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.

Enclude B.V - DGIS: Evaluation of the Inclusive Business Accelerator in Vietnam and Mozambique - 2017

Project Description:

The IB Accelerator was designed to both consolidate and scale-up private sector engagement in Base of the Pyramid (BoP) markets. Current offerings of BoP business support were scattered and service providers were not aware of the many BoP market opportunities that exist or lack the quality and capacity to create inclusive business strategies at scale.

MKE conducted an evaluation on the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of the programme. Data collection tools included SME phone surveys, logistical support and interviews. A final report was prepared.

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.

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development - Study on Mining Sector Stakeholder Interaction in Shan State - 2017

Project Description:

The BGR-DOM Project “Sustainable Development of the Mining Sector in Myanmar” was a programme module integrated in the technical cooperation programme “Sustainable Economic Development” that had been commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BGR). Project partner was the Department of Mines (DOM) that was responsible for the national guidance and supervision of the mining sector in Myanmar.

The project’s aim was to improve the quality of mining supervision with respect to safety, social and environmental aspects. MKE provided two local experts to assist the lead firm and the project consultants to accomplish a study on a study on the topic of “mining sector stakeholder interaction in Shan State’ commissioned by the DOM-BGR project.

BSI & ADB - Consultancy services for Enhancing Capacity of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Arrangements to Facilitate Trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion – 2017

Countries Involved:

Vietnam, China.

Project Description:

The project built on the SPS projects for CLV and extended SPS analysis and consultations to the GMS. It also added value by bringing in the other countries to pursue GMS level analysis, discussions and consensus of SPS issues. In addition, the Technical Assistant prioritised the analysis on cooperation between customs and SPS agencies to strengthen the linkage between them, particularly in the areas of risk profiling, risk management and information sharing, through enhanced data sharing, and the establishment of a coherent and integrated approach to risk management.

This analysis eventually contributed the groundwork towards establishment of national single window systems and realization of the ASEAN single window, as well as the Asian Cargo Highway. Two National Consultants from MKE worked with BSI on this assignment.

LuxDev - Baseline Survey for Eastern Shan State Rural Development and Inclusion Project - 2017

Project Description:

The MYA/002 project aimed to promote inclusive, cohesive and sustained groups, communities, institutions and systems for the benefits of the rural population of a minimum of 15 000 to a maximum of 25 000 disadvantaged people in East Shan State (ESS). MKE was commissioned and completed a baseline survey before the formal starting of the project which was planned around 1 July 2017 and to inform and complete the set of 14 Indicator Identity Sheets (IIS) - subject to the present baseline survey.

BTC - The Mid-Term Review Of The Project “Support To The Innovation And Development Of Business Incubators Policy Project (BIPP)” - 2017

Project Description:

The project BIPP was designed to improve the  policy framework for technology business incubation: an essential element of increasing the competitiveness of Vietnamese enterprises. The project supported the Ministry of Science and  Technology to develop an appropriate enabling environment for the establishment and growth of technology business incubators and their S&T clients.

The resultant changes in policy and  legal framework were field tested through two technology incubators (one in Hanoi and one in HCMC) and  through a pilot capacity building fund (Innofund) which supported the  management  of other established incubators and their tenants throughout Vietnam. Best practice and lessons learnt were captured through a comprehensive monitoring system and the results fed back into further policy development.

MKE completed the MTR which analysed the performance of the project according to the DAC criteria and to the horizontal and transversal themes.