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CEPA - Country Agribusiness Sector Diagnostics (the "Transaction") - 2016

Project Description:

Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP-PSW) provided long and short term loans, credit guarantees, equity and advisory services with the aim of improving agricultural development and food security in targeted developing countries. It targeted agribusiness investments across the value-chain that were commercially viable but had temporarily higher costs/ risks that would otherwise prevent them from attracting/ affording finance on more commercial terms.

MKE supported CEPA to arrange meetings with targeted stakeholders from the agribusiness sector in Myanmar, to attend the meetings and to provide translation during the meetings where necessary over the period 15th February 2016 – 26th February 2016. MKE carried out work in advance of the country visit to arrange the meetings and develop an itinerary. MKE provided advice on the required meetings, and gave limited support during the country visit and during follow up activities.

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Care Myanmar - Baseline Assessment for Comprehensive rural households food security programme - 2016

Project Description:

The project was aimed to assist approximately 21,000 persons living in over 3,900 households across 32 target villages in Rathedaung township to develop sustainable livelihoods; meaning that they would become food secure and have higher incomes, be more resilient to economic shocks and natural disaster, and be better able to manage intra-communal tensions that presently hold back community development.

MKE conducted quantitative household survey and qualitative focus group discussions to produce below outcomes

1. Increased sources and level of income of target households;

2. Increased capacity of target communities to manage forests, water resources and preparation for/response to disasters;

3. Improved conditions for sustained livelihoods through increased social cohesion between and within communities.

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

Project Description:

“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.

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Care Myanmar - Evaluation on Strengthening Early Childhood Education (SECE) Programme - 2016

Project Description:

Community-based Early Child Day Care Centers (ECDCC) would be established near CARE’s existing Community Learning Centers (CLC) funded by AusAid, and would serve as

(i) Day care centers for male and female children aged three to five years

(ii) parent meeting centers for childhood development.

Mekong Economics conducted a final evaluation to determine the extent to which this project was successful. The MKE team was responsible for further considering the key evaluation questions and designing the evaluation methodology, implementing the agreed methodology, analysing data, and documenting outcomes of the evaluation.

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Mercy Corps - Baseline Survey of Linking Laputta to Markets(LLM)- LIFT Delta 3 - 2016

Project Description:

The aim of the Baseline survey of Linking Laputta to Markets (LLM) was ‘increased incomes for landless, vulnerable and smallholder households in Laputta Township’. Two higher-level outcomes (HLOs) will contribute to this goal: Total projected beneficiaries for the LLM project is 5,100 HHs from 276 villages.

MKE took responsibility to produce outcomes: HLO 1: Improved performance of smallholder farmers in the rice value chain; HLO 2: Landless and vulnerable women and men have stability of income from diverse off-farm employment and economic opportunities. Intermediate outcomes include

a) farmer producer enterprises (FPEs) operating as professional market actors

b) smallholder farmers adopting improved agricultural practices

c) landless women and men benefitting from improved employment opportunities.

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Institute of Social Studies (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) - Stock-take on CSO Development Effectiveness and Enabling Environment (Global Partnership) - 2016

Project Description:

The Task Team on CSO Development Effectiveness and Enabling Environment (TT) had committed to implement Global Partnership Initiative 12 (GPI-12), as reflected in the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) Mexico Communiqué. The Indicator Two monitoring approach would ideally involve completion of a questionnaire, in a multi-stakeholder fashion, at country level.

The process was to be led by country government National Coordinators, with the participation of Focal points from different stakeholder groups. MKE was responsible to ensure the questionnaire contains four modules reflecting the CSO Enabling Environment Framework, inclusive of:

i) space for multi-stakeholder dialogue

ii) CSO development effectiveness

iii) official development cooperation with CSOs

iv) the legal and regulatory environment for CSOs.

For the GPEDC’s 2nd round monitoring report, findings from country monitoring would be complemented by desk studies.

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HelpAge International - Baseline Survey: Dry Zone Social Protection - 2016

Project Description:

The purpose of this assignment was to design a baseline survey and an index related to social protection, analyse the data collected and produce a baseline report.

Project activities led to two project outcomes: poor households had expanded access to community assistance in times of stress, and vulnerable groups had greater income security. The project outcomes would contribute directly to the following Dry Zone programme outcome defined by LIFT: The basic needs of poor households in the target villages were met through effective social protection interventions. MKE participated in this assignment to assess the context and to enable us to measure change in the project indicators, as well as vulnerability and social protection more generally over the course of the project.

MKE also served a wider purpose by providing information for LIFT, other practitioners and government regarding the situation in the Dry Zone. The locations of the project were 30 villages in each of six target townships and the total number of target villages is 180.

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PlaNet Finance - “Supporting Financial Access via Cooperative Upgrading and Enterprise and Farm Development in Kayin State” - 2016

Project Description:

PlaNet Finance, an implementing agency for the EU-funded project “Supporting Financial Access via Cooperative Upgrading and Enterprise and Farm Development in Kayin State”, was currently implementing a three year project aimed at establishing two savings and credit cooperatives to expand financial inclusion to at least 2,000 households in 35 villages in Hlaingbwe township, Myanmar.

The project would also support the members of the cooperatives to undertake new or enhanced farm or enterprise activities that would generate increased income for them. The cooperatives would provide credit for their members to invest in these new income-generating activities as well as a safe place to save in order to increase income and build wealth in this post-conflict area of Myanmar.

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

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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.