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 - 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.
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:
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.
15/02/17 - 15/04/20
This project is part of the larger EU-funded Inclusive Economic Growth Programme (IEGP). The objective of this project is to promote Egypt's economic recovery by improving the business environment. The purpose of this service contract is to support the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) and its key stakeholders in implementation of strategies to foster SME and entrepreneurship development in Egypt. This will include helping the Policy and Strategy Unit at the MTI to finalise the design of the Ministry’s National SMEs and entrepreneurship development project based on results-based monitoring (RBM) system, the development of clear monitoring and evaluation plan of that project, and to help the executing bodies at the Ministry to implement some components of that project specially those related to the development of the ecosystem such as legislative system, regulatory system, coordination mechanisms.
The key results to be achieved by this project is to support the SMEs development strategy for boosting inclusive growth as follows:
This project will combine interventions at the macro level through reform the eco system reform that includes the legislative, regulatory, and coordination mechanisms with interventions at the meso-level aimed at facilitating access of SME to BDS and increasing the effectiveness of existing one-stop-shops and single windows
06/02/17 - 02/06/18
The purpose of this evaluation was to provide an assessment and evidence on the scope and performance of the implemented and on-going EU support for Security Sector Reform (SSR) in countries covered by the IPA and ENPI/ENI instruments. It aimed to provide recommendations for the improvement of the programming and implementation of EU support to Security Sector Reform in line with the principles laid down in the Communication JOIN (2016) 31 final "Elements for an EU-wide strategic framework to support security sector reform" and the Global Strategy for the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy.
The results of the evaluation will be used to:
The following thematic areas were included within the evaluation scope: Democratic oversight and accountability; Defence reform; Intelligence and security service reform; Integrated border management; Police reform; Justice reform; Prison reform; Private security companies; Civil society; Preventing violent extremism/countering violent extremism/counter-terrorism.
The geographic scope of the evaluation covered the following 23 countries: (i) Enlargement beneficiaries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey; (ii) Neighbourhood partners: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Republic of Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Ukraine
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