03/09/17 - 30/06/19
The aim of the New Alliance Information and Communication Technologies Agriculture Extension Challenge Fund was to develop and scale up the delivery of agriculture extension services using sustainable information and communication technologies, including radio, mobile phones, video and web-based applications.
The programme was delivered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and aimed to reach 3 million users to help improve agricultural productivity and increase food security for smallholders in Sub Saharan Africa (Ghana, Malawi, Senegal, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Tanzania). The total fund was US$12m over 4 years. The other donors were DFID (£2.8m over 4 years), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ($3m) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) ($1.5 million).
The purpose of the theory-based, complex evaluation was to assess the progress of this programme in improving access to, and adoption of, improved agricultural technologies through ICT-enabled services (radio, mobile, SMS, etc.), as well as the quality and relevance of the range of interventions undertaken by the programme and the extent to which it helped smallholder farmers improve agricultural productivity.
The evaluation aimed to generate evidence on the effectiveness of ICT-enabled agricultural extension services in enhancing farmers' livelihoods through increased adoption and uptake of improved agricultural technologies and to produce insights in what works and what does not work in scaling up ICT-enabled extension approaches through working with both the public and private sectors.
31/07/17 - 31/08/19
Landell Mills significantly increased awareness and visibility of African Peace Facility (APF) related projects through the delivery of communication materials and activities.
The African Peace Facility was established in 2004 in response to a request by African leaders. Financed through the European Development Fund, it constitutes the main source of funding to support the African Union's and African Regional Economic Communities' efforts in the area of peace and security with an overall amount of more than €2,7 billion since 2004. The APF has its legal basis on the Cotonou Agreement and it is funded through the European Development Fund (EDF).
Under the Africa-EU partnership, the strategic objective on peace and security is not only ‘to ensure a peaceful, safe, secure environment’, but also to ‘foster political stability and effective governance, while enabling sustainable and inclusive growth.’
Through the contract activities, Landell Mills built knowledge among national, regional, continental and international peace and security institutions, academics and students, CSOs, NGOs, think tanks, journalists and the general public.
The contract activities fell into four categories:
21/06/17 - 21/04/18
The overall objective of the project is to contribute to sustainable economic development and poverty reduction in Mauritius through closer regional integration and increased participation in the global economy.
In the context of the i-EPA implementation as well as of the regional integration process, local capacities will be built to support SMEs in their export strategy and in complying with technical regulations. This should allow Mauritius private sector to fully benefit from the current trade agreement with the EU and to increase its participation in national, regional and international trade.
Potential for export business creation will be unlocked, allowing SMEs to create and innovate into niche markets. In the meantime, exporting SMEs will benefit from an empowered skilled labour force and from new opportunities generated by regional and global trade integration. Ultimately, by integrating youth and women and stimulating regional inclusive growth, it is expected that this project will contribute to a fairer income distribution and poverty reduction amongst the vulnerable population.
The expected results are as follows:
Under Purpose 1: Enhance the business environment for Exporting SMEs
Under Purpose 2: Promote exports of the Mauritius private sector including SMEs, Women and Young Entrepreneurs
01/06/17 - 01/04/18
Landell Mills was contracted to enhance the visibility of the European Union and its contribution to development cooperation in Central Asia. We organised events, such as conferences, seminars and festivals, and produced promotional materials, including films, whilst ensuring the widest possible coverage in the national and regional media.
Activities organised under this contract included:
01/05/17 - 01/05/18
Landell Mills was appointed by the Delegation of the European Union to Nigeria to increase visibility, communication and advocacy around gender equality and women's empowerment. Landell Mills organised events and media actions which improved the perception of the EU as a development partner with a gender equality focus, and highlighted the benefits of political and economic empowerment of women.
Activities under this contract included:
18/04/17 - 18/12/17
The overall objective of the project of which this contract will be a part is to contribute to sustainable economic development and poverty reduction in the United Republic of Tanzania through closer regional integration and increased participation in the global economy.
This project seeks to examine the institutional structures and processes responsible for enhancing the competitiveness and diversification of agricultural exports in Tanzania (including Zanzibar).
Under Purpose 1: To Identify bottlenecks that limits competitiveness and export diversification in agriculture—including value chains—and the trade policy framework to effectively address them;
Result 1.1: Bottlenecks limiting agricultural exports, competitiveness and value chain processing identified;
Result 1.2: Framework for trade policy to foster competitiveness, agricultural export diversification and value chain processing in Tanzania developed;
Under Purpose 2: To strengthen REPOA’s and subsequently Tanzania’s research and advisory capacity on trade policy, competitiveness and elimination of NTBs in the context of enhancing the country’s trading capacity with the EU.
Result 2.1: REPOA’s capacity to undertake research on trade policy, agricultural competitiveness and diversification, and addressing NTBs enhanced;
Result 2.2: REPOA’s research methodology shared with other research facilities, and outputs widely disseminated among policymakers, agricultural producers and exporters.
15/03/17 - 31/12/20
The capacity development technical assistance (TA) will support the implementation of the additional financing of the Agriculture and Rural Development Project (Loan 3287-MON and Loan 3288-MON1, “the project”).
Results from the original project (Grant 0115-MON2, “the original project”) showed that Mongolian agro-processing enterprises find it difficult to make products of a quality that meets the standards of international and national high-value markets. The key bottlenecks are two-fold: the enterprises’ limited access to quality raw materials and their limited capacity to improve the quality of their products. To capture domestic and international high-value markets, project participating enterprises (PPEs) need to ensure stable supply and procurement of quality raw materials as well as improve their technical capacity to process these raw materials into high-quality products.
The TA will finance consulting services for implementation of project activities under project output 2 (production capacity of herders and farmers improved), output 3 (enterprises’ marketing and technical capacity improved), and output 4 (Mongolian product brand(s) developed).3 The outcome of the project is “value addition on Mongolian agricultural resources increased by PPEs”, resulting in employment generation. However, significant capacity development will be required to ensure successful implementation and sustainability of these value chain development activities initiated by the project. The proposed TA is being designed to provide the required support.
The TA aims to:
08/03/17 - 01/12/23
The Lower Mekong Basin Wetland Management and Conservation Project, funded by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through KfW Development Bank (KfW), supports the Governments of the Kingdom of Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Mekong River Commission (MRC) with up to EUR 8 million of German Financial Cooperation funds (grant) in managing wetland sites in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) region. Specific support is being provided to the Ramsar wetlands of Prek Toal (Cambodia) and Beun Kiet Ngong (Laos). The project comprises of two outputs across the two wetlands including:
Leading to two outcomes:
08/03/17 - 29/03/17
This economic analysis was intended to assess the short term and long term impacts of existing interventions, and provide a summary of the literature to demonstrate the value of tackling corruption to society and to the economy. The assignment involved a signifiicant desk-based review, economic analysis and impact assessment of the proposed programme of work and an evaluation of its value for money.
In setting up the review, the team considered corruption under several headings, such as:
The team aimed to estimate the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures both qualitatively and quantitatively, from rough and ready value for money measures through to detailed cost benefit analysis, dependent on what information is attainable.
15/02/17 - 14/08/17
Background
In 2011, Ethiopia launched its Climate Resilient Green Economy Strategy (CRGE) that set the goal of reaching middle-income country status by 2025 with net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission growth while simultaneously building the resilience of the economy to climate shocks. This would constitute a reduction of 255 Mt CO2e or 64% reduction from the expected 400 Mt CO2e following a “business as usual” growth model. For the implementation of the CRGE, Ethiopia identified eight priority sectors; agriculture, livestock, forestry, transport, industry, building, waste management, and energy.
The CRGE identified agriculture (including livestock and fisheries) as the sector contributing to most (80%) of Ethiopia’s GHG emissions. As such, the GoE planned to lay down the foundations for enabling climate smart agricultural development in the 2nd Growth and Transformation Plan (GTPII) for the period 2016-2020. Accordingly, climate related targets were prominent within GTPII as indicated in the table below. In parallel, MoANR built systems for more effective monitoring of progress on GTP II objectives and targets, evaluating sectoral developments, knowledge management, learning and reflection. ATA provided close support in this endeavour, which was considered as a key aspect of transforming the sector. A consultancy was sought to ensure that issues related to climate change adaptation and mitigation and green growth were integrated into the above initiatives. The Embassy had a comparative advantage in helping Ethiopia in this endeavour given Denmark’s position as a world leader on green growth.
Objectives
The objective of this assignment was to support the Director, Monitoring Learning and Evaluation Team (MLE) at ATA to implement transformational deliverables in the “evidence-based planning and M&E” program area in a manner that systematically integrated climate issues.