WISE Development Ltd

Examples of Assignments undertaken by WISE Associates since 2001:

 

CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE, including transitional economies and Former Soviet Union Republics

 

Country /

type of work

 

Agency & date

Description

* Under-taken by

 

Economic Development:  includes private sector development (PSD), SME and entrepreneurship development, trade and market issues, sustainable livelihoods, micro finance, fair trade, agribusiness, business development & support services (BDS)

 

Ukraine

 

Training in M&E and impact assessment

 

DFID

 

March 2004

Training course in basic monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment techniques  for DFID’s programme partners in private sector development

 

CP

Ukraine

 

Programme Impact Assessment

 

DFID

 

May 2002 – Dec 2004

Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of DFID Ukraine’s projects in the Private Sector Development Programme:

 

CP

Kyrgyzstan

 

Design of socio economic assessment

TACIS / Roughton

International

 

May – Nov 2000

Social Impact Assessment for a Road Project, Kyrgyz Republic.  Results used to draw up a resettlement plan with recommendations for how the project could initiate pro-poor economic growth.

 

HM

 

Programme Management & Support:  includes programme appraisals, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation / routine reviews, programme impact assessments

 

Ukraine

 

Training in M&E

 

DFID

 

March 2004

Training course in basic monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment techniques  for DFID’s programme partners in private sector development

 

CP

 

Social Development:  includes empowerment approaches, gender issues, community based interventions, social analysis and strategies, poverty assessments, social protection, health and education programmes, participatory research and methodologies

 

 

 

Jul-Nov00: Social development consultant in team to conduct Stakeholder Analysis and Design of Participatory Processes for Development of Republic of Albania’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (Govt of Albania / University of Sussex / World Bank)

CP

 

Strategic Development:  including country and regional strategies, national and multi-country policy reviews, reform proposals and assessments, non-country specific / broad development programmatic issues & frameworks

 

Albania

 

Growth & Econ Development Strategy

Govt of Albania / World Bank / IDS Sussex

 

July-Nov 2000

Social development consultant in team conducting Stakeholder Analysis and Design of Participatory Processes for Development of Republic of Albania’s Growth & Economic Development Strategy (=PRS)

CP