Services & Sectors
- Baseline Studies 40
- Capacity Building 12
- Commercial Services 1
- Consumer Survey 3
- Economic Research 58
- Education Safeguards 14
- Enterprise Survey 28
- Gender Analysis 9
- Health 6
- Household Survey 32
- Human Resources 1
- Impact Measurement 67
- M&E 71
- Market Studies 55
- Policy Research 43
- Project Management 48
- Project Support 2
- Social/Environmental Safeguards 68
- Strategy Development 45
- Training 20
- Value Chain Analysis 10
The World Bank - Urbanization Review: Financing Basic Services and Infrastructure - 2010
Project Description:
The Vietnam Urbanization Review was part of a series of prototypes under a global product called the Urbanization Review, being developed by the Finance, Economics, and Urban Development Department of the World Bank. The objective was to provide diagnostic tools to inform policy dialogues and investment priorities on urbanization by operationalizing the frameworks for urbanization policies developed in World Development Report (2009) – Reshaping Economic Geography and the Bank‘s new Urban and Local Government Strategy System of Cities: Harnessing Urbanization for Growth and Poverty Reduction.
To test the relevance and flexibility of the core diagnostic tools across countries at incipient, intermediate, and advanced stages of urbanization, prototype pilots were being initiated in India (incipient), Indonesia, China, and Vietnam (intermediate), and Colombia (advanced). MKE prepared report on the provision of local services and identify the main bottlenecks to achieving universal coverage of high quality services. The focus was on water, sanitation, electricity and road. MKE also developed data tables that covered all relevant variables.
Ministry of Education & World Bank - Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes - 2008
Project Description:
Worked jointly with the National Research Institute for Educational Sciences (RIES) of Lao PDR to design tests which measure student achievement, and provided data to measure progress since the First Round assessment, data entry and analysis, and report writing.
World Bank (in East Timor) - Household Survey in East Timor (TLSLS 2007 Extension) - 2008
Project Description:
Timor Leste Living Standards Survey, focused on vulnerability to shocks, access to financial services, land management techniques, and perceptions and use of community dispute mechanisms.
Ministry of Education and Training & World Bank - Study in Student Achievements in Mathematics and Vietnamese Reading – Phase 1 Primary Teacher Development Project - 2007
Project Partner:
InTREC.
Project Description:
An international team of six education specialists provided technical input and expert advice into the creation of a detailed survey implementation master plan for a comprehensive survey of the Grade 5 cohort.
This included the design of questionnaires for 72,000 grade 5 students in 3,840 primary schools with teachers and students involved in the survey, revision and finalization of the questionnaires for training. They provided domestic consultants with guidelines on principles and methods of designing Mathematics and Vietnamese language tests for grade 5 students, teachers and principals with skill assessment guidelines.
World Bank, Hanoi - The Non-Market Economy Issue: A Handbook for developing countries with case studies of China and Vietnam - 2007
Countries Involved:
Vietnam, China.
Project Description:
Survey of anti-dumping and NME status, 1978-2007, in China and Vietnam, with recommendations about how current NMEs (or pending NMEs) could further prepare and present their case for market economy status.
World Bank - Fundamental School Quality Level (FSQL) District Grant Support Study for WB Primary Education for Disadvantaged Children Project - 2006
Project Description:
An Evaluation Study of the District FSQL Grant and Campus Support Fund activities of the Primary Education for Disadvantaged Children Project in Tra Vinh, Dak Lak, Ha Giang and Son La provinces.
World Bank - Developing Comprehensive Strategy to Access to Microfinance - 2006
Project Partner:
DFC Spain.
Project Description:
Developed a comprehensive strategy for the improvement of the microfinance environment in Vietnam in terms of efficiency, outreach and sustainability.
World Bank - Investment Policy for Local Development Investment Funds in Vietnam - 2006
Project Partners:
CEPA, GREENGATE.
Project Description:
Developed an investment policy for the Vietnam Local Development Investment Funds (LDIFs), and wrote an investment policy manual.
World Bank - Higher Education Graduate Tracer Survey - 2005
Project Description:
Survey of 150,000 university graduates to compare recent graduate employment with the labor market. Aggregated the information into a system-wide national report to inform higher education management agencies and curricula reform.
World Bank & DFID - Advisory Services for Project Monitoring and Evaluation – Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction Project - 2005
Project Description:
Provided advisory services for monitoring and evaluation of the project. Assisted the coordination, design and overall implementation of the project M&E system during the 5-year life span of the project.