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Private Client - Implementation of Environmental and Social Action Plan for the supplies, installations & commissioning of machinery for new automotive plant - 2019
Project Description:
MKE was required to provide assistance to the client to deliver the EASP, 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. Our team included one Social Safeguards Specialist and one Environmental Safeguards Specialist.
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
Private Client/IFC - Ecosystems Services Assessment of a solar project in Vietnam - 2018
Project Description:
Our client proposed to develop a solar photovoltaic project in Vietnam. The Project site was located in a local commune, which is inhabited by both the ethnic minorities and Kinh (Vietnamese) people. The mission’s main objective was to undertake an ecosystems services assessment to: Determine the impact on surrounding communities of the loss of ecosystem services; Assess the capacity of the area surrounding the Project site; propose sustainable alternatives for offsetting the loss of those services and achieving a comparable livelihood resource balance.
MKE’s team was responsible for undertaking a rapid ecosystem services assessment, conducting household surveys, interviewing relevant stakeholders, drafting and submitting final evaluation reports to the client.
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.
UNDP - Survey Expert for Rakhine Basic Needs Assessment - 2017
Project Description:
UN supported the Government of Myanmar (GoM) in its effort to conduct an assessment of households’ basic needs in the Rakhine state, as part of the efforts to assist the GoM to achieve socio-economic development of the State. It was envisaged that the assessment initially would be piloted in certain areas of Rakhine with the possibility of expanding it to cover the entire state later on.
MKE provided an international Survey Expert to lead on the design and implementation of the surveys that will be conducted for the assessment (both qualitative and quantitative).
Dan Church Aid (DCA) - Consultancy Service for Baseline Study for Save Lives and Build Resilience - 2017
Project Description:
MKE was commissioned to collect baseline information and establish benchmarks for the proposed outcomes in the Country Plan of DCA for Myanmar. The baseline assessment employed a mix of both quantitative and qualitative approaches of data collection. Country programme log-frame was reference point as linked to outcomes under programme. The consultancy covered the components of WASH; hygiene, sanitation and access to safe water and other cross cutting issues like gender, and accountability.
CORAD & GRET - Promoting Agricultural diversification and Economic integration in Northern Chin State - 2017
Project Description:
The project focused on the capacity building of various Community Based Organizations - CBO (farmer groups, networks of farmer groups, producers’ groups) to enable them to access and/or provide sustainable and relevant services in the technical & economic fields. Various partners and stakeholders contributed to the outcomes & results of the action: GRET as official partner, ICIMOD, CRS/KMSS, Technical Experts, public departments (DoA, DRD, SLRD, SAI, DAR), private sector and local government.
The project implementation would further respond to the cross cutting issues gender empowerment, participatory decision making, nutritive-sensitive agriculture systems, and institutional sustainability.