Canadian DFTAD - Project Monitor and Technical Advisor for Vietnam Skills For Employment Project (VSEP) - 2016

Countries: Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Nepal

Project Description:

Provided performance monitoring (including performance monitoring systems, the achievement of results; CEA management effectiveness; the ongoing relevance of the project; risks or evolving risks; the effectiveness of risk mitigation strategies; and the degree of sustainability of results achieved). Also provided technical advisor services, including providing recommendations and propose solutions when required for the appropriate execution of all project activities in order to achieve the expected outcome.

Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF Myanmar) - Workshop for Drafting of Chin State’s SME Development Roadmap - 2016

Description of the Project :

“Workshop for Drafting of Chin State’s SME Development Roadmap” was organized by FNF (Friedrich Naumann Foundation) together with the Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Municipal, Electrical and Industrial of Chin State and CAD (Community Agency for Rural Development) in Hakha, capital city of Chin State (poorest State in Myanmar). The purpose of the workshop was to create a roadmap with an action plan for the development of SMEs in Chin State.

MKE provided trainings focused on SME development policy and law, consultation on SME rules and regulation awareness raising, competition law awareness raising, entrepreneurship, intellectual property rights, SME strengthening; strengthening the capacity and knowledge of project cycle management, project proposal writing, leadership, and moderating and organization development.

ACF - Final Evaluation Sustainable approaches for improved nutrition - 2015

Project Description:

The SUSTAIN project aimed to sustainably improve the nutritional status of the most vulnerable population through the introduction in Myanmar of innovative ‘nutrition-sensitive’ intervention to combat food insecurity. The intervention covered the three pillars of food security with an increased focus on the third one, ‘Nutrition’.

Through the adoption of three innovative approaches, the target groups would improve their dietary intake with an increased consumption of micronutrient-rich foods and products, and enhanced nutrition and care practices. The action aimed to tackle nutrition from different angles, and to establish actionable linkages and levers between agriculture, food security, and nutrition and health sectors.

Canadian DFTAD - VIETNAM SKILLS FOR EMPLOYMENT PROJECT (VSEP) - 2015

Project Description:

Provided performance monitoring (including performance monitoring systems, the achievement of results; CEA management effectiveness; the ongoing relevance of the project; risks or evolving risks; the effectiveness of risk mitigation strategies; and the degree of sustainability of results achieved). Also provided technical advisor services, including providing recommendations and propose solutions when required for the appropriate execution of all project activities in order to achieve the expected outcome.

Plan International - Baseline Study: BRACED Myanmar Alliance Project - 2015

Project Description:

The Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) Myanmar aimed to support community resilience building in 153 target communities in 7 Townships in 3 diverse climatic zones - the Central Dry Zone, Coastal Zone and Hilly Areas - where vulnerable groups were increasingly exposed to extreme climate events including:

i) cyclones/strong winds

ii) floods/storm surges

iii) intense rains

iv) extreme temperatures

v) drought

MKE conducted the baseline study to provide baseline data for the project log-frame, specifically in relation to International Climate Fund (ICF) Key Performance Indicator, relating to the number of people with increased resilience due to BRACED support. The baseline also provided the basis from which to answer the project evaluation questions (as well as OECD-DAC criteria and cross-cutting concerns).

International Labour Organization (ILO) - The next generation of people, firms and work in ASEAN: Preparing enterprises for the future of labour markets (in 2025) - 2015

Countries Involved:

ASEAN Member States.

Project Description:

Mekong Economics provided a Team to conduct a survey with businesses operating in the 10 ASEAN member States, in which 900 interviews with firms in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia and on-line survey with 3,000 firms from Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.

The survey aimed at understanding the future of work in ASEAN as well as looking at how prepared companies are to absorb the future workforce. Key respondents to the enterprise-level survey would include human resources managers as well as those involved in strategic planning and decision-making

LuxDevelopment - Midterm evaluation of the project “Climate Adapted Local Development and Innovation” - 2015

Project Description:

The project “Climate Adapted Local Development and Innovation” (VIE/033), jointly funded by the Governments of Vietnam and of the Grant Duchy of Luxembourg, was launched in 2014 with the objective to reduce poverty in the poorest localities and to mitigate the losses caused by natural disasters and climate change in most vulnerable areas. It was implemented in 29 poor and vulnerable (i.e. coastal, lagoon or lowland) communes in three districts in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.

The project beneficiaries were approximately 400,000 people living on 124,000 hectares of land and 22,000 hectares of lagoon area. The mission’s main objective was to undertake a midterm evaluation of the VIE/033 Project. MKE’s evaluation compared the measured results of the project with the specific objective(s) reached at the time of the evaluation (that is, a comparison of actual results with what had been anticipated in the Project Document and/or the Inception Report).

ADB/Conseil Sante - Consultancy services for TA-8842 REG: Greater Mekong Sub-region Health Security Project – PPTA Consultants - 2015

Countries Involved:

Vietnam, Lao PDR and Myanmar.

Project Description:

This ADB project complemented existing projects, focusing on communicable diseases control (CDC), HIV/AIDS and malaria in one single intervention aimed at strengthening health security in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam by providing district and provincial health services capacity for diagnostic, response and treatment. The project focused on remote and underserved areas, with high poverty incidence, and on migrant and mobile populations (MMPs).

MKE Team developed country implementation plan/work program in coordination with the Team Leader; assessed the institutional capacity of the executing and implementing agencies, prepared project implementation arrangements, and prepared institutional and capacity strengthening programs; conducted field visits to investigate services situation and assess local needs; and prepared reports on activities and outputs as required.

WWF (Greater Mekong Programme Office) - Produce a Comprehensive Report Outlining Alternatives for Power Generation in the Greater Mekong Sub-region - 2015

Project Description:

Mekong Economics provided one International Economist and one Local Economist to complete the following key inputs into the Final Report:

o   Reviewing assumptions, assisting in scenario development and review of modelling results

o   Providing economic assessment for each for the modelled scenarios

o   Providing input into policy amendments.

CARE International - Economic Empowerment of Women from ethnic groups in the Mekong (Post intervention Data Collection and Analysis for the Impact Evaluation) - 2015

Project Description:

Mekong Economics provided a local Team to collect the primary data though focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with various stakeholders to assist in the impact evaluation of CARE’s interventions in the area of women’s participation and economic empowerment with ethnic groups, to learn which approaches and models worked, to test our theories of change, and to provide recommendations for future programming strategies and direction in the Mekong region.