01/01/01 - 01/07/06
Industrial Modernisation Programme
The IMP was a large and ambitious multi-annual programme which aimed at achieving the integrated development and modernisation of the Jordanian private sector, with special focus on SMEs and business start-ups. It had four major instruments:
The team consists of 48 full-time personnel, (18 professionals and 30 support staff), and a substantial pool of short-term experts.
01/01/01 - 01/01/03
Setting up a market information system and a communications network
Landell Mills established a Market Information System and a Communications Network for the Agricultural Research and Extension Unit (AREU) under the Rural Diversification Programme. The MIS system enables stakeholders to monitor and report on the production and marketing of food crops, with the communications system enabling farmers and Extension Officers to identify and characterise innovative information and communication technologies.
A follow-up mission trained extension officers in the use of multi-media techniques to improve the effectiveness of their communications.
01/01/01 - 01/01/02
The Government of Moldova received a grant of $3.4 million from the Japanese government under the 2KR programme to support the development of harvesting and ploughing services throughout the country through the procurement of machinery. LML was awarded a contract to ensure that efficient, legal, transparent, fair and financially sustainable mechanisms are employed to manage the leasing and hire of the agricultural machinery supplied. This was achieved through providing training and advice to the PIU and to the judets-based Service Units. The support through the project promoted access to farm machinery by poor farmers and farmers groups.
01/01/01 - 31/12/01
The Project was focused on providing the technical assistance needed for the development of further control measures for Q fever and brucellosis, outbreaks of which occurred in FBiH during 2000, and for the planning of improved controls for serious livestock diseases in general in both entities is acknowledged by the introduction of this project. The immediate objective was to develop, in collaboration with the BiH Animal Disease Task Force (ADTF), effective policies and strategies to contain and control the threat to animal and human health from Q fever and brucellosis throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina in line with currently recognised international practices. Outputs of the project will include:
01/01/01 - 01/12/01
Landell Mills consortium provided the services of an engineering expert to the Government of Yemen. The expert was responsible for providing advice to the Project Implementation Unit of the Small Dams Project and the National Water Resources Authority, to assess the resources to be invested in infrastructure in the water and soil conservation sector.
Tasks included:
01/01/01 - 01/05/01
Improving the Government of Swaziland's Macroeconomic Planning Model
Landell Mills provided 2 short-term experts to upgrade the macroeconomic planning model by revising the equation structure and incorporating new data and modules with the following expected results:
The project addressed the weaknesses of the existing model, in terms of its limited prediction capacity. A completely new macroeconomic model was devised in collaboration with the staff of the Ministry of Finance in order to enhance the capacity of the staff to provide a more consistent forecast, thus enabling the government to analyse the impact of certain policy changes to the economy in light of regional and international economic developments (in trade liberalisation, rising unemployment, HIV/AIDS crisis).
01/01/01 - 01/02/01
Mid Term Review – Trade and Investment Development Programme (TIDP)
TDI Group was commissioned to undertake the mid term review of this EU funded TIDP programme in South Africa. The programme covered a wide range of trade and investment issues from enterprise creation and training to international partnership development. The implementing agency was Ntsika, based in Pretoria. The report was submitted in October 2000 and a final version incorporating major changes in the infrastructure of Government support to industry in South Africa was completed in March 2001.
01/11/00 - 01/02/01
Study for an Optimal Sugar Policy in the Context of Trade Liberalisation
The Study was financed from the European Development Fund and was prepared by Landell Mills for the Government of the Kingdom of Swaziland. Its objective was to formulate an optimal sugar policy in the context of trade liberalisation (under post-Lomé IV ACP-EU arrangements), aimed to maximise the future economic benefits to Swaziland arising from its comparative advantage in sugar production.
Landell Mills provided a three-man team, who carried out the work in 2000 and 2001. The study examined key issues affecting the future outlook for the Swaziland sugar industry and made appropriate recommendations on policy. In particular the study considered:
In addition the Landell Mills were asked to offer an economic analysis of the smallholder aspects of the Lower Usuthu Project.
01/11/00 - 01/12/00
The Commission has prepared 3 projects in Ecuador during the years 1996 and 1997 that have not been able to be started until now due to the lack of agreement of the beneficiaries regarding the funds.
The projects are :
01/10/00 - 01/04/03
The purpose of the project was to improve access for the rural population to relevant educational, training and advisory support services in agriculture and the small-scale agribusiness sector across various regions of Moldova. Delivered results of the project included the following:
Component 1 (Education)