Peace House Shelter Project (funded by AECID) - Assessment of Peace House Shelter Project supporting victims of human trafficking - 2012

Project Description:

Peace House Shelter Project supporting victims of trafficking in persons was established in March 2007 and provided shelter for 15-20 residents at a certain day (up to the time of the project, had supported nearly 200 victims) along with such services as safe accommodation, health care, psychological care, legal aids and vocational training. MKE completed a Mid-term Evaluation of this Project.

Peace House Shelter Project (AECID) - Development of Result-based Evaluation Indicators and Strategy for the Peace House Shelter Project - 2012

Project Description:

The assignment aimed to support the settlement of the weaknesses and constraints faced during Phase I and II of the Peace House Shelter Project – Supporting Victims of Trafficking in Persons by defining an adequate mechanism of planning, monitoring and evaluation, setting adequate management structure and procedures and defining a medium-long term sustainability strategy involving Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and others relevant actors in the national system.

Key deliverables included a log-frame matrix of Phase II with a set of result-based indicators, M&E system to monitor the project performance, internal working mechanisms to ensure effective implementation as well as a sustainable strategy of the shelter operation with various scenarios for the sustainability of the shelter.

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development - Red River Delta Rural Water Supply& Sanitation – Monitoring & Evaluation Phase 1: Improved Hygiene Behavior - 2012

Project Description:

The project put an emphasis on the improvement of lives and livelihoods of rural community through the delivery of clean water, sanitation and community health.

MKE provided M&E consultancy to conduct quarterly monitoring, and mid-term review and end-of-component evaluation. This involved the development of indicators for the measurement of impacts, performance and outputs relating to the proposed hygiene and sanitation behavior change program and the campaigns, as well as the assessment of progress and impacts and the preparation of reports.

UNDP Myanmar - Assessment and Development of Beneficiary targeting methodology for programme formulation - 2012

Project Description:

UNDP had implemented three phases of the Human Development Initiative (HDI) programme, with its fourth phase ending in December 2012. In the spring of 2012 UNDP Myanmar began formulating a new, post-2012 HDI programme. This consultancy was one of those to be fielded by the country office to explore targeting methodology options for household/ beneficiary selection in the new programme. As such, the UNDP Myanmar required an assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of the current HDI beneficiary targeting procedures for household and village as well as an analysis of different targeting practices in Myanmar and international best practices.

International Center for Research on Women - interviews & survey in a garment factory in Vinh Yen, Vinh Phuc province - 2012

Project Description:

The education and life skills training that our Client ICRW was providing to garment factory workers in health, finance, and social entitlements could be used to their benefit both inside and outside the workplace by empowering the women to have a great voice and greater role in decision making. Under this contract, MKE conducted quantitative and qualitative research/ survey of selected participants in the Vietnam factory.

International Center for Research on Women - Longitudinal study of a workplace education and life skills program in a Garment factory in Cambodia - 2012

Project Description:

Our Client was serving as an evaluation partner and also providing strategic guidance for a workplace education program for young women in selected garment factories. In each factory, the program offered female garment workers education and life skills training in critical areas such as communication, problem solving and decision making as well as health, financial and social entitlements. MKE conducted an interviewer-administered longitudinal end-line survey to obtain information on long-term effects of the program on participants’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding key learnings and objectives of the program in a Phnompenh factory.

The World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Public Expenditure Review - 2012

Project Description:

The objective of this Agriculture and Rural Development Public Expenditure Review (PER) was to contribute to the preparation of the proposed poverty reduction and rural development operation in the Central Region through consolidating lessons learned from the recent period Public Expenditure Management (PEM), and making recommendations on how selected provinces and central agencies in charge of the implementation or coordination of related programs can effectively and efficiently use available financial resources for achieving the rural development and poverty reduction goals set out in core strategies/development plans for the forthcoming period. MKE completed the following tasks:

(i) Providing a broad description of the dynamics and patterns of allocations and spending and the overall PEM system in the ARD sector.

(ii) Conducting a broad assessment of allocative efficiency for the sector as the whole and a more in-depth one for the selected provinces.

(iii) Carrying out an in-depth analysis of technical efficiency in the selected provinces and the influencing factors

(iv) Providing an assessment of growth and poverty reduction impacts of selected ARD programs in the region.

(v) Producing a report presenting findings and recommendations of the PEM and its summary to be included in the synthesis report of the above-mentioned series of analytical works.

A Commercial Client - Position paper on liberalization of the wheat market in Vietnam - 2011

Project Description:

Completed a report containing an economic analysis to argue the need of complete tariff liberalization of  the wheat market in Vietnam. The study argued that reducing the import duty in 2011 was a first best policy choice than waiting until 2016. The study viewed both negative and positive effects of a duty reduction, and the particular circumstances of 2011 that made it attractive.

World Bank (Washington D.C) - Scaling up Hand-washing Behavior Change Project: Post intervention Data Collection and Analysis for the Impact Evaluation - 2011

Project Description:

MKE was assigned the task of conducting post-intervention data collection activity for an impact evaluation of the “Scaling up hand washing behaviour change” intervention, on behalf of Government of  Vietnam and Water and Sanitation Programme. Rigorous research methodologies were used, including a randomized impact evaluation design, and the collection of multiple survey measures using household and community questionnaires for more than 3,000 households in 310 communes in three provinces of Vietnam (Hung Yen, Thanh Hoa and Tien Giang). MKE accomplished the following main tasks:

·         Obtaining country-required permissions for implementing the post-intervention data collection as well as any project-required ethical review approvals.

·        Pre-testing new survey questions, pilot questionnaires and pilot the full survey and data collection

·        Organization and implementation of the surveys and the quality controls

ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC) - Services Diagnostics and Need Assessment Study - 2011

Countries Involved:

Vietnam, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Myanmar and Brunei.

Project Description:

Mke conducted a cross country study visiting each participating country in order to conduct field work and collate research. Consultants then synthesized all research done into a series of country reports which together made up the SDNAS. Apart from this, MKE organized the two ‘sandwich workshops’ in Hanoi and Jakarta. The project was a manifestation of the overall movement of ASEAN towards encouraging the development of service-based trade economies, as part of its general objective to promote economic growth through liberalization.