FIAAP & F.S.P & Cooperacion Espanola - Monitoring and Evaluation framework to Support to the Reform of the Myanmar Police Force (MYPOL) - 2019

Project Description:

The MYPOL project assists the Myanmar Police Force (MPF) in becoming a modern police agency centred on international best practices and respect for human rights. It aimed to achieve a more preventive, service-oriented, balanced and professional approach to policing, improve the accountability of the MPF and the relationship between police and civil society.

MKE provided the services for the design of the  Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Framework  for  the MYPOL  Project that  allowed proper monitoring, evaluation and quality control of the project implementation against  expected results, fosters strategic planning, accountability and learning processes.

Forest Department (FD), MONREC & Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (GoM) - Climate Vulnerability Assessment - 2019

Project Description:

The objectives of this assignment were to conduct a Vulnerability Assessment (VA) that would inform the planning and implementation for the CCA, to build capacity at FD, ECD and FRI in the design and implementation of VA, including capacities in community consultation and facilitation processes that would be important skill for effective community engagement and institution building for co-management related to sustainable mangrove management.

MKE collected data and information from multiple sources, including existing research, studies and databases, expert consultations, community consultations, transect walks, community mapping, risk ranking, and focus-group discussions (including vulnerable groups such as women, poor, and different ethnic groups and religions).

The VA included community consultations as a key methodological approach. Since community consultations were also important elements of subsequent co-management and resilience-building work related to Engagement Outputs 2, 3 and 4, the VA would support capacity building on community consultation and facilitation as an integrated part of the VA

PEM Consult - Evaluation of European Union’s Cooperation with Myanmar - 2019

Project Description:

The evaluation of the European Union’s co-operation with Myanmar was part of the Work Programme 2017-2021 for Strategic Evaluation.. MKE assisted the clients to arrange mission programme and set up meetings, arrange programme and logistics for field visits and visit to Nay Pyi Daw, liaise with EU Delegation and stakeholders, participate in field visit/meetings in Nay Pyi Daw and Yangon.

Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI) - Project Management Unit (PMU) Consultant: Irrigated Agriculture Inclusive Development Project (IAIDP) - 2018

Project Description:

The Irrigated Agriculture Inclusive Development Project (IAIDP), a sector project, will increase agricultural value added by improving irrigation and strengthening agricultural value chains in three regions of Myanmar's central dry zone (CDZ). The irrigation system rehabilitation and modernization component will cover about 90,000 acres (36,400 ha). The Project will also strengthen capacity for integrated water resources management (IWRM) at the township, regional and national levels.

MKE was engaged to provide day-to-day project management, administrative, financial, and technical support to the Project Director within the Executing Agency (EA), the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI), during the implementation of the Project.

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

GERES (Groupe Énergies Renouvalables, Enviroment Et Solidarites) - Impact Study of SCALE Project - 2018

Project Description:

The main aim of the impact study was to assess the impacts of GERES’s SCALE project activities in Myanmar, along with assessing the effectiveness and sustainability of its approach. The impact assessment focused on two key aspects: measuring of impacts (both positive and negative) by the project and identifying unforeseen activities, and finding interventions to mitigate the negative impacts in the future.

Our team designed and conducted quantitative and qualitative data collection including household surveys using CAPI in Plain and Delta Zone with appropriate quality control checks; analysed and prepared the final report for the client.

WorldFish of Myanmar - Improving the production, nutrition and market values of small – scale aquaculture in Myanmar’s Shan State and Sagaing Region (MYSAP INLAND) - 2018

Project Description:

WorldFish Myanmar in collaboration with the Department of Fisheries (DoF) R&D Division, under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MoALI) will implement the ‘Improving the production, nutrition and market values of small-scale aquaculture in Myanmar’s Shan State and Sagaing Region (MYSAP Inland). The main objective of the baseline survey is using a value chain approach to collect baseline data for use by MYSAP Inland for results based monitoring and evaluation to assess MYSAP Inland progress towards specific milestones, output indicators and overall project impact.

The following tasks are accomplished by MKE Team: Execution plan for; Baseline survey questionnaire in both English and Burmese; Value chain analysis report; A full database of data collected; A draft summary of the overall study findings and A final baseline study report.

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.

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).