Kimetrica LLC (funded by USAID) - Myanmar Analytical Activity (MAA) - 2019

Project Description:

USAID/Burma (Myanmar) requires analytical support to supplement its current portfolio of Democracy and Governance, national reconciliation, economic growth and health activities. This analytical support is aligned with the Democracy and Governance Project Appraisal Document and will primarily focus on the drivers of conflict impacting the implementation of development programs by USAID/ Burma. The activity will enable the Mission to better address emerging issues, take advantage of opportunities, and react to unexpected political and economic events and social conditions.

USAID/Burma anticipates the most significant need for support in addressing conflict dynamics in Kachin, Shan, and Rakhine States, southeastern Myanmar, and the influence of national political and economic actors and institutions based in Yangon and Nay Pyi Taw. The multitude of layers impacting Myanmar’s development and democratic transition require continuous monitoring and analysis allowing the Mission to make strategic adjustments to implementation.

SMEC - National Consultancy for Vinfast Project - 2019

Project Description:

SMEC International Pty Ltd (SMEC) has been contracted to provide consultancy services for the Implementation of Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP) for the supplies, installations and commissioning of machinery and equipment for the construction of a new automotive manufacturing plant to be operated by Vinfast in Hai Phong, Vietnam (the Project).

MKE is required to provide assistance to the SMEC Team to deliver the required services, in accordance with applicable international and national guidelines including the Equator Principles, the IFC Performance Standards, the EHS Guidelines, and the Vietnamese environmental and social laws and regulations.

The Social Safeguards Specialist will report to the International Social Specialist and the Project Manager and undertake the following tasks:

• Develop a Stakeholder Engagement Plan that identifies and maps the relevant stakeholders, sets out engagement approaches or methods and actions for each stakeholder or stakeholder group, confirms timing for implementation, and includes monitoring requirements;

• Undertake a comprehensive socio-economic survey to clarify the current status of living conditions and livelihoods of displaced peoples before/ after being displaced and vulnerability of displaced people;

• Update and develop resettlement/ livelihood restoration strategies and contribute to the development of a Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) including Livelihood Restoration Plan;

• Contribute to the preparation of a Cultural Heritage Baseline Report;

• Contribute to the preparation of a Social Baseline Report;

• Contribute to the preparation of a Community Health Development Plan;

• Conduct an analysis of the Project construction labor force to identify viable alternatives for those workers subject to retrenchment;

• Develop and implement a retrenchment plan to reduce the adverse impacts of retrenchment on workers, in line with this IFC PS requirement;

• Undertake land acquisition audit;

• Conduct consultation and information disclosure on the CDP with relevant stakeholders (i.e. authorities, affected communities);

• Conduct a baseline cultural heritage study and impacts on cultural heritages from the Project development and contribute to the development of a Cultural Heritage Management Plan including a Chance Finds Procedure;

Lux Development - Project Y1 Data Collection - Eastern Shan Rural Development and Inclusion Project - 2019

Project Description:

The project aimed to improve the life of a minimum of 15,000 to a maximum of 25,000 disadvantaged people in East Shan State (ESS). MKE carried out a baseline survey before the formal starting of the project to inform and complete the set of 14 Indicator Identity Sheets (IIS) - subject to the present baseline survey

Landell Mills/ Funded by ADB - TA 9634-REG: Strengthening Integrated Flood Risk Management - 2019

Project Description:

The project aimed to strengthen the design and implementation of Integrated Flood Risk Management (IFRM) solutions, enhancing knowledge and application of IFRM strategies in DMCs of ADB. The assignment aimed to provide targeted technical support for program and project preparation and promote more holistic IFRM solutions, including basin-wide and NBSs that would deliver greater sustainability and long-term effectiveness, thereby strengthening flood resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change, land-use change, and other human interventions.

MKE mobilised and provided backstopping support to the inputs of the National Integrated Flood Risk Management Specialist position.

Plan International - Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Needs Assessment and Gender Analysis in Nyaung U, Mandalay Region - 2019

Project Description:

SRHR was one of Plan International’s programs to support  adolescents and young people in accessing relevant information and services to support the realization of their SRH rights and to take control over the lives free from gender-based violence, with aiming of achieving “My Body. My Future” project’s goal. MKE conducted a needs assessment on SRHR  with a gender inclusion analysis to inform the client on the final  design of the program to have a strategic and impactful intervention on target beneficiaries.

Plan International Myanmar - Dual-Client (Labor Market & Youth) Assessment for Kachin and Rakhine - 2019

Project Description:

MKE conducted a desk rearch of dual‐client assessment to understand labor market opportunities for, as well as interests of, adolescents and young people and which skills development and livelihood interventions were most appropriate for enabling sustainable income generation opportunities for them in target areas.

FIAAP & F.S.P & Cooperacion Espanola - Monitoring and Evaluation framework to Support to the Reform of the Myanmar Police Force (MYPOL) - 2019

Project Description:

The MYPOL project assists the Myanmar Police Force (MPF) in becoming a modern police agency centred on international best practices and respect for human rights. It aimed to achieve a more preventive, service-oriented, balanced and professional approach to policing, improve the accountability of the MPF and the relationship between police and civil society.

MKE provided the services for the design of the  Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Framework  for  the MYPOL  Project that  allowed proper monitoring, evaluation and quality control of the project implementation against  expected results, fosters strategic planning, accountability and learning processes.

Forest Department (FD), MONREC & Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (GoM) - Climate Vulnerability Assessment - 2019

Project Description:

The objectives of this assignment were to conduct a Vulnerability Assessment (VA) that would inform the planning and implementation for the CCA, to build capacity at FD, ECD and FRI in the design and implementation of VA, including capacities in community consultation and facilitation processes that would be important skill for effective community engagement and institution building for co-management related to sustainable mangrove management.

MKE collected data and information from multiple sources, including existing research, studies and databases, expert consultations, community consultations, transect walks, community mapping, risk ranking, and focus-group discussions (including vulnerable groups such as women, poor, and different ethnic groups and religions).

The VA included community consultations as a key methodological approach. Since community consultations were also important elements of subsequent co-management and resilience-building work related to Engagement Outputs 2, 3 and 4, the VA would support capacity building on community consultation and facilitation as an integrated part of the VA

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.

PwC Singapore/ Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) - The Technical Assistance Programme on Economic Reform in South East Asia - 2019

Countries Involved:

Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines

Project Description:

The Technical Assistance Programme on Economic Reform in South East Asia (“the Programme”) addresses current market failures and weaknesses that impede South East (SE) Asia’s inclusive economic growth, unlocking increased prosperity for SE Asia and for international business and the UK. The key outcomes supported by the Technical Assistance Programme on Economic Reform in South East Asia are (ER1) Strengthening the business environment, (ER2) Advancing business & government transparency and integrity, and (ER3) Broadening and deepening financial markets.

Overall, Mekong Economics was responsible for the design and delivery of the following cross-cutting analyses in the inception phase: Social Impact Analysis, Private Sector Development Analysis, Economic Analysis, Political Economy and Governance Analysis