Projects and references

The IMPRES project aims at improving preschool education provision and broadening access for children, especially from disadvantaged groups. The project will support improvements in the quality of preschool curricula and expansion of the capacities of preschool institutions. The assignment includes the preparation and implementation of training programmes, advice on the improvement of preschool legislation, preschool teaching methods and the provision of preschool activities, as well as the organisation of conferences, workshops and study tours. Mobilisation of two long-term experts and multiple short-term experts.

Comprehensive technical assistance support to the Ministry of Education in the implementation of the Secondary Education Support Programme (SESP) aiming at reforming and upgrading the Syrian secondary education system. Services provided include capacity building and training of the Syrian staff within the Project Task Force for the planning, management, monitoring and visibility of the SESP as well as institutional support.

Support to the University of Pristina (UP) to set up, strengthen and increase the sustainability and proficiency of initial and in-service training structures for translators and interpreters in a lifelong learning perspective.
The technical assistance will provide the following services:
- Institutional strengthening
- Curriculum development
- Training of trainers of professional translators and interpreters and training of teachers in interpretation and translation
- Study visits for trainers of interpreters and translators
- Creation of accreditation procedures
- Procurement activities to equip the UP.

The objective of the mission was to provide a final evaluation of the Aceh Peace Process Support Projects as well as a peace-building/governance needs assessment based on the identification of key gaps against current and planned funding/government activities within the area of peace-building and governance in Aceh. The evaluation assessed several aspects of the projects: relevance, efficiency and effectiveness, impacts, sustainability and ownership, coherence and complementarity, lessons learned, gender mainstreaming and visibility.

The assignment consisted in the final evaluation of the EU health sector policy support programme and included numerous field trips throughout the provinces to assess the degree of attainment of the programme's key objectives: the increase of health outcomes, an enhanced responsiveness of health systems and a more equitable health care financing system, especially for the poor.

This assignment is part of the extension of the HSRSP 2006-2011 along three main lines: (1) continued support to health service delivery in the 10 districts already targeted, (2) strengthening the fight against malaria in three provinces, (3) improving vaccination coverage across the country. The Consultant was tasked with two specific assignments as External Evaluation Agency (EEA): (i) a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assignment for the activities of the three project components, (ii) a capacity building assignment for the Ministry of Health, training staff on M&E, on using health information, and on performance-based funding control methods.

This assignment focused on building the Ministry of Health's management and steering capacities for the 'obstetrical package' project, and on transferring skills to the various actors in the package system, particularly the concerned services of the Ministry of Health including the PNSR (National Reproductive Health Programme), the Regional Health Action Departments (DRAS), the 'package' managers, and the members of the package management committees.
The assignment included two components: (i) assistance to the contracting authority, and (ii) implementation of two studies.

The overall goal of the Community Health Workers Programme was to provide equitable access to health care services to the population of Liberia by strengthening community health interventions through a national standardised community package of health services provided by trained, deployed and motivated community health workers. Phase one was formative in nature and had quantitative population level objectives for outcomes. It shaped and supported full implementation during the next phase of the project.

The Organisation for the Development of the Gambia River (OMVG) includes Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. It is in charge of setting up the Energy Project which is based on the following three structures:
- The Sambangalou storage dam, located in Senegal on the Gambia River (128 MW);
- The Kaleta run-of-the-river dam located in Guinea on the Konkouré River (240 MW);
- The related interconnected network to conduct the electricity from both hydropower plants and from the other hydropower projects under development (225kV, 800 MW transit capacity, 1677 km of lines).
The project consists in supporting the OMVG in its Energy Project on the technical, legal and transaction components, and in carrying out a restructuring study for the OMVG.