between ASEAN+6 countries; and proposed policy reforms, capacity development programs, and private sector transactional support to translate likely RCEP provisions and the potential internationalization of SMEs into enhanced FDI flows in the ASEAN+6 countries, particularly SME-driven FDI for agriculture, manufacturing, and services. MKE provided six key staff member to implement this enterprise-level in three source countries and prepared the final report on the RCEP agreement impact.
Plan International Myanmar - GFFO Project Final Evaluation - 2017
Project Description:
From May 2016 to October 2017, Plan implemented the project Expansion and maintenance of lifesaving support services to 31 IDP Camps in Kachin State (in this review, this project is referred to as “GFFO IV”). The project targeted 17,543 direct and indirect beneficiaries in 31 IDP camps in Kachin, 25 of which are in GCAs and six are in NGCAs. The project sought to increase the resilience of IDP populations through a distinct focus on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), nutrition, child protection (CP) and disaster risk reduction (DRR).
The purpose of this final project evaluation was to analyze the effectiveness to aid relevant stakeholders to the project with an assessment as to whether the project’s results were met and to attain an understanding of community perceptions.
Lux Development - Final term evaluation of project VIE/033 - 2017
Project Description:
The VIE/033 Climate Adapted Local Development and Innovation project targeted to benefit approximately 400,000 people living on 124,000 hectares of land and 22,000 hectares of lagoon area with three results: enhancing knowledge and management, increased protection, availability, resilience and use of resources, and more efficient productive activities.
MKE was assigned to conduct the final evaluation on VIE/033’s impacts. In particular, our team conducted field visits and documents review, designed evaluation module, collected, processed and analyzed data and submitted the final report.
The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) - Socio-economic assessment of forest management in Myanmar & the Myanmar Selection System - 2017
Project Description:
As an implementing partner of the Responsible Asia Forestry & Trade (RAFT), phase 3 project in Myanmar, the RECOFTC Myanmar Country Program was tasked with providing partnership services to develop public and corporate policies that support sustainable forest management and responsible forest products trade.
To ensure these results, reviewing the Myanmar Selection System (MSS) with multi-stakeholders was a primary task under RECOFTC' mandate. For this purpose, MKE provided two experts to assess the economic viability, considerations of social needs in Myanmar forest management system, especially related to MSS and provided recommendations.