Projects and references

Collection of factual information to assess whether an EU Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) for the upcoming Constituent Assembly Elections in Libya, scheduled to take place in June 2012, would be useful, advisable and feasible. Moreover, the objective was to produce specific documents containing clear information and recommendations for the deployment of a possible EU EOM. 

The overall objective of this assignment was to contribute to bridging the European Union’s “Digital4Development” (D4D) strategy and Gender Action Plan (GAP II) to accelerate women’s empowerment in EU digital-related programmes.
The specific objective was to deliver recommendations on the implementation of the European Commission’s D4D approach, which enables and boosts women’s empowerment in digital technologies and services in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This assignment aimed to support the Ministry of Public Health in planning the different stages of the gradual transfer of responsibilities and actions to manage acute malnutrition to State services with the support of its partners from the health sector.
Conseil Santé provided a public health expert to support the participatory process to develop a roadmap to plan the different stages of this gradual transfer, to facilitate communication and negotiation with the other Ministries concerned (in particular that of Finance and of the Public Service), and to advocate for the sustainable funding of these activities. This roadmap was the result of a participatory process involving all of the stakeholders concerned at the central, deconcentrated, and local authority levels.

The main objective of the Programmes of Support for Basic Social Sectors was to improve access to health and education services for vulnerable populations in nine regions of Madagascar. The evaluation used the five Development Assistance Committee (DAC) criteria (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact), the two specific EU criteria (EU added value and coherence with the EU strategy and with other Member States' actions) and took the cross-cutting themes into account (gender, the environment and the rights-based approach). An overall and independent analysis of the performance achieved during the implementation of the programmes has been carried out, in order to provide points for reflection for EU cooperation programming.

AFD was approached by the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) to finance the relocation and expansion of Ibn Sina College for Health Science (ISC), specialised in nursing and midwifery education. AFD considered new funding to ISC to be granted in 2020, where it could finance the construction and equipment of the new building, technical assistance to develop new curricula, an e-learning programme for ISC’s students and other students or allied health personal working in the Gaza Strip, and the establishment of partnerships with other nursing schools in the region or elsewhere.
A series of studies (fixed phase) was carried out to gain the AFD’s technical and financial approval of the planned project (optional tranche) before presenting the project to its board for a loan grant. Conseil Santé, SOFRECO and their Palestinian partners (UG and JUZOOR) were in charge of the feasibility study of this project in view of the validation of the financing by the AFD board of directors.

The main objective of this project is to increase income for all stakeholders in the Cambodian rubber commodity chain. It aims: (1) to reorganize the commodity chain to achieve better commercial equity between the different stakeholders; (2) to secure additional currency earnings for the country in order to rectify an estimated loss of 8 million dollars per year due to discounting of Cambodian natural rubber on the international market; (3) to ensure higher employment in the sector on both smallholdings and estates.

Technical and administrative support to the EDF National Authorising Officer (NAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) for the successful implementation of the Belize Rural Development Programme (BRDP II).
The BRDP II aims at increasing rural household incomes and food security by contributing to the rural market economy’s expansion. The programme has three main components:
1) Enterprise promotion and employment generation in rural areas,
2) Rehabilitation of economic rural infrastructure,
3) Institutional strengthening and support for the formulation of development policies.
The BRDP II is implemented mainly by grant call for proposals, infrastructure tenders and TA for institutional support and management.

Support to the Algerian administration in the implementation of a programme aiming to improve the economic performance (competitiveness, job creation, exports, etc.) of the agriculture, agri-food and tourism sectors.
The actions focus on building the capacity of the institutions in charge of these sectors' follow-up, and of professional organisations, on the creation and strengthening of technical centres and of a centre of excellence, and on the definition of a tourism marketing strategy.
To accomplish the services, provision of a team of sectoral experts forming a Support Unit and of specialised short-term technical assistance.